Diāna Ņikitina
| Diāna Ņikitina | |||||||||||||
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Country represented | Latvia | ||||||||||||
| Born |
9 December 2000 Riga, Latvia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Romāns Panteļejevs, Julia Kulibanova, Andrejs Brovenko | ||||||||||||
| Former coach | Armen Asoian | ||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Svetlana Korol | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | JLSS Jelgava | ||||||||||||
| Training locations | Riga and Jelgava, Latvia; Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2004 | ||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
| Combined total |
165.60 2016 Youth Olympics | ||||||||||||
| Short program |
58.81 2016 Youth Olympics | ||||||||||||
| Free skate |
107.47 2016 Youth Olympics (Team) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Diāna Ņikitina (born 9 December 2000) is a Latvian figure skater. She is the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic silver medalist in the team event, a two-time Latvian national junior champion, and placed tenth at two World Junior Championships.
Personal life
Diāna Ņikitina was born on 9 December 2000 in Riga, Latvia.[1] As of 2015, she is studying through distance education at Riga 1 secondary school.[2]
Career
Ņikitina competed internationally on the novice level in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.
She moved up to the junior level in the 2014–15 season.[3] Making her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut, Ņikitina placed 11th in Japan in September 2014 and 5th in Croatia the following month. In March 2015, she competed at the World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, and qualified for the free skate by placing 13th in the short program. Her 10th place in the free lifted her to 10th overall.
During the 2015–16 JGP series, Ņikitina placed 12th in Latvia and 5th in Poland. She then collected three junior international medals – gold at the Volvo Open Cup, bronze at the Tallinn Trophy, and silver at the MNNT Cup. In February 2016, Ņikitina represented Latvia at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Hamar, Norway; she placed 5th in the individual event and won silver in the team event. In March, she finished 10th at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2015–16 [1] |
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| 2014–15 [4] |
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Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International[3][5] | ||||
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| Event | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 |
| Youth Olympics | 5th | |||
| Junior Worlds | 10th | 10th | ||
| JGP Croatia | 5th | |||
| JGP Japan | 11th | |||
| JGP Latvia | 12th | |||
| JGP Poland | 5th | |||
| Jégvirág Cup | 1st J. | |||
| MNNT Cup | 2nd J. | |||
| Tallinn Trophy | 3rd J. | |||
| Volvo Open Cup | 1st N. | 1st N. | 1st J. | 1st J. |
| NRW Trophy | 1st N. | |||
| Rooster Cup | 1st N. | |||
| Warsaw Cup | 2nd N. | |||
| National[3][5] | ||||
| Latvian Champ. | 1st N. | 1st J. | 1st J. | |
| Team events | ||||
| Youth Olympics | 2nd T (2nd P) | |||
| Levels: N. = Advanced novice; J. = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result; Medals awarded for team result only. | ||||
References
- 1 2 "Diana NIKITINA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union.
- ↑ Druvietis, Gatis (30 December 2015). "Daiļslidotāja Ņikitina: "Man vajag, lai viss ir perfekti"" [Figure skater Nikitina: "I need everything to be perfect"]. Žurnāls "Sports" (in Latvian) (sportacentrs.com).
- 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Diana NIKITINA". International Skating Union.
- ↑ "Diana NIKITINA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015.
- 1 2 "Diana Nikitina". Tracings.net.
External links
Media related to Diāna Ņikitina at Wikimedia Commons