Daniel Samohin

Daniel Samohin
Samohin in December 2015
Personal information
Country represented	Israel
Born	(1998-03-12) March 12, 1998 (age 18) Tel Aviv, Israel
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Coach	Igor Samohin
Former coach	Igor Pashkevich
Choreographer	Irina Samohin, Olga Volozhinskaia
Skating club	Israel ISF
Training locations	Poway, California
Former training locations	Yorba Linda, California
Began skating	2003
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	236.65 2016 Junior Worlds
Short program	83.47 2016 Cup of China
Free skate	165.38 2016 Junior Worlds
Medal record Representing  Israel Figure skating: Men's singles World Junior Championships 2016 Debrecen Men's singles

Daniel Samohin (Hebrew: דניאל סמוכין‎‎; born March 12, 1998) is an Israeli figure skater. He is the 2016 World Junior champion and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including gold at the 2015 U.S. International Classic. Samohin is one of the few skaters to have landed two quad jumps in a short program, three quads in a free program, and five quads in one competition.

Daniel Samohin was born on March 12, 1998 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His parents – Irina, a former rhythmic gymnast, and Igor Samohin, a figure skating coach – had arrived from Russia in 1996. His brother, Stanislav, is 7½ years older and competed in figure skating for Russia and Israel. When he was 3½ years old, Daniel moved with his mother to the United States, joining the rest of the family, who had moved earlier.

Samohin began skating in 2003.

Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico. Ranked sixth in the short program, he placed third in the free skate and was awarded the bronze medal, outscoring Canada's Nam Nguyen by 1.85 points. He finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In March 2014, he finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed 17th in the short program and 10th in the free.

During the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Samohin placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 16th in Zagreb, Croatia. In September 2014, he debuted on the senior international level, finishing 11th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event. After placing fourth at another CS event, the Volvo Open Cup, he took silver at a regular senior international, the Tallinn Trophy, behind fellow Israeli Oleksii Bychenko. Ranked 12th in the short and 5th in the free, he finished 8th overall at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.