Mia Risa Gomez

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Mia Risa Gomez
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Full nameMia Caroline Risa Gomez
Born (2005-12-21) 21 December 2005 (age 18)
Mexico City, Mexico
Hometown Stavanger, Norway
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4+12 in)
Figure skating career
Country Norway
CoachNuriya Pirogova, Lorenzo Magri
Skating clubStavanger SC
Began skating2012

Mia Caroline Risa Gomez (born 21 December 2005) is a Norwegian figure skater. She is the 2022 Open d'Andorra, 2022 Santa Claus Cup, and 2023 and 2024 Norwegian national champion. She has represented Norway at two ISU Championships, reaching the final segment at the 2023 European Championships.

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Personal life

Mia Caroline [1] Risa Gomez was born in Mexico City, to a Mexican mother and a Norwegian father. [2] The family moved to Norway when she was two years old. [2]

Career

Early years

Risa Gomez began learning to skate in 2012. [2] She competed in the advanced novice category in the 2018–19 season and won the gold medal at the 2019 Norwegian Novice Championships. [3]

2019–20 season

She made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-seventh at 2019 JGP Latvia before also going on to compete at the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb and the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, finishing fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively. [4]

At the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal behind Frida Turidotter Berge. [4]

Competing at the 2019 Reykjavik International Games, Risa Gomez placed eleventh. She then went on to place fifth at the 2020 Nordic Championships and tenth at the 2020 International Challenge Cup. [4]

2020–21 season

She had no international appearances in the 2020–21 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] However, Risa Gomez did win her second consecutive silver medal at the 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships. [4]

2021–22 season

Risa Gomez returned to the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Slovakia. [4]

Competing at the 2022 Nordic Championships, Risa Gomez finished sixth, before going to finish thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup. She also went on to compete at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, where she finished fourteenth. At the 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal for a third time. [4]

Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Risa Gomez placed thirty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition. [4]

2022–23 season

Risa Gomez began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing nineteenth at 2022 JGP Poland I. Switching to the senior ranks, Risa Gomez won silver at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in Bulgaria, gold at the Open d'Andorra, and gold at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. By December, she attained the minimum technical score required to compete at senior Worlds and was officially nominated to represent Norway at the European Championships. [6] [7]

In January, Risa Gomez won the Norwegian senior national title and then competed at the 2023 European Championships in Helsinki. She qualified to the free skate and finished 22nd overall. [8]

Risa Gomez went on to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition. [4]

2023–24 season

Risa Gomez started the season with two Challenger circuit appearances, with a thirteenth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and a sixteenth-place at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. She placed twenty-sixth at the 2024 European Championships and twenty-third at the 2024 World Championships. [4]

Programs

Risa Gomez performing her free skate at the 2024 World Championships Mia Risa Gomez 2024 Worlds Free Skate 6.jpg
Risa Gomez performing her free skate at the 2024 World Championships
Season Short program Free skating
2023–2024
[9]
2022–2023
[2]
2021–2022
[1]
2019–2020
[10]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International [4]
Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24-25
Worlds 35th23rd
Europeans 22nd26th
CS Finlandia Trophy 16th
CS Lombardia Trophy 13th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy TBD
Denkova-Staviski 2nd7th
Nordics 5th2nd
Open d'Andorra 1st
Santa Claus Cup 1st
International: Junior [4]
Junior Worlds 37th43rd
JGP Hungary 14th
JGP Latvia 27th
JGP Poland 19th
JGP Slovakia 17th
Challenge Cup 10th13th
EYOF 14th
Golden Bear 14th
Nordics 5th6th
Reyjkavik IG 11th
Tallinn Trophy 19th
International: Advanced novice [3]
Denkova-Staviski 6th
Egna Trophy 5th
Nordics 10th
Tallink Hotels Cup 7th
Volvo Open Cup 19th
National [4] [3]
Norway 1st N2nd J2nd J2nd J1st1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [11]
SegmentTypeScoreEvent
TotalTSS146.45 2023 JGP Hungary
Short program TSS50.72 2022 JGP Poland I
TES28.582022 JGP Poland I
PCS22.66 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy
Free skating TSS101.282023 JGP Hungary
TES56.102023 JGP Hungary
PCS45.182023 JGP Hungary

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Senior results

2023–24 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
March 18–24, 2024 2024 World Championships 23
55.09
23
92.04
23
147.13
February 1-4, 2024 2024 Nordic Championships 10
44.03
1
111.00
2
155.03
November 7-12, 2023 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup 6
50.98
8
90.18
7
141.16
October 4-8, 2023 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy 17
43.48
13
93.35
16
136.83
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 13
46.50
13
83.03
13
129.53
2022–23 season
DateEvent SP FS Total
March 22–26, 2023 2023 World Championships 35
43.54
35
43.54
February 2–5, 2023 2023 Nordic Championships 7
57.57
5
93.93
5
144.49
January 25–29, 2022 2023 European Championships 21
49.14
22
88.48
22
137.62
January 13–15 2023 2023 Norwegian Championships 1
50.99
1
109.15
1
160.14
November 28–December 4, 2022 2022 Santa Claus Cup 1
58.86
2
104.18
1
163.04
November 17–20, 2022 2022 Open d'Andorra 1
55.20
1
94.37
1
149.57
November 1–6, 2022 2022 Denkova-Staviski Cup 4
51.25
1
105.26
2
156.51

Junior results

2023–24 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
February 26– March 3, 2024 2024 World Junior Championships 43
37.97
DNQ43
37.97
September 20–23, 2023 2023 JGP Hungary Junior20
45.17
9
101.28
14
146.45
2022–23 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
September 28–October 1, 2022 2022 JGP Poland I Junior17
50.72
19
87.71
17
138.43
2021–22 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships Junior37
40.33
37
40.33
April 1–3, 2022 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior2
46.44
2
82.18
2
128.62
March 20–25, 2022 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Junior9
48.60
18
76.11
14
124.71
February 24–27, 2022 2022 International Challenge Cup Junior12
40.94
14
66.44
13
107.38
January 27–30, 2022 2022 Nordic Championships Junior7
41.62
6
79.93
6
121.55
September 1–4, 2021 2021 JGP Slovakia Junior18
39.48
16
76.72
17
116.20
2020–21 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
March 20–24, 2021 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior2
46.07
2
46.07
2019–20 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
February 20–23, 2020 2020 International Challenge Cup Junior10
42.00
9
82.74
10
124.74
February 5–9, 2020 2020 Nordic Championships Junior11
39.26
6
77.92
5
117.18
January 24–26, 2020 2020 Reykjavik International Games Junior15
31.79
9
67.86
11
99.65
January 10–12, 2020 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior2
39.02
3
68.48
2
107.50
November 11–17, 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy Junior20
31.92
19
60.78
20
92.70
October 24–27, 2019 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb Junior21
38.56
11
73.98
14
112.54
September 4–7, 2020 2019 JGP Latvia Junior30
32.13
28
64.24
27
96.37

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