Lindsay van Zundert

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Lindsay van Zundert
Personal information
Country represented Netherlands
Born (2005-02-01) 1 February 2005 (age 16)
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
Home townBreda, Netherlands
CoachJorik Hendrickx
Carine Herrygers
Former coachAns Bocklandt
ChoreographerBenoît Richaud
Ans Bocklandt
Skating clubTKV Tilburg
Former skating clubFAN Eindhoven
Training locationsTilburg, Netherlands
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Former training locationsCourchevel, France
Wilrijk, Belgium
Florida, United States
Andorra
ISU personal best scores
Combined total174.50
2021 Worlds
Short program57.90
2021 CS Lombardia Trophy
Free skate116.78
2021 Worlds

Lindsay van Zundert (born 1 February 2005) is a Dutch figure skater. She is the 2021 Celje Open champion, the 2020 NRW Trophy champion, and the 2021 Dutch national champion.

Personal life[]

Van Zundert was born on 1 February 2005 in Etten-Leur. As of 2020, she is currently a mavo-4 student at Graaf Engelbrecht in Breda.[1]

Career[]

Early career[]

Van Zundert began skating at the age of seven.[2] She competed at domestic Belgian competitions early in her career.[3] In 2015, van Zundert began training under Ans Bocklandt in Courchevel, France and Wilrijk, Belgium.

Van Zundert is the 2017 and 2018 Dutch advanced novice national champion.[4] She also won the 2019 Dutch junior national title, but was not sent to the 2019 World Junior Championships.

2019–2020 season[]

Van Zundert attended several training seminars both abroad in Andorra, France, and the United States, as well as domestic ones sponsored by Joan Haanappel's Netherlands Figure Skating Foundation. She went door-to-door in Etten-Leur to collection donations and bottles to finance her trips.[2]

Van Zundert made her Junior Grand Prix debut at 2019 JGP France, finishing 21st. Her result was not strong enough to earn the Netherlands a spot at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. Van Zundert then finished sixth at the Tallinn Trophy. She won her first international medal, silver, at the Santa Claus Cup. After a fourth-place finish at the 2020 Bavarian Open, van Zundert was named to the 2020 World Junior Championships team.[5] She defended her junior national title the following month. At Junior Worlds, van Zundert finished 29th in the short program and did not qualify to the final segment.[6]

2020–2021 season[]

Due to the cancellation of the Junior Grand Prix, van Zundert opened her season by making her senior international debut at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where she was the youngest competitor. She earned all personal bests to finish seventh overall. Her coach was unable to travel from Belgium and she was accompanied by Lorenzo Magri, an Italian coach she knew from training.[1][7] After the competition, she announced she was leaving her longtime coach, Ans Bocklandt, to train under Jorik Hendrickx and Carine Herrygers in Eindhoven and Tilburg.[8] In November, van Zundert won her first international title at the 2020 NRW Trophy, ahead of Josefin Taljegård and Jenni Saarinen. Her results earned her the technical minimums for the 2021 European Championships.[9] Van Zundert competed at several other Senior Bs throughout the season, winning medals at the Winter Star (silver) and Celje Open (gold).

Although the European Championships were eventually cancelled, van Zundert was able to earn her technical minimums at the 2021 Challenge Cup to earn a berth on the Dutch team for the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm. As the highest ranked Dutch skater at Challenge Cup, she also earned her first senior national title. At the World Championships, she received a short program score of 57.72 which qualified her for the free skate in twenty-fourth position, the last skater to make the cut. In the free skate she scored a new personal best of 116.78 and moved up to sixteenth position.[10] Van Zundert's ranking qualified a berth for a Dutch skater at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[11] This was the first time the Netherlands had qualified in the Olympic ladies' event since Dianne de Leeuw in 1976. She remarked "I have worked so hard for it and I have given so much, it gives such a great feeling that I have achieved this."[12]

2021–2022 season[]

Van Zundert began the season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, where she placed seventh. She attempted a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination in competition for the first time.[13] She was eleventh at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy.[14] In early November, she competed at the NRW Trophy. She was second after the short program, won the free skate and placed first overall to win her second straight title at the event.

In late November, van Zundert was officially nominated the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.[15]

Programs[]

Season Short program Free skating
2021–2022
[16]
  • Le Discours d'Arthur
  • Urgence
    by Jerome Rebotier
  • Lay It On
    by Jerome Rebotier, Jul Peciers, Rover
    choreo. by Benoît Richaud
2020–2021
[17]
2019–2020
[18]

Competitive highlights[]

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[14]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
Olympics TBD
Worlds 16th
CS Finlandia 11th
CS Golden Spin WD
CS Lombardia 7th
CS Nebelhorn 7th
Celje Open 1st
Challenge Cup 6th
NRW Trophy 1st 1st
Tallink Hotels WD
Winter Star 2nd
International: Junior[14]
Junior Worlds 29th
JGP France 21st
Bavarian Open 7th1 4th1
Challenge Cup 5th 9th
Christmas Cup 8th
Prague Ice Cup 12th
Printemps 6th
Santa Claus Cup 2nd
Tallinn Trophy 6th
International: Advanced novice[3]
Challenge Cup 7th 10th
NRW Trophy 12th
Printemps 6th 5th
Rooster Cup 14th
Volvo Open Cup 20th
National[3]
Dutch Champ. 1st N 1st N 1st J 1st J 1st
1 Group I; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N = Adv. novice; J = Junior

References[]

  1. ^ a b van den Aarssen, Ben (20 November 2020). "Kunstschaatsster Lindsay van Zundert heeft haar glimlach terug" [Figure skater Lindsay van Zundert has her smile back]. BN DeStem (in Dutch).
  2. ^ a b van den Broek, Marlou (26 June 2019). "Lindsay (14) belde stomtoevallig aan bij juiste deur en kan nu misschien naar Olympische Spelen" [Lindsay (14) just happened to ring the right door and could now go to the Olympics]. Omroep Brabant (in Dutch).
  3. ^ a b c "Lindsay van ZUNDERT". RinkResults.
  4. ^ Smit, Natasha (22 February 2019). "Lindsay van Zundert glijdt sierlijk over het ijs en wint de titel" [Lindsay van Zundert slides gracefully over the ice and wins the title]. Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch).
  5. ^ "Van Zundert naar WK Junioren Kunstrijden in Tallinn" [Van Zundert to World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn]. Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch). 12 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Van Zundert komt tekort voor finaleplaats op WK Kunstrijden voor junioren" [Van Zundert falls short for the final segment at the World Figure Skating Championships for juniors]. Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch). 6 February 2020.
  7. ^ Veltman, Anjuli (27 September 2020). "Geslaagd debuut bij senioren voor Van Zundert: 'Nu kan ik weer vooruit'" [Successful senior debut for Van Zundert: 'Now I can move forward again']. Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch).
  8. ^ "Van Zundert wisselt van coach en kiest voor olympiër Hendrickx" [Van Zundert changes coach and opts for Olympian Hendrickx]. Schaatsen.nl (in Dutch). 16 November 2020.
  9. ^ van Beek, Yvonne (30 November 2020). "Kunstschaatsster Van Zundert (15) uit Etten-Leur wint Duitse NRW Trophy en plaatst zich voor EK" [Figure skater Van Zundert (15) from Etten-Leur wins German NRW Trophy and qualifies for European Championship]. BN DeStem (in Dutch).
  10. ^ "ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2021 Results – Ladies". International Skating Union.
  11. ^ "Communication No. 2388". International Skating Union. 1 April 2021.
  12. ^ Kersten, Leon (30 March 2021). "16-jarige kunstrijdster Lindsay van Zundert mag naar de Olympische Spelen" [16-year-old figure skater Lindsay van Zundert is allowed to go to the Olympic Games]. Omroep Brabant (in Dutch).
  13. ^ "Lombardia Trophy 2021". Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio.
  14. ^ a b c "Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
  15. ^ "With Van Zundert, a Dutch figure skater participates in the Games for the first time since 1976". Netherland News Live. 24 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
  17. ^ "Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020.

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