Simon Proulx-Sénécal (born December 6, 1991) is a Canadian-born

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 ...

who competes with Tina Garabedian for

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

. They are the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalists and reached the free dance at two

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(2016, 2017).

Personal life

Simon Proulx-Sénécal was born on December 6, 1991, in

LaSalle, Quebec LaSalle () is the most southerly borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the south-west portion of the Island of Montreal, along the Saint Lawrence River. Prior to 2002, it was a separate municipalit ...

, Canada, of

French Canadian French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French people, French colonists first arriving in Canada (New France), France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of ...

heritage. Proulx-Sénécal came out as gay.Outsports: At least 35 out LGBTQ athletes in Beijing Winter Olympics, a record
January 2022

Career

Early years

Proulx-Sénécal switched from ice hockey to figure skating when he was seven years old and teamed up with his first partner at age twelve. Competing with Josyane Cholette, he placed 11th in junior ice dancing at both the

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and 2012 Canadian Championships. He and Christina Penkov were 15th on the junior level at the 2013 Canadian Championships. During the next two seasons, he competed with Mélissande Dumas on the senior level. They finished 11th at the 2014 Canadian Championships and 12th in

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Partnership with Garabedian

In May 2015, Proulx-Sénécal teamed up with Tina Garabedian to compete for

. 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 Garabedian)

Competitive highlights

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

With Garabedian for Armenia

Earlier partnerships

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Proulx-Senecal, Simon 1991 births Living people People from LaSalle, Quebec Figure skaters from Montreal Armenian male ice dancers Canadian male ice dancers Canadian LGBTQ dancers Canadian gay sportsmen LGBTQ figure skaters Gay dancers Olympic figure skaters for Armenia Figure skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people 21st-century Canadian sportsmen