Alaine Chartrand

Alaine Chartrand
Personal information
Country represented Canada
Born March 26, 1996
Brockville, Ontario
Home town Prescott, Ontario
Height 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Coach Michelle Leigh, Brian Orser
Former coach M. J. Rachotte, Leonid Birinberg
Choreographer David Wilson
Former choreographer Jeffrey Buttle, Jennifer Robinson
Skating club Nepean SC
Training locations Nepean, Ontario; Oakville, Ontario; Prescott, Ontario
Began skating 1999
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 172.00
2014 Four Continents
Short program 61.18
2014 Rostelecom Cup
Free skate 113.05
2014 Four Continents

Alaine Chartrand (born March 26, 1996) is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2014 Rostelecom Cup bronze medalist and 2015 Canadian national silver medalist.

Personal life

Alaine Chartrand was born on March 26, 1996[1] in Brockville, Ontario.[2] She attended Thousand Islands Secondary School,[3] graduating in 2014.[4]

Career

Mary Jayne Rashotte became her instructor when Chartrand was four years old.[5]

Chartrand debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in autumn 2012. After winning the senior bronze medal at the 2013 Canadian Championships, she was sent to the 2013 World Junior Championships in Milan, Italy, where she finished eighth. In 2014, she ranked fifth at the Canadian Championships and was named in Canada's team to the Four Continents Championships. Making her senior international debut, she placed seventh in Taipei. She then came in fifth at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

As of August 2014, Chartrand's coaches included Leonid Birinberg at the Nepean Skating Club in Nepean, Ontario; Michelle Leigh at the Oakville Skating Club in Oakville, Mariposa in Barrie, or Canadian Ice Academy; and Rashotte at the Prescott Figure Skating Club in Prescott.[5] She was also coached by Brian Orser and worked with Gary Beacom on footwork.[5] Chartrand debuted on the senior Grand Prix series at the 2014 Skate Canada International, finishing seventh. At the 2014 Rostelecom Cup, she obtained her first GP medal, bronze, having placed first in the short program and third in the free skate.[6]

Chartrand competed at the 2015 Canadian Figure Skating Championships where she won the silver medal. She was named to Canada's world team and finished in 11th spot at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai, China.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2014–2015
[5][7]
  • La Leyenda del Beso
    by Reveriano Soutullo, Juan Vert
    choreo. by David Wilson
2013–2014
[8][9]
  • Torn - Resolve Compilation
    by Nathan Lanier
2012–2013
[10]

Competitive highlights

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

International[11]
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Worlds 11th
Four Continents 7th 10th
GP Rostelecom 3rd
GP Skate Canada 7th
CS U.S. Classic 4th
International: Junior[11]
Junior Worlds 8th 5th
JGP Belarus 7th
JGP Croatia 6th
JGP Latvia 4th
JGP USA 7th
National[2]
Canadian Champ. 10th J. 9th 3rd 5th 2nd
J. = Junior level; WD = Withdrew

References

  1. http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00013270.htm
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Alaine Chartrand". Skate Canada. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  3. Cleary, Martin (December 9, 2011). "Ottawa Valley's Alaine Chartrand jumps from obscurity into a figure skater to watch". Ottawa Citizen (Skate EOS).
  4. "Meet Elite Member: Alaine Chartrand". Titika.ca. August 27, 2014.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Slater, Paula (August 23, 2014). "Chartrand readies for Grand Prix debut". Golden Skate.
  6. Luchianov, Vladislav (December 22, 2014). "Chartrand wants to push herself, sport to the limit". IceNetwork.
  7. "Alaine CHARTRAND: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014.
  8. "Alaine CHARTRAND: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014.
  9. Alaine Chartrand: 2013/2014 at Skate Canada at the Wayback Machine (archived April 7, 2014)
  10. "Alaine CHARTRAND: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013.
  11. 11.0 11.1 "Competition Results: Alaine CHARTRAND". International Skating Union.

External links

Media related to Alaine Chartrand at Wikimedia Commons