2022-23 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

[BlissfulSynergy]

Noël-Antoine Pierre of France has teamed up with Sasha Farkhoutdinov/Fakhroudinov (there are differing spelling of her last name online, not sure which is correct.)

I've seen Sasha's last name spelled most often as: Fakhroutdinov. Her father is a former international ice dancer who coaches or coached in the U.S. I'm happy for Sasha that she found a new partner. Best wishes to Sasha & N-A Pierre on their new pairing!

 

[AlexBreeze]

Konstantin Milyukov (single skater from Belarus) has announced his retirement.

He is working as a coach in Russia now.

Source: https://www.championat.com/figuresk...karery-otstranenii-sportsmenov-olimpiade.html

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

New partnership: Austrian former singles skater Sophia Schaller has teamed up with Livio Mayr. The new pairs team is representing Austria and just debuted at Tayside Trophy today. There is no ISU bio yet, but from the live stream it looked like Severin Kiefer is one of their coaches.

 

[yesterday]

Thought the same.

edit: Livio tagged eisteamsalzburg in one of his postings where the two do a lift in practice
-> https://www.eisteam.at/trainer/
the Kiefers are definitely involved sister, brother and mother (as head there).

 

[ladyjane]

Nice to see Austria having a pair team after Miriam and Severin retired (and if I missed another team, let me know).

 

[surimi]

Good luck to Sophia and Livio! I liked Ziegler/Kiefer so fingers crossed for this new team.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Matyáš Bělohradský (Czech men's skater) has retired. He was due to compete at Budapest Trophy last weekend, but withdrew. Good luck to him in his future endeavours!

Screenshot of his retirement Instagram story, via another site (as the story disappeared after 24 hours): https://i.redd.it/ln8oq5zlbau91.jpg

 

[ladyjane]

I feel bad that I haven't really heard of him before, but I naturally do wish him all the best for the future!

 

[yesterday]

New partnership: Austrian former singles skater Sophia Schaller has teamed up with Livio Mayr. The new pairs team is representing Austria and just debuted at Tayside Trophy today. There is no ISU bio yet, but from the live stream it looked like Severin Kiefer is one of their coaches.

Kinda confirmed by Severin now:


and here is their bio:

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00114105.htm

not fully updated yet (FS music missing), but at least here it is

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Katarina DelCamp announced a new ice dance partnership with Berk Akalin, they are coached by John Kerr and Alper Ucar. He has always represented Turkey in the past, so I wonder if that's the plan for this new team?

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj1BJM6v2VG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

[CanadianPuddleDancer]

Earlier retirement and splits threads may be found here:

Music, retirements, coach/country change, & splits

Contains information regarding past seasonal competitive program music, team splits, retirements, and changes of coach or countries.

www.goldenskate.com

I'm bringing some of the most recent updates from the previous thread here, just in case someone missed them in the old thread.

If you have new information about lesser known skaters, please post the FULL NAME(S), CATEGORY and COUNTRY so it can be listed in the opening post. Thank you!

Retirements:

Women:
- Mariah Bell (USA)
- Sofia Samodurova (Russia)
- Ekaterina Ryabova (Azerbaijan)
- Stanislava Konstantinova (Russia) (officially on break from skating)
- Veronik Mallet (Canada)
- Alisson Krystle Perticheto (The Philippines)

Men:
- Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan)
- Joseph Phan (Canada)
- Conor Stakelum (Ireland)
- Konstantin Milyukov (Belarus)
- Matyas Belohradsky (Czech Republic)

Pairs:
- Vanessa James / Eric Radford (Canada)
- Evelyn Walsh (Canada)
- Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc (USA)
- Ivan Balchenko (Russia)

Ice Dance:
- Sara Hurtado / Kirill Khaliavin (Spain)
- Adria Diaz (Spain)
- Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev (Poland)
- Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin (Ukraine)
- Carolina Moscheni / Francesco Fioretti (Italy) *unconfirmed for Francesco
- Grigory Smirnov
- Andrey Filatov
- Eichu Cho (Japan)
- Adam Lukacz (Hungary)

Splits:

Ice Dance:
- Katharina Müller / Tim Dieck (Germany)
- Katarina DelCamp / Billy Wilson French (Great Britain)
- Rikako Fukase / Eichu Cho (Japan)
- Anna Yanovskaya / Adam Lukacs (Hungary)

Pairs:
- Minerva Fabienne Hase / Nolan Seegert (Germany)
- Natalia Zabiiako / Zachary Daleman (Canada) - unconfirmed
- Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud (Canada)

New Partnerships:
(pairs and couples in strikethrough font have since split again)

Ice Dance:
- Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik (USA)
- Isabella Flores / Ivan Desyatov (USA)
- Zoe Larson / Andreii Kapran (Ukraine)
- Denisa Cimlova / Joti Polizoakis (Czech Republic)
- Catharina Tibau / Cayden Dawson (Brazil)
- Alexandra Kravchenko / Alexander Shustitsky (Russia)
- Malene Nichita / Jussiville Partanen (Romania)
- Elisabetta Incardona/Rafael Marc Drozd Musil (Denmark)
- Charise Matthaei / Max Liebers (Germany)
- Elise Montaner / Linus Colmor Jepsen (France)
- Katarina DelCamp / Berk Akalin (country not specified)

Pairs:
- Natalia Zabiiako / Zachary Daleman (Canada)
- Hazel Collier / Misha Mitrofanov (USA)
- Isabelle Martins / Aaron Felberbaum (USA)
- Milania Väänänen / Filippo Clerigi (country undecided)
- Lia Pereira / Trennt Michaud (Canada)
- Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise (Italy)
- Sophia Schaller / Livio Mayr (Austria)

Maia Iannetta / Liam Carr (Senior Ice Dance Canada) split in August 2022

 

[el henry]

Confirmation of a new pairs team for the US: Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea:

 

[Weathergal]

Confirmation of a new pairs team for the US: Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea:

Well that is great news! They sound evenly matched as far as their approach to skating - looking forward to seeing them compete. Wondering when that opportunity will be. Nationals?

 

[Weathergal]

Well that is great news! They sound evenly matched as far as their approach to skating - looking forward to seeing them compete. Wondering when that opportunity will be. Nationals?

@elhenry just saw your post in US Pairs thread that they'll be competing in Austria. Perhaps the IceChallenge in Graz, which I think is part of the Challenger series for Women, Men, and Dance but a non Challenger for pairs?

 

[yesterday]

@elhenry just saw your post in US Pairs thread that they'll be competing in Austria. Perhaps the IceChallenge in Graz, which I think is part of the Challenger series for Women, Men, and Dance but a non Challenger for pairs?

Just got curious, I could find entries for the non Challenger part but only junior entries, no senior pairs at all. Very weird. Maybe they just forgot to include them or they ran out of post-its.

 

[el henry]

That was a complete guess about a Challenger for Ellie and Danny, because Isabella Flores‘ mother said “See you in Austria”. Then again, as far I know, Isabella and her partner are not going to Graz.

so maybe everyone is going to Austria for another reason?

 

[ladyjane]

I'll be glad to see Danny again though. I hope the partnership really works out!

 

[noskates]

I'm so happy Danny has found a new partner. He's such a great pairs partner. Looking forward to seeing them.

 

[surimi]

I felt Nobunari's un-retirement deserved a category of its own. I'd better make 'Comebacks' a default part of these threads when I make them. Not a lot of entries in this one for sure, but they're always a pleasant surprise ^ ^

 

[Weathergal]

I felt Nobunari's un-retirement deserved a category of its own. I'd better make 'Comebacks' a default part of these threads when I make them. Not a lot of entries in this one for sure, but they're always a pleasant surprise ^ ^

Wow Nobunari Oda coming out of retirement is a pleasant surprise! I know he's competed in the Japan Open, and my understanding is he's done well there with people saying he could still be competitive today so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. It will be interesting to see how he stacks up against Japan's competitive men's field.