Marilena Kitromilis

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Marilena Kitromilis
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Kitromilis at 2022 Skate America
Born (2004-10-15) October 15, 2004 (age 20)
Georgetown, D.C.
Hometown Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus (2020–)
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States (until 2020)
CoachSergei Komolov
Skating clubLeader FSC

Marilena Kitromilis (born October 15, 2004) is a Cypriot-American figure skater who represents Cyprus in women's singles skating. She is the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International champion. She is the first Cypriot figure skater to win an ISU-sanctioned international competition. Kitromilis also made history by being the first Cypriot figure skater to compete at a senior Grand Prix event.

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Personal life

Kitromilis was born on October 15, 2004, to her Cypriot mother, Maria Kitromilis, and American father, William Adams. She has a twin brother, Mikhail. Though born and raised in the United States, Kitromilis is of Cypriot descent. She traveled to Cyprus multiple times throughout her childhood to spend summers with the families of her grandfather's siblings and many cousins. Her maternal grandfather was born and raised in Karavas, Cyprus. She enjoys reading books of various genres in her free time.

Career

Early years

Kitromilis started skating on ponds with her mother and twin brother at the age of two and half. She began learn-to-skate classes at four years old with coach Becky Curry and quickly progressed to private lessons. [1] She competed domestically in the United States at the juvenile through novice levels before transitioning to represent Cyprus, internationally, in advance of the 2020–21 season. [2]

2020–21 season

Kitromilis made her international senior debut representing Cyprus in October at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, where she finished twelfth. She competed at one other international event that season, the 2020 Santa Claus Cup, where she placed sixth. Throughout the 2020–21 season, Kitromilis was in the process of transitioning to a new coaching team from former coaches Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson. She changed coaches to Olga Ganicheva, Aleksey Letov, and Sergei Minaev. [3]

2021–22 season

Kitromilis opened the Olympic season competing at the Cranberry Cup in mid-August in Norwood, Massachusetts. She placed eighth in the short program and tenth in the free skate to finish eighth overall. At her second assignment of the season, Kitromilis earned her first international title by winning the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, in what was considered an upset victory. She scored personal bests in both segments of the competition, as well as overall. [4] She won the gold medal ahead of South Korean competitors You Young and Ji Seo-yeon. [5] Kitromilis' scores met the required technical minimums to allow her to compete at the 2022 European and World Championships. She is the first-ever Cypriot figure skater to win an ISU-sanctioned international competition.

She competed at two more Challenger events in the fall, the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup and the 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where she finished twelfth and fifth, respectively. In January 2022, Kitromilis made her European Championships debut in Tallinn, Estonia. She finished thirty-second in the short program and did not advance to the free skate. She was thirtieth in the short program at her 2022 World Championship debut. [2]

2022–23 season

Kitromilis began this season with an injury to her left knee. [6] After finishing ninth at the 2022 U.S. Classic, Kitromilis made her Grand Prix debut at 2022 Skate America. Despite the pain in her knee, she competed and finished eleventh. Kitromilis then competed at the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup and the 2022 CS Golden Spin before going to Latvia for the 2022 Latvia Trophy, where she placed third overall.

At the 2023 European Championships, she finished in eighteenth place after the SP after a misstep in her footwork. She placed thirteenth overall after the free skate, where she was in tenth place with a season's best score. A week later, Kitromilis competed at the 2023 Bavarian Open, where she placed third overall. She also changed coaches to Sergei Komolov and relocated to Dubai for training. [7] Going into the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Kitromilis faced difficulties training with her ongoing knee injury going into Worlds and came in thirty-first overall, which was not enough to reach the free skate. At the end of the season, she ranked 46th in the ISU season's world ranking for women. [8]

2023–24 season

Kitromilis did not compete this season. She entered the 2023 Golden Spin of Zagreb, but she withdrew in November. In February 2024, she underwent surgery for her knee injury. [9]

2024–25 season

Making her return to competition, Kitromilis finished sixteenth at the 2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup and seventeenth at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy. [10]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[11]
2023–2024
[12]
2022–2023 [13]
2021–2022 [3]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series

For Cyprus

International
Event 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24–25
Worlds 30th31st
Europeans 31st13th
GP Skate America 11th
CS Autumn Classic 1st
CS Budapest Trophy 12th
CS Golden Spin 5th11thWD
CS U.S. Classic 9th
CS Tallinn Trophy 17th
CS Warsaw Cup 12th19th
Bavarian Open 3rd
Cranberry Cup 8th
Denkova-Staviski Cup 16th
Latvia Trophy 3rd
Santa Claus Cup 6th

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [10]
SegmentTypeScoreEvent
TotalTSS180.72 2021 CS Autumn Classic International
Short program TSS61.332021 CS Autumn Classic International
TES35.572021 CS Autumn Classic International
PCS26.02 2022 World Championships
Free skating TSS119.392021 CS Autumn Classic International
TES61.952021 CS Autumn Classic International
PCS57.442021 CS Autumn Classic International

For Cyprus

ISU Personal best in bold.

2024-25 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
November 11-17, 2024 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy 8
49.72
19
71.28
17
121.00
November 5-10, 2024 2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup 7
53.51
17
82.48
16
135.99
2022–23 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
March 22–26, 2023 2023 World Championships 31
48.92

-
31
48.92
Jan. 31 – Feb. 5, 2023 2023 Bavarian Open 5
50.31
3
100.94
3
151.25
January 25–29, 2023 2023 European Championships 18
53.71
10
105.20
13
158.91
December 17–18, 20222022 Latvia Trophy1
64.92
5
100.89
3
165.81
December 7–10, 2022 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 5
54.58
14
95.43
11
150.01
November 16–20, 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 24
39.32
16
88.98
19
128.30
October 21–23, 2022 2022 Skate America 12
46.01
11
89.47
11
135.48
September 13–16, 2022 2022 CS U.S. Classic 7
52.55
11
77.09
9
129.64
2021–22 season
March 21–27, 2022 2022 World Championships 30
53.32

30
53.32
January 10–16, 2022 2022 European Championships 32
44.03

-
32
44.03
December 9–11, 2021 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 5
58.71
5
108.24
5
166.65
November 17–20, 2021 2021 CS Warsaw Cup 12
54.77
12
102.35
12
157.12
September 16–18, 2021 2021 CS Autumn Classic 1
61.33
2
119.39
1
180.72
August 11–15, 2021 2021 Cranberry Cup International 8
57.93
10
101.46
8
159.39
2020–21 season
November 26–29, 2021 2020 Santa Claus Cup 9
38.11
5
94.82
6
132.93
October 14–17, 2021 2020 CS Budapest Trophy 14
33.10
11
83.20
12
116.30

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