Maia Sørensen (born 11 August 2004) is a Danish retired
figure skater
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. She is a two-time
Danish national champion. She represented Denmark at three
ISU Championships — the
2022 European Championships
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,
2019 World Junior Championships and
2020 World Junior Championships.
Early life
Sørensen was born on 11 August 2004 in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada. She began skating in 2009 in her hometown of
Herlev
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, Denmark.
Career
2018–19 season
Sørensen made her Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut in
Slovakia
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and finished 15th. She improved her result to 13th place at the
JGP Czech Republic. She competed at the Danish Championships with an injury but then still won the junior national title. She then competed at the
2019 World Junior Championships and finished 45th in the short program after falling twice.
2019–20 season
Sørensen withdrew from the Junior Grand Prix series due to an injury. She returned to competition and won the gold medal at the Junior Danish Championships. She finished second in the short program at the
Nordic Open, but multiple falls in the free skate caused her to drop to 18th overall. She competed at the
2020 World Junior Championships and finished 39th in the short program with a score of 40.72 and failed to advance to the free skate.
2020–21 season
In the summer of 2020, she changed training locations, moving from Denmark to
Oberstdorf
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, Germany, where
Michael Huth became her coach.
She made her senior debut at the
2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and finished 14th. She then finished ninth at the
NRW Trophy
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and tenth at the
International Challenge Cup
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. She did not achieve the minimum technical elements score requirement to compete at the
2021 World Championships.
2021–22 season
Sørensen finished 27th at both the
2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
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and the
2021 CS Warsaw Cup
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Entries
The Int ...
. She then won her first senior national title at the 2022 Danish Championships. At the
2022 European Championships
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, she finished 35th in the short program with a score of 40.93.
2022–23 season
Sørensen began the season with a 21st place finish at the
2022 CS Finlandia Trophy. She then placed 18th at the
2022 CS Budapest Trophy. Then at the
NRW Trophy
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, she finished eighth. She then successfully defended her senior national title. She was selected to compete at the
2023 European Championships but had to withdraw due to an ankle injury.
Sørensen announced her retirement in December 2023 on her Instagram page, citing a hip injury.
Programs
Results
''CS:
Challenger Series; JGP:
Junior Grand Prix
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References
External links
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2004 births
Living people
Danish female single skaters
Figure skaters from Vancouver
Danish people of Canadian descent
Canadian female single skaters
Canadian people of Danish descent
21st-century Canadian sportswomen
21st-century Danish sportswomen