Angelīna Kučvaļska

Angelīna Kučvaļska
Personal information
Alternative names Angelina Kuchvalska[1]
Country represented Latvia
Born (1998-12-06) 6 December 1998
Saldus, Latvia
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Coach Jekaterina Platonova
Choreographer Natalja Lipska, Jekaterina Ostrovskaja
Former choreographer Anda Rage
Skating club Kaskads Riga
Training locations Riga
Began skating 2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 176.99
2016 Europeans
Short program 58.99
2016 Europeans
Free skate 118.00
2016 Europeans

Angelīna Kučvaļska (born 6 December 1998) is a Latvian figure skater. She has won three ISU Challenger Series medals and two Latvian national titles. She placed fourth at the 2016 European Championships.

Personal life

Angelīna Kučvaļska was born on 6 December 1998 in Saldus, Latvia.[2] Her father died when she was 12 years old.[3] She is a student at Riga 1st secondary school.[4]

Career

Kučvaļska began skating at the age of three and a half.[5] Jekaterina Platonova is her first and only coach.[3]

2012–13 season

Kučvaļska became age-eligible for junior internationals in the 2012–13 season and placed 16th at her sole Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignment, in Courchevel, France. She was selected to represent Latvia at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy. Ranked 22nd in the short program, she qualified for the free skate and finished 20th overall.

2013–14 season

In the 2013–14 season, Kučvaļska competed at two JGP events, placing 15th in Košice and 19th in Minsk, and won the junior silver medal at the Bavarian Open. She placed 20th in both segments and 19th overall at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2014–15 season

In 2014–15, Kučvaļska placed seventh at both of her JGP assignments, in Ostrava and Tallinn. Making her senior international debut, she took gold at the 2014 Volvo Open Cup, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event. Continuing on the senior level, she placed seventh at the CS Warsaw Cup and took gold at the Tallinn Trophy, Latvian Championships, and MNNT Cup. Kučvaļska was named in Latvia's team to the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden and placed 17th in the short program, earning qualification to the next segment. After placing fifth in the free skate, she climbed to seventh overall.

2015–16 season

Kučvaļska was unable to train in July 2015 due to an ankle injury.[6] She began the 2015–16 season at a pair of CS events, placing 10th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy before winning silver at the 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup. Making her Grand Prix debut, she placed 7th in the short program at the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard in Bordeaux, France; the event was cancelled due to the November 2015 Paris attacks.

Kučvaļska placed fifth in the short program, fourth in the free skate, and fourth overall at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her placement is the highest by a Latvian skater at the European Championships, matching Konstantin Kostin's result in 1993.[7]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–2016
[2]
2014–2015
[5][8]
  • El Tango de Roxanne
    (from Moulin Rouge!)
  • Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme
    by Nino Rota
  • El Tango de Roxanne
    (from Moulin Rouge!)
2013–2014
[9]
  • Music from Todes (ballet)
2012–2013
[10]
  • Music from Todes (ballet)

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[1]
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Worlds 16th 15th
Europeans 7th 4th
GP Bompard 7th
CS DS Cup 2nd
CS Nepela Trophy 10th
CS Tallinn Trophy 1st 5th
CS Volvo Open Cup 1st
CS Warsaw Cup 7th
MNNT Cup 1st 1st
Volvo Open Cup 5th
International: Junior and novice[1][11]
Junior Worlds 20th 19th 7th
JGP Belarus 19th
JGP Czech Rep. 7th
JGP Estonia 7th
JGP France 16th
JGP Slovakia 15th
EYOF 5th
Bavarian Open 2nd J.
Seibt Memorial 4th J.
Volvo Open Cup 2nd N. 3rd J. 4th J.
Warsaw Cup 7th J. 5th J.
Challenge Cup 5th N.
National[1]
Latvian Champ. 1st J. 1st
Levels: N. = Novice, J. = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Competition Results: Angelina KUCHVALSKA". International Skating Union.
  2. 1 2 "Angelina KUCHVALSKA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union.
  3. 1 2 Daine, Iveta (February 2015). "Angelīna ieslido vēsturē" [Angelīna skating into history]. sporto.lv (in Latvian) (299).
  4. ↑ Freimanis, Jānis (5 February 2015). "Angelina Kučvaļska: "Mans sapnis ir nokļūt olimpiskajās spēlēs"" [Angelina Kučvaļska: "My dream is to compete at the Olympics"]. sportacentrs.com (in Latvian).
  5. 1 2 Remmel, Ia (16 February 2015). "Latvia's Angelina Kuchvalska breaks through to the big arena". Absolute Skating.
  6. ↑ Freimanis, Jānis (1 October 2015). "Kučvaļska. Ar atbildības slogu pie elites durvīm" [Kučvaļska. With the burden of responsibility, at the door of the elite]. sportacentrs.com (in Latvian).
  7. ↑ Freimanis, Jānis (31 January 2016). "Platonova: "Skatītājiem likās, ka Angelinai jābūt trijniekā..."" [Interview with Platonova]. sportacentrs.com (in Latvian).
  8. ↑ "Angelina KUCHVALSKA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Angelina KUCHVALSKA: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "Angelina KUCHVALSKA: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Angelina Kucvalska". Tracings.

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