Eliška Březinová (born 19 February 1996) is a retired Czech figure skater. She is the 2022 Skate Celje champion, the 2019 EduSport Trophy champion, a two-time Four Nationals champion (2014, 2018), and a nine-time Czech national champion (2012, 2014–2016, 2018–2022). She has competed in the final segment at eight ISU Championships, including three World Championships. She represented the Czech Republic at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Personal life Eliška Březinová was born on 19 February 1996 in Brno, Czech Republic. She is the daughter of Edita and Rudolf Březina, a figure skating coach, and the younger sister of Michal Březina, a former competitor in men's singles.
Career Březinová began skating in 2002. She debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2010. In the 2011–2012 season, she became the Czech national senior champion and was sent to the European and World Championships but did not progress past the preliminary round at either event.
In the 2012–2013 season, Březinová dipped to fourth nationally and placed 30th in Zagreb at the 2013 European Championships, missing the cut-off for the free skate. She underwent ankle surgery in May 2013. She was coached by Karel Fajfr, along with her father, until the end of the season, and then by Ivan Rezek and her father beginning in the summer of 2013.
In the 2013–2014 season, Březinová won her second national title and reached the free skate at the 2014 European Championships in Budapest, where she finished fifteenth. She then qualified for the free skate at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama and finished eighteenth.
Březinová made her Grand Prix debut in the 2014–2015 season, having been assigned to the 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard. She won the Czech Figure Skating Championships for the third time. She finished fifteenth at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm.
Competing at the 2021 World Championships, Březinová placed twenty-second. This result qualified a place for the Czech Republic at the 2022 Winter Olympics. In September 2021 she was named to the Czech Olympic team, joining her four-time Olympian brother for the first time. Březinová placed eighth in the short program segment of the Olympic team event, setting a new personal best score and breaking the 60-point mark for the first time. She performed still better in the short program of the women's event, scoring 64.31 to qualify for the free skate in twelfth position. Twenty-first in the free skate, she dropped to twentieth overall.
Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2025–2026 I See Red I See Red (Tut Tut Child Remix) In This Shirt Radar (Tonal Club Remix) Work Bitch 2024–2025 Running Up That Hill (Epic Orchestral Version) Experience Circles 2023–2024 Collecting The Ballots Zorro's Theme The Plaza of Execution I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You 2022–2023 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Sweet Dreams Sweet Dreams 2021–2022 Experience Circles 2020–2021 Never Tear Us Apart La La Land 2019–2020 Survivor 2018–2019 Adagio 2017–2018 Lion Lion Theme Searching For Home River 2016–2017 Fever Notre-Dame de Paris 2015–2016 El Tango de Roxanne 2014–2015 Megapolis The 13th Warrior 2013–2014 Tango Amore 2012–2013 Tango Amore
El Dia Que Me Quieras (Tango) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Memoirs of a Geisha 2011–2012 Quidam The Cotton Club 2010–2011 Chiquitita
Competitive highlights
Detailed results
Senior level
2015–16 seasonEventSPFSTotal2015 Tallinn Trophy 2015 Finlandia Trophy 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy 2015 Lombardia Trophy 2014–15 seasonEventSPFSTotal 2015 World Championships 27 43.37 – 27 43.37 2015 Hellmut Seibt Memorial 2015 European Championships 2015 Four National Championships 2 48.14 3 91.31 3 139.45 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard 10 48.28 9 96.01 9 144.29 2014 Rostelecom Cup 2014 Finlandia Trophy 2014 Ondrej Nepela Trophy 2014 Lombardia Trophy
References
External links
Eliska Brezinova at Tracings