Loena Hendrickx
| Loena Hendrickx | |
|---|---|
 Hendrickx at the 2018 Europeans | |
| Personal information | |
| Country represented |  Belgium |
| Born | 5 November 1999 Turnhout, Belgium |
| Home town | Arendonk |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Coach | Jorik Hendrickx Adam Solya |
| Former coach | Carine Herrygers |
| Choreographer | Sandy Suy Adam Solya |
| Skating club | N.O.T. Turnhout |
| Training locations | Turnhout Eindhoven Oberstdorf |
| Began skating | 2004 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 219.05 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia |
| Short program | 73.52 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia |
| Free skate | 145.53 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia |
Loena Hendrickx (pronounced LOOH-nah; born 5 November 1999) is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia bronze medalist, a two-time Challenger series medalist (including gold at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy), a two-time International Challenge Cup champion (2017, 2021), and a four-time Belgian national champion (2017–2019, 2022). She is the first-ever Grand Prix medalist from Belgium in women's singles.[1]
Hendrickx has finished within the top ten at two European Championships (2017, 2018) and two World Championships (2018 and 2021). She represented Belgium at the 2018 Winter Olympics, finishing in sixteenth place.
Personal life[]
Loena Hendrickx was born in Turnhout, Belgium.[2] She is the younger sister of Belgian figure skater Jorik Hendrickx.[3][4]
Career[]
Early years[]
Hendrickx began learning to skate in 2004.[2] She appeared internationally on the advanced novice level from December 2012 through December 2013 and then moved up to the junior ranks.[5]
2014–2015 season[]
Coached by Carine Herrygers in Turnhout,[6] Hendrickx debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth in Dresden, Germany. She went on to win her second junior national title and then placed sixteenth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival. She closed her season with junior bronze medals at the International Challenge Cup and Coupe du Printemps.
2015–2016 season[]
Competing in the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Hendrickx placed fourteenth in Riga, Latvia, and then eleventh in Logroño, Spain. Her senior international debut came in October 2015 at the International Cup of Nice; she finished seventh at the event. She missed the second half of the season due to a spinal fracture and resumed skating after six months.[7]
2016–2017 season[]
After the closure of Turnhout's ice rink, Hendrickx and her brother decided to train at a temporary rink.[7] Although still age-eligible to compete on the junior level, she focused on senior events. Starting her season on the ISU Challenger Series, she placed seventh at both the 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy. In October 2016, she won her first senior international medal – silver at the International Cup of Nice.[8] In November, she was awarded silver at the NRW Trophy and gold at the Belgian Championships.[9] A lack of financial support led to her having to decline an invitation to an international event in Russia.[10]
In January 2017, Hendrickx competed at her first ISU Championship – the European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. She suffered from foot pain during the event, but nevertheless placed eleventh in the short program and advanced to the free skate, in which she ranked seventh, resulting in a final placement of seventh.[10]
In February 2017, Hendrickx won gold at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands. In March, she placed seventeenth in the short, fourteenth in the free, and fifteenth overall at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to her result, Belgium qualified a spot in the ladies' event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Subsequent to this, she received some financial reimbursement from the Belgian figure skating federation for her expenses, having previously financed her career entirely by herself.[11]
2017–2018 season[]
A knee injury forced Hendrickx to withdraw from three events early in the season.[12] In December, she repeated as Belgian national champion. In January, she placed fifth at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. The following month, she represented Belgium at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where she and her brother Jorik were the only siblings competing in the singles skating events. The journey to Pyeongchang, South Korea, was the longest Hendrickx had ever traveled before, and the first time their mother had attended a major international event to watch them compete in person.[11] She placed sixteenth overall.[13]
At the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy, Hendrickx set new personal bests in both segments to finish in ninth place. Her result qualified Belgium to send two skaters to compete at the 2019 World Championships.
2018–2019 season[]
Hendrickx began her season at the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, winning the bronze medal, her first Challenger medal. She achieved her goal of landing a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination cleanly in both her short and free programs.[14]
Her placement at the 2018 World Championships qualified her for two assignments on the 2018-19 Grand Prix. Making her first visit to the United States for 2018 Skate America, Hendrickx scored 54.13 in the short program, but withdrew before the free skate due to medical reasons.[14][15] She placed fifth at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, her second event.
Hendrickx withdrew from the European Championships due to a back injury but was ready to compete at the World Championships in Saitama, where she placed twelfth. She had decided to attend the World Championships only a week prior.[16]
2019–2020 season[]
In the summer of 2019, Hendrickx sprained and fractured her ankle and tore three ligaments while at a training camp in Turkey. She returned to the ice in September, but sustained another ankle injury on a triple flip attempt, necessitating another month off the ice. In December she injured her ankle a third time, forcing her to withdraw from the 2020 European Championships. At the end of January of 2020 she had a tendon injury in her left ankle, keeping her off the ice until past when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic closed rinks. Upon returning to the ice three months later she remarked "I was so happy, without pain and the motivation was there again."[17]
2020–2021 season[]
Hendrickx was slated to make her return to competition at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. She was added to the roster after the withdrawal of another skater, but withdrew prior to the start of the competition. Hendrickx started her 2020-21 season at the inaugural CS Budapest Trophy, achieving a new personal best in the short program and winning the gold medal overall.[17] She was scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[18] She later won the International Challenge Cup for the second time in her career. She stated afterward that she was still managing her back pain and had refrained from certain moves in training for three months.[19]
At the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Hendrickx placed tenth in the short program after falling on her triple flip.[20] In the free skate Hendrickx skated cleanly to score a new personal best of 141.16, placing fourth in that segment and fifth overall. Her free skate score was only 0.44 points behind that of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's, who was third in that segment.[21] Hendrickx's fifth-place ordinal qualified two placements for Belgium at the 2022 World Championships, and the possibility of a second spot at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.[22] Looking ahead, she remarked "an Olympic medal is a childhood dream, but let me stay injury-free first and foremost."[23]
2021–2022 season[]
In the pre-season, Hendrickx spent time training with famed Russian coach Alexei Mishin.[24] In August, she announced that she was parting ways with longtime coach Carine Herrygers, and would henceforth by coached solely by her brother Jorik and choreographer Adam Solya.[25] Beginning her season at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, she placed fourth.[26]
Hendrickx's first Grand Prix assignment was initially the 2021 Cup of China, but following its cancellation she was reassigned to the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia in Turin.[27] On her birthday, Hendrickx unexpectedly placed first in the short program with a new personal best of 73.52, following an error by pre-event favourite and World champion Anna Shcherbakova. She was third in the free skate and dropped behind Shcherbakova and Maiia Khromykh to take the bronze medal.[28] This was both her first Grand Prix medal and the first ever for a Belgian woman, which she described as "a dream come true."[1] In the interval between international events, Hendrickx won the Belgian senior national title for the fourth time.[26] She then placed fifth at the 2021 Rostelecom Cup. In the free skate she attempted a triple loop, which she said had "always been a challenge for me. Last week, it was pretty consistent so we tried it today."[29]
Programs[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2021–2022 [30] |
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| 2019–2021 [31][32] |
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| 2018–2019 [2][14] |
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| 2017–2018 [33][34][35] |
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| 2016–2017 [36] |
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| 2015–2016 [37] |
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| 2014–2015 [6] |
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| 2013–2014 |
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| 2012–2013 |
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| 2010–2011 |
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Competitive highlights[]
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International[26] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
| Olympics | 16th | |||||||||
| Worlds | 15th | 9th | 12th | C | 5th | |||||
| Europeans | 7th | 5th | WD | WD | ||||||
| GP Cup of China | C | |||||||||
| GP Finland | 5th | |||||||||
| GP France | WD | C | ||||||||
| GP Italy | 3rd | |||||||||
| GP Rostelecom Cup | WD | 5th | ||||||||
| GP Skate America | WD | |||||||||
| CS Budapest Trophy | 1st | |||||||||
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 7th | 4th | ||||||||
| CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 7th | 3rd | WD | |||||||
| CS Tallinn Trophy | WD | |||||||||
| Cup of Nice | 7th | 2nd | ||||||||
| Int. Challenge Cup | 1st | 1st | ||||||||
| NRW Trophy | 2nd | |||||||||
| Santa Claus Cup | 2nd | |||||||||
| International: Junior[26][5] | ||||||||||
| JGP Austria | 9th | |||||||||
| JGP Germany | 17th | |||||||||
| JGP Latvia | 14th | |||||||||
| JGP Spain | 11th | |||||||||
| EYOF | 16th | |||||||||
| Coupe du Printemps | 6th | 3rd | ||||||||
| Int. Challenge Cup | 3rd | |||||||||
| International: Advanced novice[5] | ||||||||||
| Coupe du Printemps | 10th | |||||||||
| NRW Trophy | 7th | 10th | ||||||||
| Rooster Cup | 5th | |||||||||
| National | ||||||||||
| Belgian Champ. | 1st J | 1st J | 1st | 1st | 1st | C | 1st | |||
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled Levels: J = Junior | ||||||||||
Detailed results[]
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
Senior results[]
| 2021–22 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 26–28, 2021 | 2021 Rostelecom Cup | 6 64.44 |
5 139.25 |
5 203.69 |
| November 19–20, 2021 | 2022 Belgian Championships | 1 71.49 |
1 149.55 |
1 221.04 |
| November 5–7, 2021 | 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia | 1 73.52 |
3 145.53 |
3 219.05 |
| October 7–10, 2021 | 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy | 5 68.82 |
3 143.25 |
4 212.07 |
| 2020–21 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 22–28 March 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 10 67.28 |
4 141.16 |
5 208.44 |
| 25–28 February 2021 | 2021 Challenge Cup | 1 69.77 |
1 134.91 |
1 204.68 |
| 15–17 October 2020 | 2020 CS Budapest Trophy | 1 72.18 |
1 126.69 |
1 198.87 |
| 2018–19 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 18–24 March 2019 | 2019 World Championships | 13 62.60 |
11 123.69 |
12 186.29 |
| 16–17 November 2018 | 2019 Belgian Championships | 1 61.48 |
1 122.48 |
1 183.96 |
| 2–4 November 2018 | 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki | 3 63.17 |
4 128.05 |
5 191.22 |
| 26–29 September 2018 | 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 2 71.50 |
3 132.66 |
3 204.16 |
| 2017–18 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 19–25 March 2018 | 2018 World Championships | 10 64.07 |
6 128.24 |
9 192.31 |
| 14–25 February 2018 | 2018 Winter Olympics | 20 55.16 |
14 116.72 |
16 171.88 |
| 15–21 January 2018 | 2018 European Championships | 8 55.13 |
5 121.78 |
5 176.91 |
| 4–10 December 2017 | 2017 Santa Claus Cup | 3 54.18 |
2 106.42 |
2 160.60 |
| 1–2 December 2017 | 2018 Belgian Championships | 1 56.59 |
1 115.05 |
1 171.62 |
| 2016–17 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 29 March – 2 April 2017 | 2017 World Championships | 17 57.54 |
14 115.28 |
15 172.82 |
| 23–26 February 2017 | 2017 Challenge Cup | 1 62.54 |
1 115.40 |
1 177.94 |
| 25–29 January 2017 | 2017 European Championships | 11 55.41 |
7 117.30 |
7 172.71 |
| 30 Nov. – 4 Dec. 2016 | 2016 NRW Trophy | 2 53.48 |
2 106.60 |
2 160.08 |
| 18–19 November 2016 | 2017 Belgian Championships | 1 56.63 |
1 120.56 |
1 177.19 |
| 19–23 October 2016 | 2016 Cup Of Nice | 2 57.88 |
2 109.19 |
2 167.07 |
| 6–10 October 2016 | 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy | 8 48.81 |
6 99.35 |
7 148.16 |
| 22–24 September 2016 | 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 10 45.36 |
7 94.07 |
7 139.43 |
| 2015–16 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 14–18 October 2015 | 2015 Cup of Nice | 6 49.12 |
9 80.98 |
7 130.10 |
Junior results[]
| 2017–18 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug. – 2 Sept. 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | 8 51.77 |
11 83.77 |
9 135.54 |
| 2015–16 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 30 Sept. – 4 Oct. 2015 | 2015 JGP Spain | 12 46.58 |
10 91.81 |
11 138.39 |
| 26–30 August 2015 | 2015 JGP Latvia | 8 49.16 |
15 75.27 |
14 124.43 |
| 2014–15 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 13–15 March 2015 | 2015 Coupe du Printemps | 2 41.20 |
3 76.52 |
3 117.72 |
| 19–22 February 2015 | 2015 International Challenge Cup | 5 39.65 |
3 79.66 |
3 119.31 |
| 25–30 January 2015 | 2015 EYOF | 16 33.97 |
13 64.58 |
16 98.55 |
| 21–22 November 2014 | 2015 Belgian Junior Championships | 1 40.88 |
1 65.82 |
1 106.70 |
| 1–4 October 2014 | 2014 JGP Germany | 20 32.36 |
14 68.87 |
17 101.23 |
| 2013–14 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| 14–16 March 2014 | 2014 Coupe du Printemps | 8 34.35 |
5 67.13 |
6 101.48 |
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