Name Taylor Tran | ||
European figure skating championships 2015 sd taylor tran saulius ambrulevicius
Taylor Tran (born September 15, 1992 in Loma Linda, California) is an American ice dancer who competes for Lithuania with partner Saulius Ambrulevičius. Together, they are the 2015 Pavel Roman Memorial silver medalists and 2015 Lithuanian national champions. They qualified to the free dance at the 2017 European Championships.
Contents
- European figure skating championships 2015 sd taylor tran saulius ambrulevicius
- 2013 US Champs Championship Free Dance 5 Taylor Tran and Sam Kaplun
- Career
- Partnership with Ambruleviius
- Competitive highlights
- References
2013 US Champs Championship Free Dance 5 Taylor Tran and Sam Kaplun
Career
Tran began learning to skate in 1998. She began a partnership with Samuel Kaplun in July 2012. The two finished 13th in senior ice dancing at the 2013 U.S. Championships.
Partnership with Ambrulevičius
Around July 2014, Tran teamed up with Lithuania's Saulius Ambrulevičius, who had decided to switch from single skating. They elected to represent Lithuania and made their international debut at the Tallinn Trophy in December 2014. At the Estonian event, they finished 5th and earned the minimum scores to appear at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm. They missed the cut for the free dance in Sweden and at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Tran/Ambrulevičius qualified to the final segment at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic; they ranked 20th in the short dance, 17th in the free, and 18th overall. After 2017 World Championships Ambrulevičius and T. Tran announced that they are separating and won't compete together any more.