Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Former coach Marilyn Philogène Training locations Montreal Home town Laval, Canada | Former partner Alexandre Laliberté Choreographer Shae Zukiwsky | |
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Born June 13, 1997 (age 19) ( 1997-06-13 ) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Coach Shawn Winter, Elise Hamel | ||
Tina Garabedian (Armenian: Թինա Կարապետյան; born June 13, 1997) is an Armenian competitive ice dancer. With partner Simon Proulx-Sénécal, she is the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist and reached the free dance at two European Championships (2016, 2017).
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Personal life
Tina Garabedian was born on June 13, 1997 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is one of three daughters of Maral Dermeguerditchian and John Garabedian, both born in Lebanon. She attended L'École Arménienne Sourp Hagop up to grade 7 and then switched to a school with a sports-study program to accommodate her skating schedule. As of January 2016, she was a student at Collège Gérald-Godin with a focus on business. She holds dual Canadian and Armenian citizenship.
Career
Garabedian began skating in 2002. She competed in singles until age 14 and then spent a year as a member of a synchronized skating team. She formed an ice dancing partnership with Alexandre Laliberté in 2012. Appearing on the junior level, the two placed 9th at the 2014 Canadian Championships and debuted internationally the following season, representing Armenia. After placing 7th at both of their 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix assignments – in Ostrava, Czech Republic and Dresden, Germany – Garabedian/Laliberté were sent to the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn. In Estonia, they were 18th in the short dance and qualified to the free dance, where they placed 15th, lifting them to 16th overall.
Partnership with Proulx-Sénécal
In May 2015, Garabedian teamed up with Simon Proulx-Sénécal, with whom she began competing on the senior level. She stated, "My coaches wanted us to skate together when I first started dance, but he was already 21 and had to move up to senior and I was not ready for that then." Making their international debut, they placed sixth at the 2015 Ice Challenge, a 2015–16 ISU Challenger Series (CS) event held in October in Graz, Austria. In December, they won their first CS medal – bronze at the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb.
In January 2016, Garabedian/Proulx-Sénécal were one of twenty teams to qualify for the final segment at the European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, having ranked 20th in the short dance. They finished 18th overall after placing 18th in the free dance.
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
