Daniel Samohin
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Samohin in December 2015 | |||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Country represented | Israel | ||||||||||||
Born |
Tel Aviv, Israel | March 12, 1998||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
Coach | Igor Samohin | ||||||||||||
Former coach | Igor Pashkevich | ||||||||||||
Choreographer | Irina Samohin, Olga Volozhinskaia | ||||||||||||
Skating club | Israel ISF | ||||||||||||
Training locations | Poway, California | ||||||||||||
Former training locations | Yorba Linda, California | ||||||||||||
Began skating | 2003 | ||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||
Combined total |
236.65 2016 Junior Worlds | ||||||||||||
Short program |
83.47 2016 Cup of China | ||||||||||||
Free skate |
165.38 2016 Junior Worlds | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Daniel Samohin (Hebrew: דניאל סמוכין; born March 12, 1998) is an Israeli figure skater. He is the 2016 World Junior champion and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including gold at the 2015 U.S. International Classic. Samohin is one of the few skaters to have landed two quad jumps in a short program, three quads in a free program, and five quads in one competition.
Personal life
Daniel Samohin was born on March 12, 1998 in Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] His parents – Irina, a former rhythmic gymnast, and Igor Samohin, a figure skating coach – had arrived from Russia in 1996.[2][3] His brother, Stanislav, is 7½ years older and competed in figure skating for Russia and Israel.[4] When he was 3½ years old, Daniel moved with his mother to the United States, joining the rest of the family, who had moved earlier.[2]
Career
Samohin began skating in 2003.[1]
2013–14 season
Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico. Ranked sixth in the short program, he placed third in the free skate and was awarded the bronze medal, outscoring Canada's Nam Nguyen by 1.85 points. He finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, he finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed 17th in the short program and 10th in the free.
2014–15 season
During the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Samohin placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 16th in Zagreb, Croatia. In September 2014, he debuted on the senior international level, finishing 11th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event. After placing fourth at another CS event, the Volvo Open Cup, he took silver at a regular senior international, the Tallinn Trophy, behind fellow Israeli Oleksii Bychenko. Ranked 12th in the short and 5th in the free, he finished 8th overall at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
2015–16 season
Ahead of the 2015–16 season, Samohin received his first Grand Prix invitation, to the 2015 Cup of China, but decided to withdraw to continue competing on the junior level. Competing in September at the Junior Grand Prix in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he placed 7th in the short and second in the free; he won the silver medal, finishing almost thirty points behind Nathan Chen of the United States and 3.49 ahead of Japan's Sota Yamamoto. Later that month, he won his first CS medal, outscoring Keiji Tanaka by 11.33 points to take gold at the U.S. International Classic.
After winning silver at his second JGP event in Logroño, Spain, Samohin qualified for the JGP Final. His second CS medal, silver, came in October at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament, where he scored 1.24 points less than Maxim Kovtun. Samohin finished fifth at the JGP Final. His next event was the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships, where he set a new personal best in the short program and finished 7th overall.
In March, Samohin competed at Junior Worlds. He came in 9th in the short program, but moved up to win the title after a personal best free skate in which he landed three quadruple jumps. Samohin is the first Israeli skater to medal at Junior Worlds and the first to win an ISU championship.[5]
Records and achievements
- Set the junior-level men's record for the free program to 165.38 points at the 2016 Junior Worlds, previously held by Shoma Uno.
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2016–17 [1] |
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2015–16 [6][3] |
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2014–15 [7] |
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2013–14 [8] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[9] | |||||
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Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 |
Europeans | 10th | 7th | |||
GP Cup of China | WD | 8th | |||
GP Skate Canada | 5th | ||||
CS Autumn Classic | 6th | ||||
CS Finlandia | 13th | ||||
CS Mordovian | 2nd | ||||
CS Nebelhorn | 11th | ||||
CS Volvo Cup | 4th | ||||
CS U.S. Classic | 1st | ||||
Tallinn Trophy | 2nd | ||||
Philadelphia SI | 1st | ||||
International: Junior[9] | |||||
Junior Worlds | 12th | 8th | 1st | ||
JGP Final | 5th | ||||
JGP Croatia | 16th | ||||
JGP Czech Rep. | 4th | ||||
JGP Mexico | 3rd | ||||
JGP Slovenia | 8th | ||||
JGP Spain | 2nd | ||||
JGP USA | 2nd | ||||
Bavarian Open | 2nd J | ||||
MNNT Cup | 1st J | ||||
National | |||||
Israeli Champ. | 1st | 2nd | |||
U.S. Champ. | 4th N | ||||
Levels: N = Novice, J = Junior TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew |
References
- 1 2 3 "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
- 1 2 Flade, Tatjana (August 5, 2016). "Making history good starting point for Israel's Daniel Samohin". Golden Skate.
- 1 2 Rutherford, Lynn (July 20, 2015). "In every sense of the word, Samohin emulates Chan". IceNetwork.com.
- ↑ "Stanislav SAMOHIN". International Skating Union.
- ↑ "Samohin wins Israel's first-ever world junior title". IceNetwork.com. March 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016.
- ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015.
- ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014.
- 1 2 "Competition Results: Daniel SAMOHIN". International Skating Union.
External links
Media related to Daniel Samohin at Wikimedia Commons