Taylor Tran (born September 15, 1992 in

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) is an

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-born former competitive

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who competed for

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with partner

Saulius Ambrulevičius Saulius Ambrulevičius (born 10 June 1992) is a Lithuanian ice dancer. As a single skater, he is the 2007 and 2008 Lithuanian national champion. Competing in ice dancing with Taylor Tran, he is the 2015 Pavel Roman Memorial silver medalist and ...

. Together, they are the 2015

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silver medalists and 2015 Lithuanian national champions. They qualified to the free dance at the 2017 European Championships.

Career

Tran began learning to skate in 1998. She began a partnership with Samuel Kaplun in July 2012. The two finished 13th in senior ice dancing at the 2013 U.S. Championships.

Partnership with Ambrulevičius

Around July 2014, Tran teamed up with Lithuania's

, who had decided to switch from single skating. They elected to represent Lithuania and made their international debut at the

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in December 2014. At the Estonian event, they finished 5th and earned the minimum scores to appear at the 2015 European Championships in

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. They missed the cut for the free dance in Sweden and at the 2016 European Championships in

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, Slovakia. Tran/Ambrulevičius qualified to the final segment at the 2017 European Championships in

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, Czech Republic; they ranked 20th in the short dance, 17th in the free, and 18th overall. After the 2017 World Championships Ambrulevičius and T. Tran announced that they were separating and would not compete together any more.Lietuvio ir amerikietės keliai išsiskyrė
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Programs

With Ambrulevičius

With Kaplun

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series''

With Ambrulevičius for Lithuania

With Kaplun

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tran, Taylor 1992 births American female ice dancers Living people People from Loma Linda, California Lithuanian female ice dancers 21st-century American women