Arlet Levandi
| Arlet Levandi | |||||||||||||||||
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 Levandi at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  Estonia | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 November 2005 Tallinn, Estonia | ||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Tallinn | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Tallinn | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Anna Levandi | ||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Benoît Richaud | ||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Vakhtang Murvanidze | ||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Anna Levandi FSC Tallinn | ||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Tallinn Pralognan, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | |||||||||||||||||
| Combined total | 222.61 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | ||||||||||||||||
| Short program | 75.10 2021 CS Cup of Austria | ||||||||||||||||
| Free skate | 152.47 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Arlet Levandi (born 28 November 2005) is an Estonian figure skater. He is the 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup champion and a two-time Estonian national silver medalist (2021–2022). On the junior level, he is the 2021 JGP France II silver medalist, the 2021 JGP Slovenia silver medalist, and a 2020 Winter Youth Olympic champion in the team event. Levandi is the first men's singles skater from Estonia to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.[1]
Personal life[]
Levandi was born on 28 November 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia to Anna (née Kondrashova) and Allar Levandi. He has two older brothers, Anders and Armand.[2] His mother competed in singles for the Soviet Union and is a two-time Olympian, the 1984 World silver medalist, and a four-time European bronze medalist (1984, 1986–88). His father is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a 1987 World team bronze medalist in nordic combined.[3] Levandi attends school at the Old Town Education College.[2]
Career[]
Early career[]
Levandi began skating in 2009. He is coached by his mother Anna Levandi, a former Soviet figure skater, at her eponymous club in Tallinn.[3]
Levandi is the 2017 Estonian national advanced novice bronze medalist and the 2018 Estonian national advanced novice silver medalist. Internationally on the advanced novice level, he is the 2018 Prague Riedell Ice Cup champion and a two-time Tallink Hotels Cup champion. Levandi did not compete during most of the 2018–19 season, including the 2019 Estonian Championships.[4]
2019–2020 season[]
Levandi made his junior international debut at the 2019 Halloween Cup in Budapest, where he finished fourth overall. He then earned fifth-place finishes at the Volvo Open Cup and the Tallinn Trophy, before winning the bronze medal at the Golden Spin of Zagreb. Having missed the prior season, Levandi skipped the junior level entirely to compete at the senior level at the 2020 Estonian Championships. He finished fourth of four skaters behind Aleksandr Selevko, Mihhail Selevko, and Daniel Albert Naurits. However, Levandi was chosen to represent Estonia at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
At the Winter Youth Olympics, Levandi was 13th in the short program after issues with his blades, but improved to 11th in the free skating to finish 12th overall.[5] For the team event, he was chosen by draw as part of Team Courage alongside ladies' singles skater Kseniia Sinitsyna of Russia, pairs team Alina Butaeva / Luka Berulava of Georgia, and ice dancers Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama of Japan. Levandi finished seventh in the men's portion of the event, and Team Courage won the gold medal overall behind Sinitsyna's and Yoshida/Nishiyama's first-place finishes in their respective segments. Reflecting on the event, he said: "I was very happy with the draw, and now we are Youth Olympic champions."[6]
2020–2021 season[]
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing the cancellation of the Junior Grand Prix series, junior skaters had limited international competitive opportunities. Levandi began the season at the Tallinn Open Championships before he competed at the inaugural Budapest Trophy, where he won gold by nearly 25 points over Slovkia's Marko Pilliar and Alp Eren Özkan of Turkey. He then won gold at the domestic Tallinn Trophy. Competing on the senior level at the 2021 Estonian Championships, Levandi was third in the short program and second in the free skating to win the silver medal behind Aleksandr Selevko and ahead of Mihhail Selevko.[7] He finished his season with another gold at the Tallink Hotels Cup, this time ahead of Daniels Kockers of Latvia and Slovakia's Lukas Vaclavik.
2021–2022 season[]
Levandi opened his season on the Junior Grand Prix, which returned after being cancelled the previous season due to the pandemic. He earned silver at the second JGP in France, becoming the first Estonian man to medal at an ISU Junior Grand Prix event.[1] With his teammates Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko winning bronze in ice dance, it was Estonia's first multi-medal performance on the JGP since 2006 JGP Czech Republic.[8] At his second JGP event in Slovenia, Levandi rebounded from sixth after the short program to finish second in the free skating and overall to win his second silver medal of the series.[9] He did not qualify for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final due to the unique qualification procedure implemented as a result of the pandemic; he was instead third alternate.
Levandi also made his senior international debut this season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, earning personal bests in the short program and combined total to finish seventh overall.[10] At a second Challenger event, the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, he again earned all personal bests to place seventh overall. Levandi improved his short program personal best at 2021 CS Cup of Austria en route to a sixth-place finish.[11] He qualified to the free skate at the 2022 European Championships, finishing in fourteenth place.[11]
Programs[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2021–2022 [3] |
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| 2020–2021 [12] |
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| 2019–2020 [13] |
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Competitive highlights[]
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International[11] | |||||||
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| Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | |
| Europeans | 14th | ||||||
| CS Cup of Austria | 6th | ||||||
| CS Finlandia | 7th | ||||||
| CS Lombardia | 7th | ||||||
| Tallink Hotels | 1st | ||||||
| International: Junior[11] | |||||||
| Youth Olympics | 12th | ||||||
| Junior Worlds | TBD | ||||||
| JGP France | 2nd | ||||||
| JGP Slovenia | 2nd | ||||||
| Budapest Trophy | 1st | ||||||
| Golden Spin | 3rd | ||||||
| Halloween Cup | 4th | ||||||
| Tallink Hotels | 1st | 1st | |||||
| Tallinn Trophy | 5th | ||||||
| Volvo Open Cup | 5th | ||||||
| International: Advanced novice[4] | |||||||
| Challenge Cup | 10th | ||||||
| Kaunas Autumn | 4th | ||||||
| Prague Ice Cup | 1st | ||||||
| Tallink Hotels | 1st | 1st | |||||
| Tallinn Trophy | 4th | ||||||
| National[11][4] | |||||||
| Estonian Champ. | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | ||||
| Estonian Junior | 3rd N | 2nd N | |||||
| Team events[11] | |||||||
| Youth Olympics | 1st T 7th P |
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| Levels: N = Advanced novice TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. | |||||||
Detailed results[]
ISU Personal best in bold.
Senior results[]
| 2021–22 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
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| January 10–16, 2022 | 2022 European Championships | 17 70.04 |
13 138.48 |
14 208.52 | ||
| December 4–5, 2021 | 2022 Estonian Championships | 2 71.55 |
1 151.97 |
2 223.52 | ||
| November 11–14, 2021 | 2021 CS Cup of Austria | 5 75.10 |
3 144.73 |
6 219.83 | ||
| October 7–10, 2021 | 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | 9 70.14 |
6 152.47 |
7 222.61 | ||
| September 9–12, 2021 | 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy | 11 63.67 |
6 135.00 |
7 198.67 | ||
| 2020–21 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
| December 30–31, 2020 | 2021 Estonian Championships | 3 65.36 |
2 133.28 |
2 198.64 | ||
| 2019–20 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
| December 13–15, 2019 | 2020 Estonian Championships | 4 60.01 |
4 92.80 |
4 152.81 | ||
Junior results[]
| 2021–22 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
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| 22–25 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovenia | 6 59.60 |
2 134.75 |
2 194.35 | ||
| 25–28 August 2021 | 2021 JGP France II | 3 61.73 |
1 135.20 |
2 196.93 | ||
| 2020–21 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
| 18–21 February 2021 | 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup | 1 64.57 |
1 115.28 |
1 179.85 | ||
| 15–17 October 2020 | 2020 Budapest Trophy | 1 50.65 |
1 115.04 |
1 165.69 | ||
| 2019–20 season | ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||
| 13–16 February 2020 | 2020 Tallink Hotels Cup | 1 62.87 |
1 97.18 |
1 160.05 | ||
| 10–15 January 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team | – | 7 97.63 |
1T/7P | ||
| 10–15 January 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | 13 49.87 |
11 104.78 |
12 154.65 | ||
| 4–7 December 2019 | 2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb | 3 49.95 |
4 79.11 |
3 129.06 | ||
| 11–17 November 2019 | 2019 Tallinn Trophy | 7 41.08 |
3 100.33 |
5 141.41 | ||
| 5–10 November 2019 | 2019 Volvo Open Cup | 4 55.86 |
6 101.05 |
5 156.91 | ||
| 17–20 October 2019 | 2019 Halloween Cup | 5 51.49 |
4 94.98 |
4 146.47 | ||
References[]
- ^ a b "USA and Canada strike gold as ISU Junior Grand Prix continues in Courchevel". International Skating Union. 31 August 2021.
- ^ a b Herodes, Regina; Lensment, Jaanus (22 September 2019). "Allar ja Anna Levandi: Lapsevanema eeskujust sõltub lapse liikumis- ja spordiarmastus!" [Allar and Anna Levandi: The child's love of movement and sports depends on the parent's example!]. Delfi Sport (in Estonian).
- ^ a b c "Arlet LEVANDI: 2021/2022". International Skating Union.
- ^ a b c "Arlet LEVANDI". RinkResults.
- ^ "Anna innustus Arletit Allari eeskujuga: Levandite tiimitöö päädis särtsaka vabakava ja 12. kohaga" [Anna inspires Arlet with Allar's example: the Levandi teamwork ended with a lively free program and 12th place]. Delfi Sport (in Estonian). 12 January 2020.
- ^ Barker, Philip (15 January 2020). "Team Courage wrap up Lausanne 2020 figure skating in style". Inside the Games.
- ^ Kallaste, Kristjan (1 February 2021). "Eva-Lotta Kiibus crowned Estonian champion". ERR.
- ^ Wong, Jackie [@rockerskating] (29 August 2021). "In addition to Arlet Levandi's silver in the men's event, Mazingue/Gaidajenko's bronze in dance gave Estonia