Graham Newberry

Graham Newberry
Personal information
Country represented United Kingdom
Born (1998-06-07) June 7, 1998
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Coach Christian Newberry
Skating club Lee Valley London
Training locations London, England
Former training locations Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Began skating 2000

Graham Newberry (born June 7, 1998) is a British figure skater. He has won three senior international medals and became the British national champion in the 2016–17 season. He is also a three-time British junior champion and has reached the free skate at two World Junior Championships.[1]

Personal life

Graham Newberry was born June 7, 1998, in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[2] He has dual British and American citizenship.[3] He is the son of Christian Newberry, the 1989 British senior champion, and brother of Jack Newberry, the 2012 British junior bronze medalist.[4]

Career

Newberry competed on the novice level in the 2011–12 season and moved up to the junior level the following season. At the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival, he placed third in both segments but came in fourth overall.

In the 2013–14 season, Newberry received his first ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments; he placed tenth in Mexico City and fifth in Ostrava. After winning the British junior title, he was sent to the 2014 World Junior Championships, where he qualified for the free skate. Ranked 21st in the short and 17th in the free, he finished 19th overall at the competition, held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Coached by his father, he trained at Twin Ponds in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until the end of the season.[5]

In mid-2014, Newberry began training in London, England, where he continued to be coached by his father.[6] In his second JGP season, he placed seventh in Ostrava and sixth in Zagreb. Making his senior international debut, he finished eighth at the Volvo Open Cup, an ISU Challenger Series in November 2014. In February 2015, he won the senior silver medal at the Jegvirag Cup in Hungary. At the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, he placed 23rd in the short, 20th in the free, and 21st overall.

In December 2016, Newberry won the British senior title, outscoring silver medalist Peter James Hallam by 1.4 points and defending champion Phillip Harris by 8.23 points.[7] He also won his third junior national title.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2016–17
[2]
2015–16
[8]
  • The Last Samurai
    by Hans Zimmer
2014–15
[6]
  • Unstoppable
    by E.S. Posthumus
2013–14
[9]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[1]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17
CS Lombardia 7th
CS Volvo Cup 8th
Denkova-Staviski 2nd
Jegvirag Cup 2nd
Merano Cup 3rd
MNNT Cup 7th
International: Junior and novice[1][10]
Junior Worlds 19th 21st
JGP Croatia 6th
JGP Czech Rep. 5th 7th
JGP Estonia 8th
JGP France 12th
JGP Mexico 10th
JGP Poland 15th
JGP Slovakia 13th
EYOF 4th
New Year's Cup 3rd J
Gardena Trophy 3rd N
Santa Claus Cup 1st N
Volvo Open Cup 2nd J
National[1]
British Champ. 1st
British Champ. 1st N 5th J 1st J 1st J 1st J
Levels: N = Advanced novice; J = Junior

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Competition Results: Graham NEWBERRY". International Skating Union.
  2. 1 2 "Graham NEWBERRY: 2016/2017". International Skating Union.
  3. ↑ "Newberry to skate in Jr. World Championships". PA Cyber. January 2, 2014. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Jack NEWBERRY". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Graham Newberry". National Ice Skating Association. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Graham NEWBERRY: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ "British Figure Skating Championships 2016: Senior Men Result". December 4, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Graham NEWBERRY: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Graham NEWBERRY: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Graham Newberry". Tracings.net.
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