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Vanesa Šelmeková
Slovak figure skater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vanesa Šelmeková (born 20 January 2007) is a Slovak figure skater. She is the 2024 Tirnavia Ice Cup champion, the 2023 Tirnavia Ice Cup silver medalist, the 2024 Dragon Trophy bronze medalist, and a two-time Slovak national champion (2024, 2025).
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Personal life
Šelmeková was born on 20 January 2007 in Žilina, Slovakia.[1]
Career
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Early years
Šelmeková began learning how to skate when she was five years old. Her mother Monika put her into the sport on the recommendation of a friend based on Šelmeková's early love of singing, dancing, and listening to music.[2]
2021–2022 season
Šelmeková made her junior international level debut on the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing fourteenth at 2021 JGP France and at the 2021 JGP Slovakia. Continuing to compete on the junior level, Šelmeková won the bronze medal at the 2021 Tirnavia Ice Cup, bronze at 2021 Skate Celje, placing tenth at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup, and winning bronze at the 2022 Bellu Memorial.[3]
Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Šelmeková placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment.[3]
2022–2023 season
Šelmeková started the season by competing on the 2022–23 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing fourteenth at 2022 JGP Czech Republic and twenty-second at 2022 JGP Poland. She then moved up to the senior level, finishing fourth at the 2022 Tirnavia Ice Cup and tenth at the 2022 Santa Claus Cup.[3]
In December, she finished eleventh at the 2023 Four Nationals Championships. Selected to compete at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Pontebba, Italy, Šelmeková finished the event in sixteenth place.[3]
After winning gold on the junior level at the 2023 Sofia Trophy, Šelmeková competed at the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and finished in twenty-eighth place.[3]
2023–2024 season
Šelmeková began the season by competing on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing twenty-second at 2023 JGP Austria and nineteenth at 2023 JGP Hungary. She then competed on the senior level, placing eighth at the 2023 CS Nepela Memorial, winning silver at the 2023 Tirnavia Ice Cup, and placing twelfth at the 2023 CS Warsaw Cup.[3]
Šelmeková then went on to compete at her first European Championships as the youngest competitor.[4] She placed twenty-ninth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate.[5] She followed up this event by winning bronze at the 2024 Dragon Trophy.[3]
She met the required minimum technical scores to compete at the 2024 World Championships late in the season, and the Slovak Figure Skating Union was divided about whether to send her; they ultimately decided to do so, but if she did not mean a target technical and overall score, she would have to pay the travel expenses for the competition herself.[6] Šelmeková therefore finished her season by competing at the World Championships. In the short program, she under-rotated her triple Lutz jump-triple toe loop jump combination and fell on her triple flip. She finished in twenty-eighth place and did not advance to the free skate.[7] She expressed disappointment about her fall as well as not reaching the score targets set for her by the Slovak Figure Skating Union.[6]
2024–2025 season
Šelmeková started the season by competing on the 2024–25 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twentieth at 2024 JGP Slovenia.[8] She subsequently went on to compete on the 2024–25 ISU Challenger Series, finishing ninth at the 2024 CS Nepela Memorial and fourteenth at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup. Between those two events, she won the gold medal at the 2024 Tirnavia Ice Cup.[3]
In December, Šelmeková won the gold medal at the 2025 Four Nationals Championships.[3] Following the event, she traveled to France to refine the choreography for her programs ahead of the 2025 European Championships in January.[9]
At the European Championships, she reached the free skate after placing twenty-second in the short program; it was the first time in six years that a Slovak woman had qualified for the free skate at the European championships.[10] In the free skate, she had one fall but otherwise landed her jumps to rise to twentieth place overall.[11] She followed up this result with a fourth-place finish at the 2025 Dragon Trophy.[3]
In March, Šelmeková competed at the 2025 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She placed twenty-sixth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate. Šelmeková later shared that while she felt more comfortable than she had at the previous year's World Championships, she became nervous, which caused her to stiffen up, and that she was still recovering from an injury that had been bothering her since before the European Championships. However, she expressed happiness that the audience reacted well to her step sequence.[12]
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Programs
Competitive highlights
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix
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Detailed results
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External links
- Vanesa Šelmeková at the International Skating Union
- Vanesa Šelmeková at Skating Scores
References
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