Emmi Peltonen

Emmi Peltonen
Personal information
Country represented Finland
Born (1999-11-19) 19 November 1999
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Home town Helsinki, Finland
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Coach Sirkka Kaipio, Rafael Arutyunyan
Former coach Virpi Horttana
Choreographer Mark Pillay
Skating club Järvenpään SC
Former skating club Espoo SC
Training locations Helsinki
Began skating 2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 172.02
2018 Finlandia Trophy
Short program 60.48
2018 Finlandia Trophy
Free skate 111.54
2018 Finlandia Trophy

Emmi Peltonen (born 29 November 1999) is a Finnish figure skater. She is a two-time Finnish national champion and finished in the top ten at the 2018 European Championships. She represented Finland at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Peltonen was born on 19 November 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] She has two brothers, twins Aleksi and Jesper (one year older) and a sister, Nelli (six years younger).[2] Their Finnish parents – Hanna, a former figure skater, and Ville Peltonen, a former ice hockey player – had moved to the United States due to his contract with the NHL's Nashville Predators franchise.[2] The family returned to Finland a few years later. Her paternal grandfather, Esa Peltonen, is also a retired professional ice hockey player.[2]

Career

Early years

Peltonen received her first skates when she was two years old, and began learning to skate in 2002.[1][2] She began competing on the advanced novice level at international events in the 2011–2012 season. She won the novice gold medal at the 2013 Nordic Championships.

2013–2014 season: Junior international debut

Peltonen debuted on the junior international level in the 2013–2014 season. She won the junior silver medal at the Finnish Championships and Nordic Championships, both times finishing second to Jenni Saarinen.

2014–2015 season

Virpi Horttana coached Peltonen at Espoo Skating Club in Espoo, Finland.[3] Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in August 2014; she finished 9th at her assignment in Courchevel, France. Competing on the senior level at the Finnish Championships, she placed 8th in the short program, 4th in the free skate, and 4th overall.

2015–2016 season: Senior international debut

In 2015–2016, Peltonen was coached by Sirkka Kaipio in Helsinki and Järvenpää, and by Rafael Arutyunyan in California. She placed 15th at her sole JGP assignment, in Linz, Austria.

Making her senior international debut, Peltonen placed 10th at the Finlandia Trophy, a Challenger Series (CS) event in October 2015. She did not compete at the Finnish Championships in December but took the junior bronze medal at the Nordic Championships a couple of months later.

2016–2017 season

During the summer, Peltonen trained with Arutyunyan in California.[2] In August, she placed 5th at her JGP assignment in Saint Gervais-les-Bains, France. She then competed at several senior internationals, finishing 12th at the CS Finlandia Trophy, 14th at the Volvo Open Cup, and 6th at the CS Warsaw Cup.

In December 2016, Peltonen won the senior gold medal at the Finnish Championships in Tampere,[4] having outscored silver medalist Jenni Saarinen by eight points. She was named in Finland's team to the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava.[5] Ranked 14th in the short program and 9th in the free skate, she finished 11th overall in the Czech Republic.

Peltonen competed at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, but did not advance to the free skate, having placed 29th in the short program.

2017–2018 season

In September 2017, Finland qualified a spot in the ladies' event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, due to Viveca Lindfors' result at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. In December, Peltonen won her second consecutive national title, finishing ahead of the silver medalist (Lindfors) by a margin of 4.22 points.

In January, Peltonen placed 11th in the short program, 8th in the free skate, and 9th overall at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia; she was Finland's top lady at the event, finishing 11 points ahead of Lindfors. On 24 January 2018, the Finnish Olympic Committee selected Peltonen to compete at the Olympics.[6]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2017–2018
[7]
2016–2017
[1]
  • Papa, Can You Hear Me?
    (from Yentl)
    by Michel Legrand
2015–2016
[8]
  • Woman
    by Album Blanc
2014–2015
[3]
2013–2014
    2012–2013
    • Asturias (Leyenda)
      by Isaac Albéniz

    Results

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

    International[9]
    Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19
    Olympics20th
    Worlds29th
    Europeans11th9th
    GP FinlandTBD
    CS Finlandia10th12th11th5th
    CS Lombardia11th
    CS NebelhornWD
    CS Warsaw Cup6th
    FBMA Trophy1st
    Santa Claus Cup4th
    Volvo Open Cup14th
    International: Junior[9][10]
    Junior WorldsWD
    JGP Austria16th
    JGP France9th5th
    Dragon Trophy3rd
    Ice Challenge5th
    Int. Challenge Cup3rd
    Nordics2ndWD3rd
    NRW Trophy18th
    Hellmut Seibt3rd
    Volvo Open Cup9th
    International: Novice [9][10]
    Dragon Trophy1st
    Nordics1st
    NRW Trophy8th
    Coupe du Printemps2nd
    National[9]
    Finnish Champ.2nd J4th1st1st
    J = Junior level
    TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

    References

    1. 1 2 3 "Emmi Peltonen: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.
    2. 1 2 3 4 5 Piilonen, Teijo (7 October 2016). "Ville Peltosen Emmi-tytär, 16, tähtää maailman huipulle – lopetti koulun yläasteen jälkeen" [Ville Peltonen's daughter Emmi, 16, is aiming for the top]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish).
    3. 1 2 "Emmi Peltonen: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
    4. ↑ Smolander, Riikka (18 December 2016). "Ville Peltosen Emmi-tytär kruunattiin jääkuningattareksi SM-kisoissa" [Ville Peltonen's daughter Emmi crowned Finnish figure skating champion]. Yle (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 19 December 2016.
    5. ↑ "Suomen EM-kisajoukkue Tsekin Ostravaan 25.-29.1.2017 on valittu" [Finnish team to the European Championships in Ostrava] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 21 December 2016.
    6. ↑ "Mika Kojonkoski vastasi taitoluistelun valintakohuun: "Täysin selvä tapaus"" [Mika Kojonkoski on figure skating: "A completely clear case"]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). 24 January 2018. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018.
    7. ↑ "Emmi Peltonen: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018.
    8. ↑ "Emmi Peltonen: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016.
    9. 1 2 3 4 "Competition Results: Emmi Peltonen". International Skating Union. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
    10. 1 2 "Emmi Peltonen". tracings.net. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
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