Donovan Carrillo

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Donovan Daniel Carrillo Suazo[1] (born 17 November 1999) is a Mexican figure skater. He is the 2023 NRW Trophy silver medalist, 2023 Tayside Trophy silver medalist, 2019 Philadelphia International silver medalist, and a six-time Mexican national champion (2017–2019, 2020–2023). He has competed in the final segment at six ISU Championships – three World Championships (2018, 2021, 2024), four Four Continents (2018–2020, 2024), and the 2018 World Junior Championships. He has earned the highest placement by any Mexican skater at a World Championships and qualified to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Donovan Carrillo
Carrillo at the 2024 World Championships
Full nameDonovan Daniel Carrillo Suazo
Born (1999-11-17) 17 November 1999 (age 25)
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
HometownLeón, Guanajuato, Mexico
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Figure skating career
Country Mexico
DisciplineMen's singles
CoachJonathan Mills
Myke Gillman
Skating clubThornhill Figure Skating Club
Began skating2008
Highest WS87th
Mexican Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Singles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Singles
Gold medal – first place 2020 Singles
Gold medal – first place 2022 Naucalpan Singles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Naucalpan Singles
Gold medal – first place 2024 Puebla Singles

Personal life

Carrillo was born on 17 November 1999 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.[2] Before taking up skating, he was enrolled in gymnastics and diving.[3][4] His parents are physical education teachers.[5] He has three sisters: Daphne, Daniela and Sonny.[6]

Skating career

Early years

Carrillo began learning to skate in Guadalajara when he was eight years old.[7] In 2013, he moved to León to keep training with his Coach Gregorio Nuñez.[8]

His junior international debut came in September 2013 at a Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Mexico City, where he placed 15th overall.

2014–2015 season

Carrillo received two JGP assignments. In September, he placed twenty-first at the 2014 Czech Skate after placing twenty-first in both segments. In October, he placed twenty-second at the 2014 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter. Later in the season, he won the junior men's title at the Mexican Championships.

2015–2016 season

In 2015, Carrillo placed eighth at the 2015 Santa Claus Cup in Budapest in the junior men's competition.

2016–2017 season

Returning to the JGP series, Carrillo placed thirteenth in September in Yokohama, Japan.[9] In October, he finished ninth at a JGP competition in Dresden, Germany.

 
Carrillo at the 2017 World Junior Championships

In March, he placed twenty-seventh in the short program at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, and did not advance to the free skate.

2017–2018 season

Making his senior international debut, Carrillo placed ninth at the Philadelphia Summer International in early August 2017. Later that month, he achieved his career-best JGP result, finishing seventh in Brisbane, Australia. In September, he competed at the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, the final qualifying opportunity for the 2018 Winter Olympics. He ranked nineteenth in the short program, twelfth in the free skate, and fourteenth overall, which was not enough for an Olympic spot.[10]

In January, Carrillo qualified to the final segment at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in Taipei; he ranked twenty-second in the short program, seventeenth in the free skate, and eighteenth overall. In March, Carrillo qualified for the final segment at Junior Worlds, placing eighteenth in the short program and twenty-second in the free skate to finish twenty-first overall. Two weeks later, at the World Championships, Donovan placed twenty-fourth in the short program and qualified for the free. He placed twenty-first in the free program and finished twenty-second overall.

He trains mainly in León, Guanajuato, coached by Gregorio Núñez.[11][12]

2018–2019 season

Carrillo started the season at 2018 JGP Bratislava, where he placed eleventh in both segments and placed eleventh overall. He was offered a second Junior Grand Prix assignment in Linz, Austria, but had to decline because he could not afford to attend the competition.[13] He was assigned to the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International but withdrew before the event. He had sustained a right ankle injury.[14] At the 2019 Four Continents Championships in January, he placed fourteenth in the short program (and thus qualified for the final segment), placed twentieth in the free program, and seventeenth overall. At Four Continents, Carrillo landed a triple Axel for the first time.[15]

In February 2019, the Comisión Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte announced that Carrillo would be granted funding beginning in March.[16] Carrillo aggravated his ankle injury before the 2019 World Championships, and did not make the free skate.[15]

2019–2020 season

Carrillo won his first international medal, a silver, at the 2019 Philadelphia Summer International. Assigned to two Challenger events, he placed tenth at the 2019 CS Autumn Classic International and seventeenth at the 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb. Competing at the 2020 Four Continents Championships, Carrillo placed fifteenth with new personal bests but came up 0.20 points short of the free skate technical score necessary to qualify to compete at the 2020 World Championships.[17]

Due to the pandemic, Carrillo could not train on ice for four months, but the delivery of a harness and spinners allowed him to continue practicing jumps at his coach's house.[18]

2020–2021 season

At the International Challenge Cup, held in late February in the Netherlands, Carrillo earned the necessary technical minimum to compete at the 2021 World Championships, which took place in Stockholm in March. In Sweden, he qualified to his second Worlds free skate by placing twenty-third in the short program. Ranked nineteenth in the final segment, he would finish twentieth overall. With his placement, he qualified a men's singles quota spot for Mexico at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[19]

2021–2022 season

Carrillo started the season at the Skating Club of Boston's Cranberry Cup, where he finished in ninth place.[20] Competing at the Festival Abierto Mexicano, Carrillo won the gold medal and became the first Mexican skater ever to land a quadruple jump, the quadruple Salchow, in a competition.[21] At the 2021 U.S. Classic, Carrillo finished in fifth place with new personal bests. At the 2021 CS Finlandia Trophy, he became the first Mexican to land a quadruple Salchow in combination in an international competition.[22][23] Scoring a new personal best in his free skate, Carrillo finished in fifteenth.[20]

After winning his fourth national title at the Mexican championships, Carrillo was named to the Mexican Olympic team and opted to withdraw from the 2022 Four Continents Championships to minimize the risk of catching COVID-19 in the interim.[24] Shortly afterward, he was named one of Mexico's flagbearers for the opening ceremonies, alongside alpine skier Sarah Schleper.[25] Carrillo scored a new personal best of 79.69 in the short program of the Olympic men's event, placing nineteenth and becoming the first Mexican skater to qualify for the free skate segment at the Olympic Games. He called it "a dream come true."[26] Placing twenty-second in the free skate, he finished twenty-second overall.[27]

Carrillo was scheduled to finish the season at the 2022 World Championships in Montpellier but was forced to withdraw after his skates were lost in transit.[28]

2022–2023 season

Carrillo finished eighth at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic and then was invited to make his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate America. He finished twelfth at the event.[20]

Carrillo missed the rest of the 2022–23 figure skating season due to an ankle injury that required surgery, which he had done in December.[29]

2023–2024 season

In July 2023, Carrillo announced that he had relocated to Toronto, Ontario, to train at the Thornhill Figure Skating Club, coached by Jonathan Mills and Myke Gillman.[30][31]

He started the season with a fifth-place finish at the 2023 Cranberry Cup International, before coming eleventh at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International. Carrillo won the silver medal at Tayside Trophy in October and silver medal at the NRW Trophy a month later.[20]

Carrillo was fifteenth at both the Four Continents and World Championships.[20]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023-2024
2022–2023
[32]

James Bond:

2021–2022
[33]
2020–2021
[34]
2019–2020
[35]
2018–2019
[2]
2017–2018
[36]
2016–2017
[37]
2015–2016
[38]
  • Mexican Danzones Mix
    choreo. by Gregorio Núñez
  • Mambo Mix
    by Perez Prado
    choreo. by Gregorio Núñez
2014–2015
[39]

Competitive highlights

Competition placements at senior level [20][40]
Season 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024-25
Winter Olympics 22nd
World Championships 22nd 33rd 20th 15th
Four Continents Championships 18th 17th 15th 15th
Mexican Championships 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
GP Skate America 12th TBD
CS Autumn Classic 10th 11th
CS Finlandia Trophy 15th
CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 17th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 14th
CS U.S. Classic 5th 8th
Challenge Cup 10th 9th
Cranberry Cup 9th 5th
NRW Trophy 2nd
Philadelphia Summer 9th 2nd
Tayside Trophy 2nd
Competition placements at junior level [20][40]
Season 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
World Junior Championships 27th 21st
Mexican Championships 1st
JGP Australia 7th
JGP Czech Republic 21st
JGP Germany 22nd 9th
JGP Japan 13th
JGP Mexico 15th
JGP Slovakia 11th
Santa Claus Cup 8th

Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System 
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 232.67 2024 World Championships
Short program TSS 80.19 2024 World Championships
TES 43.89 2024 World Championships
PCS 36.61 2022 Winter Olympics
Free skating TSS 152.48 2024 World Championships
TES 76.72 2024 World Championships
PCS 75.76 2024 World Championships
ISU personal best scores in the +3/-3 GOE System 
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 200.76 2018 World Championships
Short program TSS 68.13 2018 World Championships
TES 35.63 2018 World Championships
PCS 32.50 2018 World Championships
Free skating TSS 132.63 2018 World Championships
TES 68.50 2018 Four Continents Championships
PCS 65.78 2018 World Championships

Senior level

Results in the 2017–18 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 3–6, 2017   2017 Philadelphia Summer International 7 65.12 9 119.13 9 184.45
Sep 27–30, 2017   2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 19 55.83 12 121.83 14 177.66
Jan 22–28, 2018   2018 Four Continents Championships 22 59.07 17 126.84 18 185.91
Mar 19–25, 2018   2018 World Championships 24 68.13 21 132.63 22 200.76
Results in the 2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 7–10, 2019   2019 Four Continents Championships 14 71.16 20 103.54 17 174.70
Mar 18–24, 2019   2019 World Championships 33 54.99 33 54.99
Results in the 2019–20 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Jul 31 – Aug 3, 2019   2019 Philadelphia Summer International 2 69.08 4 127.71 2 196.79
Sep 12–14, 2019   2019 CS Autumn Classic International 8 65.94 10 109.05 10 174.99
Dec 4–7, 2019   2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb 17 66.59 18 117.28 17 183.87
Feb 4–9, 2020   2020 Four Continents Championships 13 73.13 16 127.96 15 201.09
Feb 20–23, 2020   2020 International Challenge Cup 7 68.93 11 117.63 10 186.56
Results in the 2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Feb 26–28, 2021   2021 International Challenge Cup 11 61.45 8 129.15 9 190.60
Mar 22–28, 2021   2021 World Championships 23 73.91 19 130.87 20 204.78
Results in the 2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 11–15, 2021   2021 Cranberry Cup International 8 63.70 10 106.38 9 170.08
Sep 14–17, 2021   2021 U.S. International Classic 4 77.48 7 130.93 5 208.41
Oct 7–10, 2021   2021 CS Finlandia Trophy 21 61.06 14 131.48 15 192.54
Feb 8–10, 2022   2022 Winter Olympics 19 79.69 22 138.44 22 218.13
Results in the 2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 12–16, 2022   2022 CS U.S. Classic 9 68.10 10 113.34 8 181.44
Oct 21–23, 2022   2022 Skate America 10 69.18 11 119.10 12 188.28
Results in the 2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 9–13, 2023   2023 Cranberry Cup International 8 68.68 5 128.84 5 197.52
Sep 14–17, 2023   2023 CS Autumn Classic International 12 49.15 11 104.53 11 153.68
Oct 14–15, 2023   2023 Tayside Trophy 2 73.36 3 127.75 2 201.11
Nov 16–19, 2023   2023 NRW Trophy 2 69.34 2 136.36 2 205.70
Nov 27 – Dec 3, 2023   2023 Mexican Championships 1 84.74 1 139.13 1 223.87
Jan 30 – Feb 4, 2024   2024 Four Continents Championships 14 67.66 14 134.81 15 202.47
Mar 18–24, 2024   2024 World Championships 15 80.19 14 152.48 15 232.67

Junior level

Results in the 2013–14 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 4–7, 2013   2013 JGP Mexico 15 31.52 17 53.65 15 85.17
Results in the 2014–15 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 3–6, 2014   2014 JGP Czech Republic 21 34.39 21 58.62 21 93.01
Oct 1–4, 2014   2014 JGP Germany 22 38.38 22 70.79 22 109.17
Results in the 2015–16 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 8–11, 2015   2015 Santa Claus Cup 5 46.51 9 75.95 8 122.46
Results in the 2016–17 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 8–11, 2016   2016 JGP Japan 12 53.64 12 102.04 13 155.68
Oct 5–8, 2016   2016 JGP Germany 11 54.78 10 114.37 9 169.15
Mar 13–19, 2017   2017 Junior World Championships 27 53.92 27 53.92
Results in the 2017–18 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 23–26, 2017   2017 JGP Australia 9 51.61 5 121.80 7 173.41
Mar 5–11, 2018   2018 Junior World Championships 19 61.37 22 107.31 21 168.68
Results in the 2018–19 season
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 22–25, 2018   2018 JGP Slovakia 11 58.09 11 107.60 11 165.69

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