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Dinh Tran
American figure skater

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).

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Personal life

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.5 Growing up, he took flute lessons and performed with his school's jazz band.6 He received a full scholarship to attend Stuart Hall High School,7 graduating in 2020.8 He subsequently enrolled at California State University, Long Beach as a computer science major but soon switched to mechanical engineering.910

Career

Early years

Tran was first introduced to ice skating at a birthday party.11 He started taking lessons at the Yerba Buena ice rink, which offered free lessons to children from Tenderloin.12 Later, his family was granted a free membership at the Skating Club of San Francisco and also found a local sponsor.13

Early in his career, he was coached by Jeffrey Crandell.14 Tran sustained a sprained ankle and shin splints in the 2017–18 season.15 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.16

Tran sprained his ankle three more times in the fall of 2018.17 At the 2019 U.S. Championships, he repeated as junior silver medalist.18

Senior career

By the 2019–20 season, Tran was training under Dee Goldstein.19 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.20

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.21

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.22 Following Eric Sjoberg's withdrawal, Tran was invited to his first Grand Prix event, the 2022 Skate America, where he finished tenth.23

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skatingExhibition
2023–2024 2425
2022–2023 2627
2021–2022 28
2020–2021 2019–2020 2930
2018–2019 3132
  • Golden Age by Woodkid
  • Volcano by Woodkid
  • Run Boy Run by Woodkid by Woodkid choreo. by Alex Chang
2017–2018 33

Competitive highlights

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

Senior and junior

International34
Event17–1818–1919–2020–2121–2222–23
GP Skate America10th
CS Finlandia13th
CS Lombardia7th
Philadelphia2nd
U.S. Classic9th
Universiade9th
International: Junior35
JGP Austria10th
JGP Poland12th9th
National36
U.S. Championships2nd J2nd J8th10th8th16th
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew J = Junior level

Detailed results

Senior level

2022–23 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
January 23–29, 20232023 U.S. Championships16 60.6313 126.5516 187.18
January 13–15, 20232023 Winter Universiade17 60.698 137.909 198.59
October 21–23, 20222022 Skate America11 64.9910 134.6910 199.68
October 4–9, 20222022 CS Finlandia Trophy15 62.5212 128.8213 191.34
September 16–19, 20222022 CS Lombardia Trophy8 60.537 125.617 186.14
August 7, 20222022 Philadelphia Summer International2 71.541 127.112 198.65
2021–22 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
January 3–9, 20222022 U.S. Championships9 71.187 144.548 215.72
September 14–17, 20212021 U.S. International Classic8 65.7710 110.959 176.72
2020–21 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
January 11–21, 20212021 U.S. Championships10 74.0311 136.7610 210.79
2019–20 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
Jan. 20–26, 20202020 U.S. Championships11 71.868 149.028 220.88

Junior level

2019–20 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
September 18–21, 20192019 JGP Poland12 56.889 118.359 175.23
2018–19 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
Jan 19–27, 20192019 U.S. Championships4 64.842 131.192 196.03
Aug 29 – September 1, 20182018 JGP Austria10 60.0710 109.6310 169.70
2017–18 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
December 29, 2017 – January 8, 20182018 U.S. Championships2 67.282 132.672 199.95
October 4–7, 20172017 JGP Poland10 60.5312 112,3812 172.91

References

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