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Skating club
  
CPA St Eustache

Retired
  
2005

Height
  
1.63 m


Name
  
Annie Bellemare

Began skating
  
1985

Country represented
  
Canada

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Born
  
January 2, 1980 (age 44) (
1980-01-02
)

Former coach
  
Joanne McLeod, Stephane Yvars, Josee Normand

Former choreographer
  
Josee Chouinard, Julie Brault, Marijane Stong

Former training locations
  
Burnaby, Vancouver, Boucherville

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Annie Bellemare (born January 2, 1980) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 Four Continents bronze medalist, 2004 Bofrost Cup on Ice bronze medalist, and a five-time Canadian national medalist.

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Annie Bellemare - 1999 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Free Skate


Personal life

Bellemare on January 2, 1980 in Laval, Quebec. Following high school, she studied at Collège Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil, Quebec. She later obtained a marketing management certificate from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and a business communications certificate from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She married Brian Morris on August 6, 2011 in Ottawa.

Career

Bellemare was twelve when she completed her first triple, a Salchow. Early in her career, she was coached by Josee Normand. By 2000, her coach was Stephane Yvars, who changed her technique on triple jumps.

Bellemare won her first national medal, silver, in 1999. She was assigned to her first senior ISU Championship, the 1999 Four Continents, where she placed 12th.

Before the 1999–00 season, Bellemare skated well at a CSFA monitoring event and received her first senior Grand Prix assignments. She finished 10th at the 1999 Sparkassen Cup and 6th at the 1999 NHK Trophy. After taking bronze at the 2000 Canadian nationals, Bellemare was sent to the 2000 Four Continents where she also won bronze.

In 2001, she finished 9th at Four Continents and 21st at the World Championships. She was training in Boucherville, Quebec. In 2002, Bellemare won her second national silver medal and placed 6th at the Four Continents.

Before the 2003–04 season, Bellemare changed coaches to Joanne McLeod in Burnaby and Vancouver, British Columbia. She competed in her fifth Grand Prix season, placing 7th at 2003 Skate America and 6th at 2003 Skate Canada International.

Bellemare withdrew from the 2004 Skate Canada International due to an injury. She last competed at the 2004 Bofrost Cup on Ice, winning bronze. She retired from competition in 2005. During her career, she represented CPA St Eustache.

After working as an administrator at Canlan Ice Sports, Burnaby 8 Rinks in British Columbia, Bellemare became a communications and marketing coordinator for Skate Canada in Ottawa in May 2007.

Results

GP: Grand Prix

References

Annie Bellemare Wikipedia


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