Emmi Peltonen

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Emmi Peltonen
2018 EC Emmi Peltonen 2018-01-18 16-21-58 1516308299.jpg
Peltonen at the 2018 European Championships
Personal information
Country representedFinland
Born (1999-11-19) 19 November 1999 (age 22)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Home townHelsinki, Finland
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
CoachSirkka Kaipio, Stéphane Lambiel
Former coachVirpi Horttana, Rafael Arutyunyan
ChoreographerMark Pillay
Skating clubEVT
Former skating clubEspoo SC
Training locationsHelsinki
Began skating2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total181.79
2020 European
Short program66.49
2020 European
Free skate115.30
2020 European

Emmi Peltonen (born 29 November 1999) is a Finnish figure skater. She is the 2017 FBMA Trophy champion, the 2020 Nordic silver medalist, and a three-time Finnish national champion (2016, 2017, 2019). She has finished within the top ten at three European Championships.

She placed 20th at the 2018 Winter Olympics and is currently the 23rd highest ranked ladies' singles skater in world by the International Skating Union following the 2019-20 figure skating season.

Personal life[]

Peltonen was born on 29 November 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] She has two brothers, twins Aleksi and Jesper (one year older) and a sister, Nelli (six years younger).[2] Their Finnish parents – Hanna, a former figure skater, and Ville Peltonen, a former ice hockey player – had moved to the United States due to his contract with the NHL's Nashville Predators franchise.[2] The family returned to Finland a few years later. Her paternal grandfather, Esa Peltonen, is also a former professional ice hockey player.[2]

Career[]

Early years[]

Peltonen received her first skates when she was two years old, and began learning to skate in 2002.[1][2] She began competing on the advanced novice level at international events in the 2011–2012 season. She won the novice gold medal at the 2013 Nordic Championships.

2013–2014 season: Junior international debut[]

Peltonen debuted on the junior international level in the 2013–2014 season. She won the junior silver medal at the Finnish Championships and Nordic Championships, both times finishing second to Jenni Saarinen.

2014–2015 season[]

Virpi Horttana coached Peltonen at Espoo Skating Club in Espoo, Finland.[3] Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in August 2014; she finished ninth at her assignment in Courchevel, France. Competing on the senior level at the Finnish Championships, she placed eighth in the short program, fourth in the free skate, and fourth overall.

2015–2016 season: Senior international debut[]

In 2015–2016, Peltonen was coached by Sirkka Kaipio in Helsinki and Järvenpää, and by Rafael Arutyunyan in California. She placed fifteenth at her sole JGP assignment, in Linz, Austria.

Making her senior international debut, Peltonen placed tenth at the Finlandia Trophy, a Challenger Series (CS) event in October 2015. She did not compete at the Finnish Championships in December but took the junior bronze medal at the Nordic Championships a couple of months later.

2016–2017 season[]

Peltonen at the 2017 World Championships

During the summer, Peltonen trained with Arutyunyan in California.[2] In August, she placed fifth at her JGP assignment in Saint Gervais-les-Bains, France. She then competed at several senior internationals, finishing twelfth at the CS Finlandia Trophy, fourteenth at the Volvo Open Cup, and sixth at the CS Warsaw Cup.

In December 2016, Peltonen won the senior gold medal at the Finnish Championships in Tampere,[4] having outscored silver medalist Jenni Saarinen by eight points. She was named in Finland's team to the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava.[5] Ranked fourteenth in the short program and ninth in the free skate, she finished eleventh overall in the Czech Republic.

Peltonen competed at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, but did not advance to the free skate, having placed twenty-ninth in the short program.

2017–2018 season[]

In September 2017, Finland qualified a spot in the ladies' event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, due to Viveca Lindfors' result at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. In December, Peltonen won her second consecutive national title, finishing ahead of silver medalist Lindfors by a margin of 4.22 points.

In January, Peltonen placed eleventh in the short program, eighth in the free skate, and ninth overall at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia; she was Finland's top lady at the event, finishing 11 points ahead of Lindfors. On 24 January 2018, the Finnish Olympic Committee selected Peltonen to compete at the Olympics. She finished twentieth in the ladies' event.[6]

2018–2019 season[]

Peltonen began the new season at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy on home soil, finishing in fifth place, two ordinals below Lindfors, who won the bronze medal. She then debuted on the Grand Prix series at the special 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, where she placed ninth.

Peltonen won the silver medal at the Finnish Championships, finishing behind Lindfors. She finished eighth at the 2019 European Championships, while Lindfors won the bronze medal.[7] Based on the season's results, the Finnish Federation assigned Lindfors to Finland's lone ladies' spot at the 2019 World Championships. However, Peltonen was subsequently given the spot following Lindors' withdrawal due to injury, and placed twenty-eighth at the World Chmampionships in Saitama.[8]

2019–2020 season[]

Assigned to only one Grand Prix event, the 2019 Rostelecom Cup, she placed twelfth among twelve skaters. Withdrawing from some other events, she won the Finnish national title again, and was assigned to compete at the European Championships. She was fifth in the short program at the European Championships with a new personal best, and described her "Caruso" program as her favourite to date.[9] Seventh in the free skate with one fall, she remained in fifth place overall.[10]

After winning the silver medal at the Nordic Championships, Peltonen was scheduled to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[11]

2020–2021 season[]

Peltonen was scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but this event was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.[12]

Programs[]

Peltonen at the 2018 European Championships
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2021–2022
[13]
2020–2021
[14]
2019–2020
[15]
2018–2019
[16]
2017–2018
[17]
2016–2017
[1]
  • Papa, Can You Hear Me?
    (from Yentl)
    by Michel Legrand
2015–2016
[18]
  • Woman
    by Album Blanc
2014–2015
[3]
2013–2014
  • Variations on the Tango
    by Steve Margoshes
2012–2013
  • Asturias (Leyenda)
    by Isaac Albéniz
2011–2012

Competitive highlights[]

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[19]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
Olympics 20th
Worlds 29th 28th C
Europeans 11th 9th 8th 5th
GP France C
GP Finland 9th
GP Rostelecom Cup 12th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 4th
CS Alpen Trophy WD
CS Finlandia Trophy 10th 12th 11th 5th WD
CS Lombardia Trophy 11th WD
CS Nebelhorn Trophy WD
CS Tallinn Trophy WD
CS Warsaw Cup 6th WD 8th
FBMA Trophy 1st
Int. Challenge Cup
Nordics WD 2nd
Open d'Andorra 1st
Santa Claus Cup 4th
WD
Volvo Open Cup 14th 4th
International: Junior[19][20]
Junior Worlds WD
JGP Austria 16th
JGP France 9th 5th
Dragon Trophy 3rd
Hellmut Seibt 3rd
Ice Challenge 5th
Challenge Cup 3rd
Nordics 2nd WD 3rd
NRW Trophy 18th
Volvo Open Cup 9th
International: Advanced novice[20]
Coupe Printemps 2nd
Dragon Trophy 1st
Nordics 1st
NRW Trophy 8th
National[19]
Finnish Champ. 2nd J 4th 1st 1st 2nd 1st C 3rd
J = Junior level
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Emmi Peltonen: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e Piilonen, Teijo (7 October 2016). "Ville Peltosen Emmi-tytär, 16, tähtää maailman huipulle – lopetti koulun yläasteen jälkeen" [Ville Peltonen's daughter Emmi, 16, is aiming for the top]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish).
  3. ^ a b "Emmi Peltonen: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Smolander, Riikka (18 December 2016). "Ville Peltosen Emmi-tytär kruunattiin jääkuningattareksi SM-kisoissa" [Ville Peltonen's daughter Emmi crowned Finnish figure skating champion]. Yle (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 19 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Suomen EM-kisajoukkue Tsekin Ostravaan 25.-29.1.2017 on valittu" [Finnish team to the European Championships in Ostrava] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 21 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Mika Kojonkoski vastasi taitoluistelun valintakohuun: "Täysin selvä tapaus"" [Mika Kojonkoski on figure skating: "A completely clear case"]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). 24 January 2018. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018.
  7. ^ Slater, Paula (January 25, 2019). "Samodurova shines; wins European ladies' title". Golden Skate.
  8. ^ Lindfors, Viveca (March 5, 2019). "Unfortunately I have to withdraw from World Championships due to a medical reason. Please look forward to seeing me again next season" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
  9. ^ Slater, Paula (January 24, 2020). "Kostornaia leads Russian sweep at Europeans". Golden Skate.
  10. ^ Slater, Paula (January 25, 2020). "Kostornaia takes gold in Russian sweep at Europeans". Golden Skate.
  11. ^ Ewing, Lori (March 11, 2020). "World figure skating championships cancelled in Montreal". CBC Sports.
  12. ^ "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel. 20 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 16 November 2019.
  16. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018.
  17. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018.
  18. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  19. ^ a b c "Competition Results: Emmi Peltonen". International Skating Union. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  20. ^ a b "Emmi Peltonen". tracings.net. Retrieved 19 December 2016.

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