Kimmy Repond
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| Full name | Kimmy Vivienne Repond | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 2006 Basel, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Basel | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Jérômie Repond, Mathieu Delcambre | ||||||||||||||
| Skating club | ELS Basel | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kimmy Vivienne Repond (born 18 October 2006) is a Swiss figure skater. She is the 2023 European bronze medalist, the 2022 CS Budapest Trophy silver medalist, the 2022 CS Ice Challenge bronze medalist and the 2023 Swiss national silver medalist.
Repond finished seventh at the 2022 World Junior Championships and is a two-time (2020, 2022) Swiss junior national champion.
Personal life
Repond was born on 18 October 2006 in Basel, Switzerland, to father René, a management consultant, and mother Claudia, a lawyer.[1] She has three sisters – Sidonie, Jérômie, and Caline – all of whom have competed in figure skating.[2] In addition to skating, Repond is also an amateur model.[3] She plans to pursue a career in medicine once she retires from competitive skating.[4]
Career
2021–22 season: International junior debut
Repond made her international and ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2021 JGP Slovakia in September, coached by her older sister Jérômie. She finished eighth in both segments to place eighth overall[5] and did not receive a second assignment. She competed at three more international junior B events in the fall, taking the title at both the 2021 Trophée Métropole Nice[6] and the 2021 NRW Trophy,[7] and placing second at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup behind Nina Pinzarrone of Belgium.[8]
Repond claimed her second Swiss junior national title in late January 2022 by a 27-point margin over second-place finisher Sarina Joos and was later assigned to the Swiss women's berth at the 2022 World Junior Championships. At Junior Worlds, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in April, Repond placed eighth in the short program and seventh in the free skate to finish seventh overall.[9] She was the highest-finishing European junior woman in the event.[10]
2022–23 season: International senior debut and European bronze
Repond opened her season in early September at the 2022 JGP Austria, where she placed fourth in the short program. She dropped to sixth in the free skate to finish sixth overall. At her second JGP assignment, the 2022 JGP Poland I, one of two events held in Gdańsk, Repond placed seventh in the short program. However, with a clean skate and a new personal best in the free program, she climbed in the standings to fourth place in the segment and fourth overall, her best finish at a JGP event to date.
In October, Repond competed at her first senior international event, the 2022 CS Budapest Trophy. She won the short program with a new personal best score but fell to third place in the free skate to ultimately finish second overall between American gold medalist Ava Marie Ziegler and Estonian bronze medalist Niina Petrõkina. Notably, Repond led domestic rival Alexia Paganini by over six points after the short program, but Paganini later withdrew before the free.
Repond competed at a second Challenger Series assignment, the 2022 CS Ice Challenge held in Graz, Austria in November. There, she placed ninth in the short program after falling on a planned triple Lutz but rose to second in the free skate to place third overall behind Italian Anna Pezzetta and Canada's Kaiya Ruiter.
Repond competed at her first senior Swiss Figure Skating Championships in mid-December. With reigning national champion Alexia Paganini absent, Repond was heavily favored to win the title. However, she placed third in the short program and first in the free skate to narrowly finish in second place behind Livia Kaiser. Repond was later named to the Swiss team for the 2023 European Championships alongside Kaiser.
At the European Championships, held in Espoo in late January, Repond placed third in the short program and second in the free skate to finish third overall behind Anastasiia Gubanova from Georgia, and Loena Hendrickx of Belgium. Her placement marked the first podium finish for a Swiss women's singles skater at the European Championships since Sarah Meier won the title in 2011.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2022–2023 [11] |
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| 2021–2022 [12] |
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Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix.
| International [13] | ||||||
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| Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
| Europeans | 3rd | |||||
| CS Budapest Trophy | 2nd | |||||
| CS Golden Spin | WD | |||||
| CS Ice Challenge | 3rd | |||||
| International: Junior [13] | ||||||
| Junior Worlds | 7th | TBD | ||||
| JGP Latvia | 6th | |||||
| JGP Poland I | 4th | |||||
| JGP Slovakia | 8th | |||||
| NRW Trophy | 1st | 1st | ||||
| Santa Claus Cup | 2nd | |||||
| Sofia Trophy | 2nd | |||||
| Trophée Métropole Nice | 1st | |||||
| International: Advanced novice | ||||||
| Bavarian Open | 1st | |||||
| Denkova-Staviski Cup | 1st | |||||
| Egna Spring Trophy | 1st | 1st | ||||
| Golden Bear | 2nd | |||||
| Halloween Cup | 1st | |||||
| NRW Trophy | 1st | |||||
| Rooster Cup | 4th | |||||
| Santa Claus Cup | 1st | |||||
| National | ||||||
| Swiss Champ. | 1st N | 1st N | 1st J | C | 1st J | 2nd |
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Canceled Levels: J = Junior, N = Novice | ||||||
Detailed results
ISU personal bests highlighted in bold.
Senior level
| 2022–23 season | |||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
| 25–29 January 2023 | 2023 European Championships | 3 63.83 |
2 128.68 |
3 192.51 | |
| 16–17 December 2022 | 2023 Swiss Championships | 3 58.51 |
1 116.62 |
2 175.13 | |
| 9–13 November 2022 | 2022 CS Ice Challenge | 9 53.22 |
2 116.13 |
3 169.35 | |
| 14–16 October 2022 | 2022 CS Budapest Trophy | 1 60.86 |
3 116.88 |
2 177.74 | |
Junior level
| 2022–23 season | |||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
| 28 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2022 | 2022 JGP Poland I | 7 59.39 |
4 121.06 |
4 180.45 | |
| 7–10 September 2022 | 2022 JGP Latvia | 4 58.88 |
6 110.08 |
6 168.96 | |
| 2021–22 season | |||||
| 13–17 April 17, 2022 | 2022 World Junior Championships | 8 60.82 |
7 116.28 |
7 177.10 | |
| 22–23 January 2022 | 2022 Swiss Junior Championships | 1 59.77 |
1 117.52 |
1 177.29 | |
| 6–12 December 2021 | 2021 Santa Claus Cup | 5 57.67 |
1 113.12 |
2 170.79 | |
| 4–7 November 2021 | 2021 NRW Trophy | 2 54.05 |
1 104.68 |
1 158.73 | |
| 20–24 October 2021 | 2021 Trophée Métropole Nice | 1 55.70 |
1 108.11 |
1 163.81 | |
| 1–4 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | 8 51.97 |
8 103.09 |
8 155.06 | |
| 2020–21 season | |||||
| 26 Feb. – 3 Mar. 2021 | 2021 Sofia Trophy | 2 63.00 |
2 120.69 |
2 183.69 | |
| 26–29 November 2020 | 2020 NRW Trophy | 1 58.16 |
1 111.46 |
1 169.62 | |
| 2019–20 season | |||||
| 1–2 February 2020 | 2020 Swiss Junior Championships | 2 56.78 |
1 109.34 |
1 166.12 | |
References
- ^ van Berkel, Sarah (July 20, 2021). "In musik, sport und business Diese Teenies starten durch" [In music, sports, and business these teens hit the ground running] (in German). Schweizer Illustrierte.
- ^ Galli, Jean Claude (February 2, 2020). "Kimmy ist die neue Eisprinzessin" [Kimmy is the new ice princess] (in German). Blick.
- ^ "How Athlete and Model KIMMY REPOND Finds her Motivation". Fashion Magazine NYC.
- ^ "Kimmy Repond".
- ^ "ISU Junior Grand Prix Košice 2021 Junior Women Results". International Skating Union. September 4, 2021.
- ^ "2021 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur Junior Womens Final Results". SkatingScores.com.
- ^ "NRW Trophy 2021 Junior Women Result". German Ice Skating Union. November 7, 2021.
- ^ "2021 Santa Claus Cup Junior Womens Final Results". SkatingScores.com.
- ^ Slater, Paula (April 17, 2022). "USA's Isabeau Levito skates to gold in Tallinn". Golden Skate.
- ^ "Sport in der Region: Die Starwings sind chancenlos" [Sports in the Region: The Starwings don't stand a chance] (in German). Basler Zeitung.
- ^ "Kimmy REPOND: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. August 30, 2022.
- ^ "Kimmy REPOND: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. April 19, 2022. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022.
- ^ a b "Kimmy REPOND: Competition Results". International Skating Union. April 19, 2022.