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Emilea Zingas

Emilea Zingas (born April 22, 2002) is a Cypriot-American figure skater. Competing in ice dance with Vadym Kolesnik, she is the 2022 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist and 2023 U.S. national pewter medalist.

Zingas previously represented Cyprus in women's singles, and was the 2020 Santa Claus Cup silver medalist and the 2021 Challenge Cup bronze medalist. She was the first Cypriot skater to qualify for the World Championships.

Zingas was born on April 22, 2002, in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan to parents Chris, an orthopedic surgeon, and Marsha, a dermatopathologist. She is the youngest of four children, including a sister, Elana, who currently plays ice hockey at Cornell University. Zingas' paternal grandparents, Nick and Xenia Zingas, were born in Cyprus. She holds both U.S. and Cypriot citizenship.

Zingas graduated from Grosse Pointe South High School in 2020, and currently studies neuroscience at Wayne State University.

Zingas began skating as a preschooler and started training at age seven with Paula Visingardi and ballet professional Maria Moscato. Later she also took lessons from Lindsay O'Donoghue and Brooke Castile O'Keefe in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Zingas won the 2018 U.S. national novice silver medal in her only trip to the U.S. Championships as a singles skater.

During the 2020–21 season, Zingas took advantage of her gap semester and switched nationalities to compete for Cyprus. She made her international competitive debut at the 2020 CS Budapest Trophy, where she finished seventh. Zingas later competed at 2020 Ice Star and 2020 Santa Claus Cup, where she finished fifth and second, respectively. She noted that she was grateful to have the opportunity to travel internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as she was returning to her Michigan training base between events in Europe.

At the 2021 Challenge Cup in February, Zingas won the bronze behind Belgian Loena Hendrickx and Emmy Ma of Chinese Taipei, as well as earned her technical minimums to qualify for the 2021 World Championships. She is the first Cypriot skater to ever qualify for the World Championships. During the short program at the World Championships in March, Zingas popped a planned triple Lutz into a single, and fell on the triple flip in her planned triple flip-triple toe loop combination, both of which severely impacted her score. She finished thirty-sixth in the segment and did not advance to the free skate.

After a tenth-place finish at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup International event, Zingas was assigned to compete at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to attempt to qualify a berth for Cyprus at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She placed ninth at the event, resulting in Cyprus being the second reserve for the Olympics. She appeared at two additional Challenger events in the fall, coming sixteenth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria and fourteenth at the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup.

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