Diāna Ņikitina

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Diāna Ņikitina
Personal information
Country represented Latvia
Born (2000-12-09) 9 December 2000 (age 23)
Riga, Latvia
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Coach Romāns Panteļejevs, Julia Kulibanova, Andrejs Brovenko
Former coach Armen Asoian
Choreographer Svetlana Korol
Skating club JLSS Jelgava
Training locations Riga and Jelgava, Latvia; Saint Petersburg, Russia
Began skating 2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 165.60
2016 Youth Olympics
Short program 58.81
2016 Youth Olympics
Free skate 107.47
2016 Youth Olympics (Team)

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.

Personal life

Diāna Ņikitina was born on 9 December 2000 in Riga, Latvia.[1] As of 2015, she is studying through distance education at Riga 1 secondary school.[2]

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.[3] 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.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–16
[1]
2014–15
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Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[3][5]
Event 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Youth Olympics 5th
Junior Worlds 10th 10th
JGP Croatia 5th
JGP Japan 11th
JGP Latvia 12th
JGP Poland 5th
Jégvirág Cup 1st J.
MNNT Cup 2nd J.
Tallinn Trophy 3rd J.
Volvo Open Cup 1st N. 1st N. 1st J. 1st J.
NRW Trophy 1st N.
Rooster Cup 1st N.
Warsaw Cup 2nd N.
National[3][5]
Latvian Champ. 1st N. 1st J. 1st J.
Team events
Youth Olympics 2nd T
(2nd P)
Levels: N. = Advanced novice; J. = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result; Medals awarded for team result only.

References

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