Galit Chait
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Chait/Sakhnovski at the 2003 Skate Canada International
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| Full name | Galit Chait Moracci | |||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Israel | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
January 29, 1975 Kfar Saba, Israel |
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| Residence | Paramus, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Former partner |
Sergei Sakhnovski Maxim Sevostianov |
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| Former coach |
Nikolai Morozov Alexander Zhulin Evgeni Platov Tatiana Tarasova Natalia Dubova Natalia Linichuk E. Maslenikova |
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| Former choreographer | Tatiana Druchinina | |||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Bat Yam Club | |||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1984 | |||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| ISU personal best scores | ||||||||||||||||
| Combined total | 204.42 2004 Cup of China |
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| Comp. dance | 40.98 2004 Skate America |
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| Original dance | 63.07 2004 Cup of China |
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| Free dance | 106.46 2005 GPF |
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Medal record
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Galit Chait (Hebrew: גלית חייט, Galit Hayat; born on January 29, 1975) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. She and her partner Sergei Sakhnovski competed internationally for Israel from 1995 to 2006, becoming the 2002 World bronze medalists.
Chait was born in Israel. The family moved to New Jersey when she was young, and she first skated at age 8.
Her father, Boris Chait, is president of the Israeli Ice Skating Federation since 2002.
On August 23, 2008, Chait married former Italian military policeman Francesco Moracci in New Jersey and then on September 13, 2008 they had the second wedding in Florence, Italy. The two met at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, where Moracci was a member of the security detail assigned to protect the Israeli team. They have two daughters, Raffaella, born in 2009, and Gabriella, born in 2011.
Chait has been a resident of Paramus, New Jersey.
She first tried ice dancing in the 1990s when she travelled to Russia with her father, who was teaching there at a sports camp.
She competed with Max Sevostianov at the U.S. Nationals in 1992 and 1994. They were involved in a collision with Renée Roca at the 1994 U.S. Championships. In 1994, the pair placed 6th at the U.S. Nationals and 28th at the World Championships (representing Israel).
Chait met Sergei Sakhnovski while they were both students at the University of Delaware. Partnered since 1995, they trained initially in Russia with Ludmila Buytskova and Elena Maslenikova before moving to Monsey, New York. They rose steadily in the international rankings. The highlight of their career was winning the bronze medal at the 2002 World championships. Sergei Sakhnovski suffered a foot injury that forced the pair to miss the entire 2006–2007 season, and they subsequently announced their retirement. Their coaches included Natalia Dubova, Tatiana Tarasova, Evgeni Platov, Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov.
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