Simon PROULX SENECAL

Armenia

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 6 Dec 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Place of birth: MONTREAL, QC

Birth Country:

Canada

Residence: MONTREAL, 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

Hobbies:

Hiking. (isuresults.com)

Occupation:

University student, Real Estate project administer.

Education:

Studies multimedia and web design. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Languages spoken:

French, English

Club name:

SC St.-Hubert

Coach:

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

Other sports:

Synchronized skating: Started a career before focusing on ice dance. Returned to synchronized skating and competed with Team Nova for Canada in 2018/19 and participated with them at the 2019 World Championships (seventh). (jurasynchro.com, 18 Jul 2021; Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Debut:

Ice Challenge 2015 (Ice dance - 6th), with Garabedian

Injuries:

December 2018: Skull fracture in a fall on the ice. Wore a helmet on the ice for one year. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Choreographer:

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

National team:

2015

Start:

1998 in Montreal.

Reason:

He started to play hockey, but soon realized that he did not like hockey, but liked skating. He switched to figure skating. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Ambition:

Reach the finals at the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships and to show their improvement. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Training:

He and his 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:

2014 and 2018 Olympic champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN). "I was watching them and this is when my Olympic dream began." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Influence:

His family. His skating partner's (Tina Garabedian) mother. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Philosophy:

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

General Interest

GARABEDIAN/PROULX SENECAL
Teamed up in 2015. Took a break in the 2018/19 season during which he competed in the synchronized skating team Nova and went to the 2019 World Championship. She then asked him to team up again.

COVID-19
Was unable to compete at the 2021 World Championship in Stockholm (SWE), the main Olympic qualifying event, as he 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).

He described a feeling of helplessness, of “being quarantined in the room, not being able to ask anyone or be involved in the process...We were victims right from the start. I was told the test was positive. But when we actually got the result at the end of the competition, the result was negative. I was told the wrong information.” (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.

FORMER PARTNERS
Previously skated with Josyane Cholette, Melissande Dumas, Christina Penkov at the national level in Canada.

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 Garabedian).

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

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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