Isadora Williams | |
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Williams in 2012
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Personal information | |
Full name | Isadora Marie Williams |
Country represented | Brazil |
Born |
Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
February 8, 1996
Home town | Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. |
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Coach | Andrei Kriukov |
Choreographer | Natasha Timoshenko Danielle Rose |
Skating club | Brazilian Ice Sports Federation |
Training locations | Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. |
Began skating | 2001 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 149.58 2016 Sportland Trophy ISU |
Short program | 53.18 2016 Santa Claus Cup |
Free skate | 104.62 2016 Sportland Trophy (ISU) |
Isadora Marie Williams (born February 8, 1996) is an American-Brazilian figure skater. She has won five senior international medals, including bronze at the 2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb and gold at the 2017 Sofia Trophy. She represented Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Born February 8, 1996 in Atlanta, Isadora Williams was raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She has Brazilian citizenship through her mother, who is from Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Isadora Williams also has a very large family that lives in Brazil.
Isadora Williams began skating at the age of 5 falling in love with the sport while skating in a public session at the Cooler Ice Rink in Marietta, Georgia.
Williams represents Brazil, training four hours a day with coach Andrei Kriukov. She has all five triple jumps (Salchow, toe loop, loop, flip, and Lutz) since Worlds 2010. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Golden Spin of Zagreb.
At the 2010 World Junior Championships in March 2010, Williams became the third skater in any discipline to represent Brazil at the event. Her highest Junior Worlds placement was 16th in 2012.
In September 2013, Williams competed at the Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying competition for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She placed 8th in the short program and 14th in the free skate, finishing 12th overall. As a result of her placement, Brazil received one of the six remaining spots for countries which had not previously qualified a ladies' entry. This was the first ever ladies' figure skating Olympics entry for Brazil.