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Curran Oi
American figure skater (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Curran Oi (born October 19, 1990) is an American figure skater. He won two ISU Junior Grand Prix silver medals and placed fifth at the 2009 World Junior Championships. He is the founder of Stats on Ice, an online statistics database on figure skaters.[1]
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Personal life
Oi was born on October 19, 1990, in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] He is the brother of Bryna Oi, the 2011 Japanese national ice dancing champion with Taiyo Mizutani.[3] His brother, Aidan Oi, competed in swimming and attended Boston University Academy.[citation needed]
Oi began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009,[4] graduating in 2013 with a degree in nuclear engineering and physics.[5] He then enrolled as a PhD student in biophysics at Yale University.[5]
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Career
Oi began skating at age six after seeing the sport on television.[6] He trained at the Skating Club of Boston under Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson.[7] He won a silver medal on the Junior Grand Prix circuit in his first year on it and placed 5th at the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final.[8]
Oi was selected for the 2008 and 2009 U.S. Figure Skating Scholastics Honors Team.[9][10]
Oi announced that he would not compete in the 2009–10 season in order to focus on his studies.[4] In 2014, he started skating again, and has been coached by Matthew Savoie once a week.[5][11]
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