Kailani Craine

Craine at the 2016 World Championships
Personal information
Born	(1998-08-13)13 August 1998 (age 27) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Home town	Newcastle, New South Wales
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Australia
Coach	Tiffany Chin
Skating club	Hunter ISC
Began skating	2007
Retired	30 November 2022

Kailani Craine (born 13 August 1998) is a former Australianfigure skater. She is the2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy champion, the2016 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist, the 2015Toruń Cup silver medalist, and a six-timeAustralian national champion (2014–2019). She represented Australia at the2018 and2022 Winter Olympics, finishing 17th and 29th, respectively.

Kailani Craine was born on 13 August 1998 inNewcastle, New South Wales, Australia.^[1] She is the daughter and only child of Katrina and Stephen Craine.^[2] She graduated fromSt Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton in 2016.

Craine started skating at the age of eight.^[3]Tiffany Chin became her coach in 2010.^[4] She began appearing internationally on the junior level in 2012.

Craine debuted on theISU Junior Grand Prix series and won her second junior national title. In March 2014, she made her firstISU Championship appearance at theWorld Junior Championships inSofia, Bulgaria; she did not advance to the free skate after placing 35th in the short program.

In December 2014, Craine won her third junior and first senior national title at theAustralian Championships.^[5] Ranked second in the short program and first in the free skate, she outscored the defending senior champion,Brooklee Han, by 2.18 points overall.^[6] Making her senior international debut, she took the silver medal at theToruń Cup in January 2015. Craine placed twelfth at the2015 Four Continents Championships inSeoul, South Korea, and sixteenth at the2015 World Junior Championships inTallinn, Estonia.

In December 2015, Craine repeated as Australia's junior and senior national champion. She placed ninth in the free skate and thirteenth overall at the2016 Four Continents Championships. At the2016 World Championships, she did not qualify to the free skate.

After taking bronze at theVolvo Open Cup, Craine stepped on her firstISU Challenger Series podium. She received the silver medal at the2016 CS Warsaw Cup, finishing 2.54 points behind Germany'sNicole Schott. In December, she outscoredBrooklee Han by 6.94 points to win her third senior national title.

In December 2016, Craine was named toAustralia's team for the2017 Asian Winter Games inSapporo, Japan.^[7] She placed fifth at the Asian Games and sixteenth at the2017 Four Continents Championships. In March, she qualified to the free skate at the2017 World Championships and went on to finish twenty-fourth overall.

Craine won bronze at theAsian Open Figure Skating Trophy in August 2017 and silver at the Slovenia Open the following month. Later in September, she competed at the2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the finalqualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics; she won the gold medal and earned a spot for Australia in the ladies singles event at the Olympics. Shortly afterwards, Craine was invited to the2017 Skate Canada International, her debut on theGrand Prix.^[8]

After winning another Australian national title, Craine competed at the2018 Four Continents Championships, placing sixteenth. She placed seventeenth at the2018 Winter Olympics, and also at the2018 World Championships.^[9]

Craine began her season at theAutumn Classic International, where she finished fourth and won the silver medal at theWarsaw Cup. She competed on the Grand Prix at the2018 NHK Trophy, where she placed twelfth. After winning a fifth consecutive Australian national title, she placed fifteenth at the2019 Four Continents Championships and thirty-sixth at the2019 World Championships.

On theChallenger series, Craine placed fifth at the2019 CS Autumn Classic International and fourth at the2019 CS Asian Open. Initially without assignment on theGrand Prix, Craine was first assigned to theCup of China to replace a withdrawnMai Mihara.^[10] She placed twelfth at the2020 Four Continents Championships.^[11]

Craine was assigned to compete at theWorld Championships inMontreal, but these were cancelled as a result of thecoronavirus pandemic.^[12]

In her only event of the season, Craine competed at the2021 World Championships, placing twenty-sixth.^[13]

Following not making the free skate at the World Championships, Craine sought a second opportunity toqualify a berth for Australia at the2022 Winter Olympics by competing at the2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. She placed fourth in the short program and tenth in the free skate, for seventh place overall and the sixth of six available places.^[14] Competing next at the2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, Craine placed sixteenth before concluding the fall season by finishing eighth at the2021 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb.^[15]

With the Australian championships cancelled for a second year, Craine was assigned to the2022 Four Continents Championships inTallinn to compete for her country's Olympic spot against domestic rivalVictoria Alcantara.^[16] Craine finished twelfth at the event, five ordinals and twenty-five points ahead of Alcantara. Days later, she was named to theAustralian Olympic team. Craine called this "the end goal" of the preceding four years, which she was proud to have achieved.^[17] She was twenty-eighth in the short program of theOlympic women's event after she doubled her triple lutz, and did not advance to the free skate.^[18] She went on to finish the season with a twenty-second-place finish at the2022 World Championships.^[15]

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

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• Sportspeople from Newcastle, New South Wales
• Figure skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
• Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
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• Olympic figure skaters for Australia
• Sportswomen from New South Wales
• 21st-century Australian sportswomen

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