Rachael Flatt

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Rachael Flatt
Flatt (far left) on the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final podium
Personal Info
Country: Flag of the United States United States
Date of birth: July 21, 1992 (1992-07-21) (age 15)
Height: 152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Coach: Tom Zakrajsek, Becky Calvin, Becky Bradley, Erik Schulz, Eddie Shipstad
Choreographer: Lori Nichol, Tom Dickson
Skating Club: Broadmoor Skating Club
ISU Personal Best Scores
Short + Free Total: 172.19 2008 World Junior Championships
Short Program: 60.16 2008 World Junior Championships
Free Skate: 112.03 2008 World Junior Championships
Most Recent Results :
Event Points Finish Year
World Junior Championships 172.19 1st 2008
Junior Grand Prix Final 159.66 2nd 2007

Rachael Elizabeth Flatt (born July 21, 1992 in Del Mar, California, U.S.) is an American figure skater. She is the 2008 World Junior Champion and 2008 U.S. silver medalist.

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[edit] Career

Flatt originally competed in both singles and pairs on the national level. As a pair skater, she won the silver medal at nationals on the juvenile level in 2003 and the intermediate title in 2004, both with Andrew Speroff.

Flatt won the US Novice national title in 2005 at age 12. While normally this would have earned her an event on the Junior Grand Prix for the following season, Flatt was too young to compete internationally as a Junior. She won the silver medal at US Nationals at the Junior level in 2006.

She missed the 2006-2007 Junior Grand Prix season due to injury, but made her senior debut at the 2007 United States Figure Skating Championships, where she placed 5th and earned a bye to the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Flatt made her international debut as a junior in March, 2007 at the International Challenge Cup, which she won.

She competed on the Junior Grand Prix for the first time in the 2007-2008 season, taking the gold medal at her first JGP in Vienna, Austria, and a silver medal at her second JGP in Chemnitz, Germany. She qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final where she won the silver medal. At the 2008 Nationals in St Paul, Minnesota, she won the silver medal on the senior level after winning the free skate. Too young to be eligible for the senior Worlds Championships, Flatt was placed on the team to the 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. After placing third in the short program, she won the free skate and won the title overall.

[edit] Programs

Season Short Program Long Program Exhibition
2007-2008 It Ain't Necessarily So
by George Gershwin
Romantic Rhapsody
by Mathieu
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
by KT Tunstall
Respect
by Aretha Franklin
2006-2007 Scherzo: Allegro Molto from Trio No. 1 in B Major, Opus 8
by Johannes Brahms
An American in Paris
by George Gershwin
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
by KT Tunstall
2005-2006 Nessun Dorma from Turandot
by Giacomo Puccini
Carmen
by Georges Bizet

[edit] Competitive highlights

Event 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008
World Junior Championships 1st
U.S. Championships 1st N. 2nd J. 5th 2nd
Junior Grand Prix Final 2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Germany 2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Austria 1st
International Challenge Cup 1st J.
Triglav Trophy 1st N.
Midwestern Sectionals 1st N. 1st J. 1st
Southwestern Regionals 1st N. 1st J. 1st
  • N = Novice level; J = Junior level

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