Lindsay Thorngren

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Lindsay Thorngren
Born (2005-12-05) December 5, 2005 (age 18)
White Plains, New York
Hometown Montclair, New Jersey
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of the United States.svg United States
Coach Julia Lautowa
Skating clubIce House FSC of NJ
Began skating2009
Medal record
Figure skating: Women's singles
Representing Flag of the United States.svg United States
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Tallinn Women's singles

Lindsay Thorngren (born December 5, 2005) is an American figure skater. [1] [2] She is the 2023 NHK Trophy silver medalist and 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb champion.

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At the junior level, Thorngren was the 2022 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2021 JGP France I champion, and the 2020 U.S. national junior champion. [3]

Personal life

Thorngren was born on December 5, 2005, in White Plains, New York, to parents Edward and Elizabeth. Her mother, Elizabeth, immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic at age 15. [4]

Career

Early years

Thorngren began learning to skate in 2009 as a four-year-old in Maple Grove, Minnesota. She participated in her first competition in 2010 at the age of five. She began training under her current coach, Julia Lautowa when her family relocated from Minnesota to New Jersey. Thorngren competed at her first U.S. Championship in 2017 at the juvenile level, where she finished sixth. She went on to win the U.S. intermediate women's title in 2019 and the junior title in 2020.

2019–20 season: Junior international debut

Thorngren made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix in September at the 2019 JGP Poland, where she placed eighth. In January, she won the US junior national title, earning an assignment to the 2020 World Junior Championships. She placed twenty-sixth in the short program, failing to advance to the free skate. [5]

2020–21 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the cancellation of the international junior season, Thorngren's lone major appearance was in making her domestic senior debut at the 2021 U.S. Championships. She finished in sixth place. [5]

2021–22 season: World Junior bronze

Thorngren was a fan of the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit , choosing to skate her free program to Carlos Rafael Rivera's original score for the program and portray lead character Beth Harmon. She analogized that Harmon "falls in love with chess, competes, and she fights to win a chess game. So in my program, I'm fighting to land all my jumps and skate cleanly and perform the best I can." [6]

Returning to the Junior Grand Prix, Thorngren's first assignment was the first edition of the 2021 JGP France in Courchevel. Due to French travel rules, Russian women's skaters who normally dominated the Junior Grand Prix could not participate in the event. [7] Thorngren won the gold medal in Courchevel. Reflecting on the lack of junior events in the previous year, she said, "since there were no competitions, I worked more on building my skills and my jumps." [8] At her second event, the 2021 JGP Slovenia, Thorngren won the bronze medal behind Russians Adeliia Petrosian and Sofia Samodelkina. She attempted a triple Axel in the free skate, but the jump was downgraded due to a forward landing. [9] These results qualified her for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final, but it was subsequently canceled due to restrictions imposed as a result of the Omicron variant. [10] Thorngren made her senior international debut at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, where she finished fifth. [5]

Hoping to qualify for the American Olympic team at the 2022 U.S. Championships, Thorngren was fifth in the short program with a clean skate, only 1.20 points behind third-place Alysa Liu. However, she struggled in the free skate, falling on two jumps and underrotating two others. Seventh in that segment, Thorngren dropped to fifth overall. [11] She was subsequently assigned to the International Challenge Cup, winning the silver medal. [5]

Thorngren was assigned to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships, but events would soon complicate the situation. Shortly after the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, the International Skating Union banned all Russian athletes from competing at ISU championships. [12] As Russian women had dominated international figure skating in recent years, this had a significant impact on the field, and Thorngren was considered a medal contender. [13] Due to both the invasion and the Omicron variant, the World Junior Championships could not be held as scheduled in Sofia in early March, and were rescheduled for mid-April in Tallinn. [14] Thorngren finished fourth in the short program, 0.14 points behind third-place Yun Ah-sun of South Korea. [15] She went on to place third in the free skate, rising to third overall, almost four points ahead of Yun. [16] Standing on the podium alongside fellow American, Isabeau Levito, she concurred that "the medal is a reflection of our training and how hard we've worked this season, and I'm really happy." [6]

2022–23 season

In her first competition of the season, Thorngren won the silver medal at the Philadelphia Summer International. [5] She was then assigned to the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy on the Challenger series, where she finished in sixth place. [17]

Thorngren was invited to make her Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate Canada International, coming ninth of twelve skaters. [18] She finished fourth in the short program at her second event, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo, but dropped to sixth place after the free skate. [19] She went on to win the gold medal at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, earning a personal best in the free skate. [5]

At the 2023 U.S. Championships, Thorngren placed sixth in the short program and fifth in the free skate, finishing sixth overall. [5]

2023–24 season

Thorngren began the season by winning gold at the 2023 Cranberry Cup International. [5] She sustained a lower back fracture in September, and as a result did not compete on the Challenger circuit. [20] Recovering in time to appear on the Grand Prix at the 2023 Skate Canada International, Thorngren finished fifth in the short program despite underrotating the second half of her jump combination. She remained in fifth place after the free skate. [21] [20] At her second assignment, the 2023 NHK Trophy, Thorngren sprained her ankle in practice before the short program, but won the segment by a margin of 5.49 points over Belgian Nina Pinzarrone. Her only mistakes in the program were an incorrect edge call on her triple flip and a point deduction for a time violation. In the free skate she doubled and fell on a planned triple Salchow and again received a flip edge call and a time violation. She finished second in the segment and second overall behind training mate Ava Marie Ziegler, with the two time violation deductions comprising more than the margin between them. Having won the silver medal, she called it an "amazing experience," and praised her team for helping her compete through the sprain. [22]

Following the Grand Prix, Thorngren sustained injuries that forced her to suspend training for most of the period in advance of the 2024 U.S. Championships. [23] Despite this, she was included in the preemptively-named American team for the 2024 Four Continents Championships, which were to take place the week after the national championships. [24] Thorngren resumed training triple jumps the week prior to the national championships, where she ultimately placed seventh. [23] [25] She went on to finish twelfth at the Four Continents Championships. [5]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[26]

Twilight

2022–2023
[27]
2021–2022
[28]
2020–2021
[29]
2019–2020
[30]

Competitive highlights

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

International [5]
Event 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Four Continents 12th
GP Finland 6th
GP NHK Trophy 2nd
GP Skate Canada 9th5th
CS Finlandia 6th
CS Golden Spin 1st
CS Warsaw Cup 5th
Challenge Cup 2nd
Philadelphia 2nd
Cranberry Cup 1st
International: Junior [5]
Junior Worlds 26th3rd
JGP Final C
JGP France 1st
JGP Slovenia 3rd
JGP Poland 8th
National [29]
U.S. Championships 1st J6th5th6th7th
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE system  [31]
SegmentTypeScoreEvent
TotalTSS199.42 2022 World Junior Championships
Short program TSS70.24 2021 JGP Slovakia
TES40.902021 JGP Slovakia
PCS31.19 2023 NHK Trophy
Free skating TSS135.99 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
TES72.722022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb
PCS63.792023 NHK Trophy

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted inbold.

Senior results

2023–2024 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2024 2024 Four Continents Championships 7
64.11		12
98.52		12
162.63
January 22–28, 2024 2024 U.S. Championships 4
65.33		8
115.65		7
180.98
November 24–26, 2023 2023 NHK Trophy 1
68.93		3
129.80		2
198.73
October 27–29, 2023 2023 Skate Canada International 5
61.99		5
127.53		5
189.52
August 9–13, 2023 2023 Cranberry Cup International 2
66.43		1
132.73		1
199.16
2022–2023 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 23–29, 2023 2023 U.S. Championships 6
62.64		5
124.55		6
187.19
December 7–10, 2022 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 2
60.49		1
135.99		1
196.48
November 25–27, 2022 2022 Grand Prix Espoo 4
65.75		6
117.48		6
183.23
October 28–30, 2022 2022 Skate Canada International 10
55.16		6
120.93		9
176.09
October 4–9, 2022 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy 14
52.86		5
112.23		6
165.09
August 4–7, 20222022 Philadelphia Summer International2
69.57		2
134.05		2
203.62
2021–2022 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
February 24–27, 2022 2022 Challenge Cup 4
54.87		2
131.35		2
186.22
January 3–9, 2022 2022 US Championships 5
70.22		7
116.16		5
186.38
November 17–20, 2021 2021 CS Warsaw Cup 8
60.75		4
123.65		5
184.40
2020–2021 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
January 11–21, 2021 2021 US Championships 6
62.54		7
116.35		6
178.89

Junior results

2021–2022 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships 4
66.14		3
133.28		3
199.42
September 22–25, 2021 2019 JGP Slovenia 3
70.24		3
123.53		3
193.77
August 18–21, 2021 2019 JGP France I 2
62.63		1
118.82		1
181.45
2019–2020 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 26
49.61		–
26
49.61
January 20–26, 2020 2020 US Championships 2
59.66		1
124.10		1
183.76
September 18–21, 2019 2019 JGP Poland 8
57.44		9
100.65		8
158.09

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