1. Daniel Samohin is an Israeli figure skater who currently competes for the US.
29 Facts About Daniel Samohin
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Daniel Samohin is the 2016 World Junior champion, and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including a gold medal at the 2015 US International Classic.
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Daniel Samohin was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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Daniel Samohin was born on March 12,1998, in Tel Aviv, Israel, is Jewish, and speaks two languages.
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Daniel Samohin has a grandfather who lives in Russia, and a grandmother who lives in Israel.
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Daniel Samohin's father is his coach, and his mother has worked as his choreographer, as have Olga Volozhinskaia and Nikolai Morozov.
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Daniel Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Mexico.
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Daniel Samohin ranked sixth in the short program, and placed third in the free skate and was awarded the bronze medal, outscoring Canada's Nam Nguyen by 1.85 points.
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Daniel Samohin finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
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Daniel Samohin withdrew from a senior Grand Prix event, the 2015 Cup of China, in order to continue competing on the junior level.
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Daniel Samohin ranked 9th in the short program, but moved up to win the title after a personal-best free skate in which he landed three quadruple jumps.
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Daniel Samohin was the first Israeli skater to medal at Junior Worlds, and the first to win an ISU championship.
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Daniel Samohin started his season off at the 2016 CS Autumn Classic International.
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Daniel Samohin then competed at the 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy where he finished thirteenth.
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Daniel Samohin's luggage containing his skates was mislaid by the airline and did not arrive with him at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, so he tried a borrowed new pair of skates four hours before the short program.
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Daniel Samohin placed 33rd in the short, and did not advance to the free skate.
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Daniel Samohin's skates were found two and a half weeks later.
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Daniel Samohin ranked 16th in the short program, second in the free skate, and sixth overall at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Daniel Samohin won a bronze medal in the ISU CS Minsk Arena Ice Star 2017, in Minsk, Belarus.
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Daniel Samohin withdrew from the 2017 Skate America in November 2017, after dislocating his left shoulder when he fell on a quad Salchow.
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Daniel Samohin competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Men's Singles Figure Skating in Pyeongchang, South Korea, at the age of 19.
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Daniel Samohin came in 13th, with 251.44 points, additionally setting a personal best score of 170.75 in the free skate.
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Daniel Samohin finished 20th at Worlds after scoring 20th in the short program and 18th in the free skate.
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Daniel Samohin started his season off at the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy.
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Daniel Samohin began the season with a fifth-place finish at the 2019 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, before placing tenth at the 2019 Internationaux de France.
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Daniel Samohin withdrew from the 2019 Rostelecom Cup after placing eleventh in the short program, citing injury.
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Daniel Samohin won the silver medal at the Israeli championships, concluding his season.
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Daniel Samohin placed twelfth of twelve skaters at the event.
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Daniel Samohin began the international season with two minor events, a fifth place finish at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup before coming in seventh at the 2021 US International Classic.