Tessa Virtue

Tessa Virtue ( born May 17, 1989 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian figure skater who starts in ice dancing.

  • 2.1 Ice Dancing

Career

Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Eistanzpartner since 1997. Training is the ice dance from Igor Schpilband, Marina Sujewa and Johnny Johns.

2000s

In the 2003 / 04 season, Virtue and Moir made ​​their debut in the Grand Prix series for Juniors and won the Canadian Junior Championships. At the Junior World Championships, they finished eleventh. After a silver medal in the following year, they won in 2006 in Ljubljana the Junior World Championship title as the first Canadian ever. They conquered not only the Russians Natalia Mikhailova and Arkadi Sergeev, but also the Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who their biggest competitors were later also with the seniors. Also in the 2005/06 season won Virtue and Moir, the Grand Prix Final and Junior won their first medal at a major international championship, namely the bronze medal at the Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs.

In the season 2006/ 07 Virtue and Moir made ​​their first Grand Prix competition. At Skate Canada they won the silver medal at first. The national championships they shut as runner-up behind Marie -France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. At its second Four Continents Championships, they defended their bronze medal from last year. In March 2007, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir made ​​their debut at the World Championships. In Tokyo, they finished sixth.

The 2007/08 season brought the Canadians their first victory at a Grand Prix competition, they won the gold medal at Skate Canada. Her first Grand Prix Final they shut in fourth. In Vancouver, they were Canadian champion for the first time. In this third part in Four Continents Championships, she won the gold medal in South Korea Goyang before Meryl Davis and Charlie White. Already in its second world championship is Virtue / Moir were runners-up in Gothenburg, where they The Umbrellas of Cherbourg even the eventual champions Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder beat in the freestyle to music by Michel Legrand.

The first half of the following season missed Virtue and Moir due to a lengthy injury Virtues. Only in December they were the first time together on the ice and defended their nationaelen title. At the Four Continents Championship in February 2009, they won the silver medal behind Meryl Davis and Charlie White. This could leave behind and won the bronze medal behind Oksana Domnina and Maxim the Russians Shabalin and the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto at the World Cup again.

2010s

The Olympic season began for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir with victories in their two Grand Prix competitions, the Trophée Eric Bompard and Skate Canada. They defeated the French Nathalie Pechalat here and Fabian Bourzat both occasions. At Skate Canada they got the first ice dance under the new rating system, the Code of Points, the highest rating 10.0 for the components. At the Grand Prix Final Virtue and Moir subject but against Davis and White. It should be the only loss for the Canadians this season. For the third time in a row they have been Canadian champion and went as their first Olympics. Playing at home, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold medal in Vancouver in front of their biggest rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White. In the free skate they had four top marks. Virtue and Moir were the first Canadian and first North Americans ever won the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing. They were also the youngest ice dance, the Olympic champion and the first to have managed the Olympic debut as well as in their own country. A few weeks later, the Canadians made ​​the triumph perfect and won in Turin, its first championship title. They defeated again Davis and White. In the original dance, they ran up a new world record and received numerous top marks in the original dance and in the freestyle.

In October 2010, Tessa Virtue had to undergo an operation. This led to the cancellation of all Grand Prix contests and the national championship. Their first competition of the season 2010/ 11 was the Four Continents Championship in Taipei. After the newly introduced short dance Virtue and Moir were in the lead, had to give up during the free skate due to a muscle problem of Virtue. At the World Championships in Moscow, the Canadians led again after the short dance, where they had set a new world record. Your freestyle was from the judges but worse rated than the Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Virtue and Moir behind which consequently won the silver medal.

In the 2011/12 season Virtue and Moir started with victories in their two Grand Prix competitions. However, in the Grand Prix Final, they were subject to Meryl Davis and Charlie White. At the Four Continents Championships and the World Cup, the Canadians were the result but again turn and won in front of their major competitors from the U.S..

At the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi Virtue Moir was able to win the silver medal in ice dancing and get the second place also with the team. In ice dancing, they were with 190.99 points ( 76.33 points in Kurzprogramm/114, 66 points in the free skate ) only worse than Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States. In team competition they enter in the short program 72.98 points in the subsequent 107 freestyle, 56 points, leaving them to here only Davis and White defeated.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Scott Moir )

  • J = junior; Z = Withdrawn
Winter Olympic Games Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics 2008 World Figure Skating Championships 2009 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 World Figure Skating Championships 2011 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 World Figure Skating Championships 2013 World Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final London (Ontario) Igor Shpilband World Junior Figure Skating Championships Charlie White (figure skater) Colorado Springs, Colorado Skate Canada International Marie-France Dubreuil 2007 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating 2009 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating 2012 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating Canadian Figure Skating Championships Cup of Russia NHK Trophy International Skating Union Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Andrei Bukin Gwendal Peizerat Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Pavel Roman Diane Towler Bernard Ford Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Maxim Shabalin Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev Evan Bates Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin Suzanne Morrow Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Geraldine Fenton William McLachlan (figure skater) Paulette Doan Kenneth Ormsby Barbara Berezowski Tracy Wilson Robert McCall (figure skater)
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