Kailani Craine | |
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Craine at the 2015 Junior Worlds
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Australia |
Born |
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
13 August 1998
Home town | Newcastle, New South Wales |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Coach | Tiffany Chin, Kylie Fennell, Galina Pachina |
Former coach | George Galanis |
Choreographer | Alex Chang |
Former choreographer | Jamie Isley, Scott Brown |
Skating club | Hunter ISC |
Training locations | Los Angeles, California; Newcastle, New South Wales; Macquarie Park, New South Wales |
Began skating | 2007 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 163.38 2016 CS Warsaw Cup |
Short program | 56.97 2017 Worlds |
Free skate | 110.07 2016 CS Warsaw Cup |
Kailani Craine (born 13 August 1998) is an Australian figure skater. She has won three senior international medals, including silver at the 2016 CS Warsaw Cup, and three Australian national titles. She has competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships.
Kailani Craine was born on 13 August 1998 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She is the daughter of Katrina and Stephen Craine. She graduated from St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton in 2016.
Craine started skating at the age of eight.Tiffany Chin became her coach in 2010.
Craine debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and won her second junior national title. In March 2014, she made her first ISU Championship appearance, at the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria; she was eliminated after placing 35th in the short program.
In December 2014, Craine won her third junior and first senior national title at the Australian Championships. Ranked second in the short program and first in the free skate, she outscored the defending senior champion, Brooklee Han, by 2.18 points overall. Making her senior international debut, she took the silver medal at the MNNT Cup in January 2015. Craine placed 12th at the 2015 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea, and 16th at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.