Alexei Krasnozhon

Alexei Dmitriyevich Krasnozhon (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Красножон;[1] born April 11, 2000) is a Russian figure skater who competes for the United States. He is the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy silver medalist, 2017 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and 2017 U.S. national junior champion. He skated for Russia earlier in his career, making his last international appearance in December 2013.

Aleksei Krasnozhon
Krasnozhon at the 2016−17 JGP Final
Personal information
Native nameАлексей Дмитриевич Красножон (Russian)
Full nameAlexei Dmitriyevich Krasnozhon
Country represented United States
Former country(ies) represented Russia
Born (2000-04-11) April 11, 2000
Saint Petersburg, Russia
ResidencePlano, Texas, United States
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
CoachAlexei Letov
Olga Ganicheva
Former coachPeter Cain
Darlene Cain
Alexei Mishin
Tatiana Mishina
Oleg Tataurov
Olga Kartashov
ChoreographerAlexander Johnson
Adam Blake
Former choreographerEvgeni Nemerovski
Tatiana Prokofieva
Scott Brown
Skating clubSC of Boston
Former skating clubDallas FSC
Stars FSC of Texas
Yubileyny
Training locationsNorwood, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Former training locationsPlano, Texas
Euless, Texas
Saint Petersburg
Began skating2005
World standing23 (2018–19)
37 (2017–18)
58 (2016–17)
120 (2015–16)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total230.11
2019 CS U.S. Classic
Short program79.98
2019 Junior Worlds
Free skate153.19
2019 CS U.S. Classic
Medal record
Representing  United States
Figure skating: Men's singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
2017–18 NagoyaMen's singles

Personal life

Krasnozhon was born on April 11, 2000 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2] His mother, Natalia, is an endocrinologist and his father, Dmitri, is an oncologist.[3] He has two younger sisters, named Dana and Sofia.[4] In 2014, Krasnozhon moved to Dallas, Texas. He lived with Peter and Darlene Cain for five years.[5][6] His parents visited him often. He now lived on his own in Plano, near where he trained. He now lives with fellow skaters, Jimmy Ma and Misha Mitrofanov, in Norwood MA and train at the Skating Club of Boston. [6] He enrolled in a private online high school and expressed interest in a business degree from Georgetown University or SMU. In March 2018, he said that he planned to apply for U.S. citizenship.[7] Krasnozhon received his green card in September of 2020.

Career

In Russia

Krasnozhon began skating as a five-year-old. At age seven, he became a student of Alexei Mishin, as well as his wife Tatiana Mishina and their assistant coach Oleg Tataurov. He competed for Russia at the Volvo Open Cup in January 2013, winning gold on the advanced novice level, and placed twelfth at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.[8]

Krasnozhon won the junior silver medal at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in December 2013. He missed much of the season due to a back injury.[9]

Switch to the United States

In March 2014, Krasnozhon announced that he planned to compete for the United States and would be coached by Peter Cain and Darlene Cain in Euless, Texas.[6][10] He qualified for the 2015 US Championships on the junior level and won the pewter medal.

On July 1, 2015, the Russian Figure Skating Federation released Krasnozhon so that he could compete internationally for the United States.[6] While training in Moscow, Krasnozhon performed full run-throughs of his programs about once a week, but he began doing them daily after moving to Texas.[11]

2015–2016 season

Making his Junior Grand Prix (JGP) debut, Krasnozhon won the bronze medal in August 2015 in Riga, Latvia. He then placed fifth in Torun, Poland. After receiving the junior gold medal at the Midwestern Sectionals, he closed his season by winning the junior bronze medal at the 2016 U.S. Championships, finishing behind Tomoki Hiwatashi and Kevin Shum.

2016–2017 season

Competing in the 2016 JGP series, Krasnozhon won silver in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and then gold in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He qualified to the Junior Grand Prix Final in Marseille, France, where he finished fifth. At the 2017 U.S. Championships, he won the junior men's title. He qualified to the free skate at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.

2017–2018 season

Making his senior international debut, Krasnozhon placed fourth at the Philadelphia Summer International in early August 2017. Competing in the Junior Grand Prix series, Krasnozhon won gold medals in Brisbane, Australia, and Zagreb, Croatia, which qualified him for the Final for a second time.[12] Competing at his first Challenger event, and he won a silver medal at the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy. Krasnozhon then won gold at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan. He outscored the silver medalist, Camden Pulkinen, by more than 19 points and set a new personal best total score, 236.35 points, at the competition.

Krasnozhon competed in the senior ranks at the 2018 U.S. Championships, placing eighth in the short program, thirteenth in the free skate, and tenth overall. In March, he placed first in the short program at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. While attempting a quad salchow during his free skate, he sustained a Grade 2 sprain of all three major ligaments in his right ankle, causing him to withdraw.[7]

Krasnozhon changed coaches during the off-season, deciding to train under Olga Ganicheva and Alexei Letov at the Dr. Pepper Starcenter in Plano, Texas.[5]

2018–2019 season

Krasnozhon started his season off at the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, where he placed fifth overall. Krasnozhon was invited to two senior Grand Prix events, the 2018 Grand Prix in Finland and 2018 Rostelecom Cup. Making his Grand Prix debut, Krasnozhon placed sixth at the 2018 Grand Prix in Finland and eighth at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup. Krasnozhon withdrew from the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb in December 2018.

At the 2019 U.S. Championships, Krasnozhon placed fifth.[13] Assigned to compete at the 2019 World Junior Championships, he placed fifth in the short program, making a minor error on his Lutz-loop combination.[14] In March 2019, he won gold medal at the Egna Spring Trophy.

2019–2020 season

In early August, Krasnozhon received the bronze medal at the Philadelphia Summer International.[15] Krasnozhon next placed fourth at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic. In the free skate, he landed the quad loop for the first time. At his first Grand Prix of the year, 2019 Skate America, he placed tenth in the short program after underrotating and falling on an attempted quad flip, a new jump for him.[16] In the free skate, he had a "hard, painful" fall on his quad flip attempt, but executed the rest of his planned triple jumps successfully, and rose to ninth place overall.[17] He was tenth at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup. three week later he finished ninth at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.

Competing at the 2020 U.S. Championships, Krasnozhon placed sixth in the short program, attempting only triple jumps.[18] In the free skate he underrotated an attempted quad loop and put a hand down on a triple Axel, but remained in sixth place.[19]

2020–2021 season

With the coronavirus pandemic raging, the ISU chose to assign the Grand Prix based largely on training location, leading to Krasnozhon attending the 2020 Skate America.[20] Krasnozhon landed another quad loop in the short program, placing fifth, but struggled in the free skate and fell to seventh place overall.[21][22]

Krasnozhon competed at the 2021 U.S. Championships, placing sixteenth out of seventeen skaters in the short program after falling on every jump. He rallied in the free skate, placing seventh in that segment, rising to eleventh place overall.[23]

Programs
Krasnozhon at the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2020–2021
[24]

Dracula
2019–2020
[25]

Dracula
2018–2019
[5]
    2017–2018
    [26]
    2016–2017
    [2][11]
    • Etude Op. 10, No. 3 in E
      by Frederic Chopin
      choreo. by Scott Brown
    • Rodeo
      by Aaron Copland
      choreo. by Scott Brown
      • 50. Four Dance Episodes:
        III. Saturday Night Waltz
      • 51. Four Dance Episodes:
        IV. Hoedown
      2015–2016
      [27]
        2014–2015
          2013–2014
          • Love Story
            by Francis Lai
            choreo. by Scott Brown
          • Tango Amore
            by Edvin Marton
            choreo. by Scott Brown
          2012–2013
          • Russian folk music
            choreo. by Tatiana Prokofieva

          Competitive highlights

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

          For the United States
          International[8]
          Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21
          GP Finland7th
          GP Rostelecom Cup8th10th
          GP Skate America9th7th
          CS Golden SpinWD9th
          CS Nebelhorn5th
          CS Tallinn Trophy2nd
          CS U.S. Classic4th
          Challenge CupWD
          Egna Trophy1st
          Philadelphia4th3rd
          International: Junior[8]
          Junior Worlds8thWD11th
          JGP Final5th1st
          JGP Australia1st
          JGP Croatia1st
          JGP Czech Republic2nd
          JGP Latvia3rd
          JGP Poland5th
          JGP Slovenia1st
          Philadelphia1st
          National[1][4]
          U.S. Champ.4th J3rd J1st J10th5th6th11th
          Midwestern Sect.1st J1st J
          Southwestern Reg.1st J1st J2nd
          ISP Points Chal.4th
          J = Junior level; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

          For Russia
          International[8]
          Event 11–12 12–13 13–14
          Denkova-Staviski Cup2nd J
          Volvo Open Cup1st N
          National[1]
          Russian Junior Champ.14th12th
          Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior

          Detailed results

          Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

          2020–21 season
          Date Event SP FS Total
          January 11–21, 2021 2021 U.S. Championships 16
          54.53          		 7
          152.23          		 11
          206.76
          October 23–24, 2020 2020 Skate America 5
          78.06          		 9
          136.55          		 7
          214.61
          2019–20 season
          Date Event SP FS Total
          January 20–26, 2020 2020 U.S. Championships 6
          80.71          		 6
          160.61          		 6
          241.32
          December 4–7, 2019 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 7
          73.26          		 8
          139.25          		 9
          212.51
          November 15–17, 2019 2019 Rostelecom Cup 10
          75.46          		 11
          140.82          		 10
          216.28
          October 25–27, 2019 2019 Skate America 10
          72.30          		 6
          144.29          		 9
          216.59
          September 17–22, 2019 2019 CS U.S. International Classic 5
          76.92          		 3
          153.19          		 4
          230.11
          Jul. 31 – Aug. 3, 2019 2019 Philadelphia Summer International 3
          65.78          		 3
          127.84          		 3
          193.62
          2018–19 season
          Date Event SP FS Total
          March 28–31, 2019 2019 Gardena Spring Trophy 1
          74.17          		 2
          145.95          		 1
          220.12
          Jan. 19 - 27, 2019 2019 U.S. Championships 5
          82.53          		 5
          151.99          		 5
          234.52
          November 16–18, 2018 2018 Rostelecom Cup 6
          75.32          		 8
          132.69          		 8
          208.01
          November 2–4, 2018 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki 8
          74.05          		 6
          136.98          		 7
          211.03
          September 26–29, 2018 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 6
          67.32          		 5
          126.78          		 5
          194.10
          2018–19 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          March 4–10, 2019 2019 World Junior Championships Junior 5
          79.98          		 12
          131.49          		 11
          211.47
          2017–18 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          March 5–11, 2018 2018 World Junior Championships Junior 1
          80.28          		 WD WD
          Dec. 29 – Jan. 8, 2017 2018 U.S. Championships Senior 8
          82.58          		 13
          141.00          		 10
          223.58
          December 7–10, 2017 2017−18 Junior Grand Prix Final Junior 1
          81.33          		 1
          155.02          		 1
          236.35
          November 21–26, 2017 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy Senior 3
          80.20          		 2
          142.19          		 2
          222.39
          September 27–30, 2017 2017 JGP Croatia Junior 1
          80.26          		 2
          145.22          		 1
          225.48
          August 23–26, 2017 2017 JGP Australia Junior 1
          75.04          		 1
          134.33          		 1
          209.37
          August 3–5, 2017 2017 Philadelphia Summer International Senior 1
          76.37          		 7
          129.88          		 4
          206.25
          2016–17 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          March 15–19, 2017 2017 World Junior Championships Junior 8
          76.50          		 10
          134.97          		 8
          211.47
          January 14–22, 2017 2017 U.S. Junior Championships Junior 2
          66.89          		 1
          144.16          		 1
          211.05
          December 8–11, 2016 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final Junior 5
          71.48          		 6
          137.37          		 5
          208.85
          September 21–25, 2016 2016 JGP Slovenia Junior 2
          71.98          		 1
          139.20          		 1
          211.18
          August 31–September 3, 2016 2016 JGP Czech Republic Junior 2
          75.10          		 2
          148.50          		 2
          223.60
          2015–16 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          January 15–24, 2016 2016 U.S. Junior Championships Junior 7
          53.96          		 3
          122.25          		 3
          176.21
          September 23–27, 2015 2015 JGP Poland Junior 5
          62.44          		 3
          132.14          		 5
          194.58
          August 26–30, 2015 2015 JGP Latvia Junior 3
          67.53          		 3
          127.15          		 3
          194.68
          August 3–5, 2015 2015 Philadelphia Summer International Junior 1
          65.56          		 1
          114.11          		 1
          179.67
          2014–15 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          January 18–25, 2015 2015 U.S. Junior Championships Junior 6
          60.52          		 2
          129.70          		 4
          190.22
          2013–14 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2013 2013 Denkova-Staviski Cup Junior 2
          51.72          		 2
          116.55          		 2
          168.27
          2012–13 season
          Date Event Level SP FS Total
          February 1–3, 2013 2013 Russian Junior Championships Junior 5
          67.21          		 17
          110.85          		 12
          178.06

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