Moris Kvitelashvili | |
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Kvitelashvili at the 2017 World Championships
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Personal information | |
Native name | ყვითელაშვილი |
Full name | Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili |
Country represented | Georgia |
Former country(ies) represented | Russia |
Born |
Moscow, Russia |
17 March 1995
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Coach | Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov |
Former coach | Marina Selitskaia |
Choreographer | Alexei Zhelezniakov |
Skating club | Sambo 70 |
Training locations | Moscow |
Began skating | 2000 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 239.24 2017 Worlds |
Short program | 76.85 2017 Europeans |
Free skate | 162.90 2017 Worlds |
Moris Mikhailovich Kvitelashvili (Georgian: მორის ყვითელაშვილი, Russian: Морис Михайлович Квителашвили, born 17 March 1995) is a Georgian figure skater. He is the 2016 Santa Claus Cup champion (for Georgia) and 2015 CS Mordovian Ornament bronze medalist (for Russia). He finished in the top ten at the 2017 European Championships.
Kvitelashvili was born on 17 March 1995 in Moscow. He has Georgian ancestry.
Kvitelashvili began skating in 2000. He won the junior bronze medal at the 2012 NRW Trophy, his first international event.
In the 2013–14 season, Kvitelashvili was selected to compete on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP); he placed fourth, 1.62 points behind bronze medalist Mikhail Kolyada, at his first event, which took place in September 2014 in Košice, Slovakia. The following month, he won the bronze medal at the JGP event in Ostrava, Czech Republic, having scored 17.76 points less than silver medalist Alexander Petrov and 16.7 more than Daniel Samohin. His senior international debut came in December, at the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trento, Italy, where he finished 5th.
Making his ISU Challenger Series (CS) debut, Kvitelashvili placed 5th at the Lombardia Trophy in September 2014. In November, he competed at the 2014 Rostelecom Cup, replacing the injured Kolyada; he finished 12th at the event, the first senior Grand Prix (GP) assignment of his career. After placing 8th at the 2015 Russian Championships, he was sent to his second Winter Universiade and finished 7th at the competition, held in February 2015 in Granada, Spain.