Janna Jyrkinen Explained

Janna Jyrkinen
Birth Date:14 February 2007
Birth Place:Helsinki, Finland
Hometown:Lappeenranta, Finland
Coach:Alisa Drei
Skating Club:Espoon Taitoluisteluklubi ry
Beganskating:2013
Discipline:Women's singles

Janna Jyrkinen (born 14 February 2007) is a Finnish figure skater. She is the 2022 CS Warsaw Cup bronze medalist, the 2022 Volvo Open Cup champion, and the 2023 Finnish national champion. She achieved a top-ten result at the 2023 European Championships, where she finished seventh.

Personal life

Jyrkinen was born on 14 February 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. She has a younger sister, Elina.

Career

Early career

Jyrkinen began figure skating in 2013.

She won the Finnish Novice Championships in 2019. The following year, she won the bronze medal at the 2019–20 Finnish Junior Championships.

Jyrkinen went on to win gold at the 2020 Volvo Open Cup and finish fifth on at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup.

2021–22 season

Jyrkinen made her international debut on the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix series, finishing ninth at the 2021 JGP France and 2021 JGP Austria, before going on to finish seventh at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup.

Jyrkinen would then go on to win gold at 2021–22 Finnish Junior Championships and 2022 Nordic Championships. She finished her season at the 2022 Jégvirág Cup and the 2022 Bavarian Open, where she placed second and sixth, respectively.

2022–23 season

Making her senior international level debut, Jyrkinen started the season with an eleventh-place finish at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy and a tenth-place finish at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy. She then went on to win gold and bronze at the 2022 Volvo Open Cup and 2022 CS Warsaw Cup, respectively.

A few days before the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo was scheduled to take place, Emmi Peltonen was forced to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19. As a result, Jyrkinen was called up to replace her. Due to this, Jyrkinen also had to withdraw from the 2022 NRW Trophy which she was originally assigned to compete at due to the event taking place at the same time as the Grand Prix of Espoo. Making her senior Grand Prix debut, Jyrkinen placed twelfth in the short program out of the twelve skaters at the event after popping a planned triple lutz and triple flip into singles. She went on to deliver a solid free skate, placing seventh in that segment of the competition and finishing tenth overall.

Competing at both the 2022–23 Finnish Championships, Jyrkinen won her first senior national title.

At the 2023 European Championships in Espoo, Finland, Jyrkinen entered the event as the home favorite and the only Finnish woman singles skater competing at the event. Jyrkinen delivered two strong performances, placing eighth in the short program, seventh in the free skate, and seventh overall. Her top ten placement earned two spots for Finnish women singles skaters for the 2024 European Championships. Jyrkinen went then on to compete at the 2023 Nordic Championships and the 2023 International Challenge Cup, finishing second and twelfth, respectively.

At the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, Jyrkinen managed to qualify for the free skate segment of the competition after placing twenty-first in the short program. She would also go on to place twenty-first in the free skate segment of the competition, finishing twenty-first overall.

2023–24 season

Jyrkinen began the season at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy, coming eleventh, before finishing eighth on home ice at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. On the Grand Prix, she came twelfth of twelve skaters at the 2023 Grand Prix de France and then eleventh at Finland's own 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo.

Programs

SeasonShort programFree skatingExhibition
2024-2025
  • Start a War
2023–2024
2022–2023
  • Your Heart Is As Black As Night
2021–2022
2020–2021

Detailed results

Senior level

2023–24 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
February 1-4, 20242024 Nordic Championshipsalign=center 5
48.08
align=center WDalign=center WD
November 17–19, 20232023 Grand Prix of Espooalign=center 6
58.63
align=center 11
95.11
align=center 11
153.74
November 3–5, 20232023 Grand Prix de Francealign=center 12
39.57
align=center 12
86.35
align=center 12
125.92
October 4–8, 20232023 CS Finlandia Trophyalign=center 10
53.44
align=center 7
106.41
align=center 8
159.85
September 8–10, 20232023 CS Lombardia Trophyalign=center 10
53.62
align=center 11
91.49
align=center 11
145.11
2022–23 season
DateEventSPFSTotal
March 22–26, 20232023 World Championshipsalign=center 21
56.06
align=center 21
104.85
align=center 21
160.91
February 23–26, 20232023 International Challenge Cupalign=center 4
62.12
align=center 13
96.04
align=center 12
158.16
February 2–5, 20232023 Nordic Championshipsalign=center 1
60.98
align=center 4
106.92
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
167.90
January 25–29, 20222023 European Championshipsalign=center 8
60.77
align=center 7
116.19
align=center 7
176.96
December 16–18, 20222022–23 Finnish Championshipsalign=center 1
63.30
align=center 1
111.12
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
174.42
November 25–27, 20222022 Grand Prix of Espooalign=center 12
42.89
align=center 7
111.56
align=center 10
154.45
November 17–20, 20222022 CS Warsaw Cupalign=center 2
62.35
align=center 4
112.61
align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
174.96
November 3–7, 20222022 Volvo Cup Openalign=center 1
57.15
align=center 1
121.57
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
178.72
October 4–9, 20222022 CS Finlandia Trophyalign=center 12
53.75
align=center 10
103.89
align=center 10
157.64
September 16–19, 20222022 Lombardia Trophyalign=center 14
43.29
align=center 10
93.47
align=center 11
136.96

Junior level

2021–22 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
February 11–13, 20222022 Jégvirág CupJunioralign=center 4
49.29
align=center 2
95.24
align=center bgcolor=silver 2
144.53
January 18–23, 20222022 Bavarian OpenJunioralign=center 5
48.56
align=center 6
83.93
align=center 6
132.49
January 27–30, 20222022 Nordic ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 1
60.57
align=center 3
90.22
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
150.79
December 17–19, 20212021–22 Finnish Junior ChampionshipsNovicealign=center 1
61.92
align=center 3
91.58
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
153.50
December 6–12, 20212021 Santa Claus CupJunioralign=center 12
47.85
align=center 4
104.25
align=center 7
152.10
October 6–9, 20212021 JGP AustriaJunioralign=center 17
45.64
align=center 9
102.12
align=center 9
147.76
August 18–21, 20212021 JGP France IJunioralign=center 6
53.70
align=center 9
79.95
align=center 9
133.65
2020–21 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
February 18–21, 20212021 Tallink Hotels CupJunioralign=center 5
46.81
align=center 3
89.52
align=center 5
136.33
November 7–8, 20202020 Volvo Open CupJunioralign=center 1
53.46
align=center 1
99.92
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
153.38
2019–20 season
DateEventLevelSPFSTotal
February 20–23, 20202020 International Challenge CupNovicealign=center 4
40.66
align=center 1
68.42
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
109.08
February 5–9, 20202020 Nordic ChampionshipsNovicealign=center 1
43.61
align=center 1
69.80
align=center bgcolor=gold 1
113.41
December 13–15, 20192019–20 Finnish Junior ChampionshipsJunioralign=center 1
50.16
align=center 3
84.29
align=center bgcolor=cc9966 3
134.45

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