Emmi Peltonen
Peltonen at the 2018 European Championships
Born (1999-11-19) 19 November 1999 (age 24)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
HometownHelsinki, Finland
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country Finland
CoachSirkka Kaipio, Hanna Peltonen
Skating clubEVT
Began skating2002

Emmi Peltonen (born 29 November 1999) is a Finnish-American figure skater. She is the 2017 FBMA Trophy champion, the 2020 Nordic silver medalist, and a three-time Finnish national champion (2016, 2017, 2019). She has finished within the top ten at three European Championships, and represented Finland at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where she finished twentieth.

Personal life

Peltonen was born on 29 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 former 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 competed domestically for the United States as a child at the juvenile level until 2010.[3] 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.[4] Her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut came in August 2014; she finished ninth at her assignment in Courchevel, France. Competing on the senior level at the Finnish Championships, she placed eighth in the short program, fourth in the free skate, and fourth 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 fifteenth at her sole JGP assignment in Linz, Austria.

Making her senior international debut, Peltonen placed tenth 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

Peltonen at the 2017 World Championships

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

In December 2016, Peltonen won the senior gold medal at the Finnish Championships in Tampere,[5] having outscored silver medalist Jenni Saarinen by eight points. She was named in Finland's team to the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava.[6] Ranked fourteenth in the short program and ninth in the free skate, she finished eleventh 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 twenty-ninth 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 silver medalist Lindfors by a margin of 4.22 points.

In January, Peltonen placed eleventh in the short program, eighth in the free skate, and ninth 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. She finished twentieth in the ladies' event.[7]

2018–2019 season

Peltonen began the new season at the 2018 CS Finlandia Trophy on home soil, finishing in fifth place, two ordinals below Lindfors, who won the bronze medal. She then debuted on the Grand Prix series at the special 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, where she placed ninth.

Peltonen won the silver medal at the Finnish Championships, finishing behind Lindfors. She finished eighth at the 2019 European Championships, while Lindfors won the bronze medal.[8] Based on the season's results, the Finnish Federation assigned Lindfors to Finland's lone ladies' spot at the 2019 World Championships. However, Peltonen was subsequently given the spot following Lindors' withdrawal due to injury and placed twenty-eighth at the World Championships in Saitama.[9]

2019–2020 season

Assigned to only one Grand Prix event, the 2019 Rostelecom Cup, she placed twelfth among twelve skaters. Withdrawing from some other events, she won the Finnish national title again and was assigned to compete at the European Championships. She was fifth in the short program at the European Championships with a new personal best and described her "Caruso" program as her favourite to date.[10] Seventh in the free skate with one fall, she remained in fifth place overall.[11]

After winning the silver medal at the Nordic Championships, Peltonen was scheduled to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but those were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[12]

2020–2021 season

Peltonen was scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but this event was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.[13]

2021–2022 season

Peltonen withdrew from her first two Challenger assignments, the Lombardia and Nebelhorn Trophies. At the 2021 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, a third Challenger, she finished fourth and was later eighth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup before winning the Open d'Andorra.[14]

Despite winning the bronze medal at the Finnish championships, Peltonen was assigned to one of the two Finnish berths at the 2022 European Championships. However, she subsequently withdrew from the European Championships due to an ankle injury.[14][15]

2022–2023 season

In her season debut at the Volvo Open Cup, Peltonen won the bronze medal.[14] After contracting COVID-19, she was forced to withdraw from her other planned fall assignments, including the special home 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo.[16]

2023–2024 season

Peltonen finished seventh at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International in her first appearance of the year, and went on to finish seventh as well at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. She competed at the 2024 European Championships, where she placed twelfth.[14]

Programs

Peltonen at the 2018 European Championships
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[17][18]
2022–2023
[19]
2021–2022
[20]
2020–2021
[21]
2019–2020
[22]
2018–2019
[23]
2017–2018
[24]
2016–2017
[1]
2015–2016
[25]
  • Woman
    by Album Blanc
2014–2015
[4]
2013–2014
  • Variations on the Tango
    by Steve Margoshes
2012–2013
2011–2012

Competitive highlights

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

International[14]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Olympics 20th
Worlds 29th 28th C
Europeans 11th 9th 8th 5th WD 12th
GP France C
GP Finland 9th WD
GP Rostelecom Cup 12th
CS Autumn Classic 7th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 4th
CS Alpen Trophy WD
CS Budapest WD
CS Finlandia 10th 12th 11th 5th WD 7th
CS Golden Spin 16th
CS Lombardia 11th WD
CS Nebelhorn WD WD
CS Tallinn WD
CS Warsaw Cup 6th WD 8th WD 8th
FBMA Trophy 1st 1st
Nordics WD 2nd
Open d'Andorra 1st
Santa Claus Cup 4th
Tallink Hotels Cup WD
Trophée Nice 1st
Volvo Open Cup 14th 4th 3rd
International: Junior[14][26]
Junior Worlds WD
JGP Austria 16th
JGP France 9th 5th
Dragon Trophy 3rd
Hellmut Seibt 3rd
Ice Challenge 5th
Challenge Cup 3rd
Nordics 2nd WD 3rd
NRW Trophy 18th
Volvo Open Cup 9th
International: Advanced novice[26]
Coupe Printemps 2nd
Dragon Trophy 1st
Nordics 1st
NRW Trophy 8th
National[14]
Finnish Champ. 2nd J 4th 1st 1st 2nd 1st C 3rd 4th
J = Junior level
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled

References

  1. ^ a b c "Emmi Peltonen: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ "Emmi PELTONEN". RinkResults.com. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Emmi Peltonen: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ Slater, Paula (January 25, 2019). "Samodurova shines; wins European ladies' title". Golden Skate.
  9. ^ Lindfors, Viveca (March 5, 2019). "Unfortunately I have to withdraw from World Championships due to a medical reason. Please look forward to seeing me again next season" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
  10. ^ Slater, Paula (January 24, 2020). "Kostornaia leads Russian sweep at Europeans". Golden Skate.
  11. ^ Slater, Paula (January 25, 2020). "Kostornaia takes gold in Russian sweep at Europeans". Golden Skate.
  12. ^ Ewing, Lori (March 11, 2020). "World figure skating championships cancelled in Montreal". CBC Sports.
  13. ^ "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel. 20 October 2020.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g "Competition Results: Emmi Peltonen". International Skating Union. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  15. ^ "Taitoluistelun EM-kilpailut alkavat – Suomella edustus kaikissa sarjoissa, Ounasvuori Peltosen tilalle" [European Figure Skating Championships begin – Finland represented in all disciplines, Ounasvuori replaces Peltonen] (in Finnish). Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto. 9 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Janna Jyrkinen pikakomennuksella GP-edustajaksi" [Janna Jyrkinen on express assignment as a GP representative] (in Finnish). Finnish Figure Skating Association. 23 November 2022.
  17. ^ "Emmi PELTONEN: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  18. ^ "2023-24 FP Announcement". TikTok. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  19. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022.
  20. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021.
  22. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 16 November 2019.
  23. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018.
  24. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018.
  25. ^ "Emmi Peltonen: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  26. ^ a b "Emmi Peltonen". tracings.net. Retrieved 19 December 2016.

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