Nicole Rajičová

Nicole Rajičová
Personal information
Alternative names Nicole Rajic
Country represented Slovakia
Born (1995-08-13) August 13, 1995
Garden City, New York
Home town New York
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Coach Igor Krokavec, Tom Rajic
Former coach Steve Rice, Peter Johansson, Milada Kubikova-Stastny
Choreographer Nikolai Morozov
Former choreographer Phillip Mills
Skating club SKP Bratislava
Training locations Hackensack, New Jersey
Began skating 1998
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 167.32
2015 Skate America
Short program 57.24
2016 Europeans
Free skate 116.99
2015 Skate America

Nicole Rajičová or Rajic (born August 13, 1995) is a Slovak figure skater. She is a three-time Slovak national champion and has won five senior international medals. She represented Slovakia at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Nicole Rajičová was born August 13, 1995 in Garden City, New York.[1] She is also known as Nicole Rajic; Rajičová is the Slovak feminine form. Her parents, Anna and Tomislav Rajič (Tom Rajic), moved to the United States from Slovakia.[2][3][4]

Career

Early years

By the age of five, Rajičová began taking figure skating lessons in Long Island from Milada Kubikova-Stastny (Šťastná-Kubíková),[4] a former Olympian for Czechoslovakia. Early in her career, she competed as Nicole Rajic in U.S. regional and domestic events.[5]

2011–12 to 2012–13

Rajičová debuted internationally for Slovakia in December 2011 at the Golden Spin of Zagreb. She began appearing in ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) events in autumn 2012 and became the Slovak national champion at the 2013 Three Nationals Championships.[6]

2013–14 season: Sochi Olympics

Rajičová competed at two JGP events in September 2013, placing 8th in Košice, Slovakia and 15th in Gdańsk, Poland. Her first senior ISU Championship was the European Championships in January 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. Ranked 14th in the short program, she advanced to the free skate and finished 17th. In March, she competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; she qualified for the free skate by placing 21st in the short program and finished 24th overall.[7]

Rajičová just missed qualifying for the free skate at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan after placing 25th in the short program.

2014–15 season

During the 2014–15 JGP season, Rajičová placed 4th in Ljubljana, Slovenia in August and 4th in Zagreb, Croatia in October. In November, she competed for the first time on the ISU Challenger Series (CS), finishing 6th at the 2014 Ice Challenge. In December, she won her first CS medal – bronze – at the 2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb.

In January, Rajičová finished 11th at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, having ranked 8th in the short program and 12th in the free skate. In early March, she competed at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; she placed 5th in the short, 13th in the free, and 11th overall. Later that month, she finished 15th in Shanghai, China at the 2015 World Championships after placing 14th in the short and 15th in the free.

2015–16 season: Grand Prix debut

At 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy, Rajičová placed 9th. Making her Grand Prix (GP) debut, Rajičová placed 7th at the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Cup of China.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–2016
[1]
2014–2015
[8]
2013–2014
[9]
2012–2013
[10]

Results

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

For Slovakia

International[11]
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Olympics 24th
Worlds 25th 15th
Europeans 17th 11th 12th
GP Cup of China 7th
GP Skate America 7th
CS Golden Spin 3rd
CS Ice Challenge 6th
CS Nepela Trophy 9th
CS Warsaw Cup 5th
Bavarian Open 3rd
Golden Spin 12th
Ice Challenge 7th 3rd
Merano Cup 2nd
Nepela Trophy 19th 6th
New Year's Cup 7th
NRW Trophy 3rd
International: Junior[11]
Junior Worlds 30th 11th
JGP Croatia 4th
JGP Poland 15th
JGP Slovakia 8th
JGP Slovenia 15th 4th
JGP USA 13th
National[11]
Slovak Champ. 2nd 1st 4th 1st 1st
J. = Junior level

For the United States

National
Event 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
U.S. Championships 12th N. 12th J.
U.S. Junior Championships 8th I.
Levels: I. = Intermediate; N. = Novice; J. = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union.
  2. ↑ "Krasokorčuliarska nádej Nicole Rajičová: Newyorčanka vo farbách Slovenska" [Figure skating talent Nicole Rajičová: New Yorker represents Slovakia]. Čas.sk (in Slovak). March 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Rajičovej otec: Pri začiatkoch netreba deti do ničoho tlačiť" [Interview with Rajičová's father]. News Agency of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak) (teraz.sk). October 3, 2014. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Krasokorčuliarka Rajičová: Olympiáda je môj najväčší úspech" [Figure skater Rajičová: Competing at the Olympics is my greatest achievement] (in Slovak). osporte.sk. February 22, 2014. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ "2011 U.S. Championships: Junior Ladies". U.S. Figure Skating. January 26, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Three National Championships 2013". Polish Figure Skating Association. December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA". Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Nicole RAJICOVA: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
  11. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Nicole RAJICOVA". International Skating Union.

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