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 2023 and 2024 Norwegian national champion. She has represented Norway at two ISU Championships, reaching the final segment at the 2023 European 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.

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 behind Frida Turidotter Berge.

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. She placed twenty-sixth at the 2024 European Championships and twenty-third at the 2024 World Championships.

Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Detailed results
Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.