Alaine Chartrand | |
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Chartrand at the 2015 Four Continents.
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Canada |
Born |
Brockville, Ontario |
March 26, 1996
Home town | Prescott, Ontario |
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) |
Coach | Michelle Leigh, Brian Orser, Robert Kazimir |
Former coach | Mary Jayne Rachotte |
Choreographer | David Wilson, Shae-Lynn Bourne |
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 | 186.11 2016 Autumn Classic International |
Short program | 67.38 2015 Rostelecom Cup |
Free skate | 129.50 2016 Autumn Classic International |
Alaine Chartrand (born March 26, 1996) is a Canadian figure skater. She is the 2014 Rostelecom Cup bronze medalist and 2016 Canadian national champion.
Alaine Chartrand was born on March 26, 1996 in Brockville, Ontario. She is the daughter of Heather and John Chartrand, and has a brother, Andrew. She attended Thousand Islands Secondary School, graduating in 2014.
At age four, Chartrand was taught by Mary Jayne Rashotte.
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. She was also coached by Brian Orser at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club in Toronto, Ontario and worked with Gary Beacom on footwork. 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.