Tina Garabedian (; born June 13, 1997) is a retired Armenian-Canadian

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r. She and her partner

Simon Proulx-Sénécal Simon Proulx-Sénécal (born December 6, 1991) is a Canadian-born ice dancer who competes with Tina Garabedian for Armenia. They are the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalists and reached the free dance at two European Championships (2016, ...

represented Armenia at the

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Personal life

Tina Garabedian was born on June 13, 1997, in

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, Canada. She is one of three daughters of Maral Dermeguerditchian and John Garabedian, both born in

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. She attended L'École Arménienne Sourp Hagop up to grade 7 and then switched to Collège Gérald-Godin with a sports-study program to accommodate her skating schedule. In 2021 she graduated from

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with distinction, winning the Laddie Millen Award for top marks. She holds dual Canadian and Armenian citizenship.

Career

Early years

Garabedian began skating in 2002. She competed in singles until age 14 and then spent a year as a member of a

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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

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. After placing 7th at both of their 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix assignments – in

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, Czech Republic and

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, Germany – Garabedian/Laliberté were sent to the 2015 World Junior Championships in

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. 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

, 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

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, 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

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, Slovakia, having ranked 20th in the short dance. They finished 18th overall after placing 18th in the free dance.

Programs

With Proulx-Sénécal

With Laliberté

Competitive highlights

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

With Proulx-Sénécal

With Laliberté

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Garabedian, Tina 1997 births Living people Armenian female ice dancers Canadian female ice dancers Canadian people of Armenian descent Olympic figure skaters for Armenia Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Laval, Quebec 21st-century Canadian sportswomen