Ivett Tóth (born 20 December 1998) is a retired Hungarian figure skater. She is the 2014 CS Ice Challenge bronze medalist, a two-time

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champion (2014, 2016), the 2018 Christmas Cup champion, the 2019

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champion, and a five-time Hungarian national (2014-2017, 2019). She has competed in the final segment at eight ISU Championships and placed 23rd at the

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Personal life

Ivett Tóth was born on 20 December 1998 in

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, Hungary. She attended Babits Mihály Gimnázium in

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Career

Early years

Ivett Tóth's father first brought her to an ice rink in 2004. In 2009, she fractured her ankle and underwent surgery. She competed internationally on the advanced novice level for two seasons beginning in 2010–2011.

2012–2013 season

Tóth debuted on the

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(JGP) series and won the Hungarian national junior title. Selected to represent Hungary at the 2013 World Junior Championships, she qualified for the free skate and finished 21st overall in

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, Italy.

2013–2014 season

Tóth remained a junior in international events but competed on the senior level nationally. She became the Hungarian national champion at the 2014 Four Nationals. At the 2014 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria, she was eliminated after placing 31st in the short program. Tóth was coached by

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until the end of the 2013–14 season. Júlia Gór-Sebestyén became her coach in April 2014.

2014–2015 season

In November, making her senior international debut, Tóth won the bronze medal at an ISU Challenger Series (CS) competition, the

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in Graz, Austria. Her short program placements at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden (33rd); 2015 World Junior Championships in

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, Estonia (28th); and 2015 World Championships in

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, China (26th) were insufficient to advance to the free skate.

2015–2016 season

Competing in the 2015 JGP series, Tóth finished 8th in

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, Austria, and 6th in

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, Croatia. After placing 5th at her CS event, the

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, she took silver at the

and won her third consecutive senior national title. At the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, she qualified to the final segment by placing 10th in the short program with a personal best score. She then placed 12th in the free skate and 11th overall. She finished 8th at the 2016 World Junior Championships in

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, Hungary, after placing 15th in the short and 7th in the free. At the 2016 World Championships in

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, she was eliminated after placing 28th in the short program.

2016–2017 season

Tóth finished 8th at the 2017 European Championships in

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, Czech Republic. Ranked 14th in the short, she qualified to the final segment at the 2017 World Championships in

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, Finland, and would finish 20th overall. Due to her result, Hungary qualified a spot in the ladies' singles event at the

in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In May 2017, Júlia Gór-Sebestyén said that the two would no longer work together and Tóth decided to train under Linda van Troyen in Zurich, Switzerland.

2017–2018 season

Tóth fractured her foot off ice in August 2017. As a result, she withdrew from the

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, which would have been her

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debut. In December, she placed second to Fruzsina Medgyesi at the Hungarian Championships. In January, they both competed at the

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, Russia; Tóth was the only one to qualify to the free skate and went on to finish 13th overall. She was selected as Hungary's Olympic entry on 19 January 2018. In February, Tóth competed at the

in PyeongChang, South Korea. Her performance drew media attention when she appeared on ice to perform to AC/DC's

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and Thunderstruck in a studded leather vest with a picture of

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on the back. She qualified to the free skate and finished 23rd, both at the Olympics and at the 2018 World Championships, which took place the following month in

, Italy.

2018–2019 season

Tóth decided to train with Zsófia Tokaji-Kulcsár and Zoltán Tóth in Budapest.

2019–2020 season

Tóth competed at a number of minor international events in the first part of the season, including two Challenger events, placing eighth at the

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and thirteenth at the

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. She was twenty-first among the competitors at the 2020 European Championships. She had been assigned to compete at the

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, but those were cancelled as a result of the

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2020–2021 season

Tóth finished sixth at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, and later won the bronze medal at the

2021–2022 season

Tóth began the season at the

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, where she finished twenty-seventh. On November 16, she announced her retirement from competitive figure skating.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''GP:

; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

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References

External links

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