Alexander Gamelin

Alexander Gamelin

Alexander Gamelin & Yura MIn
Senior Ice Dance Team (KR)
Personal information
Country represented South Korea
Former country(ies) represented United States
Born (1993-02-22) February 22, 1993
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Partner Yura Min
Former partner Danielle Gamelin
Coach Igor Shpilband, Fabian Bourzat, Greg Zuerlein, Adrienne Lenda
Former coach Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, Dymitri Illin, Ramil Sarkulov, Christie Moxley-Hutson, Karen Ludington, Alexandr Kirsanov, Alexander Esman, Marina Koulbitskaya, Evgeny Platov
Choreographer Igor Shpilband
Former choreographer Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, Karen Ludington, Evgeny Platov
Skating club Skating Club of New York
Training locations Novi, Michigan
Former training locations Newark, Delaware, Rockville & Wheaton, Maryland, Montvale, Monmouth Junction & Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Bellmore, Great Neck, Syosset & New Hyde Park, New York
Began skating 2000
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 151.35
2016 CS Tallinn Trophy
Short dance 59.22
2016 CS Tallinn Trophy
Free dance 92.13
2016 CS Tallinn Trophy

Alexander Gamelin (born February 22, 1993) is an American-born ice dancer.[1] He competed from the 2004–05 through the 2014–15 season with his twin sister, Danielle Gamelin.[2] The two won the gold medal in senior dance at the 2015 U.S. Eastern Sectionals[3] and placed seventh at the 2015 U.S. Championships.[4] After his sister's retirement from competitive figure skating in April 2015, he teamed up with Yura Min to represent her home country, South Korea.[5] They are the 2016 South Korean national silver medalists[6] and finished eighth at the 2016 Four Continents Championships.[7] Gamelin will likely be granted South Korean citizenship,[8] along with other foreign athletes in the running to compete for South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.[9]

Personal life

Alexander Gamelin and his twin sister, Danielle, were born on February 22, 1993, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] In 1998, along with his family, he moved to Merrick, New York where he attended public elementary and middle school.[10] In 2010, he relocated to Newark, Delaware, where he attended the American School, an accredited distance learning high school, from which he graduated in 2013[11] with high honors.[12]

In May 2014, Gamelin moved to Novi, Michigan.[13] He is a Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society college student, majoring in linguistics and foreign languages.

Partnership with Danielle Gamelin for the United States

Gamelin's interest in ice dance emerged at the age of 3 when, with his twin sister, he watched a television broadcast of the 1996 World Figure Skating Championship ice dance event.[10] The interest then blossomed in 2000,[14] when at the age of seven, he and his sister began the U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills Program in Merrick, New York.[15][16]

In 2003, the Gamelins started taking private ice dance lessons from the husband-and-wife coaching team of Alexander Esman and Marina Koulbitskaya.[17] The Gamelins started competing as a juvenile dance team in 2005. In the 2006–07 season, the Gamelins won the gold medal in juvenile dance at the 2007 North Atlantic Regional Ice Dance Championships[18] and finished 9th at the 2007 U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships. While Esman remained the principle coach throughout the duo's juvenile, intermediate and novice dance career, Evgeny Platov choreographed their programs and provided additional coaching.[19] The Gamelins won the gold medal in juvenile dance at both the 2008 North Atlantic Regionals and the 2008 U.S. Eastern Sectionals and the bronze medal at the 2008 U.S. Junior Championships.[20]

The following season, skating on the intermediate level, the Gamelins won the silver medal at the 2009 Eastern Sectionals and gold at the 2009 U.S. Junior Championships.[21][22] Shortly after that, the New York State Senate together with the New York State Assembly passed a resolution honoring both for inspiring young people in the State of New York through their work ethic and commitment to excellence.[23] During this and the previous season, the Gamelin twins incorporated a unique choreographic feature into their programs, an inverted eagle, which became know as the "Gamelin Eagle" and the team's signature move.[24]

The Gamelin twins advanced to the novice level the following season. They won the silver medal in novice dance at the 2010 U.S. Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships and finished 5th at the 2010 U.S. Championships.[25][26] During this period, the Gamelins performed as apprentices in the New Works and Young Artist Series with the Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) and were part of the ITNY Outreach Program.[27][28] [29] They were recognized by U.S. Figure Skating as 2010 Athlete Ambassadors.[30]

At the start of the 2010–11 season, the Gamelins relocated to Newark, Delaware to train at the University of Delaware's High-Performance Figure Skating Center under Christie Moxley-Hutson, Karen Ludington, and Alexandr Kirsanov.[31] They finished 16th at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany in Dresden.[32] At home, they won the bronze medal in junior dance the 2011 U.S.Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships[33] and finished 7th at the 2011 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.[34]

Early in the 2011–12 season, the Gamelins finished 9th at the 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Latvia,[35] 4th at the 2012 Eastern Sectionals[36] and in 12th at the 2012 U.S. Championships.[37] Ahead of their first senior season, 2012–13, the Gamelins relocated to Silver Springs, Maryland to train at the Wheaton Skating Academy with Alexei Kiliakov and Elena Novak. They finished 4th at Eastern Sectionals[38] and 11th at the U.S. Championships.[39] Remaining with Kiliakov for their second season as seniors, the Gamelins won the bronze medal at the 2014 Eastern Sectionals[40] and finished 12th at the 2014 U.S. Championships.[41]

In May 2014, the Gamelins relocated to Novi, Michigan to train with a coaching team led by Igor Shpilband.[13] Under the coaching team of Shpilband, Fabian Bourzat, Greg Zuerlein, and Adrienne Lenda,[14] they won the gold medal in senior dance at the 2015 Eastern Sectionals[3] and moved up five places from the previous season to finish in 7th place in Championship Dance at the 2015 U.S. Championships.[4] In April 2015, the Gamelins ended their 15-year on-ice partnership.[42]

Partnrship with Yura Min for South Korea

2015–16 season

In June 2015, Gamelin partnered with Yura Min to represent her home country, South Korea.[5] They became friends while training under Igor Shpilband. The new partnership continues to train in Novi, Michigan under Shpilband, Fabian Bourzat, Greg Zuerlein, and Adrienne Lenda.[14][43]

Min/Gamelin made their international debut in the fall of 2015 at four international events – the 2015 CS Ice Challenge (5th place), 2015 NRW Trophy (4th place), and 2015 CS Warsaw Cup (7th place) – before winning the silver medal behind Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov at the 2016 South Korean Championships.[6][44] They achieved both their ISU Season's and Personal Best at the 2016 Four Continents Championships in Taipei, where they finished 8th of 16 teams, ending up as the top Korean dancers at the event.[7][45]

2016–17 season

Starting their second competitive season together with an early event, the 2016 Lake Placid Ice Dance International, Min/Gamelin placed third in the short dance and second in the free dance,[46] winning the bronze medal overall.[44]

Programs

With Yura Min

Season Short dance Free dance
2016–17
2015–16
[14]		 Cirque du Soleil
  • Waltz: Carrousel
    by Benoît Jutras
  • Polka: Balade au boit d'une echelle
  • Waltz: Carrousel
    by Benoît Jutras
The Beatles

With Danielle Gamelin

Season Short dance Free dance
2011–12
[31][47]
  • Cha Cha: Corazon Espinado
    by Santana
  • Samba: La vida es un carneval
    by Casa Musica
  • Csardas
    by Monti
2010–11
[47]
  • Smooth
    by Santana
2009–10
[47]
2008–09
[17]
  • King Arthur

Competitive highlights

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

With Yura Min for South Korea

International[44]
Event 2015–16 2016–17
Four Continents 8th
GP Skate America 10th
CS Ice Challenge 5th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 6th
CS U.S. Classic 6th
CS Warsaw Cup 7th
NRW Trophy 4th
Lake Placid IDI 3rd
National[44]
South Korean Champ. 2nd
TBD: Assigned; WD: Withdrew

With Danielle Gamelin for the United States

International[48]
Event 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15
JGP Germany 16th
JGP Latvia 9th
National[47]
U.S. Champ. 5th N 7th J 12th J 11th 12th 7th
U.S. Junior 9th V 3rd V 1st I
Eastern Sect. 1st V 2nd I 2nd N 3rd J 4th J 4th 3rd 1st
North Atlantic 1st V 1st V
Levels – V: Juvenile; I: Intermediate; N: Novice; J: Junior

References

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