Kimmy Vivienne Repond (born 18 October 2006) is a Swiss figure skater. She is the 2022 CS Budapest Trophy silver medalist and the 2022 CS Ice Challenge bronze medalist.
Kimmy Repond | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Kimmy Vivienne Repond |
Country represented | ![]() |
Born | (2006-10-18) 18 October 2006 (age 16) Basel, Switzerland |
Home town | Basel, Switzerland |
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in) |
Coach | Jérômie Repond, Mathieu Delcambre |
Former coach | Xavier Dias, Karin Stephan, Linda Van Troyen |
Choreographer | David Vincour |
Skating club | ELS Basel |
Training locations | Basel |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 180.45 2022 JGP Poland I |
Short program | 60.86 2022 CS Budapest Trophy |
Free skate | 121.06 2022 JGP Poland I |
On the junior level, Repond finished seventh at the 2022 World Junior Championships and is a two-time (2020, 2022) Swiss junior national champion.
Repond was born on 18 October 2006 in Basel, Switzerland to father René, a management consultant, and mother Claudia, a lawyer.[1] She has three sisters – Sidonie, Jérômie, and Caline – all of whom have competed in figure skating.[2] In addition to skating, Repond is also an amateur model.[3] She plans to pursue a career in medicine once she retires from competitive skating.[4]
Repond made her international and ISU Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2021 JGP Slovakia in September, coached by her older sister Jérômie. She finished eighth in both segments to place eighth overall[5] and did not receive a second assignment. She competed at three more international junior B events in the fall, taking the title at both the 2021 Trophée Métropole Nice[6] and the 2021 NRW Trophy,[7] and placing second at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup behind Nina Pinzarrone of Belgium.[8]
Repond claimed her second Swiss junior national title in late January 2022 by a 27-point margin over second-place finisher Sarina Joos, and was later assigned to the Swiss women's berth at the 2022 World Junior Championships. At Junior Worlds, held in Tallinn, Estonia in April, Repond placed eighth in the short program and seventh in the free skate to finish seventh overall.[9] She was the highest finishing European junior woman in the event.[10]
Repond opened her season in early September at the 2022 JGP Austria where she placed fourth in the short program. She dropped to sixth in the free skate to finish sixth overall. At her second JGP assignment, the 2022 JGP Poland I, one of two events held in Gdańsk, Repond placed seventh in the short program. However, with a clean skate and a new personal best in the free program, she climbed in the standings to fourth place in the segment and fourth overall, her best finish at a JGP event to date.
In October, Repond competed at her first senior international event, the 2022 CS Budapest Trophy. She won the short program with a new personal best score, but fell to third place in the free skate to ultimately finish second overall between American gold medalist Ava Marie Ziegler and Estonian bronze medalist Niina Petrõkina. Notably, Repond led domestic rival Alexia Paganini by over six points after the short program, but Paganini later withdrew before the free.
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2022–2023 [11] |
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2021–2022 [12] |
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CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix.
International [13] | ||||||
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Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
CS Budapest Trophy | 2nd | |||||
CS Ice Challenge | 3rd | |||||
International: Junior [13] | ||||||
Junior Worlds | 7th | |||||
JGP Latvia | 6th | |||||
JGP Poland I | 4th | |||||
JGP Slovakia | 8th | |||||
NRW Trophy | 1st | 1st | ||||
Santa Claus Cup | 2nd | |||||
Sofia Trophy | 2nd | |||||
Trophée Métropole Nice | 1st | |||||
International: Advanced novice | ||||||
Bavarian Open | 1st | |||||
Denkova-Staviski Cup | 1st | |||||
Egna Spring Trophy | 1st | 1st | ||||
Golden Bear | 2nd | |||||
Halloween Cup | 1st | |||||
NRW Trophy | 1st | |||||
Rooster Cup | 4th | |||||
Santa Claus Cup | 1st | |||||
National | ||||||
Swiss Champ. | 1st N | 1st N | 1st J | C | 1st J | |
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Canceled Levels: J = Junior, N = Novice |
ISU personal bests highlighted in bold.
2022–23 season | |||||
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Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
14–16 October 2022 | 2022 CS Budapest Trophy | 1 60.86 |
3 116.88 |
2 177.74 |
2022–23 season | |||||
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Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
28 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2022 | 2022 JGP Poland I | 7 59.39 |
4 121.06 |
4 180.45 | |
7–10 September 2022 | 2022 JGP Latvia | 4 58.88 |
6 110.08 |
6 168.96 | |
2021–22 season | |||||
13–17 April 17, 2022 | 2022 World Junior Championships | 8 60.82 |
7 116.28 |
7 177.10 | |
22–23 January 2022 | 2022 Swiss Junior Championships | 1 59.77 |
1 117.52 |
1 177.29 | |
6–12 December 2021 | 2021 Santa Claus Cup | 5 57.67 |
1 113.12 |
2 170.79 | |
4–7 November 2021 | 2021 NRW Trophy | 2 54.05 |
1 104.68 |
1 158.73 | |
20–24 October 2021 | 2021 Trophée Métropole Nice | 1 55.70 |
1 108.11 |
1 163.81 | |
1–4 September 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | 8 51.97 |
8 103.09 |
8 155.06 | |
2020–21 season | |||||
26 Feb. – 3 Mar. 2021 | 2021 Sofia Trophy | 2 63.00 |
2 120.69 |
2 183.69 | |
26–29 November 2020 | 2020 NRW Trophy | 1 58.16 |
1 111.46 |
1 169.62 | |
2019–20 season | |||||
1–2 February 2020 | 2020 Swiss Junior Championships | 2 56.78 |
1 109.34 |
1 166.12 |