Loena Hendrickx
Loena Hendrickx (pronounced LOOH-nah; born 5 November 1999) is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 International Challenge Cup champion, the 2016 International Cup of Nice silver medalist, the 2016 NRW Trophy silver medalist, and a three-time Belgian national champion (2017–2019).
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Belgium |
Born | Turnhout, Belgium | 5 November 1999
Home town | Arendonk |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Coach | Carine Herrygers |
Choreographer | Sandy Suy, Adam Solya |
Skating club | N.O.T. Turnhout |
Training locations | Turnhout Eindhoven Oberstdorf |
Began skating | 2004 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 204.16 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy |
Short program | 72.18 2020 Budapest Trophy |
Free skate | 132.66 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy |
Hendrickx has finished within the top ten at two European Championships (2017, 2018) and one World Championship. She placed 16th at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Loena Hendrickx was born in Turnhout, Belgium.[1] She is the younger sister of Belgian figure skater Jorik Hendrickx.[2][3]
Career
Early years
Hendrickx began learning to skate in 2004.[1] She appeared internationally on the advanced novice level from December 2012 through December 2013 and then moved up to the junior ranks.[4]
2014–2015 season
Coached by Carine Herrygers in Turnhout,[5] Hendrickx debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth in Dresden, Germany. She went on to win her second junior national title and then placed sixteenth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival. She closed her season with junior bronze medals at the International Challenge Cup and Coupe du Printemps.
2015–2016 season
Competing in the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Hendrickx placed fourteenth in Riga, Latvia, and then eleventh in Logroño, Spain. Her senior international debut came in October 2015 at the International Cup of Nice; she finished seventh at the event. She missed the second half of the season due to a spinal fracture and resumed skating after six months.[6]
2016–2017 season
After the closure of Turnhout's ice rink, Hendrickx and her brother decided to train at a temporary rink.[6] Although still age-eligible to compete on the junior level, she focused on senior events. Starting her season on the ISU Challenger Series, she placed seventh at both the 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy. In October 2016, she won her first senior international medal – silver at the International Cup of Nice.[7] In November, she was awarded silver at the NRW Trophy and gold at the Belgian Championships.[8] A lack of financial support led to her having to decline an invitation to an international event in Russia.[9]
In January 2017, Hendrickx competed at her first ISU Championship – the European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. She suffered from foot pain during the event, but nevertheless placed eleventh in the short program and advanced to the free skate, in which she ranked seventh, resulting in a final placement of seventh.[9]
In February 2017, Hendrickx won gold at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands. In March, she placed seventeenth in the short, fourteenth in the free, and fifteenth overall at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Due to her result, Belgium qualified a spot in the ladies' event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Subsequent to this, she received some financial reimbursement from the Belgian figure skating federation for her expenses, having previously financed her career entirely by herself.[10]
2017–2018 season
A knee injury forced Hendrickx to withdraw from three events early in the season.[11] In December, she repeated as Belgian national champion. In January, she placed fifth at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. The following month, she represented Belgium at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where she and her brother Jorik were the only siblings competing in the singles skating events. The journey to Pyeongchang, South Korea, was the longest Hendrickx had ever traveled before, and the first time their mother had attended a major international event to watch them compete in person.[10] She placed sixteenth overall.[12]
At the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy, Hendrickx set new personal bests in both segments to finish in ninth place. Her result qualified Belgium to send two skaters to compete at the 2019 World Championships.
2018–2019 season
Hendrickx began her season at the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, winning the bronze medal, her first Challenger medal. She achieved her goal of landing a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination cleanly in both her short and free programs.[13]
Her placement at the 2018 World Championships qualified her for two assignments on the 2018-19 Grand Prix. Making her first visit to the United States for 2018 Skate America, Hendrickx scored 54.13 in the short program, but withdrew before the free skate due to medical reasons.[13][14] She placed fifth at the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, her second event.
Hendrickx withdrew from the European Championships due to a back injury but was ready to compete at the World Championships in Saitama, where she placed twelfth. She had decided to attend the World Championships only a week prior.[15]
2019–2020 & 2020–2021 seasons
She withdrew from all her events in the 2019–2020 season due to injury. She was slated to make her return to competition at the 2020 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. She was added to the roster after the withdrawal of another skater, but withdrew prior to the start of the competition. Hendrickx started her 2020-21 season at the inaugural CS Budapest Trophy, achieving a new personal best in the short program and winning the gold medal overall. She was scheduled to compete on the Grand Prix at the 2020 Internationaux de France, but the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[16]
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2019–2021 [17][18] |
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2018–2019 [1][13] |
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2017–2018 [19][20][21] |
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2016–2017 [22] |
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2015–2016 [23] |
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2014–2015 [5] |
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2013–2014 |
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2012–2013 |
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2010–2011 | unknown |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[24] | |||||||||
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Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 |
Olympics | 16th | ||||||||
Worlds | 15th | 9th | 12th | ||||||
Europeans | 7th | 5th | WD | WD | |||||
GP Finland | 5th | ||||||||
GP France | WD | C | |||||||
GP Rostelecom | WD | ||||||||
GP Skate America | WD | ||||||||
CS Budapest | 1st | ||||||||
CS Finlandia | 7th | ||||||||
CS Nebelhorn | 7th | 3rd | WD | ||||||
CS Tallinn Trophy | WD | ||||||||
Cup of Nice | 7th | 2nd | |||||||
Challenge Cup | 1st | TBD | |||||||
NRW Trophy | 2nd | ||||||||
Santa Claus Cup | 2nd | ||||||||
International: Junior[24][4] | |||||||||
JGP Austria | 9th | ||||||||
JGP Germany | 17th | ||||||||
JGP Latvia | 14th | ||||||||
JGP Spain | 11th | ||||||||
Coupe Printemps | 6th | 3rd | |||||||
EYOF | 16th | ||||||||
Challenge Cup | 3rd | ||||||||
International: Advanced novice[4] | |||||||||
Coupe Printemps | 10th | ||||||||
NRW Trophy | 7th | 10th | |||||||
Rooster Cup | 5th | ||||||||
National | |||||||||
Belgian Champ. | 1st J | 1st J | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||
J = Junior level; TBD = Assigned; Event Cancelled |
Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
Senior results
2020–2021 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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15-17 October 2020 | 2020 CS Budapest Trophy | 1 72.18 |
1 126.69 |
1 198.87 |
2018–2019 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
18-24 March 2019 | 2019 World Championships | 13 62.60 |
11 123.69 |
12 186.29 |
16-17 November 2018 | 2019 Belgian Championships | 1 61.48 |
1 122.48 |
1 183.96 |
2-4 November 2018 | 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki | 3 63.17 |
4 128.05 |
5 191.22 |
26-29 September 2018 | 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 2 71.50 |
3 132.66 |
3 204.16 |
2017–2018 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
19-25 March 2018 | 2018 World Championships | 10 64.07 |
6 128.24 |
9 192.31 |
14-25 February 2018 | 2018 Winter Olympics | 20 55.16 |
14 116.72 |
16 171.88 |
15-21 January 2018 | 2018 European Championships | 8 55.13 |
5 121.78 |
5 176.91 |
4-10 December 2017 | 2017 Santa Claus Cup | 3 54.18 |
2 106.42 |
2 160.60 |
1-2 December 2017 | 2018 Belgian Championships | 1 56.59 |
1 115.05 |
1 171.62 |
2016–2017 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
29 March - 2 April 2017 | 2017 World Championships | 17 57.54 |
14 115.28 |
15 172.82 |
23-26 February 2017 | 2017 Challenge Cup | 1 62.54 |
1 115.40 |
1 177.94 |
25-29 January 2017 | 2017 European Championships | 11 55.41 |
7 117.30 |
7 172.71 |
30 November - 4 December 2016 | 2016 NRW Trophy | 2 53.48 |
2 106.60 |
2 160.08 |
18-19 November 2016 | 2017 Belgian Championships | 1 56.63 |
1 120.56 |
1 177.19 |
19-23 October 2016 | 2016 Cup Of Nice | 2 57.88 |
2 109.19 |
2 167.07 |
6-10 October 2016 | 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy | 8 48.81 |
6 99.35 |
7 148.16 |
22-24 September 2016 | 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 10 45.36 |
7 94.07 |
7 139.43 |
2015–2016 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
14-18 October 2015 | 2015 Cup of Nice | 6 49.12 |
9 80.98 |
7 130.10 |
Junior results
2017–2018 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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30 August - 2 September 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | 8 51.77 |
11 83.77 |
9 135.54 |
2015–2016 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
30 September - 4 October 2015 | 2015 JGP Spain | 12 46.58 |
10 91.81 |
11 138.39 |
26-30 August 2015 | 2015 JGP Latvia | 8 49.16 |
15 75.27 |
14 124.43 |
2014–2015 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
13-15 March 2015 | 2015 Coupe du Printemps | 2 41.20 |
3 76.52 |
3 117.72 |
19-22 February 2015 | 2015 International Challenge Cup | 5 39.65 |
3 79.66 |
3 119.31 |
25-30 January 2015 | 2015 EYOF | 16 33.97 |
13 64.58 |
16 98.55 |
21-22 November 2014 | 2015 Belgian Junior Championships | 1 40.88 |
1 65.82 |
1 106.70 |
1-4 October 2014 | 2014 JGP Germany | 20 32.36 |
14 68.87 |
17 101.23 |
2013–2014 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
14-16 March 2014 | 2014 Coupe du Printemps | 8 34.35 |
5 67.13 |
6 101.48 |
References
- "Loena HENDRICKX: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018.
- "Loena Hendrickx naar Olympische Winterspelen voor de Jeugd: 'Focussen op eigen prestatie'" [Loena Hendrickx at Olympic Winter Youth Games: "Focusing on my own performance"]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 22 January 2015.
- Geurts, Mireille; Tolsma, Joy; Tolsma, Titia (21 January 2012). "Following the journey of a young figure skater - Jorik Hendrickx: Part 2". Absolute Skating.
- "Loena HENDRICKX". rinkresults.com.
- "Loena HENDRICKX: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
- Flade, Tatjana (8 February 2017). "Breakthrough for Belgium's "late bloomer" Jorik Hendrickx". Golden Skate.
- "Loena Hendrickx pakt eerste medaille bij seniors: "Ze beginnen me te kenen"" [Loena Hendrickx wins her first senior medal]. Gazet van Antwerpen (in Dutch). 26 October 2016.
- "Familie Hendrickx domineert Belgisch kampioenschap kunstschaatsen" [Hendrickx family dominates Belgian Figure Skating Championships]. sporza.be (in Dutch). 20 November 2011. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- Flade, Tatjana (27 January 2017). "Untouchable Medvedeva cruises to second European title". Golden Skate.
- Yoshida, Hiro (20 February 2018). "JORIK AND LOENA HENDRICKX: SHARING AN OLYMPIC DREAM". Europe on Ice.
- Kondakova, Anna (20 January 2018). "Zagitova edges out Medvedeva for European title in debut". Golden Skate.
- "Athlete Profile - Loena HENDRICKX". pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2018.
- Kane, David (15 October 2018). "Loena Hendrickx on the rise, making Grand Prix debut at Skate America". NBC Sports.
- @ISU_Figure (21 October 2018). "#LoenaHendrickx (BEL) has withdrawn from the Ladies Free Skating at #SkateAmerica citing illness. We wish a quick recovery. #GPFigure #figureskating" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "Loena Hendrickx maakt rentree door grote poort: 12e op WK" [Loena Hendrickx makes a comeback through the big gate: 12th at World Cup] (in Dutch). Sporza. 22 March 2019.
- "Grand Prix of France figure skating event canceled due to coronavirus". Olympic Channel. 20 October 2020.
- Hendrickx, Loena (8 July 2019). "Going to announce my new free program later this week! Are you excited? 🤩 .& I will keep my short program from last year, Celine Dion: it's all coming back to me now. ☺️" (Instagram).
- Hendrickx, Loena (12 July 2019). "Fever it is! I'm very excited to perform this program next season! Are u? 😄" (Instagram).
- Hendrickx, Loena (12 July 2017). "I proudly announce the music of my short program: "Frozen" by Madonna. Here you have a sneak peak!" (Instagram).
- Hendrickx, Loena (19 July 2017). "Thank you for all the positive comments on my short program! It means a lot to me! I am excited to hear what you think of my long program? Music: "Differente" by Gotan Project" (Instagram).
- "Loena HENDRICKX: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018.
- "Loena HENDRICKX: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017.
- "Loena HENDRICKX: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
- "Competition Results: Loena HENDRICKX". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018.