Lola Esbrat (born 29 August 1997) is a French

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With her skating partner

Andrei Novoselov Andrei Alexandrovich Novoselov (born 24 November 1989) is a Russian pair skater. Competing for France with Lola Esbrat, he has won three international medals and is the 2018 French national champion. Earlier, he represented Russia with Tatiana ...

, she has won three international medals and is the 2018 French national champion.

Personal life

Esbrat was born on 29 August 1997 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

. She studied law via correspondence courses but had stopped her studies by January 2017.

Career

Esbrat began learning to skate in 2004. She competed in ladies' singles through the 2013–14 season. She started training as a

, in partnership with Nicolas Hejzlar, by July 2014.

Partnership with Novoselov

Esbrat teamed up with Russia's

in mid-2015. They are coached by Claude Thevenard in Paris and compete for France. In 2016, the pair won bronze medals at the

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and Bavarian Open. In early April, they competed at the 2016 World Championships in

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; they qualified to the free skate and finished 16th overall. In the 2016–17 season, Esbrat/Novoselov won the silver medal at the

NRW Trophy The NRW Trophy (also known as the NRW Summer Trophy or NRW Autumn Trophy) is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Skating Union of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2007, it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eislauf ...

and placed 5th at the Toruń Cup. In January 2017, they placed 11th in the short program, 13th in the free skate, and 13th overall at the 2017 European Championships in

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, Czech Republic.

Programs

(with Novoselov)

Competitive highlights

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; CS: Challenger Series''

Pairs with Novoselov

Ladies' singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Esbrat, Lola 1997 births French female pair skaters Living people Figure skaters from Paris