Andrew Torgashev
Andrew Torgashev | |
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![]() Torgashev at the 2017–18 JGP Final | |
Personal information | |
Country represented | ![]() |
Born | Coral Springs, Florida, United States | May 29, 2001
Home town | Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Coach | Christy Krall, Erik Schultz, Joshua Farris |
Former coach | Artem Torgashev, Curtis Chornopyski |
Choreographer | Ilona Melnichenko, Scott Brown |
Skating club | Broadmoor SC |
Former skating club | Panthers FSC Coral Springs |
Training locations | Colorado Springs |
Began skating | 2006 |
World standing | 34 (2018–19) 48 (2017–18) 62 (2016–17) 97 (2015–16) 90 (2014–15) |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 217.54 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy |
Short program | 81.50 2020 Junior Worlds |
Free skate | 144.63 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy |
Andrew Torgashev (born May 29, 2001) is an American figure skater. He is the 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy silver medalist, the 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy bronze medalist, the 2018 JGP Lithuania champion, and the 2015 U.S. national junior champion.
Personal life[]
Andrew Torgashev was born May 29, 2001, in Coral Springs, Florida.[1] He is the son of Ilona Melnichenko and Artem Torgashev, who competed for the Soviet Union in ice dancing and pair skating respectively. He attended North Broward Middle School in Coconut Creek, Florida.[2]
Career[]
Early career[]
Torgashev began learning to skate in 2006.[1] He was awarded the juvenile bronze medal at the U.S. Junior Championships in December 2010.[3] He won the U.S. national juvenile title in the 2011–2012 season and the U.S. intermediate title the following season.[4]
He placed fourth in the novice men's category at the 2014 U.S. Championships.
2014–2015 season[]
Torgashev became age-eligible for international junior events in the 2014–2015 season. Competing on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, he placed fourth in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and fifth in Tallinn, Estonia.
After taking the junior gold medal at the Eastern Sectionals, he won the junior title at the U.S. Championships, setting U.S. junior men's records in the free skate and total score.[5] He was assigned to the 2015 World Junior Championships and finished tenth at the event, which was held in March in Tallinn.
2015–2016 season[]
Torgashev fractured his right ankle in June 2015 while practicing a quad toe loop.[6] He underwent an operation in June to insert three screws, which were removed from his ankle in January 2016.[7] As a result, he missed the entire skating season. He worked on his edges, stroking and speed after returning to the ice.[8]
2016–2017 season[]
Torgashev returned to competition in July 2016.[6] Competing in the 2016 Junior Grand Prix series, he won silver in Russia and placed Fourth in Germany.
Making his senior international debut, he took the bronze medal at the 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy in November. In January, he finished eleventh in the senior ranks at the 2017 U.S. Championships.
At the 2017 World Junior Championships, he placed twenty-fifth in the short program and did not qualify to the free skate.
2017–2018 season[]
Torgashev placed sixth at the Philadelphia Summer International in early August 2017. During the 2017 Junior Grand Prix series, he won silver in Belarus with a personal best total score, 212.71 points, and then placed fourth in Italy. He qualified to the JGP Final in Nagoya, Japan, where he placed sixth. Torgashev also finished sixth at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup. In January, at the 2018 U.S. Championships, he ranked ninth in the short program, fourteenth in the free skate, and thirteenth overall.
In June, he announced that he had relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work full-time with Christy Krall.[9] Erik Schultz and Joshua Farris also became members of his coaching team.[1]
2018–2019 season[]
In August 2018, Torgashev won the senior men's title at the 2018 Philadelphia Summer International. At the 2018 Junior Grand Prix in Bratislava, Slovakia, he placed fifth in the short program, third in the free skate, and fourth overall. In September, he won gold at JGP Lithuania in Kaunas, after placing second in the short program and first in the free skate. These results qualified him for the 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix Final in Vancouver, Canada.[10] Due to a fractured right toe, he withdrew from the competition and was off the ice for eight weeks, until around mid-November.[11] In January, he finished seventh in the senior ranks at the 2019 U.S. Championships. In March 2019, he won silver at the Egna Spring Trophy.
2019–2020 season[]
Torgashev started the season at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer International, where he won the event. he competed in the JGP series, placing fourth in Riga. Latvia At JGP Croatia, he placed second in the short program with a new personal best, and sixth in the free program, and fourth overall. He then competed at the senior level at the 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy, winning the silver medal.
Competing at the 2020 U.S. Championships, Torgashev placed third in the short program, skating a clean program that included a quad toe loop.[12] He struggled in the free skate, falling twice and stepping out of an underrotated quad toe attempt in the second half of his program. Fifth in that segment, he dropped to fifth place overall.[13]
Assigned to the 2020 World Junior Championships, Torgashev placed third in the short program, winning a small bronze medal.[14] Torgashev fell four times in the long program, placing eleventh in that segment and dropping to eighth place overall.[15]
Programs[]
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Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2019–2020 [16] |
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2018–2019 [1][9][17] |
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2017–2018 [18][2] |
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2015–2017 [19][2][6] |
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2014–2015 [20] |
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Competitive highlights[]
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[21] | ||||||
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Event | 14–15 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 |
CS Asian Open Trophy | 2nd | |||||
CS Tallinn Trophy | 3rd | |||||
CS Warsaw Cup | 6th | |||||
Egna Trophy | 2nd | |||||
Philadelphia | 6th | 1st | 1st | |||
International: Junior[21] | ||||||
Junior Worlds | 10th | 25th | 8th | |||
JGP Final | 6th | WD | ||||
JGP Belarus | 2nd | |||||
JGP Croatia | 4th | |||||
JGP Czech Republic | 4th | |||||
JGP Estonia | 5th | |||||
JGP Germany | 4th | |||||
JGP Italy | 4th | |||||
JGP Latvia | 4th | |||||
JGP Lithuania | 1st | |||||
JGP Russia | 2nd | |||||
JGP Slovakia | 4th | |||||
National[2] | ||||||
U.S. Champ. | 1st J | 11th | 13th | 7th | 5th | WD |
Eastern Sect. | 1st J | |||||
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: J = Junior |
Juvenile through novice career[]
National[2] | |||||||||
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Event | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | |||||
U.S. Champ. | 1st I | 4th N | |||||||
U.S. Jr. Champ. | 3rd V | 1st V | |||||||
Eastern Sect. | 1st I | 2nd N | |||||||
South Atlantic | 1st V | 1st V | 1st I | ||||||
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; |
Detailed results[]
Junior level[]
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
2019–20 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
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March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | Junior | 3 81.50 |
11 127.45 |
8 208.95 |
January 20–26, 2020 | 2020 U.S. Championships | Senior | 3 97.87 |
5 162.77 |
5 260.64 |
Oct. 30 – Nov. 3, 2019 | 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy | Senior | 2 72.91 |
2 144.63 |
2 217.54 |
September 25 – 28, 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | Junior | 2 80.53 |
6 132.33 |
4 212.86 |
September 4–7, 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | Junior | 6 65.07 |
4 131.16 |
4 196.23 |
Jul. 31 – Aug. 3, 2019 | 2019 Philadelphia Summer International | Senior | 1 78.52 |
1 134.09 |
1 212.61 |
2018–19 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
March 28–31, 2019 | 2019 Gardena Spring Trophy | Senior | 4 66.97 |
1 151.46 |
2 218.43 |
January 19–27, 2019 | 2019 U.S. Championships | Junior | 9 76.95 |
6 149.02 |
7 225.97 |
September 5–8, 2018 | 2018 JGP Lithuania | Junior | 2 69.39 |
1 132.24 |
1 201.63 |
August 22–25, 2018 | 2018 JGP Slovakia | Junior | 5 65.37 |
3 129.38 |
4 194.75 |
Jul. 30 – Aug. 5, 2018 | 2018 Philadelphia Summer International | Senior | 3 67.67 |
1 138.74 |
1 206.41 |
2017–18 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
Dec. 29 – Jan. 8, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Championships | Senior | 9 81.32 |
14 135.69 |
13 217.01 |
December 7–10, 2017 | 2017−18 JGP Final | Junior | 6 64.73 |
6 95.76 |
6 160.49 |
November 16–19, 2017 | 2017 CS Warsaw Cup | Senior | 6 61.52 |
6 121.26 |
6 182.78 |
October 11–14, 2017 | 2017 JGP Italy | Junior | 4 69.03 |
2 136.53 |
4 205.56 |
September 20–24, 2017 | 2017 JGP Belarus | Junior | 3 74.34 |
2 138.37 |
2 212.71 |
August 3–5, 2017 | 2017 Philadelphia Summer International | Senior | 10 61.49 |
3 141.46 |
6 202.95 |
2016–17 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
March 15–19, 2017 | 2017 World Junior Championships | Junior | 25 55.42 |
– DNQ |
25 55.42 |
January 14–22, 2017 | 2017 U.S. Championships | Senior | 7 77.82 |
11 147.53 |
11 225.35 |
November 20–27, 2016 | 2016 CS Tallinn Trophy | Senior | 4 68.12 |
4 133.33 |
3 201.45 |
October 5–9, 2016 | 2016 JGP Germany | Junior | 2 73.48 |
6 118.32 |
4 191.80 |
September 14–17, 2016 | 2016 JGP Russia | Junior | 3 65.47 |
2 139.44 |
2 204.91 |
2014–15 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
March 2–8, 2015 | 2015 World Junior Championships | Junior | 10 67.78 |
6 133.96 |
10 201.74 |
January 18–25, 2015 | 2015 U.S. Championships | Junior | 1 75.61 |
1 149.63 |
1 225.24 |
September 24–27, 2014 | 2014 JGP Estonia | Junior | 4 64.70 |
6 112.95 |
5 177.65 |
September 3–7, 2014 | 2014 JGP Czech Republic | Junior | 4 57.94 |
2 124.63 |
4 182.57 |
2013–14 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 5–12, 2014 | 2014 U.S. Championships | Novice | 10 34.26 |
2 97.78 |
4 132.04 |
References[]
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- "Earlier versions". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018.
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- ^ Menning, Rick (February 3, 2013). "Local skater earns second national title". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
- ^ Rutherford, Lynn (January 23, 2015). "Torgashev sets new U.S. standard for junior men". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018.
- ^ a b c Rutherford, Lynn (July 19, 2016). "Smarter, stronger Torgashev aims to regain top form". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017.
- ^ Sausa, Christie (August 17, 2018). "Torgashev gears up for competition season with stop in Lake Placid". Lake Placid News. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018.
- ^ Rutherford, Lynn (February 1, 2017). "In face of injury, Brown puts positivity to the test". IceNetwork.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018.
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- ^ Slater, Paula (January 25, 2020). "Chen in comfortable lead at U.S. Nationals". Golden Skate.
- ^ Slater, Paula (January 26, 2020). "Chen wins fourth consecutive U.S. National title". Golden Skate.
- ^ Slater, Paula (March 4, 2020). "Japan's Yuma Kagiyama takes lead at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate.
- ^ Slater, Paula (March 6, 2020). "Andrei Mozalev nabs Junior World title". Golden Skate.
- ^ "Andrew TORGASHEV: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020.
- ^ "Skating". figureskatersonline.com/andrewtorgashev. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018.
- ^ "Andrew TORGASHEV: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018.
- ^ "Andrew TORGASHEV: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 21, 2017.
- ^ "Andrew TORGASHEV: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015.
- ^ a b "Competition Results: Andrew TORGASHEV". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018.
External links[]
- 2001 births
- American male single skaters
- American people of Russian descent
- American people of Ukrainian descent
- Living people
- People from Coral Springs, Florida