Romana Brigitta Kaiser (born 25 June 1997) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteiner retired figure skater who represented Liechtenstein in women's singles. She is the 2019 Triglav Trophy silver medalist and a four-time Liechtensteiner national champion (2017–2020).
Personal life Kaiser has an older and a younger sister. Several of Kaiser's relatives are also involved in figure skating; she has aunts who are officials in Swiss skating clubs and a cousin who skated for several years in Switzerland. She attended the Sports School Liechtenstein.
Kaiser also began artistic gymnastics when she was nine. She won titles at the Swiss championships in 2009 and 2010, and the Liechtenstein championships in 2011, but she decided to focus on figure skating after that point.
Career Kaiser initially trained in Widnau, where she first began skating, and Feldkirch, as there were no rinks located in Liechtenstein. Later in her career, she also spent time training in Bergamo, Italy for several years.
She began skating as a member of Swiss Ice Skating. In 2011, several friends and her parents founded the Liechtensteinian Skating Association, of which her father is the president, so that Liechtensteiner skaters could represent their country at competitions. She won four consecutive senior Liechtensteiner titles from 2017 to 2020.
In 2015, she competed on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and was given both of the quotas allocated to Liechtenstein. She competed at the stages in Riga, where she was 31st, and Linz, where she was 30th.
Kaiser debuted on the Challenger Series in 2017, where she was 34th at the Lombardia Trophy and 25th at the Nebelhorn Trophy. The next year, she competed at the 2018 Alpen Trophy and placed 24th.
She was a member of the first Liechtensteiner delegation sent to a Winter Universiade in February 2019. There she qualified for the free skate and placed 22nd.
Kaiser won her first international medal that April at the Triglav Trophy. Although she fell on both her attempts at a triple toe loop jump, she received good scores on her spins and finished in second place, winning the silver medal. In the fall, she was 17th at the 2019 Lombardia Trophy.
She took five months off from training in 2020 due to an injury that caused inflammation in her pelvis. She began training again in early 2021. She was able to train at full capacity in June and returned to competition in the fall. In September, she competed at the Lombardia Trophy, where she was 30th, and the Nebelhorn Trophy, where she finished 34th.
Kaiser announced in April 2022 that she had retired due to several reasons, including chronic injuries.
Competitive highlights CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 Alpen Trophy 24th Golden Spin WD Lombardia 34th 17th 30th Nebelhorn 25th 34th Budapest Trophy 20th Coupe du Printemps 13th Cup of Tyrol 19th 17th 17th Egna Trophy 10th Golden Bear 14th 11th 23rd 21st Halloween Cup 22nd Merano Cup 14th NRW Trophy 19th Open d'Andorra 9th 7th Prague Ice Cup 12th Santa Claus Cup 14th 23rd Skate Celje 9th Sofia Trophy 11th 8th Toruń Cup 8th Triglav Trophy 2nd Warsaw Cup 19th Winter Universiade 22nd International:Junior Austria 30th Latvia 31st Coupe du Printemps 19th Cup of Tyrol 10th Hellmut Seibt 24th National Liechtensteiner Champ. 1st 1st 1st 1st
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