Benjamin Mimar

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Benjamin Mimar
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McIntosh/Mimar at the 2023 Skate Canada International
Born (2000-11-26) November 26, 2000 (age 23)
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Hometown Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Partner Fiona Bombardier
CoachAndrew Evans, Dmitri Savin
Skating clubCPA St-Michel
Began skating2003
Medal record
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Figure skating: Pair skating
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Tallinn Pairs

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.

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Personal life

Mimar was born on 26 November 2000 in Laval, Quebec, Canada. [1] He has a younger sister, Frédérique, who is also a skater.

Career

Early years

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

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

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

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

With McIntosh

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[26] [27]
2022–2023
[28]
2021–2022
[1]
2020–2021

With Panetta

Season Short program Free skating
2019–2020
[2]

Competitive highlights

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

With McIntosh

International
Event 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Worlds 11th
GP Finland 7th
GP NHK Trophy 3rd
GP Skate Canada 4th6th
CS Finlandia 3rd6th
International: Junior [29]
Junior Worlds 3rd
Bavarian Open 1st
National [29]
Canadian Champ. C1st J2ndWD
SC Challenge 4th1st J2ndWD
Ontario Sectionals1stWD
TBD = Assigned, C = Event canceled

With Panetta

International: Junior [3]
Event 18–19 19–20
JGP Canada 9th
JGP Croatia 8th
National [3]
Canadian Champ. 4th J5th J
SC Challenge 2nd J4th J
Quebec Sectionals3rd J3rd J
J = Junior

With Ouimet

National
Event 14–15 15–16
Canadian Championships 5th N
SC Challenge 3rd P3rd N
N = Novice; P = Pre-Novice

Men's Singles

National
Event 15–16 16–17 17–18
SC Challenge 20th P22nd N21st N
Quebec Sectionals5th N
N = Novice; P = Pre-Novice

Detailed results

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

With McIntosh

Senior level

2023–2024 season
DateEvent 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
DateEvent 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, 20222022–23 Skate Canada Challenge1
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

2021–2022 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships Junior4
58.00		3
98.80		3
156.80
January 18–23, 2022 2022 Bavarian Open Junior1
51.81		1
103.26		1
155.07
January 6–12, 2022 2022 Canadian Junior Championships Junior1
56.91		1
99.04		1
155.95
December 1–5, 20222022 Skate Canada ChallengeJunior1
54.75		1
97.93		1
152.68
2020–2021 season
DateEventLevel SP FS Total
January 8–17, 20212022 Skate Canada ChallengeSenior4
55.18		3
111.51		4
166.69

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