Isabelle Olsson (figure skater)

Isabelle Olsson
Olsson in December 2013
Personal information
Country represented	Sweden
Born	(1993-04-15) 15 April 1993 Karlskrona, Sweden
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Coach	Susanne Olsson
Choreographer	Kim Zandvoort
Skating club	Mörrums SC
Training locations	Mörrum
Began skating	1996
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	164.27 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup
Short program	58.73 2014 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
Free skate	108.48 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup

Isabelle Olsson (born 15 April 1993) is a Swedish figure skater. She is the winner of two medals on the ISU Challenger Series – silver at the 2014 Ice Challenge and gold at the 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup. She has won nine other senior international medals and reached the free skate at three ISU Championships.

Personal life

Isabelle Olsson was born on 15 April 1993 in Karlskrona, Sweden.^[1] The daughter of Susanne and Ulf Olsson, she has a twin brother, Johannes, and a sister, Angelica, who is older by one and a half years.^[2][3] Her sister is a former competitive figure skater and their mother coaches figure skating.^[3][4]

Career

2008 to 2012

Olsson debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in 2008. In the 2009–10 season, she won a bronze medal at JGP Lake Placid and the Swedish national junior title. She was selected to represent Sweden at the 2011 World Junior Championships in Gangneung, South Korea. Her placement of 13th in the short program allowed her to advance to the free skate where she ranked 24th, dropping her to 24th overall.

Olsson ended her junior career after competing at a pair of JGP events in October 2011. The following month, she made her senior international debut, placing fifth at the Crystal Skate of Romania. In February 2012, she won bronze medals at the Bavarian Open and The Nordics.

2012–13 season

In the 2012–13 season, Olsson won silver medals at the International Cup of Nice and Ice Challenge, followed by gold at the Warsaw Cup and bronze at the Swedish Championships. The following season, she repeated as the national bronze medalist and was sent to the 2014 European Championships, where Sweden was allowed three ladies' entries. Ranked 22nd in the short program and 15th in the free skate, she finished 16th overall at Europeans, which took place in January in Budapest, Hungary. In March 2014, she won gold at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.

2014–15 season

Olsson competed at three 2014–15 ISU Challenger Series events, winning silver at the 2014 Ice Challenge. She was awarded the bronze medal at the Swedish Championships.

2015–16 season

In the 2015–16 season, Olsson scored personal bests in the free skate and combined score to win the gold medal at a Challenger Series event, the 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup, with a margin of 1.01 over silver medalist Angelīna Kučvaļska. She was invited to compete at her first-ever Grand Prix event, 2015 Skate Canada International, as a replacement for Elene Gedevanishvili, who withdrew from the event; Olsson placed 11th in both segments and 12th overall. After winning the silver medal at the Swedish Championships, she was named in the Swedish team to the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.^[5] There she qualified for the final after placing 23rd in the short program. She placed 24th in the free program and overall.

Programs

Results

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

References

External links

Media related to Isabelle Olsson at Wikimedia Commons

• Isabelle Olsson at the International Skating Union
• Isabelle Olsson at Tracings