Nina Povey
| Nina Povey | |
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 Povey in 2019 | |
| Born | 27 August 1994 Nottingham, England |
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in) |
| Figure skating career | |
| Country |  Great Britain |
| Coach | Helen James-Green, Debbie Wright |
| Skating club | Ice Sheffield |
| Began skating | 2003 |
Nina Povey (born 27 August 1994) is a British figure skater. She has won four senior international medals, including gold at the 2022 Britannia Cup, the 2024 British national champion, and is a three-time British national bronze medalist (2016, 2022-2023).
Career
[edit]Povey began learning to skate in 2003.[1] She trained in Solihull before relocating to Sheffield.[2][3]
Povey made her senior international debut at the Bavarian Open in February 2015. The 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial was her first ISU Challenger Series event. She placed fourth at the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup.
Her first senior international medal, bronze, came at the Mentor Toruń Cup in February 2018.
In February 2022, Povey was one of the featured skaters in BBC Three's Freeze: Skating on the Edge.[4] She won gold at the Britannia Cup in August and silver at Skate Celje in November. In January, she took bronze at the 2023 EduSport Trophy in Romania.
Povey won her first national title in December 2023. In January 2024, she competed at her first European Championships with the goal of qualifying for the free skate; she did so and placed 17th overall.[5] In March, she also competed at her first World Championships in Montreal. She placed 25th and narrowly missed qualifying to the free skate.[6]
Programs
[edit]| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2023-2024 |
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| 2022–2023 [1] |
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| 2021–2022 [7] |
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| 2019–2020 [3] |
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| 2016–2017 [2] |
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Competitive highlights
[edit]Senior level
[edit]| International[8][9] | ||||||||||
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| Event | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 21–22 | 22–23 | 23–24 | 24–25 |
| Worlds | 25th | |||||||||
| Europeans | 17th | |||||||||
| CS Autumn Classic | 9th | |||||||||
| CS Finlandia | 14th | |||||||||
| CS Ice Challenge | 21st | |||||||||
| CS Lombardia | 27th | 18th | ||||||||
| CS Nepela Memorial | 19th | 5th | 10th | 7th | ||||||
| CS Warsaw Cup | 4th | 9th | ||||||||
| Bavarian Open | 12th | |||||||||
| Bellu Memorial | 3rd | |||||||||
| Britannia Cup | 1st | |||||||||
| Budapest Trophy | 17th | |||||||||
| Challenge Cup | 5th | 8th | ||||||||
| Crystal Skate | 4th | |||||||||
| Cup of Nice | 8th | 16th | ||||||||
| Denkova-Staviski Cup | 3rd | 4th | ||||||||
| EduSport Trophy | 3rd | |||||||||
| Golden Bear | 6th | |||||||||
| Skate Celje | 2nd | 1st | ||||||||
| Skate Helena | WD | |||||||||
| Tayside Trophy | 5th | |||||||||
| Tirnavia Cup | 6th | |||||||||
| Toruń Cup | 9th | 3rd | 9th | |||||||
| Volvo Open Cup | 11th | 7th | 4th | 8th | 4th | |||||
| National[8][9] | ||||||||||
| British Champ. | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | |
Junior level
[edit]| International: Junior[8][9] | ||||
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| Event | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 |
| Santa Claus Cup | 11th | |||
| Tirnavia Cup | 4th | |||
| National[8][9] | ||||
| British Champ. | 11th J | 14th J | 5th J | 9th J |
Detailed results
[edit]| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | TSS | 156.92 | 2022 CS Nepela Memorial |
| Short program | TSS | 54.78 | 2024 European Championships |
| TES | 29.56 | 2024 European Championships | |
| PCS | 25.22 | 2024 European Championships | |
| Free skating | TSS | 104.40 | 2022 CS Nepela Memorial |
| TES | 53.00 | 2022 CS Nepela Memorial | |
| PCS | 53.59 | 2024 European Championships |
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | Score | P | Score | P | Score | ||
| Oct 12–13, 2024 | 2024 Tayside Trophy
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3 | 54.78 | 6 | 93.11 | 5 | 147.89 |
| Oct 24–26, 2024 |  2024 CS Nepela Memorial
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11 | 48.01 | 6 | 98.77 | 7 | 146.78 |
| Nov 5–10, 2024 |  2024 Denkova-Staviski Cup
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4 | 57.37 | 3 | 107.12 | 4 | 164.49 |
| Nov 14–17, 2024 |  2024 Skate Celje
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2 | 50.60 | 3 | 107.12 | 4 | 164.49 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Nina POVEY: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Nina POVEY: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Nina POVEY: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020.
- ^ Delgado, Kasia (5 February 2022). "Winter Olympic figure skaters: 'We might make it look easy but we're athletes with burning muscles'". inews.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022.
- ^ BritishIceSkating (24 January 2024). "One of the most successful European Championships with the biggest team in a decade". British Ice Skating. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ BritishIceSkating (27 March 2024). "GB's Fear/Gibson Fourth in World: World Figure Skating Championships 2024". British Ice Skating. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ "Nina POVEY: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Competition Results: Nina POVEY". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Nina POVEY". rinkresults.com.
- ^ a b "GBR–Nina Povey". SkatingScores.com.