Misha Ge | |
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Misha Ge at the 2011 Four Continents
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Uzbekistan |
Born |
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
17 May 1991
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Coach | Jun Ge, Alexei Mishin |
Former coach | Frank Carroll, Larisa Ge |
Choreographer | Misha Ge |
Former choreographer | Larisa Ge, Lukash Abrahamyan |
Skating club | Alpomish Tashkent |
Training locations |
Beijing Los Angeles |
Began skating | 1994 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 239.41 2017 Four Continents |
Short program | 82.25 2015 Four Continents |
Free skate | 158.36 2014 Rostelecom Cup |
Misha Ge (born 17 May 1991) is an Uzbekistani figure skater. He has won seven international medals and two Uzbekistan national titles. He has finished in the top-ten at three ISU Championships and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, finishing 17th.
Misha Ge was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR to skating coaches Larisa and Jun Ge. He is of Russian, Chinese, and Korean descent. From the age of about 10, he lived in Beijing, China, where his parents coached. Ge also resided in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. He moved to the United States in mid-2009 and returned to Beijing in 2013. He speaks Russian, Mandarin, and English. Ge has taken choreography courses at the Beijing Dance Academy and the Hollywood Dance Academy.
Having first stepped onto the ice at age three and a half, Misha Ge began training seriously at ten after moving to China. From 2009, he trained in the United States. He started representing Uzbekistan in 2010.
Ge finished 6th at the 2011 Asian Winter Games and 12th at the 2011 Four Continents. He trained in Lake Arrowhead, California with Frank Carroll as his jump coach.
In 2011–12, Ge won silver medals at the Asian Trophy, Ice Challenge, and Istanbul Cup. He was 9th at the 2012 Four Continents.