Eleven Year Old Skater Wins Gold

Philadelphia – Eleven year old Elena Gonzales-Molinos from the Skating Club of Lake Placid recently won a gold medal in her pre-juvenile skating event at the Liberty Open Summer Skating Competition. Only having skated four years, Molinos is happy to be able to execute four of the double jumps and is currently working on the most difficult one, the double axel. She skated to Pachelbel’s Canon in D, and her coaches are the Italian team of Gilberto Viadana and Michela Bosqueto.


Molinos is originally from Venezuela and her goal is to be the first Venezuelan to represent her country in the sport of competitive figure skating. Molinos and her family were living in Boca Raton FL and moved to Lake Placid three years ago after spending a summer here and “falling in love” with her coaches, the friendly people and the beautiful town of Lake Placid.

Molinos’ next competition will be the Mid-Atlantic and North Atlantic Regional Championships this fall.