Tina GARABEDIAN

Armenia

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 13 Jun 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Place of birth: LAVAL, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

Residence: LAVAL, QC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Figure Skating	Ice Dance ARM GARABEDIAN Tina / PROULX SENECAL Simon	18

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
22	Ice Dance	2018	Milan, ITA
WDR	Ice Dance	2021	Stockholm, SWE
FNR	Ice Dance	2017	Helsinki, FIN
FNR	Ice Dance	2016	Boston, MA, USA

European Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
13	Ice Dance	2022	Tallinn, EST
17	Ice Dance	2020	Graz, AUT
18	Ice Dance	2016	Bratislava, SVK
19	Ice Dance	2018	Moscow, RUS
19	Ice Dance	2017	Ostrava, CZE

World Junior Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
16	Ice Dance	2015	Tallinn, EST

Previous names:

Mirzayan

Hobbies:

Make up, music, dancing. (isuresults.com)

Occupation:

University student

Education:

Graduated in labour management from McGill University in 2021. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Family:

Husband, Ari Mirzayan (married 13 Nov 2021). Father John Garabedian. Mother Maral Dermeguerditchian. Two sisters.

Languages spoken:

French, English, Armenian

Club name:

SC Gadbois

Coach:

Marie-France Dubreuil (CAN)
Patrice Lauzon (CAN)
Romain Haguenauer (FRA)
Pascal Denis (CAN)
Josee Piche (CAN)

Debut:

Ice Challenge 2015 (Ice dance - 6th) with Proulx-Senecal

Choreographer:

Marie-France Dubreuil (CAN)
Romain Haguenauer (FRA)

National team:

2014

Start:

2001 in Montreal, QC.

Reason:

Her mother liked figure skating and put her on the ice when she was three years of age. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Ambition:

To compete in the final at the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships and to show their improvement. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Training:

She and her partner train at the Ice Academy of Montreal (Quebec, CAN) with a dozen of high-level teams including 2018 Olympic silver medallists Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA).

Memorable:

Earning an Olympic quota spot at the 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Hero:

2010 and 2018 Olympic champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN). "After watching their performance at the 2010 Olympic Games, I wanted to do ice dance." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Influence:

Her mother Maral. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Philosophy:

"Everything happens for a reason". (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Award:

Armenia flagbearer at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony. (IOC, 4 Feb 2022)

Laddie Millen Award, for top marks at university (2021)

General Interest

GARABEDIAN/PROULX SENECAL
Teamed up in 2015. Took a break in the 2018/19 season but then reteamed.

COVID-19
Was unable to compete at the 2021 World Championship in Stockholm (SWE), the main Olympic qualifying event, as her partner tested positive for COVID-19 on site. The couple was withdrawn from the rhythm dance. The skaters believe the test was false positive, and a second test he took did not come back in time to compete (which was negative). They were very disappointed and it took them a while to accept it. (Proulx-Senecal, montrealctvnews.ca, 1 Apr 2021; Garabedian, 25 Sep 2021)

OLYMPIC QUALIFYING
Qualified an Olympic ice dance spot for Armenia by coming fourth at the Olympic qualifying event Nebelhorn Trophy 2021.

ARMENIAN CONNECTION
Her parents are Armenians born in Lebanon. She went to Amenia for her first time in the summer of 2015. (armnoc.am)

FORMER PARTNER
Competed with Alexandre Laliberte at the national junior level in Canada 2013/14 and at the international junior level for Armenia in the 2014/15 season.

ACCOMPLISHED COACHES
Coaches Marie-France Dubreuil (CAN) and Patrice Lauzon (CAN) are the 2006 and 2007 world silver medallists.

Milestones

Competed at two World Championships (2016-18) with the best result finish of 22nd in 2018 (with Proulx-Senecal).

Finished 16th in her only appearance at the World Junior Championship in 2015 (with Laliberte).

In two European Championships appearances (2016-18), her best result is 17th in 2020 (with Proulx-Senecal).

2014 ISU Junior Grand Prix Czech Skate (International junior debut - Ice dance - 7th, with Laliberte)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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