Jade Hovine

Jade Hovine (born 11 June 2004) is a French-Belgian figure skater. She is the 2022 NRW Trophy champion and a four-time Belgian national silver medalist (2020, 2022–2024). She has represented Belgium at four senior level ISU Championships.

Personal life Hovine was born in Lille, France on June 11, 2004, and grew up in Vaulx, Tournai. She lives in Nice, where she studies law at Côte d'Azur University.

Career

Early career Hovine began skating when she was six or seven in Tournai. She later trained in Wevelgem until the rink there closed and then in Ghent. Hovine then trained in Antwerp, where she lived alone during the week and her parents joined her on the weekends. She began taking online classes when she was twelve due to her training schedule. A couple weeks later, she made her senior international debut and finished fourth at the 2021 Santa Claus Cup.

She started the season in September by competing on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, finishing thirteenth at the 2022 JGP Latvia. Hovine followed this up by competing on the senior international level, finishing seventeenth at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy and winning silver at the 2022 Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. She then competed at the 2022 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, earning new personal best free skate and combined total scores, and finishing eighth overall. That same month, it was also announced that she had left longtime coach, Ans Bocklandt, and had relocated to France to train under Malika Tahir. She subsequently finished fourth at the 2022 Latvia Trophy and sixth at the 2023 Dragon Trophy. Later in the month, she competed at the senior World Championships as part of Belgium's largest-ever delegation. She skated cleanly and set a personal best in the short program, where she placed twenty-sixth and did not advance to the free skate segment.

In May, she moved to Cote d'Azur, where she joined her physical trainer, with whom she had been training remotely, and began university. She also changed coaches from Malika Tahir to Cédric Tour, who had previously accompanied her to competitions, and Rodolphe Maréchal. In her free skate, she popped a planned triple flip jump, and she ended the competition in twenty-third place. She expressed disappointment in her performance, saying, "I can't figure out why it happened – I was super focused, aiming to deliver the best performance of my life," but she added, "But that's life, that's skating, and that's sports. I'm still happy. Overall, it was a beautiful competition, and I achieved my goal of qualifying for the free skate." She instead debuted at the 2024 CS Trophée Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur in October, where she finished in seventeenth place after falling twice in her free skate.

In November, Hovine had a stronger performance at the 2024 Volvo Open Cup in November, where she won the bronze medal. She said that she was disappointed with her short program there but that winning a medal boosted her morale. Hovine next competed at the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy, where she finished in fifth place. Afterward, she caught the flu but competed again at the Santa Claus Cup, her third competition that month, though she said afterward that she was not in a good physical state to compete and the competition left her exhausted. Hovine said that she was happy with her performance, especially as she had travel difficulties getting to the competition and had been crying due to stress in her last practice before the short program. She was also skating with inflammation in her foot due to a boot issue.

Hovine competed at two further competitions in February, the 2025 International Challenge Cup and the 2025 Bellu Memorial, in an attempt to reach the minimum technical score to be eligible for the 2025 World Championships. However, she failed to do so by only 0.09 points. At those events, she finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Programs Season Short program Free skating 2025–2026 Hymne à l'amour Spectre Los muertos vivos estan Writing's on the Wall 2024–2025