Paige Conners (born 9 April 2000) is an American-Israeli

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,

Evgeni Krasnopolski Evgeni Krasnopolski ( he, יבגני קרסנופולסקי ukr, Євгеній Краснопольський; born 4 October 1988) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli retired pair skater. Krasnopolski and Andrea Davidovich were the first pair represent ...

, she is the

2017 CS Minsk-Arena Ice Star The 2017 CS Minsk-Arena Ice Star is a senior international figure skating competition to be held in October 2017 in Minsk, Belarus. It is part of the 2017–18 ISU Challenger Series. Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, la ...

bronze medalist. She competed for

Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics Israel competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with ten competitors in four sports. Competitors The following is a list of the number of Israeli competitors participating at the Games per s ...

Figure Skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

pairs skating 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 ...

and a team event in

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, South Korea.

Personal life

Conners was born on April 9, 2000, in

Pittsford, New York Pittsford is a town in Monroe County, New York. A suburb of Rochester, its population was 30,617 at the time of the 2020 census. The Town of Pittsford (formerly part of the town of Northfield) was settled in 1789 and incorporated in 1796. The ...

, United States, the daughter of Karen (a reading teacher) and Mark Conners (a dentist) Her mother, who is from Buffalo, has Israeli citizenship. She later moved to

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.Paige Conners at 2018 Winter Olympics
/ref> She has dual American-Israeli citizenship.

Career

Conners began learning to skate in 2003. Representing Israel in ladies' singles, she placed 27th at the 2017 World Junior Championships in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

, Taiwan. She was coached by

Galit Chait Galit Chait ( he, גלית חייט, ''Galit Hayat''; born on January 29, 1975) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. She and her partner Sergei Sakhnovski competed internationally for Israel from 1995 to 2006, becoming the 2002 World bro ...

Gilberto Viadana Gilberto Viadana (born 9 February 1973) is an Italian former figure skater. He reached the free skate at four European Championships, three World Championships, and two Winter Olympics (1992, 1998). Life and career Gilberto Viadana was born on ...

, and Michela Boschetto. Switching to

pair skating 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 ...

, Conners teamed up with Israel's

in March 2017. The pair decided to train in

Hackensack, New Jersey Hackensack is a city in and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.New Jers ...

, coached by Galit Chait and Anton Nimenko. Making their international debut, Conners/Krasnopolski placed 5th at the 2017 CS U.S. Classic in September. Later the same month, they placed 8th at the

2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was a senior international figure skating competition held in September 2017 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2017–18 ISU Challenger Series. It also served as the final qualification event for the 2018 Wi ...

, the final qualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Due to their result, Israel received a spot in the Olympic pairs event. In October, the two won the bronze medal at the

. In November 2017, Conners/Krasnopolski were named in Israel's Olympic team. In January 2018, they finished 9th at the

2018 European Championships The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles ...

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, Russia. She competed for

(coming in 19th) and a team event in

, South Korea.Blue-and-white athletes all done at Winter Olympics - Israel News - Jerusalem Post
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Programs

Pair skating

Single skating

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series''

Pairs with Krasnopolski

Ladies' singles

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conners, Paige 2000 births Jewish American sportspeople Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli female pair skaters Israeli female single skaters Living people People from Pittsford, New York Sportspeople from Monroe County, New York People from Edgewater, New Jersey Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for Israel American people of Israeli descent 21st-century American Jews