Mia Risa Gomez

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Mia Risa Gomez
Full nameMia Caroline Risa Gomez
Born (2005-12-21) 21 December 2005 (age 18)
Mexico City, Mexico
HometownStavanger, Norway
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4+12 in)
Figure skating career
CountryNorway
CoachNuriya Pirogova, Lorenzo Magri
Skating clubStavanger SC
Began skating2012

Mia Caroline Risa Gomez (born 21 December 2005) is a Norwegian figure skater. She is the 2022 Open d'Andorra, 2022 Santa Claus Cup, and 2023 and 2024 Norwegian national champion. She has represented Norway at two ISU Championships, reaching the final segment at the 2023 European Championships.

Personal life[edit]

Mia Caroline[1] Risa Gomez was born in Mexico City, to a Mexican mother and a Norwegian father.[2] The family moved to Norway when she was two years old.[2]

Career[edit]

Early years[edit]

Risa Gomez began learning to skate in 2012.[2] She competed in the advanced novice category in the 2018–19 season and won the gold medal at the 2019 Norwegian Novice Championships.[3]

2019–20 season[edit]

She made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-seventh at 2019 JGP Latvia before also going on to compete at the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb and the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, finishing fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively.[4]

At the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal behind Frida Turidotter Berge.[4]

Competing at the 2019 Reykjavik International Games, Risa Gomez placed eleventh. She then went on to place fifth at the 2020 Nordic Championships and tenth at the 2020 International Challenge Cup.[4]

2020–21 season[edit]

She had no international appearances in the 2020–21 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] However, Risa Gomez did win her second consecutive silver medal at the 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships.[4]

2021–22 season[edit]

Risa Gomez returned to the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Slovakia.[4]

Competing at the 2022 Nordic Championships, Risa Gomez finished sixth, before going to finish thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup. She also went on to compete at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, where she finished fourteenth. At the 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal for a third time.[4]

Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Risa Gomez placed thirty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.[4]

2022–23 season[edit]

Risa Gomez began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing nineteenth at 2022 JGP Poland I. Switching to the senior ranks, Risa Gomez won silver at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in Bulgaria, gold at the Open d'Andorra, and gold at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. By December, she attained the minimum technical score required to compete at senior Worlds and was officially nominated to represent Norway at the European Championships.[6][7]

In January, Risa Gomez won the Norwegian senior national title and then competed at the 2023 European Championships in Helsinki. She qualified to the free skate and finished 22nd overall.[8]

Risa Gomez went on to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.[4]

2023–24 season[edit]

Risa Gomez started the season with two Challenger circuit appearances, with a thirteenth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and a sixteenth-place at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. She placed twenty-sixth at the 2024 European Championships and twenty-third at the 2024 World Championships.[4]

Programs[edit]

Risa Gomez performing her free skate at the 2024 World Championships
Season Short program Free skating
2023–2024
[9]
2022–2023
[2]
2021–2022
[1]
2019–2020
[10]

Competitive highlights[edit]

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[4]
Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Worlds 35th 23rd
Europeans 22nd 26th
CS Finlandia Trophy 16th
CS Lombardia Trophy 13th
Denkova-Staviski 2nd 7th
Nordics 5th 2nd
Open d'Andorra 1st
Santa Claus Cup 1st
International: Junior[4]
Junior Worlds 37th 43rd
JGP Hungary 14th
JGP Latvia 27th
JGP Poland 19th
JGP Slovakia 17th
Challenge Cup 10th 13th
EYOF 14th
Golden Bear 14th
Nordics 5th 6th
Reyjkavik IG 11th
Tallinn Trophy 19th
International: Advanced novice[3]
Denkova-Staviski 6th
Egna Trophy 5th
Nordics 10th
Tallink Hotels Cup 7th
Volvo Open Cup 19th
National[4][3]
Norway 1st N 2nd J 2nd J 2nd J 1st 1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results[edit]

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [11]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 146.45 2023 JGP Hungary
Short program TSS 50.72 2022 JGP Poland I
TES 28.58 2022 JGP Poland I
PCS 22.66 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy
Free skating TSS 101.28 2023 JGP Hungary
TES 56.10 2023 JGP Hungary
PCS 45.18 2023 JGP Hungary

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Senior results[edit]

2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 18–24, 2024 2024 World Championships 23
55.09
23
92.04
23
147.13
February 1-4, 2024 2024 Nordic Championships 10
44.03
1
111.00
2
155.03
November 7-12, 2023 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup 6
50.98
8
90.18
7
141.16
October 4-8, 2023 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy 17
43.48
13
93.35
16
136.83
September 8–10, 2023 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy 13
46.50
13
83.03
13
129.53
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 22–26, 2023 2023 World Championships 35
43.54
35
43.54
February 2–5, 2023 2023 Nordic Championships 7
57.57
5
93.93
5
144.49
January 25–29, 2022 2023 European Championships 21
49.14
22
88.48
22
137.62
January 13–15 2023 2023 Norwegian Championships 1
50.99
1
109.15
1
160.14
November 28–December 4, 2022 2022 Santa Claus Cup 1
58.86
2
104.18
1
163.04
November 17–20, 2022 2022 Open d'Andorra 1
55.20
1
94.37
1
149.57
November 1–6, 2022 2022 Denkova-Staviski Cup 4
51.25
1
105.26
2
156.51

Junior results[edit]

2023–24 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 26– March 3, 2024 2024 World Junior Championships 43
37.97
DNQ 43
37.97
September 20–23, 2023 2023 JGP Hungary Junior 20
45.17
9
101.28
14
146.45
2022–23 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
September 28–October 1, 2022 2022 JGP Poland I Junior 17
50.72
19
87.71
17
138.43
2021–22 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships Junior 37
40.33
37
40.33
April 1–3, 2022 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior 2
46.44
2
82.18
2
128.62
March 20–25, 2022 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Junior 9
48.60
18
76.11
14
124.71
February 24–27, 2022 2022 International Challenge Cup Junior 12
40.94
14
66.44
13
107.38
January 27–30, 2022 2022 Nordic Championships Junior 7
41.62
6
79.93
6
121.55
September 1–4, 2021 2021 JGP Slovakia Junior 18
39.48
16
76.72
17
116.20
2020–21 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
March 20–24, 2021 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior 2
46.07
2
46.07
2019–20 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 20–23, 2020 2020 International Challenge Cup Junior 10
42.00
9
82.74
10
124.74
February 5–9, 2020 2020 Nordic Championships Junior 11
39.26
6
77.92
5
117.18
January 24–26, 2020 2020 Reykjavik International Games Junior 15
31.79
9
67.86
11
99.65
January 10–12, 2020 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships Junior 2
39.02
3
68.48
2
107.50
November 11–17, 2019 2019 Tallinn Trophy Junior 20
31.92
19
60.78
20
92.70
October 24–27, 2019 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb Junior 21
38.56
11
73.98
14
112.54
September 4–7, 2020 2019 JGP Latvia Junior 30
32.13
28
64.24
27
96.37

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Mia Caroline RISA GOMEZ: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Mia RISA GOMEZ: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Mia Risa Gomez". rinkresults.com. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Competition Results: Mia RISA GOMEZ". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 18 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Koronastenging av idretten rammer unge toppidrettsutøvere hardt: – Smittevern er viktigst nå" (in Norwegian). aftenposten.no. 6 January 2021. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Ukjent 16-åring med norsk kunstløpsensasjon: – Jeg ble sjokkert". NRK (in Norwegian). 3 December 2022. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Historisk EM-uttak i kunstløp" (in Norwegian). Bodøposten. 9 December 2022. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Marerittstart for norsk 17-åring i EM-finalen: – Å, herregud, nei!". NRK (in Norwegian). 28 January 2023. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Mia RISA GOMEZ: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 10 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Mia Caroline RISA GOMEZ: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020.
  11. ^ "NOR-Mia Caroline RISA GOMEZ". Skating Scores.

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