Moris Kvitelashvili

Moris Kvitelashvili
Personal information
Native name Морис Михайлович Квителашвили
Full name Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili
Country represented Russia
Born (1995-03-17) 17 March 1995
Moscow, Russia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Coach Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov
Former coach Marina Selitskaia
Choreographer Alexei Zhelezniakov
Skating club Sambo 70
Training locations Moscow
Began skating 2000
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 230.24
2015 Mordovian Ornament
Short program 75.79
2015 Mordovian Ornament
Free skate 154.45
2015 Mordovian Ornament

Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili (Russian: Морис Михайлович Квителашвили, born 17 March 1995) is a Russian figure skater. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament, an ISU Challenger Series event.

Personal life

Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili was born on 17 March 1995 in Moscow.[1][2]

Career

Kvitelashvili began skating in 2000.[1] He won the junior bronze medal at the 2012 NRW Trophy, his first international event.

2013–14 season

In the 2013–14 season, Kvitelashvili was selected to compete on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP); he placed fourth, 1.62 points behind bronze medalist Mikhail Kolyada, at his first event, which took place in September 2014 in Košice, Slovakia. The following month, he won the bronze medal at the JGP event in Ostrava, Czech Republic, having scored 17.76 points less than silver medalist Alexander Petrov and 16.7 more than Daniel Samohin. His senior international debut came in December, at the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trento, Italy, where he finished 5th.

2014–15 season

Making his ISU Challenger Series (CS) debut, Kvitelashvili placed 5th at the Lombardia Trophy in September 2014. In November, he competed at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup, replacing the injured Kolyada; he finished 12th at the event, the first senior Grand Prix (GP) assignment of his career. After placing 8th at the 2015 Russian Championships, he was sent to his second Winter Universiade and finished 7th at the competition, held in February 2015 in Granada, Spain.

2015–16 season

Kvitelashvili won his first CS medal, bronze, at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament in Saransk, Russia. He is invited to one GP event, the 2015 Cup of China.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–2016
[1]
  • I Believe I Can Fly
    by R. Kelly
  • What Is Love
    by Haddaway
  • Sixteen Tons
    performed by The Platters
  • Hogfat Blues
    by Stan Kenton
  • I Put A Spell On You
    performed by Garou
2014–2015
[3]
  • Blues for Elise
    by Wolf Hoffmann
  • After Dark
    by Tito & Tarantula
  • Blue Jean Blues
    by ZZ Top
  • Looking for a Fox
    by Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Blues Brothers Band
2013–2014
[4]
  • Interview with the Vampire
    by Elliot Goldenthal

Competitive highlights

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

International[5]
Event 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16
GP Cup of China 12th
GP Rostelecom Cup 12th
CS Golden Spin 5th 5th
CS Lombardia 5th
CS Mordovian 3rd
Universiade 5th 7th
International: Junior[5]
JGP Czech Republic 3rd
JGP Slovakia 4th
NRW Trophy 3rd J.
National[6]
Russian Champ. 15th 8th 12th
Russian Jr. Champ. 14th 8th 14th 3rd
J. = Junior level

References

Media related to Moris Kvitelashvili at Wikimedia Commons

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