Joshi Nero

Joshi Nero
Nero at the 2013-14 Swedish Championships.
Other names	Joshi Helgesson
Born	(1993-06-07) 7 June 1993 (age 31) Tibro, Sweden
Hometown	Tibro
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Sweden
Coach	Christina Helgesson, Brian Orser, Ghisland Briand
Skating club	Tibro KK
Began skating	1996
Retired	7 November 2017

Joshi Nero, (née Helgesson; born 7 June 1993) is a Swedish retired figure skater. She is the 2014 Bavarian Open champion, 2011 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, and three-time Swedish national champion.

She and her sister Viktoria are the only siblings to finish together in the top 5 of a major championship as single skaters, a feat achieved during the 2015 European Championships.

Nero was born in Tibro, Sweden.^[1] Her elder sister, Viktoria, is also a former competitive skater, and their mother, Christina, is their coach.^[2][3] She also has an older brother named Lukas and a father named Lennart.^[4] Her sister-in-law is former Norwegian figure skater, Anne Line Gjersem, who married her brother in October 2022.^[5]

Following her retirement from competitive figure skating, she began coaching in Tibro alongside her sister.^[6]

In June 2022, Nero announced on her Instagram that she was pregnant with her boyfriend, Isak Nero's, child. She gave birth to a daughter, Hailey, in September 2022. She and Nero would marry in June 2023.^[7][8][9]

Nero placed 4th at the 2009 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her Grand Prix debut came at the start of the following season; she placed 9th at the 2009 Skate America and 11th at the 2009 Skate Canada International.

In April 2011, Nero made her senior ISU Championship debut at the World Championships in Moscow. After advancing past the preliminary round, she placed 16th in the short program and qualified for the final segment. Her 13th place in the free skate lifted her to 15th overall. In January 2012, Nero finished 10th in Sheffield, England at her first European Championships.

In the early part of the 2012–13 season, Nero sustained a stress fracture of the fibula in her take-off leg but returned to the ice two weeks before the 2012 Cup of China, where she finished 7th.^[10] She placed 8th at her second GP event, the 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 9th at the 2012 NRW Trophy.

She won the 2013 Swedish national title ahead of her sister and went on to place 8th at the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. After taking silver at the Nordic Championships, she closed her season with gold medals at the Hellmut Seibt Memorial and Coupe du Printemps.

Nero started her season by winning the silver medal at the Denkova-Staviski Cup. After taking silver at the Swedish Championships, she placed 9th at the 2014 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Nero won gold at the Bavarian Open and at the Nordic Championships. In March 2014, she travelled to Saitama, Japan to compete at her second World Championships; she placed 15th in the short, 12th in the free, and 14th overall.

Nero started her season on the ISU Challenger Series (CS), finishing 7th at the Lombardia Trophy and winning the silver medal at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy. She withdrew from both of her GP assignments, the 2014 Skate America and 2014 Rostelecom Cup, due to an injury.^{[citation needed]}

After winning silver at the Swedish Championships, Nero achieved a career-best 4th-place finish at the European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. Closing her season, she finished 14th at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China.

After starting her season with silver at the Lombardia Trophy, Nero competed at a pair of CS events, placing 7th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy and then taking the bronze medal at the 2015 Finlandia Trophy. She finished 9th at both of her GP assignments, the 2015 Skate Canada International and 2015 Rostelecom Cup. At the 2016 Europeans Nero placed 6th in the short program, but 11th in the free skate and 9th overall. She won the 2016 Nordics Open ahead of Viveca Lindfors. At the 2016 Worlds she did two major mistakes in her short program, placed 30th and did not qualify to the free skate.

Following the 2016–17 season, Nero announced that she would move from Tibro to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to train with Brian Orser.^[11] She started her season by placing 7th at 2016 CS Autumn Classic and 9th at 2016 CS Finlandia Trophy.

Nero trained for the season to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. She competed at the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy, but her level of skating did not improve as she planned. On 7 November 2017, she announced her retirement from competition.^[12]

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Media related to Joshi Helgesson at Wikimedia Commons

• Joshi Helgesson official website
• Joshi Helgesson at the International Skating Union