Benjamin Mimar
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.jpg) Brooke McIntosh and Benjamin Mimar at the 2023 Skate Canada International | ||||||||||||
| Born | November 26, 2000 Laval, Quebec, Canada | |||||||||||
| Hometown | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
| Figure skating career | ||||||||||||
| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||
| Discipline | Pair skating | |||||||||||
| Partner | Fiona Bombardier (since 2024) Brooke McIntosh (2020–24) Chloe Panetta (2018–20) | |||||||||||
| Coach | Andrew Evans Dmitri Savin Bruno Marcotte | |||||||||||
| Skating club | Skate Oakville | |||||||||||
| Began skating | 2003 | |||||||||||
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Benjamin Mimar (born 26 November 2000) is a Canadian pair skater. With his former partner, Brooke McIntosh, he is the 2022 NHK Trophy bronze medallist and 2023 Canadian national silver medallist. McIntosh/Mimar are also the 2022 World Junior bronze medallists and the 2022 Canadian junior champions.
Personal life
[edit]Mimar was born on 26 November 2000 in Laval, Quebec, Canada.[1] He has a younger sister, Frédérique, who is also a skater.
Career
[edit]Early years
[edit]Mimar began learning how to skate in 2003.[1] Skating with Marjolaine Ouimet, he placed fifth in novice pairs at the 2016 Canadian Championships.
He later competed in junior pairs with Chloe Panetta, coached by Richard Gauthier, Eric Radford, Ian Connoly, Sylvie Fullum, and Marlene Picard in Montreal.[2] The team appeared twice on the Junior Grand Prix circuit, placing ninth at the 2018 JGP Canada and eighth at the 2019 JGP Croatia. At the Canadian Junior Figure Skating Championships, they finished fourth in 2019 and fifth in 2020.[3]
Panetta/Mimar ended their partnership sometime between late January 2020 and 18 February 2020, when Mimar began skating with McIntosh.[4] McIntosh/Mimar competed twice domestically during the 2020–21 season.
2021–22 season: Junior World bronze
[edit]McIntosh/Mimar broke the Canadian junior pairs record to win their first junior national title as a team at the 2022 Canadian Championships in January.[5] Shortly after that, they competed at their first junior international assignment, the 2022 Bavarian Open in Oberstdorf, Germany, where they won the title and earned their ISU technical minimums to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in April.[6]
The World Junior Championships were originally scheduled to be held in Sofia in the traditional early March period. However, due to the pandemic, they were moved.[7] Due to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the ISU banned all Russian athletes from competing, which had a significant impact on a pairs field dominated by Russia in recent years.[8][9] McIntosh/Mimar placed fourth in the short program but climbed to third in the free skate to finish third overall. They took the bronze medal behind Georgian team Safina/Berulava and Australian team Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore.[10] McIntosh later said of their mindset going into the free program, "we focused on what we had to do for the free skate. We knew we were prepared, and we just had to go and show that. Even through the uncertainty of this season, we kept training and kept motivated."[11]
2022–23 season
[edit]With the Russian ban continuing into the new season, McIntosh/Mimar made their senior international debut in a very open pairs field.[12] In their Challenger series debut at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy, they won the bronze medal. Mimar noted the event as a "new experience" and assessed that "our free wasn't the best we could do, after a good short, but we are still happy with third place."[13]
McIntosh and Mimar were invited to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[14] They finished fourth in their first Grand Prix appearance, setting new personal bests in the free skate and total score.[15] At their second assignment, the 2022 NHK Trophy in Sapporo, they placed third in the short program despite a minor throw error and set a new personal best in that segment. McIntosh said it was a "lot of fun skating in front of the Japanese crowd."[16] They were third in the free skate as well, despite McIntosh falling on a throw triple loop and seeming to hurt her shoulder. The team won the bronze medal, their first on the Grand Prix, with Mimar saying he was "very proud of my partner that she fought until then end despite a fall." McIntosh subsequently said her arm had been checked by a doctor and was fine.[17][18]
Shortly after the end of the Grand Prix, McIntosh/Mimar were the silver medallists at the 2022–23 Skate Canada Challenge after a rough free skate dropped them behind the new team Pereira/Michaud.[19] They went on to win the silver medal at the 2023 Canadian Championships. Mimar said that it was the first time he had felt "really confident on the ice" with their free skate.[20] Despite their silver medal, they were not one of the three teams selected to compete at the 2023 Four Continents Championships, though they were named to make their World Championship debut.[21] McIntosh/Mimar finished eleventh in Saitama.[22]
2023–24 season
[edit]The team was hampered by injury in the leadup to the season, being able to train heavily only in the final three weeks before their first competition, the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. They finished sixth at the event, having encountered difficulties in the free skate, including an aborted lift. Reflecting on their lack of preparation, Mimar said that "in general, we just have to keep working."[23] On the Grand Prix, they finished sixth at the 2023 Skate Canada International.[23] McIntosh/Mimar placed fifth in the short program at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, but a difficult free skate dropped them to seventh place.[24]
On February 22, Mimar announced that his partnership with McIntosh had ended, and that he had teamed up with Fiona Bombardier.[25]
Programs
[edit]With McIntosh
[edit]| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2023–2024 [26][27] |
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| 2022–2023 [28] |
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| 2021–2022 [1] |
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| 2020–2021 |
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With Panetta
[edit]| Season | Short program | Free skating |
|---|---|---|
| 2019–2020 [2] |
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Competitive highlights
[edit]- GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
Pair skating with Fiona Bombardier
[edit]| Season | 2024–25 |
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| CS Warsaw Cup | TBD |
Pair skating with Brooke McIntosh
[edit]| Season | 2020–21 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 |
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| World Championships | 11th | ||
| Canadian Championships | 2nd | ||
| GP Finland | 7th | ||
| GP NHK Trophy | 3rd | ||
| GP Skate Canada | 4th | 6th | |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 3rd | 6th | |
| Skate Canada Challenge | 4th | 2nd |
| Season | 2021–22 |
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| World Junior Championships | 3rd |
| Canadian Championships | 1st |
| Bavarian Open | 1st |
| Skate Canada Challenge | 1st |
With Panetta
[edit]| International: Junior[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Event | 18–19 | 19–20 |
| JGP Canada | 9th | |
| JGP Croatia | 8th | |
| National[3] | ||
| Canadian Champ. | 4th J | 5th J |
| SC Challenge | 2nd J | 4th J |
Detailed results
[edit]Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.
With McIntosh
[edit]Senior level
[edit]| 2023–2024 season | ||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| November 17–19, 2023 | 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo | 5 56.61 |
8 90.66 |
7 147.27 |
| October 27–29, 2023 | 2023 Skate Canada International | 5 59.83 |
7 106.17 |
6 166.00 |
| October 4–8, 2023 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 4 58.73 |
6 98.77 |
6 157.50 |
| 2022–2023 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 20–26, 2023 | 2023 World Championships | 10 63.33 |
11 118.62 |
11 181.95 |
| January 9–15, 2023 | 2023 Canadian Championships | 2 66.67 |
2 120.59 |
2 187.26 |
| Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2022 | 2022–23 Skate Canada Challenge | 1 63.64 |
2 109.02 |
2 172.66 |
| November 18–20, 2022 | 2022 NHK Trophy | 3 62.31 |
3 113.34 |
3 175.65 |
| October 28–30, 2022 | 2022 Skate Canada International | 4 60.82 |
4 114.67 |
4 175.49 |
| October 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 3 61.23 |
4 105.38 |
3 166.61 |
Junior level
[edit]| 2021–2022 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 13–17, 2022 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Junior | 4 58.00 |
3 98.80 |
3 156.80 |
| January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Bavarian Open | Junior | 1 51.81 |
1 103.26 |
1 155.07 |
| January 6–12, 2022 | 2022 Canadian Junior Championships | Junior | 1 56.91 |
1 99.04 |
1 155.95 |
| December 1–5, 2022 | 2022 Skate Canada Challenge | Junior | 1 54.75 |
1 97.93 |
1 152.68 |
| 2020–2021 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| January 8–17, 2021 | 2022 Skate Canada Challenge | Senior | 4 55.18 |
3 111.51 |
4 166.69 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022.
- ^ a b "Chloe PANETTA / Benjamin MIMAR: 2019/2020". International Skating Union.
- ^ a b c "Chloe PANETTA / Benjamin MIMAR: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
- ^ Evans, Andrew (February 18, 2020). "New team! Super excited for this new start. Time to get down to work" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
- ^ "McIntosh and Mimar break Canadian junior pairs record at 2022 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Canadians win gold and silver in junior pairs at Bavarian Open". Skate Canada. January 21, 2022.
- ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2022 allotted to Tallinn (EST)". International Skating Union. March 4, 2022.
- ^ "ISU Statement on the Ukrainian crisis – Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus". International Skating Union. March 1, 2022.
- ^ "2022 World Junior Championships". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ Slater, Paula (April 15, 2022). "Safina and Berulava take first Junior World gold for Georgian Pairs". Golden Skate.
- ^ "McIntosh and Mimar win comeback bronze at ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. April 15, 2022.
- ^ McCarvel, Nick (October 19, 2022). "Figure skating 2022/23 season preview: New Olympic quad begins with intrigue and plenty of familiar faces". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
- ^ "Fournier Beaudry and Soerensen win gold at ISU Challenger Series Finlandia Trophy". Skate Canada. October 9, 2022.
- ^ Doorey, Jacqueline (October 26, 2022). "Canadian pairs duo Brooke McIntosh, Benjamin Mimar excited for senior Grand Prix debut on home ice". CBC Sports.
- ^ Slater, Paula (October 29, 2022). "Miura and Kihara win historic pairs Gold for Japan". Golden Skate.
- ^ "'Confident' Miura/Kihara (JPN) delight home crowd to lead Pairs after Short Program at NHK Trophy". International Skating Union. November 18, 2022.
- ^ "Miura/Kihara (JPN) take home Pairs gold in NHK Trophy to qualify for Grand Prix Final in style". International Skating Union. November 19, 2022.
- ^ Slater, Paula (November 19, 2022). "Miura and Kihara take second Grand Prix title at NHK Trophy". Golden Skate.
- ^ "Men, pairs and ice dance titles awarded at 2022–23 Skate Canada Challenge". Skate Canada. December 2, 2022.
- ^ Flett, Ted (January 15, 2023). "Long awaited victory for Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps". Golden Skate.
- ^ "Skate Canada names teams for 2023 ISU championships". Skate Canada. January 15, 2023.
- ^ "Japan's Miura and Kihara win pairs title at figure skating worlds". CBC Sports. March 23, 2023.
- ^ a b "Reigning Canadian ice dance champions capture bronze medal at Finlandia Trophy". Skate Canada. October 8, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
- ^ "Silver medal streak continues for ice dancers Fournier Beaudry & Soerensen". Skate Canada. November 18, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ^ @benjamin_mimar (February 22, 2024). "Happy to announce our new partnership!!!" – via Instagram.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2023/2024 (1st FS)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2023/2024 (2nd FS)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 14, 2023.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 19, 2022.
- ^ a b "CAN–Brooke McIntosh/Benjamin Mimar". SkatingScores.com.
External links
[edit]- Brooke McIntosh & Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union
- Brooke McIntosh & Benjamin Mimar at SkatingScores.com
- Chloe Panetta & Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union