Dinh Tran
Dinh Tran | |
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Born | San Francisco, California | June 21, 2001
Hometown | San Francisco, California |
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
Figure skating career | |
Country | United States |
Coach | Dee Goldstein, Viacheslav Zagorodniuk |
Skating club | SC of San Francisco |
Began skating | 2006 |
Dinh Tran (born June 21, 2001) is an American figure skater. He is the 2022 Philadelphia Summer International silver medalist and a two-time U.S. national junior silver medalist (2018, 2019).
Personal life
[edit]Tran was born on June 21, 2001, in San Francisco, California.[1] His mother, Mimi Hoang, is a physical education teacher.[2] The daughter of a Vietnamese mother and American soldier, she was left with her grandmother and grew up in Saigon, working as a housekeeper from the age of 8, before moving to the U.S. at 18.[3]
Tran was raised in Tenderloin, San Francisco with two older brothers, Phong and Hao, and one younger, Trieu.[4] His parents divorced when he was 14 years old.[3] Growing up, he took flute lessons and performed with his school's jazz band.[3] He received a full scholarship to attend Stuart Hall High School,[3] graduating in 2020.[5] He subsequently enrolled at California State University, Long Beach as a computer science major but soon switched to mechanical engineering.[6][7]
Career
[edit]Early years
[edit]Tran was first introduced to ice skating at a birthday party.[6] He started taking lessons at the Yerba Buena ice rink, which offered free lessons to children from Tenderloin.[3] Later, his family was granted a free membership at the Skating Club of San Francisco and also found a local sponsor.[3]
Early in his career, he was coached by Jeffrey Crandell.[3] Tran sustained a sprained ankle and shin splints in the 2017–18 season.[3] In October 2017, he debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series, placing twelfth in Poland. He won silver in the junior men's event at the 2018 U.S. Championships.[8]
Tran sprained his ankle three more times in the fall of 2018.[9] At the 2019 U.S. Championships, he repeated as junior silver medalist.[10]
Senior career
[edit]By the 2019–20 season, Tran was training under Dee Goldstein.[11] He placed ninth at his JGP assignment. He qualified to the senior men's event at the 2020 U.S. Championships, where he finished eighth.[10]
Making his senior international debut, he placed ninth at the 2021 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in September. In January, he finished eighth at the 2022 U.S. Championships.[10]
In August 2022, Tran won silver at the Philadelphia Summer International. He then appeared at two Challenger competitions, placing thirteenth at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy and seventh at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy.[10] Following Eric Sjoberg's withdrawal, Tran was invited to his first Grand Prix event, the 2022 Skate America, where he finished tenth.[10]
Programs
[edit]Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2023–2024 [12][13] |
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2022–2023 [1][2] |
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2021–2022 [2] |
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2020–2021 2019–2020 [11][2] |
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2018–2019 [14][2] |
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2017–2018 [2] |
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Competitive highlights
[edit]GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Senior and junior
[edit]International[10] | ||||||
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Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
GP Skate America | 10th | |||||
CS Finlandia | 13th | |||||
CS Lombardia | 7th | |||||
Philadelphia | 2nd | |||||
U.S. Classic | 9th | |||||
Universiade | 9th | |||||
International: Junior[10] | ||||||
JGP Austria | 10th | |||||
JGP Poland | 12th | 9th | ||||
National[2] | ||||||
U.S. Championships | 2nd J | 2nd J | 8th | 10th | 8th | 16th |
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew J = Junior level |
Detailed results
[edit]Senior level
[edit]2022–23 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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January 23–29, 2023 | 2023 U.S. Championships | 16 60.63 |
13 126.55 |
16 187.18 |
January 13–15, 2023 | 2023 Winter Universiade | 17 60.69 |
8 137.90 |
9 198.59 |
October 21–23, 2022 | 2022 Skate America | 11 64.99 |
10 134.69 |
10 199.68 |
October 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 15 62.52 |
12 128.82 |
13 191.34 |
September 16–19, 2022 | 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy | 8 60.53 |
7 125.61 |
7 186.14 |
August 7, 2022 | 2022 Philadelphia Summer International | 2 71.54 |
1 127.11 |
2 198.65 |
2021–22 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 3–9, 2022 | 2022 U.S. Championships | 9 71.18 |
7 144.54 |
8 215.72 |
September 14–17, 2021 | 2021 U.S. International Classic | 8 65.77 |
10 110.95 |
9 176.72 |
2020–21 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
January 11–21, 2021 | 2021 U.S. Championships | 10 74.03 |
11 136.76 |
10 210.79 |
2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
Jan. 20–26, 2020 | 2020 U.S. Championships | 11 71.86 |
8 149.02 |
8 220.88 |
Junior level
[edit]2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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September 18–21, 2019 | 2019 JGP Poland | 12 56.88 |
9 118.35 |
9 175.23 |
2018–19 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
Jan 19–27, 2019 | 2019 U.S. Championships | 4 64.84 |
2 131.19 |
2 196.03 |
Aug 29 – September 1, 2018 | 2018 JGP Austria | 10 60.07 |
10 109.63 |
10 169.70 |
2017–18 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018 | 2018 U.S. Championships | 2 67.28 |
2 132.67 |
2 199.95 |
October 4–7, 2017 | 2017 JGP Poland | 10 60.53 |
12 112,38 |
12 172.91 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dinh TRAN: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Dinh Tran". U.S. Figure Skating. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Almond, Elliott (December 30, 2017). "From the Tenderloin to triple axels: How one teen is overcoming skating's long odds". Bay Area News Group. The Mercury News. Archived from the original on January 9, 2022.
- ^ "Mother Enrolls Four Sons in SMART's Program, Sees Them Graduate". thesmartprogram.org. 2019. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022.
- ^ "Alumni Athlete: Dinh Tran '20". Convent & Stuart Hall. April 25, 2022. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022.
- ^ a b Vasquez, Cristian (March 8, 2022). "Engineering on Ice: CSULB engineering student Dinh Tran places 8th at U.S. Figure Skating Championships". daily49er.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022.
- ^ Carr, Janis (February 21, 2022). "CSULB engineering student lands an 8th-place finish at U.S. Figure Skating Championships". California State University, Long Beach. Archived from the original on April 29, 2022.
- ^ Lewis, Michael C. (January 3, 2018). "Dinh Tran, skater from Tenderloin, medals at nationals". East Bay Times. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021.
- ^ Pederson, Marissa (January 23, 2019). "Learning from Hardships, Dinh Tran Continues to Build at U.S. Championships". U.S. Figure Skating. Archived from the original on June 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Competition Results: Dinh TRAN". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022.
- ^ a b "Dinh TRAN: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 23, 2020.
- ^ Ge, Misha. "Dihn Tran 2023/24 SP". Instagram. Retrieved April 22, 2023.
- ^ Ge, Misha. "Dinh Tran: 2022/23". Instagram. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
- ^ "Dinh TRAN: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Dinh Tran at the International Skating Union
- Dinh Tran on X