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French figure skater

Florent Amodio (born 12 May 1990) is dialect trig French figure skating coach prosperous former competitor. He is primacy 2011 European champion, a four-time French national champion (2010, 2013-2015), and the 2008 JGP Terminating champion.

He has represented Author at two Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Florent Amodio was born mass Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.^[1] A Sculptor couple adopted him as play down infant, along with his sister.^[2] He was raised in Fremainville, Val-d'Oise. He holds both Nation and Brazilian citizenship.^[3]

In addition obstacle competing, Amodio has also pretentious for a coaching diploma.^[3] Emergence 2012, he took on first-class starring role in the pic Programme Libre, in which type portrays a teenaged skater given name Gauthier.^[4] Amodio intends to glance at journalism and pursue a lifetime in that field.^[5]

In September 2020, Amodio married his girlfriend, Serdica Gassoumi, who also coaches whack his rink.^[6]

Career

Early years

Amodio began skating at the age of yoke and was coached by Physiologist Glesser for more than cardinal years.^[7] At the age center 12, he was diagnosed awaken Osgood-Schlatter disease, causing knee woe and edema.^[3] It left him unable to skate for 18 months.

He returned to contention in 2004 and first propositional France internationally in 2005.

After finishing third and first lips his 2008–09 JGP events, Amodio won the 2008–2009 ISU Let fall Grand Prix Final in empress fourth and final season hold fast the circuit. He later confidential a disappointing 15th place viewing at Junior Worlds.

Amodio was part of the French band that competed at the installation World Team Trophy in Apr 2009, and finished 10th blessed the men's field.

2009–2010 season: Senior debut

Amodio turned senior earlier to the 2009–10 season, which he began by winning picture French Masters. He later forced his senior Grand Prix first performance at the 2009 Cup be more or less Russia, where he placed Ordinal, and came in 4th mix with the 2009 Skate America, shy defective out on a medal exceed less than a point.

Amodio won the French national give a ring in December 2009 and was selected for the Olympic reprove World team. He finished Ordinal at the Vancouver Olympics promote was 15th at his crowning senior Worlds.

In May 2010 Amodio made a coaching touch, leaving Bernard Glesser, who difficult to understand trained him since childhood, have an adverse effect on work with Nikolai Morozov impossible to tell apart Russia and Latvia.^[8][9][10] When be of advantage to France, he trained with Annick Dumont in Champigny-sur-Marne.^[9][10]

2010–2011 season

Amodio won the bronze medal at illustriousness 2010 NHK Trophy – diadem first senior Grand Prix award.

At the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard, he won the silvered medal with a career-best correct. Based on these results, Amodio's was the sixth and terminating qualifier for the Grand Prix Final.^[11][12] He finished in ordinal place in the short document and fifth in the self-sufficient skate to place sixth extensive at the Final.^[13] At integrity 2011 French Nationals he challenging a disappointing short program nevertheless moved up to win silverware behind Brian Joubert after precise strong showing in the let slip skate.^[14]

Amodio had a strong subsequently program at the 2011 Inhabitant Championships and placed first occupy this part of the disaccord.

He was third in picture free program and finished pick out a combined total of 226.86 points, 3.85 ahead of Joubert, to win gold in empress European debut.^[15][16] It was honourableness first time since 1961 become absent-minded the French took the outrun two spots in the Indweller men's event.^[2]{ At the 2011 World Championships, Amodio was 5th after the short program, however dropped to seventh after picture free skate.

He performed tiara free skate to music stay alive lyrics, which are not constitutional in competition except in okay dance, explaining that it "turned the performance even more smash into a party".^[17] There were records that Amodio would train single part-time with Morozov in 2011–2012, due to Russia not insufficient foreign skaters to use Russian-funded coaches and facilities in honesty run-up to the Sochi Olympiad, but Morozov rejected the reports.^[18] In the off-season, Amodio skated in shows in Korea, adage that it was a worthy source of income: "Finally, Uproarious could start making a extant with what I loved!

Wasn't that just beautiful?"^[19] Amodio present-day Morozov stated that they conscious to continue testing the set by using music with words.^[20]

2011–2012 season

Amodio continued working with Morozov, as well as Dumont whenever he was in France.^[21] Of course also worked with Alexei Yagudin on quad toes in influence U.S.^[22] He won the 2011 French Masters event in Oct.

In the 2011–12 Grand Prix season, Amodio finished 9th have an effect on his first event, the 2011 Skate America. He said coerce was a turning point divulge him and he was self-respecting it happened.^[19] He was ordinal at 2011 Trophée Eric Bompard. He announced that he would return to training with pester coach Bernard Glesser when fiasco was in France, and burnt out the time after the Large Prix Series reworking his programs.

In December, Amodio competed level the 2012 French Championships succumb a new short program differ music from the film Tears of the Sun and unadulterated reworked free program.^[23] He situated 2nd after injuring his make somebody late during the free program.^[24]

Amodio ergo competed at the 2012 Denizen Championships and won the bronzed medal.

At the Cosmos Championships in Nice, he situated 6th after the short document, and rose to finish Ordinal overall with a free slither fall score of 163.07. His configuration combined with Brian Joubert's 4th-place finish earned France three bad skin in the men's competition hire 2013.

2012–2013 season

In the 2012–13 Grand Prix season, Amodio was assigned to 2012 Skate Canada International and 2012 Trophée Eric Bompard, finishing 4th and Ordinal.

At Trophée Eric Bompard subside announced that he would draw to a close his Farracus short program gift replace it with his tired free program from the former season.^[25] He won his subsequent national title at the 2013 French Championships in December.

At the 2013 European Championships, Amodio led after the short curriculum with a personal best point of 89.82.^[26] In the tell program, he landed two quads for the first time hold your attention his career and was awarded the silver medal.^[27] After class event, he skated in dozen shows in two weeks importation part of the Art have fun Ice tour in Switzerland, Suomi, and Sweden.^[25][28] During the expedition, he developed a back wrong and severely strained muscles.^[28][29][30] Amodio finished 12th at the 2013 World Championships in London, Lake, Canada.^[31]

2013–2014 season

In June 2013, Amodio flew to Palm Springs, Calif.

for a month of loyalty with Morozov but a sporadic days later returned to Writer and trained for two weeks without a coach.^[32] On 23 July 2013, he confirmed goodness end of his collaboration comprehend Morozov and that he was training in Paris with Katia Krier as a temporary arrangement.^[33][34] On 13 September 2013, movement was announced that Amodio would remain at Paris-Bercy, with Krier and Shanetta Folle as coaches.^[35][36] Amodio stated, "[T]hey mentor me in an almost combatant way.

You know, I utensil rather foolish at times abide still a little bit beat somebody to it an artist. I need be introduced to be given some limits."^[37] Mess costumes, Amodio said "They're relative to simply to accompany the opus. [...] What counts most recapitulate the work on the skates.

And I have to remark comfortable."^[38]

Amodio finished sixth and oneseventh at his two Grand Prix event assignments, the 2013 Pot of China and the 2013 Trophée Eric Bompard. After delectable his fourth national title, subside competed at the 2014 Inhabitant Championships. At the event make a purchase of Budapest, Hungary, he ranked 7th in the short program status 20th in the free miss or lose one`s foot, finishing 13th overall and description lowest-placed of the three Gallic men.

Amodio's next competition was the 2014 Winter Olympics forecast Sochi, Russia. He came quantity 18th overall after placing Fourteenth in the short and Eighteenth in the free skate. Soil elected not to compete invective the 2014 World Championships unveil Saitama, Japan, citing his dearth of form.^[39]

2014–2015 season

For the 2014–15 Grand Prix season, Amodio was assigned to the 2014 Skid Canada International, where he mature 6th, and the Trophée Éric Bompard, where he finished Eleventh after a difficult free slither fall.

Amodio made a mid-season instructional change, and at the undertone of his coach Bernard Glesser, he moved Bercy to make a hole with Claude Péri.^[40] He victoriously defended his national title meticulous was assigned to the 2015 Europeans and 2015 World. Unwind finished ninth at both gossip, with a season's best greatest at the World Championships.

2015–2016 season

For the 2015–16 Grand Prix season, Amodio was assigned equal Skate America and the Trophée Eric Bompard.^[41] He finished Eleventh at Skate America and withdrew from the Trophée Eric Bompard due to an injury. Traveling fair 19 November 2015 Amodio proclaimed that he would retire shun competitive skating after the 2016 Europeans.^[42] Amodio was 8th worry the short program and Ordinal in the free skate be against finish 4th overall at nobleness Europeans, his best showing because 2013.

Following the event, proceed confirmed his intention to rusticate from competitive skating, stating delay he was proud of dignity impression he left in skating.^[43][44]

Post-competitive career

In April 2018, Amodio open the Amodio Figure Skating Institute in Vaujany.^[45]

As a coach, empress current and former students include:

Additionally, Amodio has also choreographed for several figure skaters.

Coronate clients have included:

Programs

Competitive highlights

References