Balazs Nagy (figure skater)


Balazs Nagy is an American pair skater. With his skating partner, Kate Finster, he is the 2020 U.S. national junior champion, the 2019 U.S. national junior silver medalist, and the 2019 JGP Poland silver medalist.

Personal life

Balazs Nagy was born on July 9, 1998 in Budapest, Hungary and later emigrated with his parents to the United States. He has three sisters. Nagy is fluent in both Hungarian and English. He moved back to Budapest for several years during his childhood, before returning to the U.S. to finish high school. Nagy holds dual citizenship between Hungary and the United States. He is currently a student at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, studying exercise science. Nagy lives with fellow U.S. pairs skater TJ Nyman while training in Colorado Springs.
Nagy's hobbies include reading the works of French philosopher Frédéric Worms and crystal healing. He enjoys watching movies, driving, and dancing and he loves desserts with cinnamon.

Career

Early career

Nagy began skating under coaches Oleg Efimov and Natalia Efimova, a former Soviet pairs skater and ice dancer, respectively, in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He trained primarily in singles skating, representing first the United States, and then Hungary internationally after his family moved back to Budapest. At the suggestion of his coaches, Nagy briefly tried pairs with Krystal Edwards during the 2011–12 season, but the team split due him being "not ready" and his family returning to Hungary.
Nagy briefly quit skating in 2017, before deciding to return and switch to pairs full-time. He tried out with Kate Finster in the fall of 2017, around Thanksgiving, and they officially teamed up in early 2018. The pair relocated from training with her coaches, Jessica Miller and Stephanie Miller, in Louisville to work full-time with Dalilah Sappenfield and Larry Ibarra in Colorado Springs.

2018–2019 season

In their first season as a team, Finster / Nagy were assigned to 2018 JGP Czech Republic, where they finished ninth. They then won silver at Midwestern Sectionals. At the 2019 U.S. Championships, Finster / Nagy won the junior silver medal behind Laiken Lockley / Keenan Prochnow. As a result, they were named to the 2019 World Junior Championships team. At Junior Worlds, they were tenth after the short program and thirteenth in the free skating, to finish eleventh overall. Nagy called the experience "humbling" and motivation for the next season.

2019–2020 season

Finster / Nagy opened the season with a sixth-place finish at 2019 JGP United States. They then won their first international medal at 2019 JGP Poland, earning the silver medal, behind Apollinariia Panfilova / Dmitry Rylov of Russia and ahead of Germany's Annika Hocke / Robert Kunkel. Their results qualified them as first alternates to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final.
Finster / Nagy won the inaugural U.S. Pairs Final to qualify to the 2020 U.S. Championships. They won their first junior pairs title at the 2020 U.S. Championships, ahead of Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siianytsia and Winter Deardorff / Mikhail Johnson. Their result earned them a berth on the
2020 World Junior Championships team.

Programs

With Finster

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Finster

Men's singles (for Hungary)

With Edwards

Men's singles (for the United States)

Detailed results

With Finster

Junior results