Roman Sadovsky

Roman Sadovsky

Sadovsky in 2015
Personal information
Country represented Canada
Born (1999-05-31) May 31, 1999
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Home town Vaughan, Ontario
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Coach Brian Orser, Lee Barkell
Former coach Tracey Wainman, Grzegorz Filipowski
Choreographer Grzegorz Filipowski, Mark Pillay
Skating club York Region Skating Academy
Training locations Richmond Hill, Ontario
Began skating 2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 211.55
2016 JGP Japan
Short program 72.61
2016 Youth Olympics
Free skate 143.61
2016 JGP Japan

Roman Sadovsky (born May 31, 1999) is a Canadian figure skater. He has won two gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and represented Canada at two World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Sadovsky was born on May 31, 1999 in Toronto.[1] His parents moved to Canada from Ukraine.[2] After attending Christ The King CES, where he was a membr of various sports teams, he continued his education at Bill Crothers Secondary School.[3]

Career

Sadovsky began learning to skate at age five in order to play hockey.[2][3] He is coached by Tracey Wainman, who started working with him when he was eight,[2] and Grzegorz Filipowski at the York Region Skating Academy in Richmond Hill, Ontario.[4]

2012–13 season

In the 2012–13 season, making his Junior Grand Prix debut, Sadovsky won a bronze medal in Lake Placid, New York and placed 10th in Bled, Slovenia.[5] He withdrew from the 2013 Canadian Championships due to a stress fracture in his right foot on a growth plate near the toe.[2][6]

2013–14 season

Competing on the 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix, Sadovsky placed 14th in Riga, Latvia and 8th in Minsk, Belarus. Nationally, he competed on the senior level, finishing 8th at the 2014 Canadian Championships. He was selected for the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.[7] Ranked 14th in the short program and 12th in the free skate, he finished 13th overall.[8]

2014–15 season

Sadovsky's first assignment of the 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix season was in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ranked 1st in the short program and 3rd in the free skate, he finished 1st overall by a margin of 3.39 points over the silver medalist, Alexander Samarin. After the event, Sadovsky said his goal was to develop a solid triple Axel.[9] He then went on to place 4th at his second JGP event in Dresden, Germany. With those results, Sadovsky qualified for the 2014–15 JGP Final and placed 5th.

At the 2015 Canadian Championships, Sadovsky placed 4th. He ended his season with a 14th place finish at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

2015–16 season

In the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix season, Sadovsky was assigned to the first event, held in Bratislava, Slovakia. With a quad salchow in the free skate — Sadovsky's first quad in competition — he won the gold medal with a total score 2.87 points ahead of Vincent Zhou of the United States.[10] He then went on to win bronze at his second JGP event, in Toruń, Poland. These results qualified him for the 2015–16 JGP Final, where he was 6th. He represented Canada at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics and finished fourth.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2015–16
[11]
2014–15
[1][4]
  • The Prophet
    by Gary Moore
    choreo. by Grzegorz Filipowski
2013–14
[12]
  • Les Misérables
    by Claude-Michel Schönberg
2012–13
[13]
  • Live and Let Die
    performed by David Garrett
  • Tomorrow Never Dies
    by David Arnold

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[5]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17
CS Golden Spin TBD
International: Junior[5]
Junior Worlds 13th 14th
Youth Olympics 4th
JGP Final 5th 6th
JGP Belarus 8th
JGP Czech Republic 1st
JGP Estonia 2nd
JGP Germany 4th
JGP Japan 5th
JGP Latvia 14th
JGP Poland 3rd
JGP Slovakia 1st
JGP Slovenia 10th
JGP United States 3rd
Challenge Cup 1st N
National[14]
Canadian Champ. 2nd N WD 8th 4th 9th
SC Challenge 2nd N 1st J 5th
Levels: N = Novice, J = Junior
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

References

  1. 1 2 "Roman SADOVSKY: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Smith, Beverley (August 12, 2013). "Roman Sadovsky looking for results on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit". Skate Canada.
  3. 1 2 Li, David (December 10, 2014). "Roman Sadovsky: Vaughan skater a rising star". GoodLife Magazine.
  4. 1 2 Slater, Paula (August 6, 2014). "Canada's Sadovsky aims for top five at nationals". Golden Skate.
  5. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Roman SADOVSKY". International Skating Union.
  6. ↑ Li, David (January 14, 2013). "Sadovsky withdraws from nationals due to stress fracture". York Region. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Canadians prepared to compete at 2014 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. March 7, 2014.
  8. ↑ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2014: Junior Men Result". International Skating Union. March 13, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Canadian figure skater Roman Sadovsky wins ISU junior Grand Prix title". Winnipeg Free Press. The Canadian Press. September 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Daignualt, Louis (August 22, 2015). "Canada's Roman Sadovsky wins gold at ISU Junior Grand Prix". Skate Canada.
  11. ↑ "Roman SADOVSKY: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Roman SADOVSKY: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 15, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Roman SADOVSKY: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Roman Sadovsky". Skate Canada.

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