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Arlet Levandi (born 28 November 2005) is an Estonian figure skater. He is the 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup champion and a two-time Estonian national silver medalist (2021–2022). On the junior level, he is the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival champion, the 2021 JGP France II silver medalist, the 2021 JGP Slovenia silver medalist, and a 2020 Winter Youth Olympic champion in the team event. Levandi is the first men's singles skater from Estonia to win a Junior Grand Prix medal.[1]

Arlet Levandi
Levandi at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Personal information
Country represented	Estonia
Born	(2005-11-28) 28 November 2005 (age 16) Tallinn, Estonia
Home town	Tallinn
Residence	Tallinn
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Coach	Anna Levandi
Choreographer	Benoît Richaud
Former choreographer	Vakhtang Murvanidze
Skating club	Anna Levandi FSC Tallinn
Training locations	Tallinn Pralognan, France
Began skating	2009
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	222.61 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy
Short program	75.10 2021 CS Cup of Austria
Free skate	152.47 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy
Medal record Figure skating: Men's singles Representing  Estonia European Youth Olympic Festival 2022 Vuokatti Men's singles Representing Mixed-NOCs Winter Youth Olympics 2020 Lausanne Team

Personal life

Levandi was born on 28 November 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia to Anna (née Kondrashova) and Allar Levandi. He has two older brothers, Anders and Armand.[2] His mother competed in singles for the Soviet Union and is a two-time Olympian, the 1984 World silver medalist, and a four-time European bronze medalist (1984, 1986–88). His father is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a 1987 World team bronze medalist in nordic combined.[3] Levandi attends school at the Old Town Education College.[2]

Career

Early career

Levandi began skating in 2009. He is coached by his mother Anna Levandi, a former Soviet figure skater, at her eponymous club in Tallinn.[3]

Levandi is the 2017 Estonian national advanced novice bronze medalist and the 2018 Estonian national advanced novice silver medalist. Internationally on the advanced novice level, he is the 2018 Prague Riedell Ice Cup champion and a two-time Tallink Hotels Cup champion. Levandi did not compete during most of the 2018–19 season, including the 2019 Estonian Championships.[4]

2019–2020 season

Levandi made his junior international debut at the 2019 Halloween Cup in Budapest, where he finished fourth overall. He then earned fifth-place finishes at the Volvo Open Cup and the Tallinn Trophy, before winning the bronze medal at the Golden Spin of Zagreb. Having missed the prior season, Levandi skipped the junior level entirely to compete at the senior level at the 2020 Estonian Championships. He finished fourth of four skaters behind Aleksandr Selevko, Mihhail Selevko, and Daniel Albert Naurits. However, Levandi was chosen to represent Estonia at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

At the Winter Youth Olympics, Levandi was 13th in the short program after issues with his blades, but improved to 11th in the free skating to finish 12th overall.[5] For the team event, he was chosen by draw as part of Team Courage alongside ladies' singles skater Kseniia Sinitsyna of Russia, pairs team Alina Butaeva / Luka Berulava of Georgia, and ice dancers Utana Yoshida / Shingo Nishiyama of Japan. Levandi finished seventh in the men's portion of the event, and Team Courage won the gold medal overall behind Sinitsyna's and Yoshida/Nishiyama's first-place finishes in their respective segments. Reflecting on the event, he said: "I was very happy with the draw, and now we are Youth Olympic champions."[6]

2020–2021 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic causing the cancellation of the Junior Grand Prix series, junior skaters had limited international competitive opportunities. Levandi began the season at the Tallinn Open Championships before he competed at the inaugural Budapest Trophy, where he won gold by nearly 25 points over Slovkia's Marko Pilliar and Alp Eren Özkan of Turkey. He then won gold at the domestic Tallinn Trophy. Competing on the senior level at the 2021 Estonian Championships, Levandi was third in the short program and second in the free skating to win the silver medal behind Aleksandr Selevko and ahead of Mihhail Selevko.[7] He finished his season with another gold at the Tallink Hotels Cup, this time ahead of Daniels Kockers of Latvia and Slovakia's Lukas Vaclavik.

2021–2022 season

Levandi opened his season on the Junior Grand Prix, which returned after being cancelled the previous season due to the pandemic. He earned silver at the second JGP in France, becoming the first Estonian man to medal at an ISU Junior Grand Prix event.[1] With his teammates Solène Mazingue / Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko winning bronze in ice dance, it was Estonia's first multi-medal performance on the JGP since 2006 JGP Czech Republic.[8] At his second JGP event in Slovenia, Levandi rebounded from sixth after the short program to finish second in the free skating and overall to win his second silver medal of the series.[9] He did not qualify for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final due to the unique qualification procedure implemented as a result of the pandemic; he was instead third alternate.

Levandi also made his senior international debut this season at the 2021 CS Lombardia Trophy, earning personal bests in the short program and combined total to finish seventh overall.[10] At a second Challenger event, the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, he again earned all personal bests to place seventh overall. Levandi improved his short program personal best at 2021 CS Cup of Austria en route to a sixth-place finish.[11]

Levandi won the silver medal at the Estonian Championships behind Aleksandr Selevko and ahead of Mihhail Selevko in December. The following month, he qualified to the free skate at the 2022 European Championships in his hometown of Tallinn, finishing in fourteenth place.[11] At the Estonian Junior Championships, Levandi again won silver, this time behind Mihhail Selevko. Levandi was not selected for the Olympic or the World Championships teams, but was named to the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival and the 2022 World Junior Championships teams.

Levandi returned to the junior level at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, where he finished first in both segments to comfortably win gold by over 20 points ahead of Italy's Raffaele Francesco Zich and Sweden's Casper Johansson.[12] He concluded his season at the World Junior Championships, again in front of a home crowd after Tallinn stepped out to host following problems with original site Sofia.[13] Levandi came in twelfth place.[11]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023	Yumeji's Theme (from In The Mood For Love) by Shigeru Umebayashi Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass performed by Víkingur Ólafsson choreo. by Benoît Richaud	Adagio For Tron The Grid Derezzed (from Tron: Legacy) by Daft Punk choreo. by Benoît Richaud	Papaoutai by Stromae
2021–2022 [3]	Carmen by Georges Bizet arranged by Stromae choreo. by Benoît Richaud	La terre vue du ciel by Armand Amar choreo. by Vakhtang Murvanidze
2020–2021 [14]	Natural by Imagine Dragons choreo. by Vakhtang Murvanidze
2019–2020 [15]		Adagio (from Concierto de Aranjuez) by Joaquín Rodrigo Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona choreo. by Vakhtang Murvanidze

Competitive highlights

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

International[11]
Event	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Europeans						14th
GP Finland							TBD
CS Cup of Austria						6th
CS Finlandia						7th	10th
CS Lombardia						7th
CS U.S. Classic							7th
Tallink Hotels						1st
Volvo Open Cup							2nd
International: Junior[11]
Youth Olympics				12th
Junior Worlds						12th
JGP France						2nd
JGP Slovenia						2nd
EYOF						1st
Budapest Trophy					1st
Golden Spin				3rd
Halloween Cup				4th
Tallink Hotels				1st	1st
Tallinn Trophy				5th
Volvo Open Cup				5th
International: Advanced novice[4]
Challenge Cup		10th
Kaunas Autumn		4th
Prague Ice Cup		1st
Tallink Hotels		1st	1st
Tallinn Trophy		4th
National[11][4]
Estonian Champ.				4th	2nd	2nd
Estonian Junior	3rd N	2nd N		3rd		2nd
Team events[11]
Youth Olympics				1st T 7th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: N = Advanced novice T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

ISU Personal best in bold.

Senior results

2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
10–16 January 2022	2022 European Championships	17 70.04	13 138.48	14 208.52
4–5 December 2021	2022 Estonian Championships	2 71.55	1 151.97	2 223.52
11–14 November 2021	2021 CS Cup of Austria	5 75.10	3 144.73	6 219.83
7–10 October 2021	2021 CS Finlandia Trophy	9 70.14	6 152.47	7 222.61
9–12 September 2021	2021 CS Lombardia Trophy	11 63.67	6 135.00	7 198.67
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
30–31 December 2020	2021 Estonian Championships	3 65.36	2 133.28	2 198.64
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
13–15 December 2019	2020 Estonian Championships	4 60.01	4 92.80	4 152.81

Junior results

2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
13–17 April 2022	2022 World Junior Championships	14 65.31	10 134.79	12 200.10
8–10 April 2022	2022 Kurbada Cup	1 73.65	WD	WD
20–25 March 2022	2022 European Youth Olympic Festival	1 70.55	1 138.99	1 209.54
22–25 September 2021	2021 JGP Slovenia	6 59.60	2 134.75	2 194.35
25–28 August 2021	2021 JGP France II	3 61.73	1 135.20	2 196.93
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
18–21 February 2021	2021 Tallink Hotels Cup	1 64.57	1 115.28	1 179.85
15–17 October 2020	2020 Budapest Trophy	1 50.65	1 115.04	1 165.69
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
13–16 February 2020	2020 Tallink Hotels Cup	1 62.87	1 97.18	1 160.05
10–15 January 2020	2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team	–	7 97.63	1T/7P
10–15 January 2020	2020 Winter Youth Olympics	13 49.87	11 104.78	12 154.65
4–7 December 2019	2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb	3 49.95	4 79.11	3 129.06
11–17 November 2019	2019 Tallinn Trophy	7 41.08	3 100.33	5 141.41
5–10 November 2019	2019 Volvo Open Cup	4 55.86	6 101.05	5 156.91
17–20 October 2019	2019 Halloween Cup	5 51.49	4 94.98	4 146.47

References

External links

Media related to Arlet Levandi at Wikimedia Commons

• Arlet LEVANDI at the International Skating Union
• Arlet Levandi on Instagram

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