Lorine Schild
Lorine Schild is a French figure skater. She is the 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup bronze medalist and the 2024 French national champion. On the junior level, she is the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival champion.
Personal life
Schild was born on 6 January 2005 in Reims, France. She has a younger sister, Maëlle, who previously also competed in figure skating. As of 2022, Schild is a high school student.Career
Early career
Schild began figure skating in 2009.She won her first national medal, a bronze, at the 2019 French Junior Championships.
2019–20 season
Schild made her Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2019 JGP France, where she finished seventeenth. She would then go on to place fourth at the 2019 Master's de Patinage.Debuting at the 2020 French Championships on the senior level, Schild would go on to finish fourth as well as win a second consecutive bronze medal at the 2020 French Junior Championships.
She closed the season with an eighth-place finish at the 2020 International Challenge Cup.
2020–21 season
Schild began her season with a silver medal at the 2020 Master's de Patinage. She went on to finish fourth at the 2021 French Championships for the second year in a row.She ended the season with a silver medal at the 2021 Tallink Hotels Cup.
2021–22 season
Schild started the season at the 2021 JGP Slovakia and the 2021 Master's de Patinage, where she placed twelfth and second, respectively. She would also go on to finish seventh at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge.Competing at the 2022 French Championships, Schild won the silver medal at both the junior and senior championships.
Schild went on to compete at the 2022 Bavarian Open, winning the bronze medal, before going on to win silver and bronze at the 2022 Dragon Trophy and the 2022 Tallink Hotels Cup, respectively. She then won the gold medal at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, eleven points over silver medalist, Olivia Lisko of Finland.
She concluded the season with a sixteenth-place finish at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
2022–23 season
Schild began the season by finishing sixth at both the 2022 JGP Czech Republic and the 2022 JGP Slovakia. She then went on to win gold at the 2022 Master's de Patinage and place fourth at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge.At the 2023 French Championships, Schild won gold at the junior championships and silver at the senior championships.
Schild went on to compete at the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta, where she placed eleventh. In addition, Schild was selected to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed twenty-fifth in the short program, failing to qualify for the free skate segment of the competition.
Schild then joined Team France at the 2023 World Team Trophy, where she was tenth in the short program and tenth in the free skate. Team France finished fifth overall.
2023–24 season
Beginning the season with two assignments on the Challenger circuit, Schild placed eighth at the 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and seventh at the 2023 CS Budapest Trophy. Between these events, Schild won the silver medal at the 2023 Master's de Patinage behind Léa Serna.Invited to make her senior debut on the Grand Prix circuit, Schild competed on home ice at the 2023 Grand Prix de France. She set new personal bests in the free skate and total score to finish eighth, and said she was "so happy" with her performance and the "supportive" audience in Angers. She went on to place fifth at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, and said she would "never have imagined these good results," having already been "so happy" to get two assignments.
Schild won the French senior national title for the first time at the championships in Vaujany. Consequently, she was named to make her European Championship debut as the lone French women's entry at the 2024 edition in Kaunas. Sixth in both segments of the competition, she finished fifth overall. Schild said she was "so happy" with the result, citing her pre-event goal of placing in the top ten. She went on to compete at the 2024 World Championships, coming seventeenth.
2024–25 season
Schild started the season by winning gold at the 2024 Master's de Patinage and bronze at the 2024 CS Budapest Trophy. Going on to compete on the 2024–25 Grand Prix circuit, Schild would finish tenth at the 2024 Grand Prix de France and sixth at the 2024 Finlandia Trophy. One week following the latter event, Schild placed fourth at the 2024 CS Warsaw Cup.In mid-December, Schild announced her withdrawal from the 2024 French Championships due to an ankle injury. Despite this, Schild was selected to compete at the 2025 European Championships in late January, where she finished in tenth place.
Named to the 2025 World team, Schild placed fifteenth overall at those championships. A couple weeks later, she was selected to compete for Team France at the 2025 World Team Trophy, placing eighth in the women's singles event. Team France subsequently finished the event in fourth place overall.
2025–26 season
Schild opened the season by winning gold at the 2025 Master's de Patinage and finishing sixth at the 2025 CS Nepela Memorial. She then competed on the 2025–26 Grand Prix series, she finished fifth at the 2025 Grand Prix de France and eighth at the 2025 Finlandia Trophy. Between the two events, Schild won gold at the 2025 Tirnavia Ice Cup.In December, following a ninth-place finish at the 2025 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, Schild competed at the 2026 French Championships, winning the silver medal behind Stefania Gladki. She was subsequently named to the 2026 Winter Olympic team. The following month, Schild finished eighteenth at the 2026 European Championships in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.