1. Isabeau Levito was born on March 3,2007 and is an American figure skater.
44 Facts About Isabeau Levito
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At the junior level, Levito is the 2022 World Junior champion, the 2021 JGP France II champion, the 2021 JGP Austria silver medalist, and the 2021 US junior national champion.
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Isabeau Levito was born on March 3,2007, in Philadelphia, and currently resides in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
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Isabeau Levito's mother, Chiara Garberi Levito, is a clinical embryologist who immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1997.
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Isabeau Levito cites skaters Alena Kostornaia, Evgenia Medvedeva, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, and Kaori Sakamoto as being her skating inspirations and role models.
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Isabeau Levito began learning how to skate in 2010 at the age of three in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
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Isabeau Levito began taking private lessons with her current coach Yulia Kuznetsova, a former pair skater, at age three.
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Isabeau Levito competed at her first US Figure Skating Championships at the juvenile level in 2018 taking the title; she later won the silver medal in the intermediate category in 2019, the junior silver medal in 2020, and the junior national title in 2021.
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Isabeau Levito made her junior international debut at the 2021 JGP France II, the second of two Junior Grand Prix events held in Courchevel, in August.
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Isabeau Levito won both segments of the competition to take the title ahead of South Korean skater Kim Chae-yeon and Canadian competitor Kaiya Ruiter.
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At her second event in October which was the 2021 JGP Austria, Isabeau Levito took the silver medal; Russian skaters Sofia Muravieva placed first and Anastasia Zinina was third.
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Isabeau Levito placed fourth in the short program and narrowly advanced to second in the free skate to take the bronze medal overall, behind Mariah Bell and Karen Chen.
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Isabeau Levito was supposed to finish her season at the 2022 World Junior Championships, the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing at the ISU championships.
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At Junior Worlds, Isabeau Levito won the short program, introducing a Lutz-loop combination into competition, with a score of 72.50,3.12 points ahead of Shin Ji-a of South Korea.
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Isabeau Levito finished second in the free skate, behind Shin, but remained in first overall by 0.54 points and took the gold medal.
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Isabeau Levito was the first American woman to win the World Junior Championships since Rachael Flatt in 2008.
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Isabeau Levito opened her debut senior season at the Philadelphia Summer International.
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Isabeau Levito placed first in both segments of the competition to win the competition with a score of 207.67, four points ahead of second-place finisher Lindsay Thorngren.
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Isabeau Levito was invited to make her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate America.
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Isabeau Levito finished second, behind reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto.
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Isabeau Levito was the youngest American to qualify for the Final since Caroline Zhang in 2007.
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Isabeau Levito stepped out of her opening jump combination and fell on her triple flip; she was visibly unhappy with her performance at the conclusion, but it proved sufficient to place second in the segment elevating her to second overall.
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Isabeau Levito entered the 2023 US Championships as the heavy favourite for the gold medal, and won the short program by a 0.02-point margin over former champion Bradie Tennell, who was making a gradual return from injury.
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Isabeau Levito won the free skate by a wider margin of 10.19 points over Tennell, winning her first national title.
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Isabeau Levito finished second in the short program, 1.34 points behind South Korean Kim Ye-lim, winning a silver small medal.
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Isabeau Levito said that "for the most part, I am satisfied" with the performance.
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Isabeau Levito withdrew just before the warmup for the free skate on the following day, citing illness.
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Isabeau Levito placed fourth in the segment, 0.43 points back of Mihara in third place.
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Isabeau Levito was fifth in that segment, but remained in fourth place overall, and finished less than three points behind Belgian bronze medalist Loena Hendrickx.
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Isabeau Levito said she was "severely disappointed" by her mistake, but said that overall she felt she had "a great experience in the senior level" during the season.
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Isabeau Levito placed third in the short program after underrotating the second part of her jump combination.
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Isabeau Levito underrotated one triple jump in the free skate, but placed fourth in the segment.
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Isabeau Levito was invited to participate in the Japan Open as part of Team North America, and finished third in the women's competition, while the team finished second overall.
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Isabeau Levito began the Grand Prix at the 2023 Skate America, where she finished narrowly third in the segment, 1.38 points behind second-place Amber Glenn.
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Isabeau Levito faltered in the free skate, with two difficult jump landings and a fall out of her closing spin, as a result placing third in that segment, but her short program lead was enough to keep her in first place over Belgium's Nina Pinzarrone.
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The free skate proved difficult, with Isabeau Levito falling three times.
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Isabeau Levito came fourth in that segment, and dropped to the bronze medal position overall, behind Amber Glenn and Josephine Lee.
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Two months later, at the 2024 World Championships in Montreal, Isabeau Levito finished second in the short program with a personal best score of 73.73 points.
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Isabeau Levito said that she was "satisfied" with the performance.
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Isabeau Levito won the bronze medal at the 2024 CS Cranberry Cup International behind fellow Americans, Sarah Everhardt and Elyce Lin-Gracey.
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Isabeau Levito withdrew from the 2025 US Figure Skating Championships a week before the event, citing a foot injury, though she still hoped to be named to the 2025 World Championships team.
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Isabeau Levito returned to competition in February at the Road to 26 Trophy in Milan, which served as a test event for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Isabeau Levito said that while she had hoped she could attempt a more difficult triple-triple combination in her program, she was not quite ready to do so yet as she had only resumed training jumps three weeks previously.
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On March 2,2025, Isabeau Levito took part in Legacy on Ice, an ice show organized by US Figure Skating that paid tribute to lives lost aboard American Eagle Flight 5342.