Christopher Mabee
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| Mabee competes in 2006. | ||
| Personal Info | ||
| Country: |  Canada |
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| Date of birth: | August 26, 1985 | |
| Height: | 175 cm | |
| Coach: | Lee Barkell, Doug Leigh | |
| Choreographer: | David Wilson, Lori Nichol | |
| Skating Club: | Tillsonburg SC | |
| ISU Personal Best Scores | ||
| Short + Free Total: | 198.69 | 2006 4CC |
| Short Program: | 71.33 | 2007 Worlds |
| Free Skate: | 130.56 | 2006 4CC |
| Most Recent Results: | |||
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| Event | Points | Finish | Year |
| National Championships | 190.64 | 5th | 2008 |
Christopher Mabee (born on August 26, 1985 in Tillsonburg, Ontario) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2007 Canadian national silver medalist.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early career
Christopher Mabee was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario. He began skating at age seven.
Mabee won the silver medal on the novice level at nationals in 1998. He was sent to the Triglav Trophy that year and placed 5th on the novice level. Mabee went junior the next season and placed 4th at nationals in 1999. In the 1999-2000 season, he made his debut on the Junior Grand Prix, placing 11th in Canada and 9th in Norway. He dropped down to ninth at Nationals as a junior. At the 2002 Nationals, he won the bronze medal on the junior level behind Shawn Sawyer and Keegan Murphy.
The 2002-2003 season was Mabee's senior national debut. Mabee competed at two Junior Grand Prix events, placing 6th and 11th. He then went on to place 9 at Nationals, his first senior competition. The following season, Mabee won his first international junior event and became the second Canadian man after Fedor Andreev to win a medal at the Junior Grand Prix Final. He moved up to sixth at Nationals and earned a spot to the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, where he placed 5th.
The next season, Mabee won a gold and a silver on the Junior Grand Prix, but had a bad skate at the final and placed eighth. He moved up a spot at Nationals, but dropped to 10th at Junior Worlds. It was Mabee's final junior competition.
[edit] Senior career
Mabee moved up to the senior level in 2005-2006, with the hopes of making the Canadian Olympic team. His quest to make the team was chronicles on the fifth estate, along with other skaters like Jeff Buttle and Emanuel Sandhu. Mabee placed ninth at Skate America and just off the podium at the NHK Trophy. But he placed fourth at Nationals, missing a berth on the Olympic team by one spot. Mabee had a career-best free skate, but his imperfect short program prevented him from placing higher. Mabee was instead put on the team to the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, where he won the silver medal, the first senior medal of his career.
The 2006-2007 season began badly for Mabee. He had bad skates at both his Grand Prix events and he went into Nationals with the hope of skating clean and making the world team.[1] He did that and more. He skated two career-best programs, placing second overall, ahead of three-time national champion Emanuel Sandhu. This brought Mabee his first berth on the World team. Mabee went back to the Four Continents Championships, where he placed 5th in a much stronger field than the previous year's. He placed 13th at Worlds.
He was previously coached by Paul Wirtz for a year in Montreal, but after being injured in 1998, he moved back home to be closer to his family.[2] Ever since, Mabee has trained at the Mariposa School of Skating in Barrie, Ontario, under Lee Barkell and Doug Leigh.
[edit] Programs
| Season | Short Program | Long Program | Exhibition |
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| 2006/2007 | Blues Deluxe by R. Stewart | Big Band Selections
Pearl Harbour (soundtrack) |
Ordinary Day by Great Big Sea |
| 2005/2006 | Fear by Astor Piazzolla
Tango Remembrances by Calandrelli/Piazzolla |
Part 1: Arvid Beaten (James Horner) Part 2: Concerto For Cootie (Duke Ellington) Part 3: Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter) Part 4: Flyin Home (Lionel Hampton/Benny Goodman) Part 5: Brothers (Hana Zimmer) Part 6: Decommission & Alien Landscape (Christopher Gordon) |
Shout It Out Loud
Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry) |
| 2004/2005 | Art of War by Vanessa Mae | Finlandia by John Selibus | |
| 2003/2004 | Fantasia | Slaughter on 10th Avenue by Richard Rodgers
Rhapsody in Blue (Part 3) by George Gershwin |
[edit] Competitive highlights
| Event | 1997-1998 | 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 |
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| World Championships | 13th | ||||||||||
| Four Continents Championships | 2nd | 5th | |||||||||
| World Junior Championships | 5th | 10th | |||||||||
| Canadian Championships | 2nd N. | 4th J. | 9th J. | 3rd J. | 9th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 2nd | 5th | |
| Skate Canada | 4th | ||||||||||
| Trophee Eric Bompard | 8th | ||||||||||
| Skate America | 9th | 9th | |||||||||
| Cup of Russia | 10th | ||||||||||
| NHK Trophy | 4th | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix Final | 3rd | 8th | |||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Belgrade | 1st | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, USA | 6th | 2nd | |||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Slovenia | 1st | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Slovakia | 3rd | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, China | 11th | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Netherlands | 15th | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Norway | 9th | ||||||||||
| Junior Grand Prix, Canada | 11th | ||||||||||
| Triglav Trophy | 5th N. | ||||||||||
| Western Ontario Sectionals | 1st J. | ||||||||||
| Western Challenge | 3rd J. |
- N = Novice level; J = Junior level
[edit] References
- ^ Figure skating crowd-pleaser gets his turn - Figure Skating News
- ^ Medal Not a Maybe for Figure Skater Christopher Mabee - Figure Skating News
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Christopher Mabee at the International Skating Union biography page
- Skate Canada Profile
