Lindsay Thorngren

Lindsay Thorngren
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	(2005-12-05) December 5, 2005 White Plains, New York
Home town	Montclair, New Jersey
Height
Coach	Julia Lautowa, Viktor Petrenko
Choreographer	Benoît Richaud, Nina Petrenko
Skating club	Ice House FSC of NJ
Training locations	Hackensack, New Jersey
Began skating	2009
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	199.42 2022 World Junior Championships
Short program	70.24 2021 JGP Slovenia
Free skate	133.28 2022 World Junior Championships

Lindsay Thorngren (born December 5, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is the 2022 World Junior bronze medalist and 2022 Challenge Cup silver medalist. She is also the 2021 JGP France I champion, the 2021 JGP Slovenia bronze medalist, and the 2020 U.S. junior champion.

Personal life

Thorngren was born on December 5, 2005, in White Plains, New York, to parents Edward and Elizabeth. She is the middle child between sisters Avrianny and Elaura.

Career

Early years

Thorngren began learning how to skate in 2009 as a four-year-old in Maple Grove, Minnesota. She participated in her first competition in 2010 at the age of five. She began training under her current coach, Julia Lautowa, when her family relocated from Minnesota to New Jersey. Thorngren competed at her first U.S. Championship in 2017 at the juvenile level, where she finished sixth. She went on to win the U.S. intermediate women's title in 2019 and the junior title in 2020.

2019–20 season: Junior international debut

Thorngren made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix in September at the 2019 JGP Poland, where she placed eighth. In January she won the US junior national title, earning an assignment to the 2020 World Junior Championships. She placed twenty-sixth in the short program, failing to advance to the free skate.

2020–21 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the cancellation of the international junior season, Thorngren's lone major appearance was in making her domestic senior debut at the 2021 U.S. Championships. She finished in sixth place.

2021–22 season: World Junior bronze

Thorngren was a fan of the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, choosing to skate her free program to Carlos Rafael Rivera's original score for the program and portray lead character Beth Harmon. She analogized that Harmon "falls in love with chess, competes and she fights to win a chess game. So in my program, I'm fighting to land all my jumps and skate cleanly and perform the best I can."

Returning to the Junior Grand Prix, Thorngren's first assignment was the first edition of the 2021 JGP France in Courchevel. Due to French travel rules, Russian women's skaters who normally dominated the Junior Grand Prix were unable to participate in the event. Thorngren won the gold medal in Courchevel. Reflecting on the lack of junior events in the previous year, she said "since there were no competitions, I worked more on building my skills and my jumps." At her second event, the 2021 JGP Slovenia, Thorngren won the bronze medal behind Russians Adeliia Petrosian and Sofia Samodelkina. She attempted a triple Axel in the free skate, but the jump was downgraded due to a forward landing. These results qualified her for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final, but it was subsequently cancelled due to restrictions imposed as a result of the Omicron variant. Thorngren made her senior international debut at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup, where she finished fifth.

Hoping to qualify for the American Olympic team at the 2022 U.S. Championships, Thorngren was fifth in the short program with a clean skate, only 1.20 points behind third-place Alysa Liu. However, she struggled in the free skate, falling on two jumps and underrotating two others. Seventh in that segment, Thorngren dropped to fifth overall. She was subsequently assigned to the International Challenge Cup, winning the silver medal.

Thorngren was assigned to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships, but events would soon complicate the situation. Shortly after the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, the International Skating Union banned all Russian athletes from competing at ISU championships. As Russian women had dominated international figure skating in recent years, this had a significant impact on the field, and Thorngren was considered a medal contender. Due to both the invasion and the Omicron variant, the World Junior Championships could not be held as scheduled in Sofia in early March, and were rescheduled for mid-April in Tallinn. Thorngren finished fourth in the short program, 0.14 points behind third-place Yun Ah-sun of South Korea. She went on to place third in the free skate, rising to third overall, almost four points ahead of Yun. Standing on the podium alongside fellow American Isabeau Levito, she concurred that "the medal is a reflection of our training and how hard we've worked this season, and I'm really happy."

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023	Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo arr. by Cédric Tour choreo. by Benoît Richaud	An Amalgamation Waltz Often a Bird Nostos by Cédric Tour choreo. by Benoît Richaud
2021–2022	Writing's on the Wall (from Spectre) by Sam Smith performed by Sofia Karlberg choreo. by Nina Petrenko	Beth's Story Ceiling Games Main Title (from The Queen's Gambit) by Carlos Rafael Rivera choreo. by Benoît Richaud
2020–2021	Writing's on the Wall (from Spectre) by Sam Smith performed by Sofia Karlberg choreo. by Nina Petrenko	Bacchanale (from Samson and Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saëns
2019–2020	Papa, Can You Hear Me? (from Glee) performed by Lea Michelle choreo. by Nikolai Morozov, Nina Petrenko	Lovers by Jackie Evancho choreo. by Nikolai Morozov, Nina Petrenko

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix.

International
Event	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
GP Finland									TBD
GP Skate Canada									TBD
CS Warsaw Cup								5th
Challenge Cup								2nd
Philadelphia									2nd
International: Junior
Junior Worlds						26th		3rd
JGP Final								C
JGP France								1st
JGP Slovenia								3rd
JGP Poland						8th
International: Advanced novice
Bavarian Open					2nd
National
U.S. Champ.			6th V		1st I	1st J	6th	5th
Eastern Sect.		10th V	2nd V	7th I	1st I	1st J
North Atlantic	8th V	4th V	1st V	2nd I	1st I
USCS Virginia								1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.

Senior results

2021–2022 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 24–27, 2022	2022 Challenge Cup	4 54.87	2 131.35	2 186.22
January 3–9, 2022	2022 US Championships	5 70.22	7 116.16	5 186.38
November 17–20, 2021	2021 CS Warsaw Cup	8 60.75	4 123.65	5 184.40
2020–2021 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 11–21, 2021	2021 US Championships	6 62.54	7 116.35	6 178.89

Junior results

2021–2022 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
April 13–17, 2022	2022 World Junior Championships	4 66.14	3 133.28	3 199.42
September 22–25, 2021	2019 JGP Slovenia	3 70.24	3 123.53	3 193.77
August 18–21, 2021	2019 JGP France I	2 62.63	1 118.82	1 181.45
2019–2020 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2020	2020 World Junior Championships	26 49.61	-	26 49.61
January 20–26, 2020	2020 US Championships	2 59.66	1 124.10	1 183.76
September 18–21, 2019	2019 JGP Poland	8 57.44	9 100.65	8 158.09

External links

• Lindsay THORNGREN at the International Skating Union
• Lindsay Thorngren at U.S. Figure Skating