Anastasia Vaipan-Law
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Personal information | |
Full name | Anastasia Kristina Vaipan-Law |
Country represented | Great Britain |
Born | Blackpool, Lancashire, England | 31 August 1999
Home town | Dundee, Scotland |
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) |
Partner | Luke Digby |
Coach | Simon, Debi, and Jason Briggs |
Choreographer | Mark Pillay, Andrew Smith |
Skating club | Dundee ISC |
Training locations | Dundee |
Began skating | 2007 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 132.56 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy |
Short program | 51.11 2022 Europeans |
Free skate | 86.77 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy |
Anastasia Kristina Vaipan-Law (born 31 August 1999) is a Scottish figure skater who currently competes in pairs. With her partner, Luke Digby, she is 2021–22 British national champion.
Personal life[]
Vaipan-Law was born on 31 August 1999 in Blackpool, England.
Career[]
Early years and singles career[]
Vaipan-Law began learning how to skate in 2007 at the age of eight in Dundee, Scotland.[1] She made her junior international debut in women's single skating at the 2013 NRW Trophy in December 2013 where she finished 21st.[2]
She competed in juniors at 2014 Nationals and finished third. Next year she competed there again but became eighth. In the same year she appeared at the juniors and , finished 13th and 26th, respectively.[3]
Vaipan-Law competed the only time at the seniors Nationals in 2016. She finished in eleventh place with 89.49 points. She lost 35.97 points in total to the champion, Danielle Harrison.[3][4] She won silver at the in ladies' juniors and finished eighth at the (juniors too).[3]
Then she never patricipated at the seniors but three times in a row became second in juniors Nationals (from 2017 to 2019).[3]
Anastasia Vaipan-Law appeared at her first JGP in Croatia in 2017.[3] She finished in fifteen place with 118.61 points.[5] She became fourth at the Merano Cup and the , fifth at the and sixteenth at the (ladies' juniors).[3]
She participated at two stages of JGP. She finished 17th in Austria and 14th in Slovenia. Her best results in internationals was at the Alpen Trophy (4th place), she also placed 11th at the Golden Bear.[3]
2021–22 season: Pairs debut with Digby[]
Vaipan-Law/Digby made their international debut as a team at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy. They finished 12th overall and recorded personal bests in all three segments of competition. The team competed at three more events over the course of the fall, winning the 2021 Tayside Trophy and finishing fourth and 17th at the 2021 Trophee Metropole Nice Cote d'Azur and the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup respectively.[6] At their first British Championships in November, Vaipan-Law/Digby narrowly took the title ahead of long-dominant team Zoe Jones / Christopher Boyadji.[7] Jones/Boyadji initially received the assignment to Great Britain's single berth in the pairs' field at the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships, but after Jones recorded a positive COVID-19 test shortly before the event, Vaipan-Law/Digby were assigned to replace them.
Vaipan-Law/Digby set a new personal best in the short program at 2022 Europeans, but finished 18th in the segment and did not advance to the free skate.
Programs[]
With Digby[]
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2021–2022 |
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Competitive highlights[]
Pairs with Digby[]
International[citation needed] | ||||||
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Event | 2021–22 | |||||
Europeans | 18th | |||||
CS Finlandia Trophy | 12th | |||||
Tayside Trophy | 1st | |||||
Trophée Métropole Nice | 17th | |||||
National | ||||||
British Champ. | 1st |
References[]
- ^ "Biography". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "NRW Trophy for Figure & Pair Skating 2013 - Junior Ladies". www.lev-nrw.org. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Competition Results". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "British Championships 2015 - Senior Ladies". www.icephoto.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "ISU JGP Croatia Cup 2017 - Junior Ladies". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Competition Results - Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY (GBR)". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "British Figure Skating Championships 2021 - Senior Pairs". iceresultsuk.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
External links[]
- 1999 births
- Living people
- British female pair skaters
- British female single skaters