Joshi Nero, (; born 7 June 1993) is a Swedish retired

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. She is the 2014 Bavarian Open champion, 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, and three-time Swedish national champion. She and her sister Viktoria are the only siblings to finish together in the top 5 of a major championship as single skaters, a feat achieved during the 2015 European Championships.

Personal life

Nero was born in Tibro, Sweden. Her elder sister, Viktoria, is also a former competitive skater, and their mother, Christina, is their coach. She also has an older brother named Lukas and a father named Lennart. Her sister-in-law is former Norwegian figure skater, Anne Line Gjersem, who married her brother in October 2022. Following her retirement from competitive figure skating, she began coaching in Tibro alongside her sister. In June 2022, Nero announced on her

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that she was pregnant with her boyfriend, Isak Nero's, child. She gave birth to a daughter, Hailey, in September 2022. She and Nero would marry in June 2023.

Career

Early career

Nero placed 4th at the 2009 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria. Her Grand Prix debut came at the start of the following season; she placed 9th at the

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and 11th at the 2009 Skate Canada International. In April 2011, Nero made her senior ISU Championship debut at the World Championships in

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. After advancing past the preliminary round, she placed 16th in the short program and qualified for the final segment. Her 13th place in the free skate lifted her to 15th overall. In January 2012, Nero finished 10th in

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, England at her first European Championships.

2012–13 season: Top ten at Europeans

In the early part of the 2012–13 season, Nero sustained a stress fracture of the fibula in her take-off leg but returned to the ice two weeks before the 2012 Cup of China, where she finished 7th. She placed 8th at her second GP event, the 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 9th at the 2012 NRW Trophy. She won the 2013 Swedish national title ahead of her sister and went on to place 8th at the 2013 European Championships in

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, Croatia. After taking silver at the Nordic Championships, she closed her season with gold medals at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial and Coupe du Printemps.

2013–14 season: Final Worlds and Nordic Champion

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Nero started her season by winning the silver medal at the Denkova-Staviski Cup. After taking silver at the Swedish Championships, she placed 9th at the 2014 European Championships in

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, Hungary. Nero won gold at the Bavarian Open and at the Nordic Championships. In March 2014, she travelled to Saitama, Japan to compete at her second World Championships; she placed 15th in the short, 12th in the free, and 14th overall.

2014–15 season: 4th at Europeans

Nero started her season on the

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(CS), finishing 7th at the

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and winning the silver medal at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy. She withdrew from both of her GP assignments, the 2014 Skate America and 2014 Rostelecom Cup, due to an injury. After winning silver at the Swedish Championships, Nero achieved a career-best 4th-place finish at the European Championships in

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, Sweden. Closing her season, she finished 14th at the 2015 World Championships in

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, China.

2015–16 season

After starting her season with silver at the

, Nero competed at a pair of CS events, placing 7th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy and then taking the bronze medal at the

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. She finished 9th at both of her GP assignments, the 2015 Skate Canada International and 2015 Rostelecom Cup. At the 2016 Europeans Nero placed 6th in the short program, but 11th in the free skate and 9th overall. She won the 2016 Nordics Open ahead of Viveca Lindfors. At the 2016 Worlds she did two major mistakes in her short program, placed 30th and did not qualify to the free skate.

2016–17 season

Following the 2016–17 season, Nero announced that she would move from Tibro to

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, Canada to train with Brian Orser. She started her season by placing 7th at 2016 CS Autumn Classic and 9th at 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy.

2017–18 season

Nero trained for the season to participate in the

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. She competed at the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy, but her level of skating did not improve as she planned. On 7 November 2017, she announced her retirement from competition.

Programs

Competitive highlights

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

2009–10 to present

2004–05 to 2008–09

References

External links

Joshi Helgesson official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Helgesson, Joshi 1993 births Living people People from Tibro Municipality Swedish female single skaters Sportspeople from Västra Götaland County 21st-century Swedish sportswomen