Hanna Harrell (born September 26, 2003) is an American

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic d ...

. Harrell competed in US Championships at the juvenile level in 2016 where she won the silver medal, at the junior level in 2018 where she placed fourth, and at the senior level in 2019 where she placed fourth at just 15 years old, leading to her selection for the World Junior Championships where she finished 7th. Harrell also competed at the senior level in the US Championships in 2021-2023.

Figure skating career

Early years

Harrell began learning to skate as a three-year-old at the Diamond Edge Figure Skating Club in

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. At age 7, she relocated for training to

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, where she was coached by former Olympian Natalia Mishkutionok for one year before training with prominent figure skating coaches Olga Ganicheva and Aleksey Letov.

2015–2016 season

At the 2016 U.S. Championships, Harrell won the juvenile silver medal (behind Stephanie Ciarochi).

2017–2018 season

In the 2017–2018 season, she debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series. At the 2018 U.S. Championships she won the junior pewter (i.e. fourth place) medal behind

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, Pooja Kalyan and Ting Cui.

2018–2019 season

Hanna Harrell at the Junior World Championships 2019

Harrell was diagnosed with a foot injury in late August 2018. She wore a protective boot for more than a month and was off the ice completely for two to three weeks. She stated, "I had a bad injury on my foot, and I had two stress reactions, and they were almost fractured". In October, Harrell placed seventh at her JGP assignment in

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. In January, at the 2019 U.S. Championships, she surprisingly won the senior pewter medal at the age of 15 (behind

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and

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). In March, she (along with Ting Cui) represented the United States at the 2019 World Junior Championships in

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. Ranked fifth in the short, she competed in the final group during the free skate. She finished seventh overall after placing ninth in the free skate.

2019–2020 season

Harrell opened the season at the

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, where she won the bronze medal. Given two

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assignments, she placed seventh at the 2019 JGP France. Harrell had to withdraw from the 2019 JGP Italy due to a

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in her foot that was repeatedly misdiagnosed. Harrell's injury subsequently forced her to withdraw from the rest of the season, including her place on the American team to the

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2020–2021 season

Harrell returned to competition at the 2021 U.S. Championships, where she placed seventeenth out of seventeen skaters. Hanna Harrell during her short program at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy

Hanna Harrell during her short program at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy

2021–2022 season

Harrell began the season making her Challenger series debut at the

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, finishing seventh. She went on to place eighth at the 2022 U.S. Championships.

2022–2023 season

Harrell began the

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with a twelfth-place finish at 2022

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and fifth-place finish at the 2022

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. She qualified a spot for the 2023 U.S. Championships after winning silver at the 2023 Pacific Coast Sectional Championships. At the U.S. National Championships, Harrell fell twice during her short program which landed her in eighteenth place out of the eighteen skaters competing and withdrew before the free skate.

Personal life

Harrell was born on September 26, 2003, in

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, of Japanese descent on her mother's side. Harrell also competed in

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up through Level 7.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

References

External links

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