Olivia Smart
Olivia Smart | |
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Born | Sheffield, England | 1 April 1997
Hometown | Rotherham, England |
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Figure skating career | |
Country | Spain |
Partner | Adrià Díaz |
Coach | Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer |
Skating club | SAD Majadahonda CP Gadbois Montreal |
Began skating | 2006 |
Olivia Smart (born 1 April 1997) is an English ice dancer who currently skates for Spain with Adrià Díaz. With former partner Joseph Buckland, she is a three-time British national junior champion (2012–14) and competed at three World Junior Championships, reaching the top ten in 2014.
Career
Partnership with Buckland
Smart teamed up with Joseph Buckland in 2010.[1] They made their JGP debut in autumn 2011, ranking 13th in Austria and 12th in Estonia. They came in 17th at their first World Junior Championships, held in Minsk in March 2012. In the 2012–13 season, the duo missed the JGP series and finished 22nd at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan.
In 2013–14, Smart/Buckland placed seventh at both of their JGP assignments, Poland and the Czech Republic, and finished 10th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Smart/Buckland moved up to the senior level in the 2014–15 season. In October 2014, they placed fourth at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event. In November, they won silver medals at the International Cup of Nice and NRW Trophy before taking the British national title in the absence of Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland. Smart/Buckland withdrew from the 2015 European Championships before the short dance, Buckland having fallen ill with gastroenteritis.[2][3] The duo went on to place 27th at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China. Following that season, they split.
Partnership with Díaz
On 13 December 2015, it was announced that Smart had teamed up with Spanish ice dancer, Adrià Díaz, and that she would like skate for Spain with him. On 15 January 2016, Smart announced that the Skating Association of Great Britain had released her, and that she and Díaz would train in Montreal under Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer.[4]
Programs
With Diaz
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2016–17 [5] |
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With Buckland
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2014–15 [6] |
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2013–14 [7] |
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2012–13 [8] |
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2011–12 [9] |
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Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Díaz for Spain
International[10] | |
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Event | 2016–17 |
CS Autumn Classic | 6th |
CS Finlandia Trophy | 6th |
CS U.S. Classic | 4th |
Lake Placid IDI | 2nd |
Open d'Andorra | 1st |
National | |
Spanish Championships | TBD |
With Buckland for the United Kingdom
International[11] | ||||
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Event | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 |
Worlds | 27th | |||
Europeans | WD | |||
CS Nepela Trophy | 4th | |||
International: Junior[11] | ||||
Junior Worlds | 17th | 22nd | 10th | |
JGP Austria | 13th | |||
JGP Czech Republic | 7th | |||
JGP Estonia | 12th | |||
JGP Poland | 7th | |||
Bavarian Open | 6th J | 3rd J | ||
Nesquik Cup | 1st J | |||
NRW Trophy | 3rd J | |||
Santa Claus Cup | 8th J | |||
National[11] | ||||
British Champ. | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | 1st |
J = Junior level; WD = Withdrew |
References
- ^ Pinchess, Lynette (20 September 2010). "Olympic hopeful Joseph keeps up the family tradition on ice". This is Nottingham. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012.
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- ^ "Buckland and Coomes withdraw from World Championships due to illness". National Ice Skating Association. 19 March 2015.
- ^ Smart, Olivia. "Release". Instagram. Instagram. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Olivia SMART / Adria DIAZ: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015.
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- ^ a b c "Competition Results: Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015.
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External links
Media related to Olivia Smart at Wikimedia Commons