Jenni Saarinen

Jenni Saarinen
Personal information
Country represented Finland
Born 9 March 1999
Espoo, Finland
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Coach Susanna Haarala, Maaret Siromaa
Former coach Minna Järvinen, Stefan Zins
Choreographer Elina Ikonen, Sergei Komolov
Skating club Tapparan SC
Training locations Tampere
Began skating 2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 146.07
2015 Nordics
Short program 55.43
2015 Junior Worlds
Free skate 95.98
2015 Nordics

Jenni Saarinen (born 9 March 1999) is a Finnish figure skater. She represented Finland at the 2013 and 2014 World Junior Championships. She won her first senior international medal at the 2014 CS Volvo Open Cup.

Personal life

Jenni Saarinen was born on 9 March 1999 in Espoo, Finland. She practiced gymnastics for five years as a child.[1]

Career

Saarinen started skating when she was about five years old.[1] She began competing on the junior international level in autumn 2012 and was assigned to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy, where she finished 14th.

In the 2013–14 season, Saarinen made her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut and won the junior title at the 2014 Finnish Championships.[2] She placed 13th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2014–15, Saarinen continued competing on the JGP series before making her senior international debut at the 2014 Finlandia Trophy, a Challenger Series (CS) event. In November 2014, she won a bronze medal at the CS Volvo Open Cup.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2014–2015
[1]		 El tiempo entre costuras
by Cesar Benito:
  • El Falso Delphos
  • L'Atelier
  • Nas Ruas de Lisboa
  • Una Maquina de Escribir
2013–2014
[3]
  • Solitary Hill
  • Canon in D
  • Wind
2012–2013
[4]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[5]
Event 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
CS Finlandia Trophy 5th
CS Volvo Open Cup 3rd
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds 14th 13th 13th
JGP Czech Republic 7th
JGP Japan 9th
JGP Poland 10th
JGP Slovenia 9th
EYOF 4th
Bavarian Open 1st J.
Cup of Nice 3rd J.
Ice Star 1st J.
Nordics 1st J.
National[5]
Finnish Champ. 3rd J. 1st J. 2nd
J. = Junior level

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Jenni SAARINEN: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Paasonen, Elina (15 December 2013). "Tapparan Saarinen juhli Suomen mestarina" [Saarinen wins Finnish junior title] (in Finnish). Aamulehti.
  3. ↑ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Jenni SAARINEN: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Competition Results: Jenni SAARINEN". International Skating Union.

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