Hektor Giotopoulos Moore

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Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore at the 2023 Skate Canada International
Born (2002-06-25) 25 June 2002 (age 21)
Melbourne, Australia
HometownSydney, Australia
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
CountryAustralia Australia
PartnerAnastasia Golubeva
CoachGalina Pachin
Andrei Pachin
Skating clubSydney FSC
Medal record
Figure skating: Pairs
Representing  Australia
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tallinn Pairs
Silver medal – second place 2023 Calgary Pairs
Junior Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place 2022–23 Torino Pairs

Hektor Giotopoulos Moore is an Australian

pair skater. With his skating partner, Anastasia Golubeva, he is the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup
champion.

On the junior level, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore are two-time World silver medalists (2022 and 2023) and the 2022-23 Junior Grand Prix Final champions.

Personal life

Giotopoulos Moore was born on June 25, 2002, in

citizenship, and is fluent in Russian, which he learned to speak while training in Moscow during the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Career

Giotopoulos Moore began skating at the age of nine after developing an interest in pair skating from watching a pair team, coached by Galina and Andrei Pachin, performing a lift in practice at the Sydney Figure Skating Club. The Pachins agreed to train him after seeing how tall Giotopoulos Moore's father was and knowing that Giotopoulos Moore would likely grow to be tall enough to be a pair skater as well. In addition, he won the 2017 Australian Novice Championships as a singles skater.[2]

Due to the difficulties of finding a suitable pair partner in Australia, Giotopoulos Moore and his coaches searched for potential partners abroad. He initially skated with Karina Akopova of Russia and Milania Vaananen of Finland but neither partnerships lasted. In the fall of 2019, Giotopoulos Moore had a try-out with Anastasia Golubeva, a singles skater from Moscow, after Galina and Andrei Pachin were able to get in contact with Golubeva's coach in Russia. Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore decided to team up following a successful try-out.[2]

In February of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit while Giotopoulos Moore was training with Golubeva in Moscow, and Golubeva had yet to obtain a visa to relocate to Australia. Due to lockdowns, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore were unable to use Russian ice rinks to train so instead, they would meet daily to practice off-ice training. The pair would also temporarily train in Belarus because the country allowed a three-month visa-free entry.[2][3]

The team would finally relocate to Sydney, Australia after the country re-opened its borders.[2]

2021–22 season

Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore debuted as a pair team on the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix and finished fifth at both their ISU Junior Grand Prix events in Russia and Austria. The pair would also go on to compete at the senior level the 2021–22 Challenger Series, placing eighth at the 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy and tenth at the 2021 Golden Spin of Zagreb. At the 2022 Winter Star in Minsk, Belarus, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore would win the gold medal.[4]

Although the pair were assigned to compete at the

Russian invasion of Ukraine. Due to Golubeva's Russian citizenship, they were unable to have a visa processed in time to travel to France, and withdrew from the event.[5]

As a further result of the invasion, the International Skating Union banned all Russian and Belarusian skaters from participating in international competitions, which had a significant impact on the international pairs field.[6] Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore were assigned as well to the 2022 World Junior Championships, initially scheduled to be held in Sofia in March. However, due to both the invasion and COVID pandemic issues, Bulgaria renounced hosting the event, which was rescheduled for Tallinn in April.[7] Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore placed second in the short program.[5] They were second in the free skate as well, despite some minor errors, winning the silver medal. Golubeva said afterward that "this is my first medal. We have some little mistakes in the program, but overall we're very happy."[8] They became the third Australian pair team to win a World Junior medal, after Cain/Cain in 1976 and Alexandrovskaya/Windsor in 2017.[9]

2022–23 season

Although Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore were selected to compete on the

Torino, Italy.[11]

Following the Junior Grand Prix, the pair also competed at the 2022 Warsaw Cup, which they won.[4] At the JGP Final, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore placed second in the short program after Golubeva struggled to cleanly land the throw triple toe-loop, but the pair would go on to deliver a strong free skate and take the gold medal. After their free skate comeback, Golubeva said that they "tried to give all the strength we had to put into this program." Theirs was the second Junior Grand Prix Final title for an Australian pair, after Alexandrovskaya/Windsor.[12]

Although assigned to compete at the 2023 Four Continents Championships, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore withdrew from the event. At the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta, they placed second in the short program after unexpectedly missing their death spiral. The pair were able to deliver a solid free skate, however, and win the silver medal behind Americans Baram/Tioumentsev. Giotopoulos Moore called it "a huge achievement for us and we are very happy."[13]

Making their World Championship debut at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, the pair placed eleventh in the short program after Golubeva fell on a throw triple loop attempt but the pair would go on to deliver an almost-perfect free skate, earning a new personal best and placing fifth in that segment of the competition, moving up to eighth-place overall. Golubeva said that they had achieved their goal of a top ten placement, adding they were "so happy and thrilled" with how they had skated.[14]

2023–24 season

With Giotopoulos Moore aging out of junior eligibility, the team planned for its first full senior season, primarily training in Australia for Golubeva's residency purposes, but also spending time in Montreal due to the coach's belief they needed to train with other high-level pair skaters, and Russia's being difficult to train in at the time.[2] They were invited to participate in the Shanghai Trophy, finishing fourth.[4]

Golubeva and Giotopoulos Moore during their short program at the 2024 World Championships

Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore made their senior

Grand Prix debut at the 2023 Skate Canada International. They placed third in both segments of the competition, but finished fourth overall, less than two points behind bronze medalists Beccari/Guarise of Italy. Despite several errors in their free skate, they considered it an improvement on their earlier performances, with Golubeva saying "we are looking forward to growing this program."[15] At the 2023 NHK Trophy they finished third in the short program, but dropped to fourth place after the free skate. They said they considered their first Grand Prix season a valuable experience given its much greater professionalism in comparison to the Junior Grand Prix.[16]

For the first time in their partnership, the team was able to compete at a domestic championships, winning the Australian national title.[4] At the 2024 Four Continents Championships in Shanghai, Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore were seventh in the short program after she fell on a jump. They rallied in the free skate, coming fourth in that segment and moving up to fourth overall. The two said that they were pleased at their ability to recover from a disappointing short program, and that they planned to train in Montreal in advance of the 2024 World Championships in that city.[17] The team ultimately came tenth in Montreal.[4]

Programs

With Golubeva

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[18][2]
2022–2023
[19]
2021–2022
[1]

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Pairs with Golubeva

International [4]
Event 21–22 22–23 23–24
Worlds WD 8th 10th
Four Continents WD 4th
GP
Finland
 WD
GP NHK Trophy 4th
GP Skate America WD
GP Skate Canada 4th
CS Autumn Classic WD
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 10th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 8th
CS Warsaw Cup 1st
Shanghai Trophy 4th
International: Junior [4]
Junior Worlds 2nd 2nd
JGP Final 1st
JGP Austria 5th
JGP Poland I 1st
JGP Poland II 1st
JGP Russia 5th
Winter Star 1st
National [4]
Australian Champ. 1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [20]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 189.47 2023 World Championships
Short program TSS 64.61 2023 NHK Trophy
TES 33.15 2022 CS Warsaw Cup
PCS 29.49 2023 NHK Trophy
Free skating TSS 127.52 2023 World Championships
TES 68.03 2023 World Championships
PCS 59.89 2023 NHK Trophy

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

With Golubeva

Senior results

2023–2024 season
Date Event SP FS Total
18–24 March 2024 2024 World Championships 11
63.35 		8
119.36 		10
182.71
30 Jan. – 4 Feb. 2024 2024 Four Continents Championships 7
58.79 		4
125.04 		4
183.83
2–8 December 2023 2023 Australian Championships 1
65.94 		1
124.62 		1
190.56
24–26 November 2023 2023 NHK Trophy 3
64.61 		4
120.78 		4
185.39
27–29 October 2023 2023 Skate Canada International 3
62.80 		3
116.81 		4
179.61
3–5 October, 2023 2023 Shanghai Trophy 1
63.51 		4
97.71 		4
161.22
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
22–26 March 2023 2023 World Championships 11
61.95 		5
127.52 		8
189.47
17–20 November 2022 2022 CS Warsaw Cup 2
63.62 		1
121.91 		1
185.53
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
7–11 December 2021 2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 13
53.41 		9
110.16 		10
163.57
22–25 September 2021 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 13
49.55 		8
99.80 		8
149.35

Junior results

2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
27 February–5 March 2023 2023 World Junior Championships 3
59.18 		2
111.18 		2
170.36
8–11 December 2022 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final 2
60.19 		1
121.18 		1
181.37
5–8 October 2022 2022 JGP Poland II 1
59.90 		1
101.27 		1
161.17
28 September–1 October 2022 2022 JGP Poland I 1
58.03 		1
108.53 		1
166.56
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
13–17 April 2023 2022 World Junior Championships 2
61.72 		2
108.19 		2
169.91
10–13 February 2022 2022 Winter Star 1
56.22 		2
98.36 		1
154.58
6–9 October 2021 2021 JGP Austria 5
53.04 		4
107.12 		5
160.16
15–18 September 2021 2021 JGP Russia 5
57.35 		5
101.33 		5
158.68

References

  1. ^ a b "Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE: 2021/2022". International Skating Union.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Flade, Tatjana (26 June 2023). "Bright future ahead for Australia's Golubeva and Giotopoulos Moore". Golden Skate. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Juniors end long and exciting Figure Skating season on a high note in Tallinn (EST)". International Skating Union. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Competition Results: Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE". International Skating Union.
  5. ^ a b Slater, Paula (14 April 2022). "Safina and Berulava stand out in Tallinn". Golden Skate. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ^ "ISU Statement on the Ukrainian crisis – Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus". International Skating Union. 1 March 2022.
  7. ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2022 allotted to Tallinn (EST)". International Skating Union. 4 March 2022.
  8. ^ Slater, Paula (15 April 2022). "Safina and Berulava take first Junior World gold for Georgian Pairs". Golden Skate. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Safina/Berulava score historic Junior Pairs title for Georgia". International Skating Union. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Shimada (JPN) scores second Junior Grand Prix victory". International Skating Union. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  11. ^ "More Skaters secure spots for the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final". International Skating Union. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  12. ^ "Favorites Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore fight back in Free Skating to win Australia's second Junior Grand Prix Final title". International Skating Union. 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Baram/Tioumentsev take first Junior Pairs gold for USA in 10 years". International Skating Union. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  14. ^ Slater, Paula (23 March 2023). "Miura and Kihara grand-slam their way into history". Golden Skate. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  15. ^ Slater, Paula (29 October 2023). "Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps dominate pairs at Skate Canada". Golden Skate. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  16. ^ Slater, Paula (25 November 2023). "Hase and Volodin dominate pairs at NHK Trophy in debut season". Golden Skate. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  17. ^ Slater, Paula (3 February 2024). "Stellato-Dudek claims Four Continents title". Golden Skate. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIATOPOULOS-MOORE: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  19. ^ "Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  20. ^ "AUS-Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE". Skating Scores.

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