Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Name Moris Kvitelashvili Former coach Marina Selitskaia Coach Eteri Tutberidze | Country represented Russia Skating club Sambo 70 Training locations Moscow | |
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Native name Морис Михайлович Квителашвили Full name Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili Born 17 March 1995 (age 29) ( 1995-03-17 ) Moscow, Russia | ||
Choreographer Alexei Zhelezniakov | ||
Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili (Georgian: მორის ყვითელაშვილი, Russian: Морис Михайлович Квителашвили, born 17 March 1995) is a Georgian figure skater. He is the 2016 Santa Claus Cup champion (for Georgia) and 2015 CS Mordovian Ornament bronze medalist (for Russia). He finished in the top ten at the 2017 European Championships.
Contents
- Personal life
- Career for Russia
- 20132014 season
- 20142015 season
- 20152016 season
- 20162017 season
- Competitive highlights
- References
Personal life
Kvitelashvili was born on 17 March 1995 in Moscow. He has Georgian ancestry.
Career for Russia
Kvitelashvili began skating in 2000. He won the junior bronze medal at the 2012 NRW Trophy, his first international event.
2013–2014 season
In 2013, Kvitelashvili was selected to compete on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP); he placed fourth, 1.62 points behind bronze medalist Mikhail Kolyada, at his first event, which took place in September in Košice, Slovakia. The following month, he won the bronze medal at the JGP event in Ostrava, Czech Republic, having scored 17.76 points less than silver medalist Alexander Petrov and 16.7 more than Daniel Samohin. His senior international debut came in December, at the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trento, Italy, where he finished 5th.
2014–2015 season
Making his ISU Challenger Series (CS) debut, Kvitelashvili placed 5th at the Lombardia Trophy in September 2014. In November, he competed at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup, replacing the injured Kolyada; he finished 12th at the event, the first senior Grand Prix (GP) assignment of his career. After placing 8th at the 2015 Russian Championships, he was sent to his second Winter Universiade and finished 7th at the competition, held in February 2015 in Granada, Spain.
2015–2016 season
Kvitelashvili won the bronze medal at the 2015 CS Mordovian Ornament in Saransk, Russia. He finished 12th at his sole GP event, the 2015 Cup of China. In December 2015, he placed 5th in his final international event for Russia, the CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, and 12th at the Russian Championships. In May 2016, he submitted a request to Russian skating officials to be released to compete for Georgia.
2016–2017 season
Kvitelashvili made his first international appearance for Georgia in December 2016, at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. He obtained the minimum technical scores required to compete at all ISU Championships and won the gold medal, ahead of fellow Georgian Irakli Maysuradze, by placing first in both segments. Ranked 10th in the short program and 4th in the free skate, he finished 6th overall at the 2017 European Championships, held in January in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
In March, Kvitelashvili placed 19th in the short, 11th in the free, and 13th overall at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to his placement, Georgia qualified a spot in the men's event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix