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2015 NHK Trophy
The 2015 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 2015–16 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 27–29. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final. Entries Changes to preliminary assignments * On September 9, Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed, Mariko Kihara and Keiji Tanaka were added as host picks. * On September 24, Joshua Farris was removed from the roster. U.S. Figure Skating announced he had to withdraw due to a concussion. On September 28, his replacement was announced as Grant Hochstein. * On November 11, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron withdrew due to Papadakis not having fully recovered from her concussion. On November 17, Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland were announced as their replacement. * On November 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISU Grand Prix Of Figure Skating
The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating (known as ISU Champions Series from 1995 to 1997) is a series of senior international figure skating competitions organized by the International Skating Union. The invitational series was inaugurated in 1995, incorporating several previously existing events. Medals are awarded in single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The junior-level equivalent is the ISU Junior Grand Prix. Summary Competitions Currently, the sanctioned competitions for the Grand Prix are: * Skate America. First held in 1979 as the Norton Skate, this event has been part of the series since 1995 and its location changes yearly. * Skate Canada International. First held in 1973, this event has been part of the series since 1995 and its location changes yearly. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. * Cup of China. This event was created in 2003 and joined the Grand Prix series in the same year. It has been held in numerous ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 as compared with independent Single Skating".S&P/ID 2021, p. 109 The ISU also states that a pairs team consists of "one Woman and one Man". Pair skating, along with men's and women's single skating, has been an Olympic discipline since figure skating, the oldest Winter Olympic sport, was introduced at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The ISU World Figure Skating Championships introduced pair skating in 1908. Like the other disciplines, pair skating competitions consist of two segments, the short program and the free skating program. There are seven required elements in the short program, which lasts two minutes and 40 seconds for both junior and senior pair teams. Free skating for pairs "consists of a well balanced program composed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa James
Vanessa James Amoros (Birth name, née James; born 27 September 1987) is a Canadian retired pair skater. Representing France with her former skating partner, Morgan Ciprès, she is the 2019 European Figure Skating Championships, 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships, 2018 World bronze medallist, the 2017 European Figure Skating Championships, 2017 European bronze medallist, the 2018–19 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time French Figure Skating Championships, French national champion. They have also won medals in ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Grand Prix and ISU Challenger Series, Challenger Series competitions. James and Ciprès competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. With her previous partner Yannick Bonheur, James represented France at the Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010 Winter Olympics, placing fourteenth. She also competed as a ladies' single skatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chafik Besseghier
Chafik Besseghier (born 11 October 1989) is a French figure skater. He is a two-time International Cup of Nice champion and the 2016 and 2018 French national champion. He has won a total of fourteen senior international medals and finished in the top ten at three ISU Championships ( 2014 Worlds, 2013 Europeans, 2017 Europeans). Personal life Chafik Besseghier was born in Grenoble, France. His parents are from Algeria, close to Oran, and he has two siblings. On 14 February 2020, Besseghier married Ukrainian-Turkish ice dancer Alisa Agafonova. Career Early years Besseghier began skating at a relatively late age, almost 13, in August 2002. Within a year, he had landed all the double jumps, and was landing triples by the end of his second year. Training in Grenoble, he competed mostly domestically before making his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in 2008. In the 2009–2010 season, Besseghier won the bronze medal at the Crystal Skate of Romania and 2010 Triglav Trophy. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Březina
Michal Březina (; born 30 March 1990) is a retired Czech figure skater. He is the 2013 European bronze medalist, 2011 Skate America champion, 2009 World Junior silver medalist and four-time Czech national champion. He also won the 2014-15 ISU Challenger Series. Michal represented the Czech Republic at the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics. Personal life Michal Březina was born on 30 March 1990 in Brno. He is the son of Edita Březinová and Rudolf Březina, a figure skating coach. His younger sister, Eliška Březinová, competes in ladies' single skating. At the age of 18 he intended to study sports at university and eventually become a skating coach. Březina was the best man at the wedding of Anna Cappellini and Ondřej Hotárek in the summer of 2015. On 19 May 2015, Brezina announced his engagement to his girlfriend, fellow figure skater, Danielle Montalbano. They were married on 10 June 2017. The couple have two children: a daughter, Naya Rose (born 2020) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Yang
Jin Yang (; ; born in Harbin) is a Chinese male pair skater. With former partner Peng Cheng, he is a two-time Four Continents medalist (silver in 2020, bronze in 2019), two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist ( 2018–19, 2019–20), and the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist. Peng/Jin represented China at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics. With former partner Yu Xiaoyu, he is a two-time (2014, 2015) World Junior champion, the 2012 World Junior silver medalist, the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics champion, the 2013–2014 JGP Final champion, and the 2016 Four Continents bronze medalist. Career Partnership with Yu Xiaoyu Yang Jin were paired together by their coaches in 2009. They do on- and off-ice training from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon with a break in the middle. 2010–11 season Yu/Jin won the silver medal at the 2010 Chinese Nationals. They made their international debut during the 2010–11 season. They won bronze at J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Xiaoyu
Yu Xiaoyu ( zh, c=于小雨, p=Yú Xiǎoyǔ; ) is a former Chinese pair skater. With partner Zhang Hao, she is the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, 2017 Asian Winter Games champion and 2018 Chinese national champion. With partner Jin Yang, she is a two-time (2014, 2015) World Junior champion, the 2012 World Junior silver medalist, the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics champion, the 2013–2014 JGP Final champion, and the 2016 Four Continents bronze medalist. She was born in Beijing. Partnership with Jin Yang Yu/Jin were paired together by their coaches in 2009. They did on- and off-ice training from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon with a break in the middle. 2010–11 season Yu/Jin won the silver medal at the 2010 Chinese Nationals. They made their international debut during the 2010–11 season. They won bronze at JGP Cup of Austria and then won gold at Czech Skate. At the Junior Grand Prix Final, they won the bronze medal. 2011–12 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Zijun
Li Zijun (; December 14, 1996) is a retired Chinese competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic bronze medalist and the 2014 Four Continents bronze medalist. Li is also the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, 2010 JGP Final bronze medalist, and a four-time (2011–2014) Chinese national champion. Li represented China at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Personal life Li was born on December 14, 1996, in Changchun, China. In 2023, Li announced that she had gotten married and had a daughter. Career 2010–11 season: First senior national title Li debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit during the 2010–11 season. She won the bronze medal in Austria and placed fourth in the Czech Republic to qualify for the Final. At the Junior Grand Prix Final, she tied with Risa Shoji for third place. She won the bronze medal on the tie-breaker. Li went on to win her first senior national title. She finished ninth at the 2011 World Junior Championships. 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Boyang
Jin Boyang ( zh, c=, p=Jīn Bóyáng; ; born 3 October 1997) is a Chinese figure skater. He is a two-time World bronze medalist (2016–2017), the 2018 Four Continents champion, a two-time Four Continents silver medalist (2016, 2019), the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, a five-time (2014–2017, 2019) Chinese national champion and a two-time (2016, 2024) Chinese national winter games champion. On the junior level, he is the 2015 World Junior silver medalist and the 2013 JGP Final champion. He is the first Chinese skater to medal in the men's singles event at a World Championships. Jin is the first skater ever to land a quad Lutz- triple toe loop combination in competition, the first skater to ever have landed three different types of quads in a single competition, the first skater to have landed four quad jumps in a single program in international competition, and the first skater to have landed six quads in international competition. He is credited as being on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Moscovitch
Dylan David Moscovitch (born 23 September 1984) is a retired Canadian pair skater. He competed with Liubov Ilyushechkina from 2014 to 2018. They were the 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2017 Four Continents bronze medalists, two-time bronze medalists on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Grand Prix series, and three-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national medalists (silver in 2015 and 2017, bronze in 2016). With former partner Kirsten Moore-Towers, he was the 2013 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2013 Four Continents silver medalist, Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Team trophy, 2014 Olympic team event silver medalist, and 2011 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion. Personal life Dylan David Moscovitch was born 23 September 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish. His mother is a midwife from South Africa, his father is an engineer designer from Montreal, and one of his grandfather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubov Iliushechkina
Liubov Ivanovna Ilyushechkina (, born 5 November 1991) is a Russian-born Canadian pair skater. Ilyushechkina began competing for Canada with Dylan Moscovitch in 2014, and they were the 2017 Four Continents bronze medalists, two-time bronze medalists on the Grand Prix series, and three-time Canadian national medalists (silver in 2015 and 2017, bronze in 2016). Their partnership ended with Moscovitch's retirement in 2018. With former partner, Charlie Bilodeau, she is the 2020 Canadian Bronze medalist. Ilyushechkina formerly represented Russia with Nodari Maisuradze. Together, they won the 2010 Skate Canada International, 2011 Winter Universiade, and 2009 World Junior Championships. Personal life Ilyushechkina was born on November 5, 1991, in Moscow, Russia. She became a Canadian citizen on September 21, 2017. Early years Ilyushechkina began skating at the age of four or five in Moscow. Her coach, Lubov Fedoshchenko, suggested she try pair skating and took her to Saint Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaetlyn Osmond
Kaetlyn Osmond (born December 5, 1995) is a retired competitive Canadian Figure skating, figure skater who competed in singles skating, ladies' singles. A three-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion (2013, 2014, 2017), Osmond competed internationally at the senior level from 2012 to 2018, winning three Winter Olympics, Olympic medals (gold and silver in the team event, and individual bronze), two World Figure Skating Championships, World Championship medals (gold and silver), and one ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Grand Prix Final medal (bronze). Osmond debuted on the senior level in 2012 and won gold at the 2012 Skate Canada International. After winning what would be 2013 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, the first of three national titles, she placed eighth in her 2013 World Figure Skating Championships, World Championship debut. As part of the Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 Canadian Olympic team, Osmond won a silver m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
