Natalia KALISZEK

Poland

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 17 May 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: TORUN

Birth Country:

Poland

Residence: TORUN

Residence Country:

Poland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Figure Skating	Ice Dance POL KALISZEK Natalia / SPODYRIEV Maksym	17

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
14	Ice Dance	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Ice Dance	2019	Saitama, JPN
12	Ice Dance	2021	Stockholm, SWE
14	Ice Dance	2017	Helsinki, FIN
16	Ice Dance	2016	Boston, MA, USA
17	Ice Dance	2018	Milan, ITA
FNR	Ice Dance	2015	Shanghai, CHN

European Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Ice Dance	2019	Minsk, BLR
8	Ice Dance	2017	Ostrava, CZE
9	Ice Dance	2020	Graz, AUT
10	Ice Dance	2018	Moscow, RUS
11	Ice Dance	2016	Bratislava, SVK
14	Ice Dance	2022	Tallinn, EST
14	Ice Dance	2015	Stockholm, SWE

World Junior Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Ice Dance	2015	Tallinn, EST

Grand Prix
Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Ice Dance	2019/20	Moscow, RUS
5	Ice Dance	2018/19	Moscow, RUS
6	Ice Dance	2019/20	Grenoble, FRA
6	Ice Dance	2018/19	Everett, WA, USA
8	Ice Dance	2021/22	Las Vegas, NV, USA

Hobbies:

Sports, music, dance, cycling, reading love stories and detective stories. (isuresults.com; kaliszek-spodyriev.com)

Occupation:

Student

Family:

Brother, Michal. Sister, Anna.

Languages spoken:

Polish, English, Russian

Club name:

MKS Axel Torun

Coach:

Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka (POL), Lloyd Jones (GBR)

Sporting relatives:

Brother Michal Kaliszek (Figure skating): Competed with her internationally in pair skating (2009 Junior Grand Prix - 13th and 18th) and ice dance (2012 World Junior Championships - 14th preliminary round)

Sister Anna Kaliszek (Figure skating): Former competitive figure skater.

Debut:

2014 Warsaw Cup (Ice dance - 6th), with Spodyriev
2011 Pavel Roman Memorial (Ice dance - 5th), with Kaliszek

Choreographer:

Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka (POL)

National team:

2009

Start:

2000 in Torun.

Reason:

Her mother took her and her siblings to the ice rink and she started to take lessons. (kaliszek-spodyriev.com)

Ambition:

To open a sports kindergarden that offers skating lessons. (kaliszek-spodyriev.com)

Training:

She trains with her partner in her native Torun.

General Interest

TEA TIME FOXTROT
Their Foxtrot from their 2015/16 Short Dance has been developed into a Pattern Dance for the ISU, the "Tea Time Foxtrot". (ISU Communication 2241)

PARTNERSHIP WITH MAKSYM SPODYRIEV
Partnered with Spodyriev in September 2014 and has competed internationally with him since 2015.

FORMER PARTNERS
Partnered with her brother Michal (2007-13), first in pair skating, and then in ice dance.
Partnered with Yaroslav Kurbakov in the 2013/14 season.

COACH
Representing Poland, her coach Sylwia Nowak, is a two-time ice dance Olympian (12th at Nagano 1988, 13th at Salt Lake City 2002) and the 1994 World Junior champion (with Sebastian Kolasinski).

Milestones

Finished 14th in her Olympic Winter Games ice dancing debut at PyeongChang 2018 with Maksym Spodyriew, where they were one of three teams who skated their rhumba pattern dance to the song "Despacito" (Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin (KOR) and Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu (CHN)).

Competed in six consecutive World Championships (2015-2021, 2020 cancelled) with a best finish of 11th in 2019. Her 12th in 2021 (with Spodyriev) qualified one team for Poland for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. They finished seventh at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

2009 Torun Cup (International junior debut, pair skating - third, with Michal Kaliszek)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/natalia.kaliszek
Facebook Team: https://www.facebook.com/KaliszekSpodyriev
https://www.instagram.com/natalia.kaliszek/
Team Website: http://kaliszek-spodyriev.com/en/home-page/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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