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Nikolas Wamsteeker (born October 28, 1996) is a Canadian
ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...
. With his skating partner, Haley Sales, he is the 2020
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bronze medallist and 2018
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bronze medallist. The two placed 9th at the 2018 Four Continents Championships.


Personal life

Wamsteeker was born on October 28, 1996, in
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,
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. He grew up in Langley,
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.


Skating career


Early years

Wamsteeker began learning to skate in 2000. He competed with Jessica Jiang early in his career. The two advanced to the novice level in the 2011–2012 season but missed the 2012 Canadian Championships due to injury. After a year away from skating, Wamsteeker teamed up with Jazlyn Tabachniuk in 2013. They placed 6th in the novice ranks at the 2014 Canadian Championships.


Partnership with Sales

Wamsteeker teamed up with Haley Sales in March 2014. They decided to train under Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe in
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, British Columbia. The two placed ninth in the junior event at the 2015 Canadian Championships. The following season, they competed at one
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event, finishing sixth in Austria, and ranked fourth at the 2016 Canadian Championships. Sales/Wamsteeker made their senior international debut at the
Lake Placid Ice Dance International The Lake Placid Ice Dance International is an annual international ice dance competition held in Lake Placid, New York. It was first held in 1932. In 2015 and 2016, the senior event was included on the International Skating Union's calendar. The e ...
in late July 2016. They finished seventh in Lake Placid, ninth at the 2016 CS Autumn Classic International, and fifth at the 2017 Canadian Championships. Competing in their second senior season, Sales/Wamsteeker placed tenth at the
2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy The 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy was a senior international figure skating competition held in September 2017 in Oberstdorf, Germany. It was part of the 2017–18 ISU Challenger Series. It also served as the final qualification event for the 2018 Wi ...
and 6th at the 2018 Canadian Championships. They were selected to represent Canada at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in
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, Taiwan; the duo finished ninth after placing eighth in the short dance and tenth in the free. They won a bronze medal at the Lake Placid International Dance trophy and then placed fourth at the 2018 U.S. Classic. They made their
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debut at the
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, where they placed ninth. At the 2019 Canadian Championships, they placed a career-best fourth, a placement the replicated the following year despite a fall by Sales in the rhythm dance. Sales/Wamsteeker were assigned to the 2020 Skate Canada International, but the event was cancelled as a result of the
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. They placed fourth at the virtually-held 2021 Skate Canada Challenge, while the 2021 Canadian Championships were subsequently cancelled. In June 2021, Sales/Wamsteeker announced that they would be moving to train at the Ice Academy of Montreal's campus in
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, coached by two-time Olympic champion
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. In February 2023, Wamsteeker announced his retirement from competitive ice dance and his decision to become a pilot in the
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.


Programs


With Sales


With Tabachniuk


Competitive highlights

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; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:
Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...
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Ice dancing with Sales


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wamsteeker, Nikolas 1996 births Canadian male ice dancers Living people 21st-century Canadian sportsmen