Deniss Vasiljevs
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Vasiļjevs at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
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| Country represented | Latvia | ||||||||||||||||||
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9 August 1999 Daugavpils, Latvia |
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| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Stéphane Lambiel | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Ingrida Snieškienė, Alexei Urmanov, Elena Ivanova | ||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Stéphane Lambiel | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Benoît Richaud, Valeri Pecherski, Ingrida Snieškienė | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Daugavpils SC ACBB Boulogne Billancourt |
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| Former skating club | COC Courbevoie | ||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Champéry, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former training locations | Daugavpils, Latvia; Sochi, Russia; Boulogne, Paris, Courbevoie, and Chamonix, France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 239.00 2017 Worlds |
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| Short program | 81.73 2017 Worlds |
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| Free skate | 157.27 2017 Worlds |
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Deniss Vasiļjevs (born 9 August 1999) is a Latvian figure skater. He is the 2017 Cup of Tyrol champion, the 2015 CS Tallinn Trophy bronze medalist, and a two-time Latvian national champion. He finished in the top ten at the 2017 European Championships.
Earlier in his career, Vasiļjevs won two medals at the 2016 Youth Olympics (silver in men's singles and bronze in the team event) and two silver medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series. He is the first Latvian skater to make the podium at a JGP event.
Deniss Vasiļjevs was born on 9 August 1999 in Daugavpils, Latvia. His mother is a former dancer. In 2016, he began living in Champery, Switzerland, but remained a student at Daugavpils Russian Secondary School - Lyceum. He enjoys drawing and speaks three languages – Latvian, Russian and English.
Vasiļjevs began skating in 2002. As he was often sick, his parents decided to involve him in a sport, first considering swimming and then skating. Around 2010, they arranged for him to train under the guidance of Lithuanian coach Ingrida Snieškienė in Paris, France. Due to his schooling, he spent part of the year training in Daugavpils. His figure skating role models include Stéphane Lambiel, Daisuke Takahashi, Patrick Chan, and Javier Fernández.
Vasiļjevs debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit in 2013, placing 7th in Riga, Latvia and 10th in Gdańsk, Poland. He was named in Latvia's team to the World Junior Championships, held in March 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked 11th in the short program, he qualified for the free skate where he placed 7th, pulling him up to 8th overall.
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