Dinh Tran Explained

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).

Personal life

Tran was born on June 21, 2001, in San Francisco, California. His mother, Mimi Hoang, is a physical education teacher. 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.

Tran was raised in Tenderloin, San Francisco with two older brothers, Phong and Hao, and one younger, Trieu. His parents divorced when he was 14 years old. Growing up, he took flute lessons and performed with his school's jazz band. He received a full scholarship to attend Stuart Hall High School, graduating in 2020. He subsequently enrolled at California State University, Long Beach as a computer science major but soon switched to mechanical engineering.

Career

Early years

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

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

Tran sprained his ankle three more times in the fall of 2018. At the 2019 U.S. Championships, he repeated as junior silver medalist.

Senior career

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

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.

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

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2023–2024	L-O-V-E
2022–2023	Asturias (Leyenda)	The Matrix	Runaway Baby
2021–2022	Malagueña	Fly Me to the Moon
2020–2021 2019–2020	Puss in Boots	Sherlock Holmes
2018–2019	Let's Dance (InFiction String Remix)	Golden Age Volcano Run Boy Run by Woodkid
2017–2018	Part 1	Poeta

Competitive highlights

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

Senior and junior

International
Event	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
align=left							10th
align=left							13th
align=left							7th
align=left							bgcolor=silver	2nd
align=left						9th
align=left							9th
International: Junior
align=left			10th
align=left		12th		9th
National
align=left		2nd J	bgcolor=silver	2nd J	8th	10th	8th	16th
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew J = Junior level

Detailed results

Senior level

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 23–29, 2023	2023 U.S. Championships	align=center	16 60.63	align=center	13 126.55	align=center	16 187.18
January 13–15, 2023		align=center	17 60.69	align=center	8 137.90	align=center	9 198.59
October 21–23, 2022	2022 Skate America	align=center	11 64.99	align=center	10 134.69	align=center	10 199.68
October 4–9, 2022	2022 CS Finlandia Trophy	align=center	15 62.52	align=center	12 128.82	align=center	13 191.34
September 16–19, 2022	2022 CS Lombardia Trophy	align=center	8 60.53	align=center	7 125.61	align=center	7 186.14
August 7, 2022	2022 Philadelphia Summer International	align=center	2 71.54	align=center	1 127.11	align=center bgcolor=silver	2 198.65
2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 3–9, 2022	2022 U.S. Championships	align=center	9 71.18	align=center	7 144.54	align=center	8 215.72
September 14–17, 2021	2021 U.S. International Classic	align=center	8 65.77	align=center	10 110.95	align=center	9 176.72
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 11–21, 2021	2021 U.S. Championships	align=center	10 74.03	align=center	11 136.76	align=center	10 210.79
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
Jan. 20–26, 2020	2020 U.S. Championships	align=center	11 71.86	align=center	8 149.02	align=center	8 220.88

Junior level

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2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
September 18–21, 2019	2019 JGP Poland	align=center	12 56.88	align=center	9 118.35	align=center	9 175.23
2018–19 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
Jan 19–27, 2019	2019 U.S. Championships	4 64.84	2 131.19	2 196.03
Aug 29 – September 1, 2018	2018 JGP Austria	align=center	10 60.07	align=center	10 109.63	align=center	10 169.70
2017–18 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 29, 2017 – January 8, 2018	2018 U.S. Championships	2 67.28	2 132.67	2 199.95
October 4–7, 2017	2017 JGP Poland	align=center	10 60.53	align=center	12 112,38	align=center	12 172.91