Curran Oi

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Curran Oi
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Born (1990-10-19) October 19, 1990 (age 34)
Boston, Massachusetts
Hometown Wellesley, Massachusetts
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
Coach Matthew Savoie
Skating clubYale FSC
Began skating1996

Curran Oi (born October 19, 1990) is an American figure skater. He won two ISU Junior Grand Prix silver medals and placed fifth at the 2009 World Junior Championships. He is the founder of Stats on Ice, an online statistics database on figure skaters. [1]

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Personal life

Oi was born on October 19, 1990, in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] He is the brother of Bryna Oi, the 2011 Japanese national ice dancing champion with Taiyo Mizutani. [3] His brother, Aidan Oi, competed in swimming and attended Boston University Academy.[ citation needed ]

Oi began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, [4] graduating in 2013 with a degree in nuclear engineering and physics. [5] He then enrolled as a PhD student in biophysics at Yale University. [5]

Career

Oi began skating at age six after seeing the sport on television. [6] He trained at the Skating Club of Boston under Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson. [7] He won a silver medal on the Junior Grand Prix circuit in his first year on it and placed 5th at the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final. [8]

Oi was selected for the 2008 and 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Scholastics Honors Team. [9] [10]

Oi announced that he would not compete in the 2009–10 season in order to focus on his studies. [4] In 2014, he started skating again, and has been coached by Matthew Savoie once a week. [5] [11]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2008–09
[2]
2007–08
[12]
  • The Phantom of the Opera
    by Andrew Lloyd Webber
2006–07
[13]
  • Freedom
    by Michael W. Smith

Competitive highlights

JGP: ISU Junior Grand Prix

International [14]
Event05–0606–0707–08 08–09 15–16
Junior Worlds 5th
JGP Final 5th
JGP Belarus 5th
JGP Estonia 6th
JGP France 2nd
JGP Italy 2nd
JGP Norway 4th
Gardena 1st J
National [15]
U.S. Champ. 3rd N4th J6th J6th18th

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References

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  13. "Curran OI: 2006/2007". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 20, 2007.
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