Aaron, Max

The early years

Max Aaron skated at the age of four. At first he was engaged in hockey, and at the age of nine he also became engaged in figure skating. He participated in national hockey competitions in 2006 and 2007. At the same time, Max Aaron participated in the US Figure Skating Championship, where in 2006 he took fifth place in child damage, and a year later became 13th among juniors. He continued to practice both hockey and figure skating until 2008 . In the same year, Aaron suffered a back injury and was forced to leave the ice for a year.

Later, Max Aaron moved from his native Scottsdale to Colorado Springs , where he trained at the Broadmoor Skating Club and World Arena. His first trainers were Tom Zakraydzhek and Christy Kroll .

Since 2010

A year after leaving due to a back injury, Max Aaron won the bronze medal at the national junior championship. In 2011, he won the silver of the Junior Grand Prix in Japan. Then he obeyed the title of US champion among juniors. At the World Junior Championships 2011 in Gangneung, he took fifth place.

At the 2013 U.S. Championship, Max Aaron sensationally won the gold medal, beating well-known American skaters Jeremy Abbott and Ross Miner . In the short program, he took fourth place with a score of 79.13 points, perfectly performing the cascade of “quadruple salchow - triple toe loop”, triple axel and triple lutz. In the free program, Max Aaron performed two quadruple salchows, one of which was in a cascade with a double sheepskin coat. He scored 175.87 points, beating 5.57 points behind his closest rival, Ross Miner. The result for the sum of the two programs was exactly 255 points.

Twice won gold in the US national team at the world championships in figure skating in Japan. Moreover, his performance was not the most successful among the team ^{[2] [3]} however he returned home with a gold medal ^[4] . In January 2015, he finished fourth at the national championship ^[5] .

In September 2015, he won second place in a traditional tournament in Germany , showed excellent skating in the short program, and took first place. Having exceeded his previous achievement in it. ^[6] In October 2015, the skater successfully started at the stage of the Skate America Grand Prix series and as a result he won, surpassing his achievements in a short, free program and amount ^[7] . At his second tournament (Grand Prix stage) of the season, the skater was not lucky. The tournament in France was not completed due to mourning and martial law in the country. However, he was ready to play and a week later he won the Tallinn Cup tournament in Estonia . At the same time, the short program brought him a record mark. At the national championship, he first became vice champion ^[8] . At the end of February 2016, he performed at the continental championship , where he was in the top ten ^[9] . In early April, at the home world championship in Boston, the skater performed successfully and took place among the top ten singles in the world ^[10] . At the same time, he surpassed his previous sports achievement in the free program.

Max began the new pre-Olympic season in early September 2016 in Bergamo on the Lombardy Cup . Where he confidently won the bronze award ^[11] . Two weeks later, he performed in Montreal at the Autumn Classic International tournament, where he took third place in a bitter struggle ^[12] . In early November, the American skater spoke at the Grand Prix stage in Moscow , where he took a place in the middle of the tournament table at the Rostelecom Cup ^[13] . In mid-November, he took part in his second stage of the Grand Prix this season in Beijing , where he took fourth place in the Chinese Cup ^[14] . At the end of January 2017 at the national championship in Kansas, he failed to create competition for the leading American skaters ^[15] .

In September, the American loner began at home the Olympic season in Salt Lake City , where he performed very well at the US International Figure Skating Classic tournament , improved his previous sports achievements in total and free program. At the same time, he finished with a silver medal ^[16] . After a month and a half, the skater performed at the Chinese stage of the Grand Prix series in Beijing, where he finished with a bronze medal ^[17] . At the same time, he managed to improve his previous achievement in the free program. In mid-November, at the French Grand Prix stage, he managed to finish in the middle of the standings ^[18] . At the beginning of the year, his performance at the national championship was unsuccessful, he finished only in ninth. Considering that between the championship of the four continents and the Olympic Games, the American Federation sent the second squad to the continental championship for two weeks and Max was a substitute and fell at the last moment. However, there , in Taipei, he performed excellently and closed the top five of the best single skaters.

Max Aaron was born in Scottsdale . His mother worked as a nurse, his father was a pediatrician ^{[19] [20]} . Max has a younger sister Madeleine, who is the bronze medalist of the 2013 U.S. Junior Championships, and older Molly, who also does figure skating.

At the end of his sports career, in the spring of 2018, he joined the bank.

From the 2009/2010 season

• * - place in the individual event / team place (since 2015, no individual event has been held).
• C - the competition was not completed.

2003-2009

• Max Aaron on the ISU official website