Livia Kaiser (born 2 October 2004) is a

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. She is the 2023 Swiss national champion, a two-time Swiss national bronze medalist, and the 2021 Volvo Open Cup silver medalist. Kaiser has represented Switzerland at the

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, finishing fourth in

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Personal life

Kaiser was born on 2 October 2004 in

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, Switzerland. She aspires to become either a

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or a figure skating coach.

Career

Early years

Kaiser became inspired to take up figure skating at age seven after watching countrywoman Sarah Meier win the 2011 European Championships. In the 2021–22 season, Kaiser reached the Swiss national podium for the first time as bronze medalist, and won silver medals internationally at the junior level at the Trophée Métropole Nice and the senior level at the

Volvo Open Cup Volvo Open Cup is a figure skating competition held in Riga, Latvia. It was part of the ISU Challenger Series in the 2014–15 season. The competition may include men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing at various levels. ...

. She made her first appearance on the Challenger series at the

2021 CS Finlandia Trophy The 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy was held on October 7–10, 2021 in Espoo, Finland. It was part of the 2021–22 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, pairs, and ...

, coming nineteenth.

2022–23 season

Kaiser was assigned to make her debut on the

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, placing thirteenth at the 2022 JGP France and twentieth at the 2022 JGP Italy. She made three appearances on the Challenger circuit, finishing fourtheenth at the

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, seventh at the

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, and sixth at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup. At the 2023 Swiss Championships, Kaiser won the gold medal for the first time. She finished the season by making her European Championship debut at the 2023 edition, where she placed eighteenth.

2023–24 season

Kaiser began the season with three

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assignments, coming fourth at both the

Nebelhorn The Nebelhorn is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps in Germany, near the village of Oberstdorf. It lends its name to the Nebelhorn Trophy figure skating competition and the Nebelhorn Classics a freeride race event. Also the Nine Knights freeski con ...

and Budapest Trophies and fifth at the 2023 CS Warsaw Cup. She won her second bronze medal at the Swiss Championships. Appearing at the 2024 European Championships in

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, Kaiser set new personal best results in both segments and overall and finished fourth at the competition, 7.57 points back of bronze medalist

Nina Pinzarrone Nina Pinzarrone (born 24 November 2006) is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2024 European bronze medalist and a two-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, one of only two Belgian women to have medaled at those events. She placed eleventh at both the ...

of Belgium. Of the result, Kaiser remarked "I still could do a little bit better but honestly, I am super pleased." Her new free skate program that she adopted for the second half of the season included music from '' The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'', and drew praise from the film's star,

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. In the leadup to the 2024 World Championships, Kaiser won gold at the 2024 Bavarian Open. At the World Championships, she came in ninth, and said she was "very happy I could finish my season with another good competition."

Programs

Competitive highlights

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaiser, Livia 2004 births Living people People from Frauenfeld Swiss female single skaters 21st-century Swiss women