Angelīna Kučvaļska

Angelīna Kučvaļska (born 6 December 1998) is a Latvian figure skater. She has won three ISU Challenger Series medals and two Latvian national titles. She placed fourth at the 2016 European Championships.

Angelīna Kučvaļska was born on 6 December 1998 in Saldus, Latvia. Her father died when she was 12 years old. She is a student at Riga 1st secondary school.

Kučvaļska at 2016 Rostelecom CupIMG 2074

Kučvaļska began skating at the age of three and a half. Jekaterina Platonova is her first and only coach.

2012–13 season

Kučvaļska became age-eligible for junior internationals in the 2012–13 season and placed 16th at her sole Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignment, in Courchevel, France. She was selected to represent Latvia at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy. Ranked 22nd in the short program, she qualified for the free skate and finished 20th overall.

2013–14 season

In the 2013–14 season, Kučvaļska competed at two JGP events, placing 15th in Košice and 19th in Minsk, and won the junior silver medal at the Bavarian Open. She placed 20th in both segments and 19th overall at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2014–15 season

In 2014–15, Kučvaļska placed seventh at both of her JGP assignments, in Ostrava and Tallinn. Making her senior international debut, she took gold at the 2014 Volvo Open Cup, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event. Continuing on the senior level, she placed seventh at the CS Warsaw Cup and took gold at the Tallinn Trophy, Latvian Championships, and MNNT Cup. Kučvaļska was named in Latvia's team to the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden and placed 17th in the short program, earning qualification to the next segment. After placing fifth in the free skate, she climbed to seventh overall.

2015–16 season

Kučvaļska was unable to train in July 2015 due to an ankle injury. She began the 2015–16 season at a pair of CS events, placing 10th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy before winning silver at the 2015 Denkova-Staviski Cup. Making her Grand Prix debut, she placed 7th in the short program at the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard in Bordeaux, France; the event was cancelled due to the November 2015 Paris attacks.

Kučvaļska placed fifth in the short program, fourth in the free skate, and fourth overall at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her placement is the highest by a Latvian skater at the European Championships, matching Konstantin Kostin's result in 1993.

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix