Tommy-Jo "TJ" Nyman (born April 8, 2000) is an American

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 his former skating partner, Sarah Feng, he is the 2018 JGP Czech Republic bronze medalist and the 2018 U.S. junior national silver medalist. The pair placed within the top five at the 2019 World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Nyman was born on April 8, 2000 in

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. His mother, Katie, is a figure skating coach and his father, Peter, is a hockey coach. Nyman has an older sister named Mimmi.

Career

Early career

As a singles skater, Nyman is the 2014 U.S. national juvenile and 2015 U.S. national intermediate champion. He concurrently competed pairs during his singles career, after pairing with Sarah Rose during the 2013–14 season. They are the 2014 U.S. national juvenile bronze medalists.

2016–2017 season

Nyman teamed up with former ice dancer Sarah Feng in April 2017. The two were introduced by their coach,

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2017–2018 season

Feng/Nyman received their first

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assignment in the 2017–18 season. They placed 8th at 2018 JGP Croatia. Feng/Nyman won gold at 2017–18 Pacific Sectionals to qualify for Nationals in their first season together. They won silver at 2018 U.S. Nationals in junior pairs after skating together for less than a year. As a result, they were named to the U.S. team for the

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, along with winners

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. Feng/Nyman finished eighth at the competition. Combined with Lu/Mitrofanov's fifth-place finish, they earned three spots for U.S. pairs at the

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for the first time since 2016.

2018–2019 season

Feng/Nyman opened their season at 2018 JGP Canada, where they finished sixth. They won their first international medal, a bronze, at 2018 JGP Czech Republic. Their results earned them a berth to the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final in December in

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. At the Junior Grand Prix Final, they withdrew after the short program due to Feng's injury. Despite withdrawing from 2019 U.S. Nationals, Feng/Nyman were named to the team for the

, where they placed fifth. Their placement, combined with teammates Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow's sixth-place finish, retained three spots for U.S. pairs.

2019–2020 season

Feng/Nyman began their season at Skate Detroit but on August 23, Nyman announced the end of their partnership. On May 29, he announced that he had been paired with Nadezhda Labazina of Russia. The two never competed together after Labazina returned to Russia during the onset of the

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2020–2021 season

On February 19, his coach,

, announced his new partnership with Brynne McIsaac. On June 11, 2021, the German Ice Skating Union announced that they had released

Aljona Savchenko Aljona Savchenko ( uk, Олена Валентинівна Савченко, ''Olena Valentynivna Savchenko''; German Romanization: ''Aljona Sawtschenko'', sometimes ''Aliona Savchenko''; born 19 January 1984) is a Ukrainian-born German pair ...

, 37, to continue her competitive career in the United States. Nyman was named as Savchenko's partner and the two are training in Monument, Colorado. Less than two months later, though, Benoit Richaud said that Savchenko was looking for a new partner, indicating the two had split.

Programs

With Feng

Competitive highlights

''JGP:

Pairs with Feng

Pairs with Rose

Men's singles

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nyman, TJ Living people 2000 births English emigrants to the United States Sportspeople from London People from Melbourne, Florida Viera High School alumni American male pair skaters