Daniel Samohin

Daniel Samohin

Samohin in December 2015
Personal information
Country represented Israel
Born (1998-03-12) March 12, 1998
Tel Aviv, Israel
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Coach Igor Samohin
Former coach Igor Pashkevich
Choreographer Irina Samohin, Olga Volozhinskaia
Skating club Israel ISF
Training locations Poway, California
Former training locations Yorba Linda, California
Began skating 2003
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 236.65
2016 Junior Worlds
Short program 83.47
2016 Cup of China
Free skate 165.38
2016 Junior Worlds
Medal record
Representing  Israel
Figure skating: Men's singles
World Junior Championships
2016 Debrecen Men's singles

Daniel Samohin (Hebrew: דניאל סמוכין‎‎; born March 12, 1998) is an Israeli figure skater. He is the 2016 World Junior champion and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including gold at the 2015 U.S. International Classic. Samohin is one of the few skaters to have landed two quad jumps in a short program, three quads in a free program, and five quads in one competition.

Personal life

Daniel Samohin was born on March 12, 1998 in Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] His parents – Irina, a former rhythmic gymnast, and Igor Samohin, a figure skating coach – had arrived from Russia in 1996.[2][3] His brother, Stanislav, is 7½ years older and competed in figure skating for Russia and Israel.[4] When he was 3½ years old, Daniel moved with his mother to the United States, joining the rest of the family, who had moved earlier.[2]

Career

Samohin began skating in 2003.[1]

2013–14 season

Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico. Ranked sixth in the short program, he placed third in the free skate and was awarded the bronze medal, outscoring Canada's Nam Nguyen by 1.85 points. He finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, he finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed 17th in the short program and 10th in the free.

2014–15 season

During the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Samohin placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 16th in Zagreb, Croatia. In September 2014, he debuted on the senior international level, finishing 11th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event. After placing fourth at another CS event, the Volvo Open Cup, he took silver at a regular senior international, the Tallinn Trophy, behind fellow Israeli Oleksii Bychenko. Ranked 12th in the short and 5th in the free, he finished 8th overall at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.

2015–16 season

Ahead of the 2015–16 season, Samohin received his first Grand Prix invitation, to the 2015 Cup of China, but decided to withdraw to continue competing on the junior level. Competing in September at the Junior Grand Prix in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he placed 7th in the short and second in the free; he won the silver medal, finishing almost thirty points behind Nathan Chen of the United States and 3.49 ahead of Japan's Sota Yamamoto. Later that month, he won his first CS medal, outscoring Keiji Tanaka by 11.33 points to take gold at the U.S. International Classic.

After winning silver at his second JGP event in Logroño, Spain, Samohin qualified for the JGP Final. His second CS medal, silver, came in October at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament, where he scored 1.24 points less than Maxim Kovtun. Samohin finished fifth at the JGP Final. His next event was the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships, where he set a new personal best in the short program and finished 7th overall.

In March, Samohin competed at Junior Worlds. He came in 9th in the short program, but moved up to win the title after a personal best free skate in which he landed three quadruple jumps. Samohin is the first Israeli skater to medal at Junior Worlds and the first to win an ISU championship.[5]

Records and achievements

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2016–17
[1]
2015–16
[6][3]
2014–15
[7]
  • Still Loving You
    by The Scorpions
    choreo. by Irina Samohina
2013–14
[8]
  • Road of the Gypsies
    by Nikolai Erdenko
    choreo. by Irina Samohina
  • Hip Hop Tango
    by DJ
    choreo. by Irina Samohina

Competitive highlights

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

International[9]
Event 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17
Europeans 10th 7th
GP Cup of China WD 8th
GP Skate Canada 5th
CS Autumn Classic 6th
CS Finlandia 13th
CS Mordovian 2nd
CS Nebelhorn 11th
CS Volvo Cup 4th
CS U.S. Classic 1st
Tallinn Trophy 2nd
Philadelphia SI 1st
International: Junior[9]
Junior Worlds 12th 8th 1st
JGP Final 5th
JGP Croatia 16th
JGP Czech Rep. 4th
JGP Mexico 3rd
JGP Slovenia 8th
JGP Spain 2nd
JGP USA 2nd
Bavarian Open 2nd J
MNNT Cup 1st J
National
Israeli Champ. 1st 2nd
U.S. Champ. 4th N
Levels: N = Novice, J = Junior
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
  2. 1 2 Flade, Tatjana (August 5, 2016). "Making history good starting point for Israel's Daniel Samohin". Golden Skate.
  3. 1 2 Rutherford, Lynn (July 20, 2015). "In every sense of the word, Samohin emulates Chan". IceNetwork.com.
  4. ↑ "Stanislav SAMOHIN". International Skating Union.
  5. ↑ "Samohin wins Israel's first-ever world junior title". IceNetwork.com. March 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Daniel SAMOHIN: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Competition Results: Daniel SAMOHIN". International Skating Union.

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