Vanessa Crone (born October 29, 1990) is a Canadian former competitive

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 ...

. She skated with

Paul Poirier Paul Poirier (; born November 6, 1991) is a Canadian Ice dancing, ice dancer. With Piper Gilles, he is a four-time World Figure Skating Championships, World medalist, a two-time Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Four Continents cham ...

from 2001 to 2011, becoming the 2010 Grand Prix Final bronze medallist, 2011 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2008 World Junior silver medallist, and 2011 Canadian national champion.

Personal life

Vanessa Crone was born on October 29, 1990, in

Aurora, Ontario Aurora ( 2021 population: 62,057) is a town in central York Region in the Greater Toronto Area, within the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located north of the City of Richmond Hill and is partially situated on the Oak Ridge ...

. She competed in track and field in addition to figure skating.

Career

Early in her career, Crone also competed in

single skating Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually. Men's singles and women's singles are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU). Figure skating is the oldest winter sport conteste ...

, and

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating ...

with Poirier. She and Poirier began skating together in May 2001. They won the silver medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships. Crone and Poirier won silver at

2008 Skate Canada The 2008 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on October 30 ...

, their first senior Grand Prix event, and placed fourth in their second event. The next season they claimed the bronze at

2009 NHK Trophy The 2009 NHK Trophy was the fourth event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano on November 5–8. Medals were aw ...

. At the 2010 Canadian Championships, they were nominated to represent

Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics Canada hosted and participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada previously hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Canada sent a team of 206 athletes (116 men, 90 wo ...

. They finished 7th at the 2010 World Championships. Crone and Poirier began the 2010–2011 season by capturing gold at

2010 Skate Canada International The 2010 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2010–11 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario on October 28� ...

ahead of Sinead Kerr and John Kerr who had a fall in the free dance. At

2010 Skate America The 2010 Skate America was the fourth event of six in the 2010–11 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon on November 11–14. Med ...

, Poirier fell in the free dance but their score was enough for the silver behind Meryl Davis and Charlie White, both of whom fell, and ahead of

Maia Shibutani Maia Harumi Shibutani (born July 20, 1994) is an American ice dancer. Partnered with her brother Alex Shibutani, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist (2018), a three-time World medalist (silver in 2016, bronze in 2011 and 2017), the 2016 F ...

and Alex Shibutani with no falls. Their results qualified them for the 2010–2011 Grand Prix Final where they won the bronze medal. They finished 10th at the 2011 World Championships. On June 2, 2011, Crone and Poirier announced the end of their ten-year partnership. Crone confirmed she would like to continue competing and was looking for a new partner. In 2012, Crone teamed up with Danish ice dancer Nikolaj Sorensen, with whom she planned to compete for Canada, but they soon parted ways. In November, Crone said that she was still searching for a partner to continue her competitive career. She teaches skating in the Toronto area, working with both figure skaters and hockey players.

Programs

(with Poirier)

Competitive highlights

Ice dance with Paul Poirier

Single skating

References

External links

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Team Canada profile

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