Olivia Smart

Olivia Smart

Smart/Buckland in 2012
Personal information
Country represented Spain
Former country(ies) represented United Kingdom
Born (1997-04-01) 1 April 1997
Sheffield, England
Home town Rotherham, England
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Partner Adrià Díaz
Former partner Joseph Buckland
Coach Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer
Former coach Evgeni Platov
Philip Askew
Neil Chilcott
Former choreographer Philip Askew
Skating club SAD Majadahonda
CP Gadbois Montreal
Former skating club IceSheffield
Training locations Montreal
Former training locations New Jersey
Nottingham
Sheffield
Began skating 2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 121.01
2014 Junior Worlds
Short dance 49.28
2014 Junior Worlds
Free dance 71.73
2014 Junior Worlds

Olivia Smart (born 1 April 1997) is an English ice dancer who currently skates for Spain with Adrià Díaz. With former partner Joseph Buckland, she is a three-time British national junior champion (2012–14) and competed at three World Junior Championships, reaching the top ten in 2014.

Career

Partnership with Buckland

Smart teamed up with Joseph Buckland in 2010.[1] They made their JGP debut in autumn 2011, ranking 13th in Austria and 12th in Estonia. They came in 17th at their first World Junior Championships, held in Minsk in March 2012. In the 2012–13 season, the duo missed the JGP series and finished 22nd at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan.

In 2013–14, Smart/Buckland placed seventh at both of their JGP assignments, Poland and the Czech Republic, and finished 10th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Smart/Buckland moved up to the senior level in the 2014–15 season. In October 2014, they placed fourth at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event. In November, they won silver medals at the International Cup of Nice and NRW Trophy before taking the British national title in the absence of Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland. Smart/Buckland withdrew from the 2015 European Championships before the short dance, Buckland having fallen ill with gastroenteritis.[2][3] The duo went on to place 27th at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China. Following that season, they split.

Partnership with Díaz

On 13 December 2015 it was announced that Smart had teamed up with Spanish ice dancer, Adrià Díaz, and that she would like skate for Spain with him. On 15 January 2016 Smart announced that the Skating Association of Great Britain had released her, and that she and Díaz would train in Montreal under Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer.[4]

Programs

(with Buckland)

Season Short dance Free dance
2014–2015
[5]
  • Paso doble
  • Flamenco
  • Paso doble
2013–2014
[6]
  • Paso Doble
  • El Mariachi
  • Once Upon A Time In Mexico
    by Robert Rodriguez
2012–2013
[7]
  • Swing Set
    by Jurassic 5
  • Feeling Good
    by Escala
  • Tango In Ebony
    by Maksim, Julian Kershaw
  • Butterflies and Hurricanes
    by William Joseph
2011–2012
[8]
  • Natural Passion
    by Latin Festival
  • Sway

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Buckland

International[9]
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Worlds 27th
Europeans WD
CS Nepela Trophy 4th
International: Junior[9]
Junior Worlds 17th 22nd 10th
JGP Austria 13th
JGP Czech Republic 7th
JGP Estonia 12th
JGP Poland 7th
Bavarian Open 6th J. 3rd J.
Nesquik Cup 1st J.
NRW Trophy 3rd J.
Santa Claus Cup 8th J.
National[9]
British Champ. 1st J. 1st J. 1st J. 1st
J. = Junior level

References

  1. ↑ Pinchess, Lynette (20 September 2010). "Olympic hopeful Joseph keeps up the family tradition on ice". This is Nottingham. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Illness hits Buckland brothers at European Figure Skating Championships". National Ice Skating Association. 29 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Buckland and Coomes withdraw from World Championships due to illness". National Ice Skating Association. 19 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Smart, Olivia. "Release". Instagram. Instagram. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015.

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