Viktoria Helgesson

Viktoria Helgesson
Helgesson at the 2013–14 Swedish Championships.
Personal information
Country represented	Sweden
Born	(1988-09-13) 13 September 1988 (age 28) Tibro, Sweden
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Former coach	Regina Jensen, Christina Helgesson, Alexander Vedenin
Former choreographer	Catarina Lindgren, Susanne Seger
Skating club	Tibro KK
Training locations	Tibro
Former training locations	Skara, Lidköping, Chicago, Boston
Began skating	1991
Retired	April 2015
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	166.39 2015 Europeans
Short program	60.37 2015 Europeans
Free skate	106.02 2015 Europeans

Viktoria Helgesson (born 13 September 1988) is a retired Swedish figure skater. She is the 2011 Skate America bronze medalist, a five-time (2008–11, 2013) Nordic champion, and an eight-time (2007–12, 2014–15) Swedish national champion. She placed fifth at three European Championships. Her bronze medal at 2011 Skate America is the first Grand Prix medal by a Swedish skater.

Viktoria Helgesson was born in Tibro, Sweden. Her younger sister, Joshi Helgesson, and their mother, Christina, have also competed in figure skating at the European Championships. She also has an older brother named Lukas and a father named Lenart.

Helgesson began skating at the age of three, following in the footsteps of her mother. She is coached by her mother and Regina Jensen. At the age of 12, she landed her first triple jump, a Salchow.

Helgesson competed at the 2004 World Junior Championships, where she came in 22nd. In 2007, she won the Swedish national title for the first time at the senior level. She again competed at Junior Worlds, finishing 28th.

In 2008, Helgesson made her European Championships and World Championships debut, and came in 18th at both events. She improved upon her result at the 2009 European Championships, but failed to qualify for the free skate at that season's Worlds, and was thus unable to qualify an Olympic berth for Sweden.