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Natasha McKay (born 14 January 1995) is a Scottish figure skater who competes in ladies' singles for Great Britain. She is the 2018 Golden Bear of Zagreb champion, the 2017 Skate Helena champion, the 2017 Open d'Andorra champion, and a five-time British national champion (2017–2020, 2022).

Natasha McKay
McKay in 2018
Personal information
Country represented	Great Britain
Born	(1995-01-14) 14 January 1995 (age 27) Dundee, Scotland
Height	1.54 m (5 ft 1⁄2 in)
Coach	Debi and Simon Briggs
Former coach	Yuri Bureiko
Choreographer	Andrew Smith
Former choreographer	Debi Briggs
Skating club	Dundee ISC
Training locations	Dundee
Began skating	2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	162.54 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy
Short program	58.15 2021 Worlds
Free skate	105.28 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy

Personal life

McKay was born on 14 January 1995 in Dundee, Scotland.[1] She attended St John's School in Dundee before moving, around 2008, to Coventry, England.[2] She returned to Dundee by 2012.[3]

Career

McKay began learning to skate in 2002.[1] In a 2018 interview, she recalled, "I begged my mum for skates for a whole year [...] until she gave in."[4]

McKay won the junior bronze medal at the British Championships in the 2009–10 season. In February 2011, she placed 22nd at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Liberec, Czech Republic. She was coached by Yuri Bureiko in Coventry.[2]

In the 2012–13 season, McKay made her only appearance on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 24th in Bled, Slovenia, and won her second junior national bronze medal. She was coached by Debi and Simon Briggs in Dundee, Scotland.[3]

She won the senior bronze medal at the British Championships in the 2014–15 season and finished 5th the next year.

McKay won gold at the Open d'Andorra in November 2016 and became the British national champion the following month.[5] In January 2017, she took gold at Skate Helena. She was named in the British team to the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava.[6] In the Czech Republic, she ranked 24th in the short program, giving her the final qualifying spot, and then rose to 18th overall by placing 16th in the free skate.

In December 2018, McKay won her third consecutive national title.

At the 2019 World Championships, McKay qualified for the free skate for the first time, and placed twenty-first overall.[7]

British champion for a fourth time in 2020, McKay was assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[8]

With the lockdowns in Britain greatly affecting the availability of ice time, McKay temporarily relocated to Bradford in West Yorkshire during the summer of 2020, until the Scottish government revised its guidelines.[9] McKay was named to the British team for the 2021 European Championships, but they were cancelled as a result of ongoing pandemic.[10] Additional lockdown measures introduced by the Scottish government after Christmas resulted in her only being able to train four days a week, an hour and a half a day. Competing at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, McKay placed twenty-third.[11] This result qualified a place for Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[12]

McKay was fifteenth at the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy to begin the Beijing Olympic season.[13] After winning another British national title, she was named to the British Olympic team. She said that it "means everything to me to get to the Olympics – I've been dreaming of this since I was a little girl watching it on television."[14] Prior to the Games, she finished seventeenth at the 2022 European Championships.[13] McKay was twenty-eighth in the short program of the Olympic women's event, and did not advance to the free skate.[15]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating
2022-2023	Sealion by Feist	Express Welcome to Burlesque (from Burlesque) The Beautiful People (from Burlesque)
2021–2022 [16]	Sealion by Feist	5 Year (from Ocean's 8) by Daniel Pemberton Best Friend by Sofi Tukker Moog Necklace Game On (from Ocean's 8) by Daniel Pemberton
2019–2021 [17]	Song for the Little Sparrow by Abel Korzeniowski	5 Years by Daniel Pemberton Best Friend by Soffi Tucker Moog Necklace by Daniel Pemberton Game On
2018–2019 [1]		Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns
2017–2018 [18]	El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!)
2016–2017 [19]		The Swan (from The Carnival of the Animals) by Camille Saint-Saëns Black Swan by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Clint Mansell
2012–2013 [3]	The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Music by Lady Gaga

Competitive highlights

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

International[13]
Event	06–07	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Olympics														28th
Worlds									32nd	32nd	21st	C	23rd	23rd
Europeans									18th	27th	20th	23rd	C	17th
GP Wilson Trophy															TBD
CS Alpen Trophy											9th
CS Cup of Austria														14th
CS Finlandia Trophy										18th	20th			15th	16th
CS Lombardia Trophy												12th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy										18th
CS Warsaw Cup														11th
Cup of Nice										6th
Cup of Tyrol									5th		10th
Denkova-Staviski										3rd		2nd
Golden Bear											1st	3rd
Int. Challenge Cup										6th		4th
Merano Cup										2nd
Open d'Andorra									1st
Skate Helena									1st
Tayside Trophy												1st		1st	3rd
Volvo Open Cup											6th
International: Junior[13]
JGP Slovenia					24th
Cup of Nice			14th	15th
EYOF			22nd
NRW Trophy		18th
National[13]
British Champ.	8th N	3rd J	4th J	4th J	3rd J	4th J	3rd	5th	1st	1st	1st	1st	C	1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

References

External links

• Natasha McKay at the International Skating Union

На других языках

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- [en] Natasha McKay

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[ru] Маккей, Наташа

Наташа Маккей (англ. Natasha McKay; родилась 14 января 1995 (1995-01-14) в Данди) — шотландская фигуристка, выступающая в одиночном катании. На международных турнирах она представляет Великобританию. Маккей завоевала шесть международных наград, в том числе четыре золотые. Она является трёхкратной чемпионкой Великобритании.

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