Niki Wories

Niki Wories

Personal information
Country represented Netherlands
Born (1996-06-18) 18 June 1996
Almere, Netherlands
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Coach Bruno Marcotte
Former coach Astrid Tameling-Winkelman, Sylvia Holtes, András Száraz
Choreographer Julie Marcotte
Former choreographer Susan Mason
Skating club DDD Dordrecht
Training locations St. Leonard, Montreal
Former training locations Dordrecht
Began skating 2001
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 140.87
2016 Worlds
Short program 51.29
2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb
Free skate 91.01
2016 World Figure Skating Championships

Niki Wories (born 18 June 1996) is a Dutch figure skater. The 2015 Dutch national senior champion, she has won two senior international medals and qualified for the free skate at three ISU Championships.

Personal life

Niki Wories was born on 18 June 1996 in Almere, Netherlands.[1]

Career

Wories began skating in 2001.[1] She debuted on the international junior level in spring 2012 at the Coupe du Printemps.

Wories competed in her first ISU Junior Grand Prix event in August 2013. She was coached by Sylvia Holtes and András Száraz in Dordrecht and Zoetermeer at the start of the season, before switching to Astrid Tameling-Winkelman in Dordrecht.[2]

Wories remained on the junior level in the first half of the 2014–15 season. In January 2015, she became the Dutch national senior champion. She then made her senior international debut at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, but was eliminated after placing 31st in the short program. In February, Wories won senior bronze medals at the Bavarian Open and International Challenge Cup, where she also achieved the minimum technical score to compete at the senior World Championships.[3] In March, she qualified for the free skate at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia by placing 15th in the short program; she finished 23rd overall. Later that month, she competed at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China – the first Dutch competitor at Worlds since 2010.[4] Ranked 32nd in the short, she did not make the cut for the free skate.

Wories changed coaches in October 2015,[4] joining Bruno Marcotte in Montreal, Canada.[1] She reached the free skate at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, where she finished 20th, and at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, where she placed 22nd.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–16
[1]
2014–15
[5]
  • Sand and Torn
    choreo. by Susan Mason
2013–14
[2]
  • Fantasy
    choreo. by Susan Mason

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[6]
Event 07–08 08–09 09–10 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16
Worlds 32nd 22nd
Europeans 31st 20th
CS Golden Spin 9th
CS Nebelhorn 15th
Bavarian Open 3rd
Challenge Cup 3rd
NRW Trophy 7th
International: Junior and novice[6]
Junior Worlds 23rd
JGP Germany 24th
JGP Latvia 24th
Bavarian Open 14th J
Challenge Cup 16th N 9th J
NRW Trophy 7th N 18th J 15th J 9th J
Open d'Andorra 6th J
Printemps 23rd J
Merano Cup 19th N
National[6]
Dutch Champ. 8th J 4th J 1st J 2nd 1st
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Niki WORIES: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Niki WORIES: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Challenge Cup 2015: Ladies Senior - Free Skating". Dutch Ice Skating Association. 22 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Kunstrijdster Wories wordt snel stabieler in Canada" [Figure skater Wories will become more stable in Canada]. Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (in Dutch). 1 December 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Niki WORIES: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2 March 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Niki WORIES". International Skating Union.

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