Nicole Rajičová
| Nicole Rajičová | |
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| Personal information | |
| Alternative names | Nicole Rajic |
| Country represented | Slovakia |
| Born | August 13, 1995 Garden City, New York |
| Home town | New York |
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| Coach | Igor Krokavec, Tom Rajic |
| Former coach | Steve Rice, Peter Johansson, Milada Kubikova-Stastny |
| Choreographer | Nikolai Morozov |
| Former choreographer | Phillip Mills |
| Skating club | SKP Bratislava |
| Training locations | Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Began skating | 1998 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 173.05 2016 Worlds |
| Short program | 57.24 2016 Europeans |
| Free skate | 116.99 2015 Skate America |
Nicole Rajičová or Rajic (born August 13, 1995) is a Slovak figure skater. She is a three-time Slovak national champion and has won five senior international medals. She represented Slovakia at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Personal life
Nicole Rajičová was born August 13, 1995 in Garden City, New York.[1] She is also known as Nicole Rajic; Rajičová is the Slovak feminine form. Her parents, Anna and Tomislav Rajič (Tom Rajic), moved to the United States from Slovakia.[2][3][4]
Career
Early years
By the age of five, Rajičová began taking figure skating lessons in Long Island from Milada Kubikova-Stastny (Šťastná-Kubíková),[4] a former Olympian for Czechoslovakia. Early in her career, she competed as Nicole Rajic in U.S. regional and domestic events.[5]
2011–12 to 2012–13
Rajičová debuted internationally for Slovakia in December 2011 at the Golden Spin of Zagreb. She began appearing in ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) events in autumn 2012 and became the Slovak national champion at the 2013 Three Nationals Championships.[6]
2013–14 season: Sochi Olympics
Rajičová competed at two JGP events in September 2013, placing 8th in Košice, Slovakia and 15th in Gdańsk, Poland. Her first senior ISU Championship was the European Championships in January 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. Ranked 14th in the short program, she advanced to the free skate and finished 17th. In March, she competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; she qualified for the free skate by placing 21st in the short program and finished 24th overall.[7]
Rajičová just missed qualifying for the free skate at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan after placing 25th in the short program.
2014–15 season
During the 2014–15 JGP season, Rajičová placed 4th in Ljubljana, Slovenia in August and 4th in Zagreb, Croatia in October. In November, she competed for the first time on the ISU Challenger Series (CS), finishing 6th at the 2014 Ice Challenge. In December, she won her first CS medal – bronze – at the 2014 Golden Spin of Zagreb.
In January, Rajičová finished 11th at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, having ranked 8th in the short program and 12th in the free skate. In early March, she competed at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia; she placed 5th in the short, 13th in the free, and 11th overall. Later that month, she finished 15th in Shanghai, China at the 2015 World Championships after placing 14th in the short and 15th in the free.
2015–16 season: Grand Prix debut
At 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy, Rajičová placed 9th. Making her Grand Prix (GP) debut, Rajičová placed 7th at the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Cup of China.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2015–2016 [1] |
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| 2014–2015 [8] |
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| 2013–2014 [9] |
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| 2012–2013 [10] |
Results
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
For Slovakia
| International[11] | |||||
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| Event | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 |
| Olympics | 24th | ||||
| Worlds | 25th | 15th | 13th | ||
| Europeans | 17th | 11th | 12th | ||
| GP Cup of China | 7th | ||||
| GP Skate America | 7th | ||||
| CS Golden Spin | 3rd | ||||
| CS Ice Challenge | 6th | ||||
| CS Nepela Trophy | 9th | ||||
| CS Warsaw Cup | 5th | ||||
| Bavarian Open | 3rd | ||||
| Golden Spin | 12th | ||||
| Ice Challenge | 7th | 3rd | |||
| Merano Cup | 2nd | ||||
| Nepela Trophy | 19th | 6th | |||
| New Year's Cup | 7th | ||||
| NRW Trophy | 3rd | ||||
| International: Junior[11] | |||||
| Junior Worlds | 30th | 11th | |||
| JGP Croatia | 4th | ||||
| JGP Poland | 15th | ||||
| JGP Slovakia | 8th | ||||
| JGP Slovenia | 15th | 4th | |||
| JGP USA | 13th | ||||
| National[11] | |||||
| Slovak Champ. | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 1st | 1st |
| J. = Junior level | |||||
For the United States
| National | |||
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| Event | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 |
| U.S. Championships | 12th N. | 12th J. | |
| U.S. Junior Championships | 8th I. | ||
| Levels: I. = Intermediate; N. = Novice; J. = Junior | |||
References
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External links
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