Zhaira Costiniano (born November 30, 1995, in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino figure skater. She qualified to the free skate at the 2012 Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the 2009 junior ladies Philippine national champion and the 2010 senior ladies Philippine national champion. NW Asian Weekly named Costiniano among the top ten Asian-American sports figures in 2010.
Costiniano became the youngest lady to win the Philippine senior ladies title at age 15.Filipino-American Zhaira Costiniano ... to become the youngest women’s champion of the National Figure Skating Championships... She is also the first lady to win the Philippine junior and senior national titles in consecutive years. Costiniano represented the Philippines at the Junior World Championship in 2010 and 2011. She was the flag bearer for the Philippines at the 2011 Asian Winter Games held in Kazakhstan and placed 7th at the event.
Programs Season Short program Free skating 2011–2012 Take Five A Kalaidoscope of Mathematics Nostradamus 2010–2011 Schindler's List 2009–2010 Within Broken Sorrow
Competitive highlights International Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 World Champ. 47th Four Continents Champ. 24th Asian Winter Games 7th International: Junior World Junior Champ. 36th 18th PR Turkey 21st National Philippine Champ. 1st J. 1st 2nd 2nd JGP = Junior Grand Prix J. = Junior level; PR = Preliminary round
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