Jade Hovine

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Jade Hovine
Born (2004-06-11) 11 June 2004 (age 21)
Lille, France
Hometown Vaulx, Tournai, Belgium
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Discipline Women's singles
CoachCédric Tour
Rodolphe Maréchal

Jade Hovine (born 11 June 2004) is a French-Belgian figure skater. She is the 2022 NRW Trophy champion and a four-time Belgian national silver medalist (2020, 2022-2024).

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Personal life

Hovine was born in Lille, France on June 11, 2004, and grew up in Vaulx, Tournai. She lives in Nice, where she studies law at Côte d'Azur University. [1] [2]

Career

Early career

Hovine began skating when she was six or seven in Tournai. She later trained in Wevelgem until the rink there closed and then in Ghent. Hovine then trained in Antwerp, where she lived alone during the week and her parents joined her on the weekends. She began taking online classes when she was twelve due to her training schedule. [1] [2] She was coached by Ans Bocklandt. [3]

In November 2018, Hovine won the 2019 Belgian Junior Championships. [4]

2019–2020 season

Making her junior international debut, Hovine placed twenty-third at the 2019 Ice Star and twentieth at the 2019 Volvo Open Cup. [4]

In November, Hovine made her senior national debut at the 2020 Belgian Championships. She followed this up with a tenth-place finish on the junior level at the 2020 Santa Claus Cup before closing the season by placing twenty-first on the junior level at the 2020 International Challenge Cup. [4]

2020–2021 season

Hovine started the season by winning gold on the junior level at the 2020 Ice Star and placing sixth on the junior level at the 2021 Sofia Trophy. She then finished the season by placing eighth on the junior level at the 2021 Egna Spring Trophy. [4]

2021–2022 season

Hovine began the season by winning the silver medal at the 2022 Belgian Championships behind Loena Hendrickx. [5] A couple weeks later, she made her senior international debut and finished fourth at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup. [4]

She then went on to place fourth at the 2022 IceLab International Cup, seventh at the 2022 Dragon Trophy, and thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup. Hovine subsequently closed the season by finishing fifth at the 2022 Coupe du Printemps. [4]

2022–2023 season

Hovine considered finishing her skating career after she did not qualify to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but she decided to continue training. She later said, "I have made so many sacrifices throughout my life for this sport that it was foolish to stop everything when I was on the verge of success." [6]

She started the season in September by competing on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, finishing thirteenth at the 2022 JGP Latvia. Hovine followed this up by competing on the senior international level, finishing seventeenth at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy and winning silver at the 2022 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. [4]

In November, Hovine won the silver medal at the 2023 Belgian Championships. [6] Later that month, she won her first international competition, the 2022 NRW Trophy, ahead of Stefanie Pesendorfer and Kristina Isaev. [7] She then competed at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, earning new personal best free skate and combined total scores, and finishing eighth overall. [4]

In February, it was announced that she would receive a Wallonian sports scholarship in exchange for promoting her sport and the infrastructure she used to train. [8] That same month, it was also announced that she had left longtime coach, Ans Bocklandt, and had relocated to France to train under Malika Tahir. [9] [10] She subsequently finished fourth at the 2022 Latvia Trophy and sixth at the 2023 Dragon Trophy. [4]

Selected to compete at the 2023 World Junior Championships, Hovine qualified for the free program in twenty-fourth place. She rose to twenty-third place overall despite two falls in her free skate. [11] Later in the month, she competed at the senior World Championships as part of Belgium's largest-ever delegation. [12] She skated cleanly and set a personal best in the short program, where she placed twenty-sixth and did not advance to the free skate segment. [13]

In May, she moved to Cote d'Azur, where she joined her physical trainer, with whom she had been training remotely, and began university. She also changed coaches from Malika Tahir to Cédric Tour, who had previously accompanied her to competitions, and Rodolphe Maréchal. [1] [2]

2023–2024 season

Hovine began the season by finishing sixth at the 2023 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and fifth at the 2023 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge. She followed these results up by winning the silver medal at the 2024 Belgian Championships behind Nina Pinzarrone, before finishing twelfth at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. [4]

In January, Hovine competed at her first European Championships. She was seriously ill and unable to train for a week before the competition. [1] She placed nineteenth in the short program after making a mistake on her triple Lutz jump and double Axel, but she qualified for the free skate. [14] In her free skate, she popped a planned triple flip jump, and she ended the competition in twenty-third place. She expressed disappointment in her performance, saying, "I can't figure out why it happened – I was super focused, aiming to deliver the best performance of my life," but she added, "But that's life, that's skating, and that's sports. I'm still happy. Overall, it was a beautiful competition, and I achieved my goal of qualifying for the free skate." [1] She then closed the season by finishing sixth at the 2024 Bellu Memorial. [4]

2024–2025 season

Hovine planned to open her season at the Nebelhorn Trophy in September; however, she withdrew for medical reasons as she suffered from inflammation in her vertabrae. [15] [16] She instead debuted at the Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur in October, where she finished in seventeenth place after falling twice in her free skate. [17]

In November, Hovine had a stronger performance at the 2024 Volvo Open Cup in November, where she won the bronze medal. She said that she was disappointed with her short program there but that winning a medal boosted her morale. Hovine next competed at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy, where she finished in fifth place. Afterward, she caught the flu but competed again at the Santa Claus Cup, her third competition that month, though she said afterward that she was not in a good physical state to compete and the competition left her exhausted. [16]

In January, Hovine competed at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. She finished the short program in eleventh place after landing a new triple flip-triple loop jump combination, which she had wanted to try in competition after having success with it in practice for several months. [18] Hovine said that she was happy with her performance, especially as she had travel difficulties getting to the competition and had been crying due to stress in her last practice before the short program. [19] She was also skating with inflammation in her foot due to a boot issue. [16] In her free skate, although she had no falls, she made several mistakes on her jumps and fell to sixteenth place overall. [20]

Hovine competed at two further competitions in February, the 2025 International Challenge Cup and the 2025 Bellu Memorial, in an attempt to reach the minimum technical score to be eligible for the 2025 World Championships. However, she failed to do so by only 0.09 points. [21] [22] At those events, she finished fourth and fifth, respectively. [4]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2025–2026
[23] [24]
2024–2025
[25]
2023–2024
[26]
2022–2023
[27]
2021–2022
[3]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International [28]
Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24–25 25–26
World Championships 26th
European Championships 23rd16th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 5th
CS Finlandia Trophy 17th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 8th12th
CS Lombardia Trophy TBD
CS Tallinn Trophy 5th
CS Trophée Métropole Nice 2nd6th17th
Bellu Memorial6th4th
Challenge Cup 13thWD5th
Coupe du Printemps 5th
Dragon Trophy 7th6th
IceLab Cup 4th
Latvia Trophy4th
NRW Trophy 1st
Santa Claus Cup 4th11th
Volvo Open Cup 3rd
International: Junior [28]
Junior Worlds 23rd
JGP Latvia 13th
Challenge Cup 21st
Egna Spring Trophy 8th
Ice Star 23rd1st
Santa Claus Cup 10th
Sofia Trophy 6th
Volvo Open Cup 20th
National [28]
Belgian Championships 1st J2nd2nd2nd2nd
Master's de Patinage 4th3rd

    Detailed results

    ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System  [4]
    SegmentTypeScoreEvent
    TotalTSS161.66 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
    Short program TSS56.19 2025 European Championships
    TES30.87 2023 World Championships
    PCS26.07 2023 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
    Free skating TSS112.152022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
    TES59.682022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
    PCS52.472022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 Mathieu, Solène (2024-01-13). "Interview Jade Hovine". Skate Info Glace. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    2. 1 2 3 Beauclercq, Guy (2025-01-20). "Jade Hovine à l'Euro de patinage: "J'espère atteindre mon meilleur niveau en 2026, soit l'année des JO"" [Jade Hovine at the European Skating Championships: "I hope to reach my best level in 2026, the year of the Olympic Games"]. L'Avenir (in French). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    3. 1 2 "Jade HOVINE: 2021/2022". International Skating Union . Archived from the original on 22 April 2022.
    4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Jade Hovine". Skating Scores. Skating Scores. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
    5. ↑ "2022 Belgian Nationals - Womens Results". Skating Scores. Skating Scores. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
    6. 1 2 Deplanque, Thibaut (21 March 2023). "Mondiaux de patinage artistique : derrière Loena Hendrickx, deux jeunes patineuses en quête d'expérience" [World Figure Skating Championships: Behind Loena Hendrickx, two young skaters in search of experience]. RTBF (in French). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    7. ↑ "La patineuse artistique Jade Hovine décroche sa première victoire internationale" [Figure skater Jade Hovine claims first international victory]. RTL Info (in French). 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    8. ↑ "Wallonie Ambitions Or : Jade Hovine (patinage) et Alexandre Le Fevre (judo) sont les ambassadeurs de Wapi" [Wallonia Ambitions: Jade Hovine (skating) and Alexandre Le Fevre (judo) are Wapi ambassadors]. L'Avenir (in French). 2023-02-14. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    9. ↑ Hovine, Jade. "That's why this sport is amazing, words can not describe what i feeld yesterday and still right now writing this post on my plane to Canada🥹". Instagram. Instagram. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
    10. ↑ "Jade Hovine 24ème après le programme court des championnats du monde juniors de patinage artistique". Notele. Notele. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
    11. ↑ "Jade Hovine finit 23e à Calgary" [Jade Hovine finishes in 23rd place in Calgary]. RTL Info (in French). 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    12. ↑ "Loena Hendrickx fer de lance d'une délégation record de cinq Belges à Saitama" [Loena Hendrickx spearheads record delegation of five Belgians to Saitama]. RTL Info (in French). 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    13. ↑ "Loena Hendrickx chute et se classe 5e du progamme libre, Pinzarrone 14e, Hovine 26e" [Loena Hendrickx falls and ranks 5th in the free program, Pinzarrone 14th, Hovine 26th]. RTL Info (in French). 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    14. ↑ Beauclercq, Guy (2025-01-20). "Patinage artistique : Jade Hovine qualifiée pour la finale à l'Euro !" [Figure skating: Jade Hovine qualifies for the Euros final!]. DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    15. ↑ "Jade Hovine se retire de la liste des participantes pour des raisons médicales" [Jade Hovine withdraws from the list of participants for medical reasons]. RTL Info (in French). 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    16. 1 2 3 Beauclercq, Guy (2025-02-24). "Jade Hovine à la veille de l'Euro : "J'ai autant d'amour pour le Droit que pour le patinage artistique"" [Jade Hovine on the eve of the European Championships: "I have as much love for law as for figure skating"]. DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-24.
    17. ↑ "La patineuse artistique Jade Hovine prend la 17e place à Nice en ouverture de sa saison" [Figure skater Jade Hovine takes 17th place in Nice at the start of her season]. RTL Info (in French). 2024-10-21. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
    18. ↑ Golden Skate [@goldsk8]; (29 January 2025). "Jade: "I really wanted to go for the triple-triple, flip / loop combination because I've been landing it in practice for four months. I really wanted to try, and I'm happy with how it turned out."" – via Instagram.
    19. ↑ "Nina Pinzarrone voorlopig naast de medailles na korte kür op EK kunstschaatsen, Jade Hovine staat 11e" [Nina Pinzarrone provisionally out of the medals after the short program at the European Championships, Jade Hovine is 11th]. sporza.be (in Flemish). 29 January 2025. Archived from the original on 2025-01-30. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
    20. ↑ "Nina Pinzarrone verovert opnieuw BRONS op EK kunstschaatsen, Estse pakt goud voor eigen volk" [Nina Pinzarrone wins BRONZE again at the European Figure Skating Championships, Estonian takes gold in front of home crowd]. sporza.be (in Dutch). 31 January 2025. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
    21. ↑ Beauclercq, Guy (2025-02-24). "Jade Hovine vise la qualification pour le Mondial !" [Jade Hovine aims to qualify for the World Championships!]. DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-24.
    22. ↑ Beauclercq, Guy (2025-02-24). "Jade Hovine privée de Mondial pour 0,09 point !" [Jade Hovine misses the World Championships by 0.09 points!]. DHnet (in French). Retrieved 2025-02-24.
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    24. ↑ "Short Program". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
    25. ↑ "Jade HOVINE: 2024/2025". International Skating Union . Archived from the original on 20 January 2025.
    26. ↑ "Jade HOVINE: 2023/2024". International Skating Union . Archived from the original on 28 March 2024.
    27. ↑ "Jade HOVINE: 2022/2023". International Skating Union . Archived from the original on 31 March 2023.
    28. 1 2 3 "Jade Hovine: Competition Results". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
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