Norwegian figure skater
Mia Risa Gomez Full name Mia Caroline Risa Gomez Born (2005-12-21 ) 21 December 2005 (age 18) Mexico City , Mexico Hometown Stavanger , NorwayHeight 1.64 m (5 ft 4+ 1 ⁄2 in) Country Norway Coach Nuriya Pirogova, Lorenzo Magri Skating club Stavanger SC Began skating 2012
Mia Caroline Risa Gomez (born 21 December 2005) is a Norwegian figure skater . She is the 2022 Open d'Andorra , 2022 Santa Claus Cup , and 2023 and 2024 Norwegian national champion. She has represented Norway at two ISU Championships , reaching the final segment at the 2023 European Championships .
Personal life
Mia Caroline[1] Risa Gomez was born in Mexico City , to a Mexican mother and a Norwegian father.[2] The family moved to Norway when she was two years old.[2]
Career
Early years
Risa Gomez began learning to skate in 2012.[2] She competed in the advanced novice category in the 2018–19 season and won the gold medal at the 2019 Norwegian Novice Championships .[3]
2019–20 season
She made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-seventh at 2019 JGP Latvia before also going on to compete at the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb and the 2019 Tallinn Trophy , finishing fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively.[4]
At the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships , Risa Gomez won the silver medal behind Frida Turidotter Berge .[4]
Competing at the 2019 Reykjavik International Games , Risa Gomez placed eleventh. She then went on to place fifth at the 2020 Nordic Championships and tenth at the 2020 International Challenge Cup .[4]
2020–21 season
She had no international appearances in the 2020–21 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic .[5] However, Risa Gomez did win her second consecutive silver medal at the 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships .[4]
2021–22 season
Risa Gomez returned to the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Slovakia .[4]
Competing at the 2022 Nordic Championships , Risa Gomez finished sixth, before going to finish thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup . She also went on to compete at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival , where she finished fourteenth. At the 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships , Risa Gomez won the silver medal for a third time.[4]
Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn , Estonia , Risa Gomez placed thirty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.[4]
2022–23 season
Risa Gomez began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing nineteenth at 2022 JGP Poland I . Switching to the senior ranks, Risa Gomez won silver at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in Bulgaria, gold at the Open d'Andorra , and gold at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. By December, she attained the minimum technical score required to compete at senior Worlds and was officially nominated to represent Norway at the European Championships.[6] [7]
In January, Risa Gomez won the Norwegian senior national title and then competed at the 2023 European Championships in Helsinki . She qualified to the free skate and finished 22nd overall.[8]
Risa Gomez went on to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama , Japan , where she placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.[4]
2023–24 season
Risa Gomez started the season with two Challenger circuit appearances, with a thirteenth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and a sixteenth-place at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy . She placed twenty-sixth at the 2024 European Championships and twenty-third at the 2024 World Championships .[4]
Programs
Risa Gomez performing her free skate at the 2024 World Championships
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series ; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Detailed results
Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold .
Senior results
2023–24 season
Date
Event
SP
FS
Total
March 18–24, 2024
2024 World Championships
23 55.09
23 92.04
23 147.13
February 1-4, 2024
2024 Nordic Championships
10 44.03
1 111.00
2 155.03
November 7-12, 2023
2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup
6 50.98
8 90.18
7 141.16
October 4-8, 2023
2023 CS Finlandia Trophy
17 43.48
13 93.35
16 136.83
September 8–10, 2023
2023 CS Lombardia Trophy
13 46.50
13 83.03
13 129.53
2022–23 season
Date
Event
SP
FS
Total
March 22–26, 2023
2023 World Championships
35 43.54
–
35 43.54
February 2–5, 2023
2023 Nordic Championships
7 57.57
5 93.93
5 144.49
January 25–29, 2022
2023 European Championships
21 49.14
22 88.48
22 137.62
January 13–15 2023
2023 Norwegian Championships
1 50.99
1 109.15
1 160.14
November 28–December 4, 2022
2022 Santa Claus Cup
1 58.86
2 104.18
1 163.04
November 17–20, 2022
2022 Open d'Andorra
1 55.20
1 94.37
1 149.57
November 1–6, 2022
2022 Denkova-Staviski Cup
4 51.25
1 105.26
2 156.51
Junior results
2023–24 season
Date
Event
Level
SP
FS
Total
February 26– March 3, 2024
2024 World Junior Championships
43 37.97
DNQ
43 37.97
September 20–23, 2023
2023 JGP Hungary
Junior
20 45.17
9 101.28
14 146.45
2022–23 season
Date
Event
Level
SP
FS
Total
September 28–October 1, 2022
2022 JGP Poland I
Junior
17 50.72
19 87.71
17 138.43
2021–22 season
Date
Event
Level
SP
FS
Total
April 13–17, 2022
2022 World Junior Championships
Junior
37 40.33
–
37 40.33
April 1–3, 2022
2022 Norwegian Junior Championships
Junior
2 46.44
2 82.18
2 128.62
March 20–25, 2022
2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
Junior
9 48.60
18 76.11
14 124.71
February 24–27, 2022
2022 International Challenge Cup
Junior
12 40.94
14 66.44
13 107.38
January 27–30, 2022
2022 Nordic Championships
Junior
7 41.62
6 79.93
6 121.55
September 1–4, 2021
2021 JGP Slovakia
Junior
18 39.48
16 76.72
17 116.20
2020–21 season
Date
Event
Level
SP
FS
Total
March 20–24, 2021
2021 Norwegian Junior Championships
Junior
2 46.07
–
2 46.07
2019–20 season
Date
Event
Level
SP
FS
Total
February 20–23, 2020
2020 International Challenge Cup
Junior
10 42.00
9 82.74
10 124.74
February 5–9, 2020
2020 Nordic Championships
Junior
11 39.26
6 77.92
5 117.18
January 24–26, 2020
2020 Reykjavik International Games
Junior
15 31.79
9 67.86
11 99.65
January 10–12, 2020
2020 Norwegian Junior Championships
Junior
2 39.02
3 68.48
2 107.50
November 11–17, 2019
2019 Tallinn Trophy
Junior
20 31.92
19 60.78
20 92.70
October 24–27, 2019
2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb
Junior
21 38.56
11 73.98
14 112.54
September 4–7, 2020
2019 JGP Latvia
Junior
30 32.13
28 64.24
27 96.37
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