Daniel Samohin

Competing in September at the Junior Grand Prix in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he placed 7th in the short and second in the free; he won the silver medal, finishing almost 30 points behind Nathan Chen of the United States and 3.49 ahead of Japan's Sota Yamamoto.

Later that month, he won his first CS medal, outscoring Keiji Tanaka by 11.33 points to take gold at the U.S. International Classic.

After winning a silver medal at his second JGP event in Logroño, Spain, Samohin qualified for the JGP Final.

He placed 33rd in the short, and did not advance to the free skate.

His skates were found two and a half weeks later.

His parents – Irina, a former rhythmic gymnast, and Igor Samohin, a former figure skater who had competed internationally in pairs for the Soviet Union and who as a figure skating coach coached Israel's national team for five years in the 1990s – had arrived in Israel from Russia in 1996.

He has a grandfather who lives in Russia, and a grandmother who lives in Israel.

His brother, Stanislav, is 7 1⁄2 years older and competed in figure skating for both Russia and Israel.

When he was 3 1⁄2 years old, Samohin moved with his mother to California in the United States, joining the rest of the family, who had moved earlier.

His hometown is San Diego, California.

Daniel Samohin (דניאל סמוכין; born 12 March 1998) is an Israeli figure skater who currently competes for the US.

Samohin was born on March 12, 1998, in Tel Aviv, Israel, is Jewish, and speaks two languages.

Samohin began skating in 2003.

His club is Ice Holon Israel.

His father is his coach, and his mother has worked as his choreographer, as have Olga Volozhinskaia and Nikolai Morozov.

Samohin made his international debut in September 2013 at an ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico.

He ranked sixth in the short program, and placed third in the free skate and was awarded the bronze medal, outscoring Canada's Nam Nguyen by 1.85 points.

He finished fourth at his second JGP assignment, in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

In March 2014, he finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, having placed 17th in the short program and 10th in the free.

During the 2014 JGP series, Samohin placed 8th in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 16th in Zagreb, Croatia.

In September 2014, he debuted on the senior international level, finishing 11th at the Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series (CS) event.

After placing fourth at another CS event, the Volvo Open Cup, he took silver at a regular senior international, the Tallinn Trophy, behind fellow Israeli Oleksii Bychenko.

Ranked 12th in the short and 5th in the free, he finished 8th overall at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.

Samohin withdrew from a senior Grand Prix event, the 2015 Cup of China, in order to continue competing on the junior level.

His second CS medal, silver, came in October at the 2015 Mordovian Ornament, where he scored 1.24 points less than Maxim Kovtun.

Samohin finished fifth at the JGP Final.

He is the 2016 World Junior champion, and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including a gold medal at the 2015 U.S. International Classic.

Samohin is one of the few skaters to have landed two quad jumps in a short program, three quads in a free program, and five quads in one competition.

His next event was the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships, where he set a new personal best in the short program and finished 7th overall.

In March, Samohin won a gold medal at the World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, winning the Single Skating Championship.

He ranked 9th in the short program, but moved up to win the title after a personal-best free skate in which he landed three quadruple jumps.

Samohin was the first Israeli skater to medal at Junior Worlds, and the first to win an ISU championship.

Samohin started his season off at the 2016 CS Autumn Classic International.

he placed sixth overall.

He then competed at the 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy where he finished thirteenth.

Making his Grand Prix debut, Samohin placed 5th at the 2016 Skate Canada International and 8th at the 2016 Cup of China.

In December, he won the silver medal behind Oleksii Bychenko at the 2016 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, having ranked first in the short program and 7th in the free skate.

Samohin's luggage containing his skates was mislaid by the airline and did not arrive with him at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, so he tried a borrowed new pair of skates four hours before the short program.

He ranked 16th in the short program, second in the free skate, and sixth overall at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.

He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.