Country represented Latvia Former coach Armen Asoian Skating club JLSS Jelgava | Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) Choreographer Svetlana Korol Name Diana Nikitina | |
Born 9 December 2000 (age 23) ( 2000-12-09 ) Riga, Latvia Coach Romans Pantelejevs, Julia Kulibanova, Andrejs Brovenko | ||
2015 isu jr grand prix torun ladies short program diana nikitina lat
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.
Contents
- 2015 isu jr grand prix torun ladies short program diana nikitina lat
- Isu 2015 jr grand prix riga ladies free skate diana nikitina lat
- Personal life
- Career
- Competitive highlights
- References
Isu 2015 jr grand prix riga ladies free skate diana nikitina lat
Personal life
Diāna Ņikitina was born on 9 December 2000 in Riga, Latvia. As of 2015, she is studying through distance education at Riga 1 secondary school.
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. 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.
Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
