Deniss Vasiļjevs
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Vasiļjevs at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
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| Country represented | Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 August 1999 Daugavpils, Latvia |
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| Coach | Ingrida Snieškienė, Alexei Urmanov | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Elena Ivanova | ||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Benoît Richaud, Valeri Pecherski | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Ingrida Snieškienė | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Daugavpils SC ACBB Boulogne Billancourt |
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| Former skating club | COC Courbevoie | ||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Daugavpils, Latvia; Sochi, Russia; Boulogne, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former training locations | Paris, Courbevoie, and Chamonix, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 224.54 2016 Worlds |
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| Short program | 81.07 2016 Worlds |
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| Free skate | 149.09 2016 Youth Olympics (Team) |
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Deniss Vasiļjevs[1] (born 9 August 1999) is a Latvian figure skater. He won two medals at the 2016 Youth Olympics (silver in men's singles and bronze in the team event) and two silver medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
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Personal life
Deniss Vasiļjevs was born on 9 August 1999 in Daugavpils, Latvia.[2] His mother is a former dancer.[3] He enjoys drawing[4] and speaks three languages – Latvian, Russian and English.[5]
Career
Vasiļjevs began skating in 2002.[2] Around 2010, his parents arranged for him to train under the guidance of Lithuanian coach Ingrida Snieškienė in Paris, France.[3] Due to his schooling, he spends part of the year training in Daugavpils.[3] His figure skating role models include Stéphane Lambiel, Daisuke Takahashi, Patrick Chan, and Javier Fernandez.[6]
2013−14 season: Junior Grand Prix debut
Vasiļjevs debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit in 2013, placing 7th in Riga, Latvia and 10th in Gdańsk, Poland. He was named in Latvia's team to the World Junior Championships, held in March 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked 11th in the short program, he qualified for the free skate where he placed 7th, pulling him up to 8th overall.
2014−15 season
During the 2014–15 figure skating season, Vasiļjevs placed fourth at both of his Junior Grand Prix assignments, in Courchevel, France and Tallinn, Estonia. He won the silver medal at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, held in January 2015 in Dornbirn, Austria. He began working with Alexei Urmanov before the 2015 World Junior Championships,[6] which took place in March in Tallinn, Estonia. He placed 8th in both segments and 7th overall.
2015−16 season: Senior international debut
Vasiļjevs began the 2015–16 season by winning silver at both of his JGP events, in Riga, Latvia and Toruń, Poland. Making his senior international debut, he placed 5th at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament before taking the bronze medal at the 2015 Tallinn Trophy.
In January 2016, Vasiļjevs was sent to his first senior ISU Championship – the 2016 Europeans in Bratislava, Slovakia. He finished 12th after placing 14th in the short program and 10th in the free skate. In February, he competed in Hamar, Norway at the 2016 Youth Olympics. Ranked third in the short program and first in the free skate, he finished second overall with a total score 1.09 less than gold medalist Sōta Yamamoto of Japan. His silver is Latvia's first Youth Olympic medal in figure skating. Vasiļjevs was assigned to compete in the mixed NOC team event as a member of Team Discovery. Placing first in his segment, he lifted his team to the bronze medal.
By 2016, Vasiļjevs was training almost full-time with Urmanov in Sochi, Russia.[6] In March, at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, he won a small bronze medal for the short program and finished 8th overall. Later that month, he competed at the 2016 World Championships in Boston. He qualified for the free skate by placing tenth in the short program.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2015−2016 [4][7] |
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| 2014–2015 [2][3] |
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| 2013–2014 [8] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
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| Event | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 |
| Worlds | 14th | |||||
| Europeans | 12th | |||||
| CS Mordovian | 5th | |||||
| CS Tallinn Trophy | 3rd | |||||
| International: Junior[9][10] | ||||||
| Youth Olympics | 2nd | |||||
| Junior Worlds | 8th | 7th | 8th | |||
| JGP Estonia | 4th | |||||
| JGP France | 4th | |||||
| JGP Latvia | 7th | 2nd | ||||
| JGP Poland | 10th | 2nd | ||||
| EYOF | 2nd | |||||
| Bavarian Open | 1st J. | |||||
| Cup of Nice | 1st J. | |||||
| DS Cup | 1st J. | |||||
| Santa Claus Cup | 1st J. | |||||
| Seibt Memorial | 1st N. | 1st J. | ||||
| Volvo Cup | 1st J. | |||||
| Haabersti Cup | 1st N. | |||||
| NRW Trophy | 4th N. | 1st N. | ||||
| Rooster Cup | 1st N. | 1st N. | 1st N. | |||
| Warsaw Cup | 1st N. | 1st N. | 1st N. | |||
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| Latvian Champ. | 1st N. | 1st J. | 1st J. | 1st | ||
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| Youth Olympics | 3rd T (1st P) |
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| Levels: N. = Advanced novice; J. = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result; Medals awarded for team result only. |
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