Laurine Lecavelier

Laurine Lecavelier
Lecavelier at the 2018 European Championships
Born (1996-04-26) 26 April 1996 (age 28)
Enghien-les-Bains, France
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFrance
CoachLorenzo Magri
Skating clubNice Baie des Anges
Began skating2001
Retired2019

Laurine Lecavelier (French pronunciation: [lo.ʁin lə.ka.və.lje]; born 26 April 1996) is a French former figure skater. She is a two-time Cup of Tyrol champion (2017, 2019), the 2017 Toruń Cup champion, the 2016 Golden Bear of Zagreb champion, and the 2017 French national champion. She has won a total of seven international events and finished within the top ten at four European Championships.

Personal life

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Lecavelier was born on 26 April 1996 in Enghien-les-Bains, France.[1] She studied sociology.[2]

Career

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Early years

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Lecavelier began learning to skate in 2001.[1] Her first coach was Katia Lemaire in Garges-lès-Gonesse.[3][2]

She debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2011.

2012–13 season

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Lecavelier won her first senior national medal, bronze, at the 2013 French Championships and was sent to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan. She finished thirteenth after placing ninth in the short program and fifteenth in the free skate.

2013–14 season

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Lecavelier won silver at the French Championships and was selected to compete at the 2014 European Championships in Budapest. Ranked thirteenth in the short and eleventh in the free, she finished thirteenth overall.

2014–15 season

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Lecavelier made her Grand Prix debut, placing 11th at the 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard. After repeating as the national silver medalist, she finished tenth at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, having placed thirteenth in the short and tenth in the free. She was fourth at the 2015 Winter Universiade. She trained under Lemaire in Garges-lès-Gonesse until the end of the season.[4]

2015–16 season

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During the 2015–16 season, Lecavelier was coached by Claude Thévenard at Pôle France in Bercy, Paris.[5][2] She won a bronze medal at the 2015 International Cup of Nice. She placed twelfth in the short program at the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard before the event was cancelled due to the November 2015 Paris attacks; the short program standings became the final results. Later that month, she was awarded gold at the NRW Trophy.

Ranked thirteenth in the short and ninth in the free, Lecavelier finished tenth overall at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. She then took silver at the Cup of Tyrol in Austria. Her short program placement, thirty-first, kept her out of the final segment at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, United States. Her season was hampered by a stress fracture in the pubic bone.[2]

2016–17 season

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Around June 2016, Katia Gentelet began coaching Lecavelier at Nice Baie des Anges Association in Nice.[2] Lecavelier won bronze at the International Cup of Nice and finished sixth at the Trophée de France, having ranked fourth in the short program and seventh in the free skate. In December, she took gold at the French Championships in Caen.

In January 2017, Lecavelier placed fifth overall (fifth in the short, fourth in the free) at the European Championships in Ostrava, achieving her career-best continental result. She finished the season at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, finishing eighteenth after making the free skate for the first time.

2017–18 season

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After the 2016-17 season, Lecavelier parted ways with coach Katia Gentelet before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado to train with American coaches Kori Ade and Rohene Ward.

After a tenth-place finish at the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy, Lecavelier competed on the Grand Prix series, and was assigned to two events for the first time. She finished eighth at the 2017 Skate Canada International, followed by an eleventh-place finish at the 2017 Internationaux de France.

At the 2017 French Figure Skating Championships, Lecavelier again finished second behind Maé-Bérénice Méité. At the 2018 European Championships she finished eleventh, while Méité was eighth. In consequence, Méité was assigned to France's lone ladies' entry at the 2018 Winter Olympics, while Lecavelier was sent to the 2018 World Championships in Milan, where she finished fourteenth.

2018–19 season

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Beginning on the Grand Prix series, Lecavelier finished fifth at the 2018 Skate America. She next competed at the Inge Solar Memorial, a Challenger event, again placing fifth. Finishing out the Grand Prix at the 2018 Internationaux de France, she placed ninth.

After winning another silver medal at the French Championships, she reprised her previous career best placement at the European Championships, finishing fifth. As a result she was chosen over Méité to represent France at the 2019 World Championships in Saitama, where she placed fifteenth.

2019–20 season

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On September 28, 2019, Lecavelier competed at and won France's Master's de Patinage, but did not attend any additional events later in the season. In January 2020, it was reported by L'Équipe that Lecavelier had tested positive for cocaine at the Master's, and was facing a competition ban of up to four years.[6]

Programs

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Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2019–2020
2018–2019
[1]
2017–2018
[7][8][9]

  • Shining Silver Skies
    by Ashram

  • Grease[10]
    • Hopelessly Devoted to You
    • You're the One That I Want
      by John Farrar
      performed by Olivia Newton-John
      choreo. by Fabian Bourzat
2016–2017
[11]
  • Grease
    • Hopelessly Devoted to You
    • You're the One That I Want
      by John Farrar
      performed by Olivia Newton-John
      choreo. by Fabian Bourzat
2015–2016
[5]
2014–2015
[4]
  • Marimuz
  • Love Dance
  • Marimuz
2013–2014
[12]
2012–2013
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2011–2012
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Competitive highlights

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

International[14]
Event 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20
Worlds 31st 18th 14th 15th
Europeans 13th 10th 10th 5th 11th 5th
GP France 11th 12th 6th 11th 9th WD
GP Skate America 5th
GP Skate Canada 8th
CS Alpen Trophy 5th
CS Lombardia 7th 10th
Coupe Printemps 4th
Crystal Skate 1st
Cup of Nice 5th 3rd 3rd
Cup of Tyrol 2nd 1st 1st
Gardena Trophy 4th
Golden Bear 1st
Hellmut Seibt 3rd
Mladost Trophy 1st
NRW Trophy 1st
Toruń Cup 1st
Universiade 4th
International: Junior[14]
Junior Worlds 13th
JGP Belarus 9th
JGP Estonia 10th
JGP France 12th
JGP Italy 12th
JGP Latvia 11th
JGP Slovenia 9th
Bavarian Open 1st
Cup of Nice 2nd
Triglav Trophy 1st
National[14]
French Champ. 10th 12th 6th 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd
Master's 1st J 1st J 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 1st 1st
Team events
World Team
Trophy
6th T
11th P
4th T
10th P
J = Junior level; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

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Personal best highlighted in bold.

2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
11–14 April 2019 2019 World Team Trophy 8
62.53
9
107.71
4T/10P
170.24
18–24 March 2019 2019 World Championships 19
56.81
15
113.78
14
170.59
25 February – 3 March 2019 2019 Cup of Tyrol 5
52.09
1
109.37
1
161.46
21–27 January 2019 2019 European Championships 6
63.29
6
116.76
5
180.05
13–15 December 2018 2018 French Figure Skating Championships 2
60.24
2
117.30
2
177.54
23–25 November 2018 2018 Internationaux de France 11
51.66
9
105.58
9
157.24
11–18 November 2018 2018 CS Inge Solar Memorial – Alpen Trophy 5
56.12
4
106.66
5
162.78
19–21 October 2018 2018 Skate America 7
59.57
5
112.84
5
172.41
2017–18 season
19–25 March 2018 2018 World Championships 15
59.79
13
113.44
14
173.23
16–18 March 2018 2018 Coupe du Printemps 4
61.86
4
101.80
4
163.66
15–21 January 2018 2018 European Championships 7
55.36
12
98.75
11
154.11
14–16 December 2017 2017 French Figure Skating Championships 2
63.12
3
114.92
2
178.04
17–19 November 2017 2017 Internationaux de France 7
60.68
11
93.67
11
154.35
27–29 October 2017 2017 Skate Canada International 8
59.08
8
107.35
8
166.43
13–16 September 2017 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy 10
53.97
9
95.05
10
149.02
2016–17 season
20–23 April 2017 2017 World Team Trophy 11
54.15
10
107.43
11
161.58
27 March — 1 April 2017 2017 World Championships 22
55.49
17
107.50
18
162.99
28 February – 5 March 2017 2017 Cup of Tyrol 3
52.86
1
108.55
1
161.41
25–29 January 2017 2017 European Championships 5
63.81
4
124.29
5
188.10
10–15 January 2017 2017 Toruń Cup 8
50.44
1
107.50
1
157.94
15–17 December 2016 2016 French Figure Skating Championships 1
62.06
1
108.49
1
170.55
7–10 December 2016 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 11
49.16
6
102.42
9
151.58
10–12 November 2016 2016 Trophée de France 4
66.61
7
118.04
6
184.65

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e Duez, Julien (21 October 2016). "Cette Niçoise va participer à la Coupe internationale de patinage" [Nice resident will participate at international cup of figure skating]. Nice Matin (in French). Archived from the original on 23 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Des précisions sur le contrôle positif de Laurine Lecavelier". L'Équipe. 3 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018.
  10. ^ ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2017 Skate Canada International - Gala Exhibition (Television production). Eurosport. October 29, 2017.
  11. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.
  12. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Laurine LECAVELIER: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013.
  14. ^ a b c "Competition Results: Laurine LECAVELIER". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019.
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