# Mia Risa Gomez

Mia Caroline Risa Gomez (born 21 December 2005) is a Norwegian figure skater. She is the 2022 Open d'Andorra, 2022 Santa Claus Cup, and a three-time Norwegian national champion (2023–2025). She has represented Norway at six ISU Championships, reaching the final segment at the 2023 European Championships and the 2024 World Championships.

## Personal life

Mia Caroline Risa Gomez was born in Mexico City, to a Mexican mother and a Norwegian father. The family moved to Norway when she was two years old. She started skating for Stavanger Figure Skating Club and transferred to Asker Figure Skating Club during the summer of 2024.

## Career
### Early years

Risa Gomez began learning to skate in 2012. She competed in the advanced novice category in the 2018–19 season and won the gold medal at the 2019 Norwegian Novice Championships.

### 2019–20 season

She made her junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing twenty-seventh at 2019 JGP Latvia before also going on to compete at the 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb and the 2019 Tallinn Trophy, finishing fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively.
At the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal.
Competing at the 2019 Reykjavik International Games, Risa Gomez placed eleventh. She then went on to place fifth at the 2020 Nordic Championships and tenth at the 2020 International Challenge Cup.

### 2020–21 season

She had no international appearances in the 2020–21 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Risa Gomez did win her second consecutive silver medal at the 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships.

### 2021–22 season

Risa Gomez returned to the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing seventeenth at 2021 JGP Slovakia.
Competing at the 2022 Nordic Championships, Risa Gomez finished sixth, before going to finish thirteenth at the 2022 International Challenge Cup. She also went on to compete at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, where she finished fourteenth. At the 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships, Risa Gomez won the silver medal for a third time.
Selected to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Risa Gomez placed thirty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.

### 2022–23 season

Risa Gomez began her season on the Junior Grand Prix series, finishing nineteenth at 2022 JGP Poland I. Switching to the senior ranks, Risa Gomez won silver at the Denkova-Staviski Cup in Bulgaria, gold at the Open d'Andorra, and gold at the Santa Claus Cup in Hungary. By December, she attained the minimum technical score required to compete at senior Worlds and was officially nominated to represent Norway at the European Championships.
In January, Risa Gomez won the Norwegian senior national title and then competed at the 2023 European Championships in Helsinki. She qualified to the free skate and finished 22nd overall.
Risa Gomez went on to compete at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed thirty-fifth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment of the competition.

### 2023–24 season

Risa Gomez started the season with two Challenger circuit appearances, with a thirteenth-place finish at the 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy and a sixteenth-place at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. Between the two events, Risa Gomez also competed on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix, finishing fourteenth at 2023 JGP Hungary. She then subsequently finished sixth at the 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup.
Selected to compete at the 2024 European Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, Risa Gomez placed twenty-sixth in the short program and failed to advance to the free skate segment of the competition. She would then go on to win her second consecutive national title at the 2024 Norwegian Championships before taking silver at the 2024 Nordic Open.
Risa would then finish the season by competing at both the 2024 World Junior Championships and the 2024 World Championships, finishing forty-third and twenty-third, respectively.

### 2024–25 season

Risa Gomez began the season by finishing twentieth at the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and tenth at the 2024 Tayside Trophy. She would subsequently win the bronze medal at the 2024 Northern Lights Trophy before going on to finish eighteenth at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy.
In January, Risa Gomez competed at the 2025 European Championships. She fell on a triple flip jump in her short program and finished in 16th place in that part of the competition, but she rose to 12th overall after the free skate. Hers was the best result at the European Championships for a Norwegian woman in almost 90 years after the retirement of Sonja Henie.

## Programs

| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2023–2024 | Metamorphosis Two by Philip Glass & Nicolas Horvath choreo. by Sondre Oddvoll Bøe, Angélique Abachkina | Samurai Swords by Highasakite Happiness Does Not Wait by Olafur Arnalds choreo. by Sondre Oddvoll Bøe |
| 2022–2023 | Metamorphosis Two by Philip Glass & Nicolas Horvath choreo. by Sondre Oddvoll Bøe, Angélique Abachkina | Wonder Woman by Rupert Gregson-Williams Wonder Woman 1984 by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Moa Johanna Lindgren |
| 2021–2022 | It by Benjamin Wallfisch choreo. by Moa Johanna Lindgren | Wonder Woman by Rupert Gregson-Williams Wonder Woman 1984 by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Moa Johanna Lindgren |
| 2019–2020 | Unlocking the Mind (from The Theory of Everything) by Samuel Karl Bohn choreo. by Johanna Alik | Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman choreo. by Johanna Alik |

## Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International :
| Event | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 | 23–24 | 24–25 |
| Worlds | | | | 35th | 23rd | TBD |
| Europeans | | | | 22nd | 26th | 12th |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | | | | | 16th | |
| CS Lombardia Trophy | | | | | 13th | |
| CS Nebelhorn Trophy | | | | | | 20th |
| CS Tallinn Trophy | | | | | | 18th |
| Denkova-Staviski | | | | 2nd | 6th | |
| Nordics | | | | 5th | 2nd | |
| Open d'Andorra | | | | 1st | | |
| Santa Claus Cup | | | | 1st | | |
| Northern Lights Trophy | | | | | | 3rd |
| Tayside Trophy | | | | | | 10th |
| Volvo Open Cup | | | | | | 3rd |
| International: Junior |||||||
| Junior Worlds | | | 37th | | 43rd | |
| JGP Hungary | | | | | 14th | |
| JGP Latvia | 27th | | | | | |
| JGP Poland | | | | 19th | | |
| JGP Slovakia | | | 17th | | | |
| Challenge Cup | 10th | | 13th | | | |
| EYOF | | | 14th | | | |
| Golden Bear | 14th | | | | | |
| Nordics | 5th | | 6th | | | |
| Reyjkavik IG | 11th | | | | | |
| Tallinn Trophy | 19th | | | | | |
| National |||||||
| Norway | 2nd J | 2nd J | 2nd J | 1st | 1st | 1st |

## Detailed results

ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System :
| Segment | Type | Score | Event |
| Total | TSS | 146.45 | 2023 JGP Hungary |
| Short program | TSS | 50.72 | 2022 JGP Poland I |
| Short program | TES | 28.58 | 2022 JGP Poland I |
| Short program | PCS | 22.66 | 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy |
| Free skating | TSS | 101.28 | 2023 JGP Hungary |
| Free skating | TES | 56.10 | 2023 JGP Hungary |
| Free skating | PCS | 45.18 | 2023 JGP Hungary |

### Senior results

2024–25 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 16-18, 2025 | 2025 Volvo Open Cup | 3 51.15 | 3 101.03 | 3 152.18 |
| December 6–8, 2024 | 2025 Norwegian Championships | 1 57.01 | 1 110.77 | 1 167.78 |
| November 12–17, 2024 | 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy | 19 35.20 | 13 84.52 | 18 119.72 |
| October 25–27, 2024 | 2024 Northern Lights Trophy | 2 47.13 | 4 73.53 | 3 120.66 |
| October 12–13, 2024 | 2024 Tayside Trophy | 10 44.21 | 9 80.66 | 10 124.87 |
| September 18–21, 2024 | 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 20 41.47 | 20 73.43 | 20 114.90 |
| 2023–24 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 18–24, 2024 | 2024 World Championships | 23 55.09 | 23 92.04 | 23 147.13 |
| February 1–4, 2024 | 2024 Nordic Championships | 10 44.03 | 1 111.00 | 2 155.03 |
| January 26–28, 2024 | 2024 Norwegian Championships | 1 56.45 | 1 113.46 | 1 169.91 |
| January 8–14, 2024 | 2024 European Championships | 26 48.65 | - | 26 48.65 |
| November 7–12, 2023 | 2023 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 6 50.98 | 8 90.18 | 7 141.16 |
| October 4–8, 2023 | 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy | 17 43.48 | 13 93.35 | 16 136.83 |
| September 8–10, 2023 | 2023 CS Lombardia Trophy | 13 46.50 | 13 83.03 | 13 129.53 |
| 2022–23 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 22–26, 2023 | 2023 World Championships | 35 43.54 | – | 35 43.54 |
| February 2–5, 2023 | 2023 Nordic Championships | 7 57.57 | 5 93.93 | 5 144.49 |
| January 25–29, 2022 | 2023 European Championships | 21 49.14 | 22 88.48 | 22 137.62 |
| January 13–15, 2023 | 2023 Norwegian Championships | 1 50.99 | 1 109.15 | 1 160.14 |
| November 28–December 4, 2022 | 2022 Santa Claus Cup | 1 58.86 | 2 104.18 | 1 163.04 |
| November 17–20, 2022 | 2022 Open d'Andorra | 1 55.20 | 1 94.37 | 1 149.57 |
| November 1–6, 2022 | 2022 Denkova-Staviski Cup | 4 51.25 | 1 105.26 | 2 156.51 |

### Junior results

2023–24 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 26– March 3, 2024 | 2024 World Junior Championships | 43 37.97 | DNQ | 43 37.97 |
| September 20–23, 2023 | 2023 JGP Hungary | 20 45.17 | 9 101.28 | 14 146.45 |
| 2022–23 season ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| September 28–October 1, 2022 | 2022 JGP Poland I | 17 50.72 | 19 87.71 | 17 138.43 |
| 2021–22 season ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| April 13–17, 2022 | 2022 World Junior Championships | 37 40.33 | – | 37 40.33 |
| April 1–3, 2022 | 2022 Norwegian Junior Championships | 2 46.44 | 2 82.18 | 2 128.62 |
| March 20–25, 2022 | 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival | 9 48.60 | 18 76.11 | 14 124.71 |
| February 24–27, 2022 | 2022 International Challenge Cup | 12 40.94 | 14 66.44 | 13 107.38 |
| January 27–30, 2022 | 2022 Nordic Championships | 7 41.62 | 6 79.93 | 6 121.55 |
| September 1–4, 2021 | 2021 JGP Slovakia | 18 39.48 | 16 76.72 | 17 116.20 |
| 2020–21 season ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 20–24, 2021 | 2021 Norwegian Junior Championships | 2 46.07 | – | 2 46.07 |
| 2019–20 season ||||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 20–23, 2020 | 2020 International Challenge Cup | 10 42.00 | 9 82.74 | 10 124.74 |
| February 5–9, 2020 | 2020 Nordic Championships | 11 39.26 | 6 77.92 | 5 117.18 |
| January 24–26, 2020 | 2020 Reykjavik International Games | 15 31.79 | 9 67.86 | 11 99.65 |
| January 10–12, 2020 | 2020 Norwegian Junior Championships | 2 39.02 | 3 68.48 | 2 107.50 |
| November 11–17, 2019 | 2019 Tallinn Trophy | 20 31.92 | 19 60.78 | 20 92.70 |
| October 24–27, 2019 | 2019 Golden Bear of Zagreb | 21 38.56 | 11 73.98 | 14 112.54 |
| September 4–7, 2020 | 2019 JGP Latvia | 30 32.13 | 28 64.24 | 27 96.37 |