Larkyn Austman

Larkyn Austman
Personal information
Country represented Canada
Born (1998-02-22) February 22, 1998
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Home town Coquitlam, British Columbia
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Coach Heather Austman, Zdeněk Pazdírek
Choreographer Mark Pillay
Skating club Coquitlam SC
Training locations Coquitlam, B.C.
Began skating 2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 133.43
2013 JGP Tallinn Cup
Short program 50.22
2013 JGP Tallinn Cup
Free skate 83.21
2013 JGP Tallinn Cup

Larkyn Austman (born February 22, 1998) is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2017 International Challenge Cup bronze medalist and represented Canada at the 2014 World Junior Championships.

Career

Austman won silver on the novice level at the 2012 Canadian Championships and gold competing as a junior at the 2013 Canadian Championships.

In the 2013–14 season, she received her first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignment, finishing 8th in Tallinn, Estonia. Making her senior debut, she placed tenth at the 2014 Canadian Championships. In March 2014, she competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked 18th in the short program, she qualified to the free skate and finished 16th overall. She was coached by Heather Austman and Eileen Murphy in Richmond and Coquitlam, British Columbia.[1]

In the 2014–15 season, Austman spent three months training in Colorado Springs, Colorado under Christy Krall.[2] She left skating after placing tenth at her 2014 JGP assignment in France.

In mid-2015, Austman rejoined Coquitlam Skating Club, training at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex.[2] She finished sixth at the 2016 Canadian Championships.

Coached by Zdeněk Pazdírek in Coquitlam,[3] Austman made her senior international debut in late September 2016 at the Autumn Classic International, a Challenger Series competition where she placed 12th. Ranked 5th in the short and 4th in the free, she finished 4th at the 2017 Canadian Championships, thus making the national team. In February 2017, she won her first international medal, bronze at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2013–2015
[4][1]
2012–2013
[5]

    Competitive highlights

    CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

    International[6]
    Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17
    CS Autumn Classic 12th
    Challenge Cup 3rd
    International: Junior[6]
    Junior Worlds 16th
    JGP Estonia 8th
    JGP France 10th
    National[7]
    Canadian Champ. 2nd N 1st J 10th 6th 4th
    SC Challenge 3rd
    Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior
    TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

    References

    1. 1 2 "Larkyn AUSTMAN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 24, 2014.
    2. 1 2 Ewen, Steve (December 7, 2015). "Larkyn Austman figures out important lesson". The Province. Archived from the original on March 21, 2016.
    3. ↑ "Canadian skaters headed to Montreal for Skate Canada Autumn Classic International". Skate Canada. September 27, 2016.
    4. ↑ "Larkyn AUSTMAN: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015.
    5. ↑ Hoyt, Melanie (January 17, 2013). "Austman wins junior ladies Canadian title". Golden Skate.
    6. 1 2 "Competition Results: Larkyn AUSTMAN". International Skating Union.
    7. ↑ "Larkyn Austman". Skate Canada.
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