| An Xiangyi | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Also Known As: | Nini |
| Country: |  China |
| Birth Date: | 24 December 2006 |
| Birth Place: | Beijing, China |
| Coach: | An Longhe, Li Bao |
| Choreographer: | Benoît Richaud, Shin Yea-ji |
| Skating Club: | Beijing New Century Star |
| Currenttraininglocations: | Beijing |
| Formertraininglocations: | Harbin |
| Beganskating: | 2009 |
| Combined Total: | 183.94 |
| Combined Date: | 2023 Junior Worlds |
| Sp Score: | 65.40 |
| Sp Date: | 2022 JGP Poland I |
| Fs Score: | 120.03 |
| Fs Date: | 2023 Junior Worlds |
| Order: | st |
| P: | An Xiāngyí |
An Xiangyi (; born 24 December 2006) is a Chinese figure skater. She is a two-time (2020 and 2022) national champion.[1]
An was born on December 24, 2006, in Beijing, China to parents, Zhang Aijun and An Longhe.
In addition to figure skating, An also practices rhythmic gymnastics, which she says helps with her figure skating by increasing her flexibility. As hobbies, she enjoys cooking and painting. She also has three pet cats.
She is often nicknamed "Nini" by friends and skating fans.
An began figure skating in 2009 at the age of three and is coached by her father, An Longhe, a former competitive figure skater.
An was the 2019 Asian Open advanced novice champion.[2] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all Chinese national competitions were canceled during the 2020–21 season, thus An could not partake in major competitions.[3] During the 2021–22 season, several coronavirus outbreaks and COVID-19 protocols in China caused the 2021 National Figure Skating Grand Prix and China Figure Skating Club League Finals (全国花样滑冰具乐部联赛总决赛) to be held virtually. In the Club League Finals, An scored 174.08 total points (63.00 in the short program and 111.08 in the free skating) to win the title.[4]
An made her Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Solidarity Cup, after scoring first in national qualification events.[5] [6] She finished fifth at the event.[7]
After contracting COVID-19 and having had a recurrence of injuries, An withdrew from the 2022 Chinese Figure Skating Junior Championships and the 2022 Chinese Figure Skating Club League Finals. However, she later competed in the 2022 Chinese Figure Skating Championships, ranking first in the short program by a small 1.73 mark lead after falling on her triple toe-triple toe combination, and winning the free skate by 15.83 marks, ahead of Li Ruotang.[7]
In March, An was assigned to the 2023 World Junior Figure Championships in Calgary, where she ranked fifth in the short program.[8] In the free skate, she stepped out of one jump and had quarter underrotation calls on three others, ranking eighth in that segment but finishing sixth overall. She became the first Chinese woman to place in the top ten since Li Zijun in 2012.[9]
An began the season by competing Chinese National Grand Prix events in the summer, finishing first and third, respectively. She then went on to win gold at the 2023 Asian Open Trophy and finished fifth at the 2023 Shanghai Trophy at the beginning of fall.[7]
Prior to debuting on the 2023–24 Grand Prix series, An had longtime choreographer, Benoît Richaud, create a new free program, different from the one that she had initially intended to skate to. Competing at 2023 Skate America, An finished ninth. At the 2023 Cup of China, An debuted a new short program, finishing sixth in that segment of the competition, but dropping to eleventh overall after placing eleventh in the free skate segment.[7]
An opted to sit out of the 2023 Chinese Championships.[10] She did, however, compete at the 2024 National Winter Games, where she won gold in the team event and silver in the individual event.[11]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition | |
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| 2024-2025 |
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| 2023–2024 |
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| 2022–2023 [12] |
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| 2019–2020 |
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| 2017–2018 |
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| Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 22–23 | 23–24 | 24-25 | ||||
| align=left | 11th | TBD | ||||||||
| align=left | 9th | |||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | ||||||||
| align=left | 5th | |||||||||
| International: Junior | ||||||||||
| align=left | 6th | |||||||||
| align=left | 5th | |||||||||
| International: Advanced novice | ||||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | ||||||||
| National | ||||||||||
| align=left | 4th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | WD | ||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | ||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||||||
| TBD = To be decided; WD = Withdrawn |
| 2023–24 season | ||||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
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| February 24–27, 2024 | 14th Chinese Winter Games | align=center | 1 65.52 | align=center | 3 116.25 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 181.77 | |
| February 21–22, 2024 | 14th Chinese Winter Games - team event | align=center | 1 64.52 | align=center | - | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1T | |
| November 10–12, 2023 | 2023 Cup of China | align=center | 6 61.86 | align=center | 11 90.50 | align=center | 11 152.36 | |
| October 20–22, 2023 | 2023 Skate America | align=center | 8 59.74 | align=center | 9 105.66 | align=center | 9 165.40 | |
| October 3–5, 2023 | 2023 Shanghai Trophy | align=center | 5 50.99 | align=center | 5 105.71 | align=center | 5 156.70 | |
| August 16–19, 2023 | 2023 Asian Open Trophy | align=center | 1 58.70 | align=center | 1 102.28 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 160.98 | |
| August 12–13, 2023 | 2023/24 Chinese National Grand Prix – Hulunbuir | align=center | 3 57.06 | align=center | 3 116.29 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 173.35 | |
| July 28–29, 2023 | 2023/24 Chinese National Grand Prix – Beijing | align=center | 1 69.05 | align=center | 1 114.35 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 183.40 |
| 2022–23 season | |||||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total | ||||
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| Feb. 27 – Mar. 5, 2023 | 2023 World Junior Championships | Junior | align=center | 5 63.91 | align=center | 8 120.03 | align=center | 6 183.94 | |
| January 11–13, 2023 | 2022 Chinese Championships | Senior | align=center | 1 61.32 | align=center | 1 128.49 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 189.81 | |
| Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2022 | 2022 JGP Poland I | Junior | align=center | 4 65.40 | align=center | 8 113.91 | align=center | 5 179.31 | |
| 2019–20 season | |||||||||
| Oct. 30 – Nov. 3, 2019 | 2019 Asian Open Trophy | Adv. novice | align=center | 1 45.62 | align=center | 1 93.01 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 138.63 | |
| September 14–16, 2019 | 2020 Chinese Championships | Senior | align=center | 1 66.50 | align=center | 1 131.43 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 197.93 | |
| 2018–19 season | |||||||||
| December 29–30, 2018 | 2019 Chinese Championships | Senior | align=center | 1 66.92 | align=center | 2 113.69 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 180.61 | |
| 2017–18 season | |||||||||
| December 23–24, 2017 | 2018 Chinese Championships | Senior | align=center | 4 52.40 | align=center | 6 86.76 | align=center | 4 139.16 |