Alicia Pineault (; born July 26, 1999) is a Canadian

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. She is the 2016 Canadian national junior silver medalist and has represented Canada at two

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, finishing within the top ten in 2020. She has also competed on the

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series.

Personal life

Pineault was born on July 26, 1999, in

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. She studied at École Secondaire de Mortagne before enrolling at

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Career

Early career

Pineault began learning to skate in 2003. Coached by Stéphane Yvars and Françoise Parisé in

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, she won silver in the novice ladies' category at the 2015 Canadian Championships and silver in the junior ranks at the 2016 Canadian Championships. In September 2016, Pineault appeared at the

ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic The ISU Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic (often titled Czech Skate) is an international figure skating competition. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union, it is held in the autumn in some years as part of the JGP series. Medals may b ...

, finishing tenth. Competing on the senior level, she placed seventh at the 2017 Canadian Championships.

2017–2018 season

Making her international senior debut, Pineault placed sixth at the 2017 CS U.S. Classic in September. In January, she finished eighth at the 2018 Canadian Championships and was selected to compete at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in

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; she placed fourteenth in the short program, twelfth in the free skate, and thirteenth overall in Taiwan.

2018–2019 season

Pineault finished sixth at the

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. In October, she was invited to compete at her first

event, the

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, following the withdrawals of

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and

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. Pineault had to withdraw from the 2019 Canadian Championships after spraining her ankle in two places in the practice sessions.

2019–2020 season

Pineault placed seventh at the 2019 CS U.S. Classic at the beginning of the season. Competing at

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for the second consecutive season, she was eleventh of twelve skaters. Pineault placed first in the short program at the 2020 Canadian Championships despite having an underrotation called on the second part of her jump combination. She had more difficulty in the free skate, landing only two triple jumps cleanly, and dropped to fourth place overall. Because national champion

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lacked the senior technical minimum for the short program to be assigned to the 2020 World Championships,

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deferred making a decision about assigning its two berths there until after the 2020 Four Continents Championships in

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. As national bronze medalist

Madeline Schizas Madeline Schizas (born February 14, 2003) is a Canadian figure skater. She is a two-time ISU Challenger Series bronze medalist, the 2020 International Challenge Cup bronze medalist, and a two-time Canadian national champion (2022, 2023), and repr ...

was ineligible for international senior competitions, Pineault was assigned to Four Continents along with Bausback and silver medalist

Alison Schumacher Alison Schumacher (born 22 November 2002) is a Canadian figure skater who competes in women's singles. She is the 2020 Canadian national silver medallist. She has represented Canada at four ISU Championships, finishing within the top ten at ...

. At the

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, Pineault placed tenth with personal best results in both the free skate and total score. She was the highest-ranking Canadian woman at the event, besting Schumacher (in fourteenth place) by almost 23 points. After Pineault's result at Four Continents, she was assigned to compete at the 2020 World Championships, The championships were subsequently cancelled as a result of the

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2020–2021 season

Due to the

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, Grand Prix assignments were made based on training location, and Pineault was assigned to

2020 Skate Canada International The 2020 Skate Canada International was scheduled to be the second event in the 2020–21 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It would have been held at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Ontari ...

. After the event was cancelled, she announced that due to ongoing uncertainties surrounding the season, she would not compete the rest of the season. Pineault instead took the time to follow doctors' recommendations to "tune some physiological aspects" and recover from injuries.

2021–2022 season

Returning to competition, Pineault was fifth at the 2021 Skate Canada Challenge and then finished seventh at the 2022 Canadian Championships.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''GP:

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pineault, Alicia 1999 births Canadian female single skaters Living people Figure skaters from Montreal 21st-century Canadian women