Aimee Buchanan
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Aimee Buchanan at the 2018 European Figure Skating Championships
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Israel |
Born | June 11, 1993 |
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Coach | Peter and Darlene Cain |
Former coach | Julie Graham-Eavzan and Chad Brennan |
Choreographer | Evgeni Nemirovski[1] |
Former choreographer | Sheryl Franks |
Skating club | Team Cain |
Former skating club | Colonial Figure Skating Club |
Training locations | Euless, Texas |
Former training locations | Boxborough, Massachusetts |
Began skating | 1997 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 128.55 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
Short program | 46.30 2018 Winter Olympics team event |
Free skate | 85.68 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb |
Aimee Buchanan (born June 11, 1993)[1] is an American-Israeli figure skater who competes in ladies' singles for Israel.[2][3] She is a two-time Israeli national champion and competed in the team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Early life
Buchanan was born and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and subsequently lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, and Euless, Texas.[1][4][5][6] Buchanan's mother Wendy is Jewish and is from Israel, as are both of her maternal grandparents, and Buchanan is and also identifies as Jewish.[7][6] She attended synagogue on the High Holidays and Hebrew school for a few years, before sports became too demanding.[6] She attended Endicott College and the United States Sports Academy, studying for a B.S. in Strength and Conditioning.[8][9] In 2014, she became a dual American-Israeli citizen.[10][2]
Skating career
Buchanan began figure skating at age 4, but she did not start seriously training until age 19.[11] While she lived in Boston, she trained at the Colonial Figure Skating Club in Boxborough, Massachusetts, with coaches Julie Graham-Eavzan and Chad Brennan, while her programs were choreographed by former Olympian Sheryl Franks.[12][9] In November 2013, she came in second at the New England Regional Figure Skating Championships Newington, Connecticut.[9]
She relocated to Texas to train with figure skating coaches Peter and Darlene Cain.[7][13]
Buchanan has represented Israel three times at the European Figure Skating Championships, and was the Israeli national ladies champion in 2016.[14] In August 2017, she had foot surgery to remove a bursa sac.[14][10] She was not able to enter the Olympics single women's qualifier competition in Germany in 2017, because the qualifier was scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur.[15]
She competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in team figure skating in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[13] Buchanan placed 10th in the woman's short program of the team event with a score of 46.30, an improvement of 1.23 points as compared to her personal best before that program.[16][17] Israel finished in 8th place, ahead of South Korea and France, and did not qualify for the finals of the team event.[16][17]
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2017–2018 [1] |
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2016–2017 [18] |
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2015–2016 [19] |
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2014–2015 [20] |
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Results
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
For Israel
International[21] | |||||||||||
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Event | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | |||||||
Europeans | 31st | 31st | 38th | ||||||||
CS Finlandia | 16th | ||||||||||
CS Golden Spin | 13th | ||||||||||
CS Ice Challenge | 11th | ||||||||||
CS U.S. Classic | 13th | 8th | 10th | ||||||||
CS Volvo Open | 19th | 15th | |||||||||
Bavarian Open | 18th | ||||||||||
Hellmut Seibt | 14th | ||||||||||
Int. Challenge Cup | 15th | ||||||||||
Nebelhorn Trophy | 16th | ||||||||||
Philadelphia | 10th | 12th | |||||||||
Tallinn Trophy | 11th | ||||||||||
Toruń Cup | 13th | ||||||||||
Volvo Open Cup | 15th | ||||||||||
National[21] | |||||||||||
Israeli Champ. | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||||||
Team events | |||||||||||
Olympics | 8th T 10th P |
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T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. |
For the United States
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Event | 2011–12 | ||
U.S. Championships | 19th |
References
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External links
- "Figure skater Aimee Buchanan gears up for her Olympic debut," NBC (video), February 10, 2018.
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- 1993 births
- American female single skaters
- Living people
- Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters of Israel
- Israeli female single skaters
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Jewish Israeli sportspeople
- American emigrants to Israel
- American people of Israeli descent
- People from Lexington, Massachusetts
- Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- People from Euless, Texas
- Sportspeople from the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
- Endicott College alumni
- United States Sports Academy alumni