Chafik Besseghier
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Besseghier in 2011
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| Personal information | |
| Country represented | France |
| Born |
11 October 1989 Grenoble, France |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
| Coach | Stanick Jeannette |
| Former coach | Annick Dumont, Claude Péri-Thévenard, Francoise Bonnard, Veronique Cartau-Treille |
| Choreographer | Allen Schramm, Laurie May |
| Former choreographer | Stanick Jeannette, Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova, Amaury Reot |
| Skating club | Gimp Grenoble |
| Training locations | Grenoble |
| Former training locations |
Paris Vaujany |
| Began skating | 2002 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 227.59 2017 Europeans |
| Short program | 80.68 2016 Rostelecom Cup |
| Free skate | 151.40 2017 Europeans |
Chafik Besseghier (born 11 October 1989) is a French figure skater. He is a two-time International Cup of Nice champion and the 2016 French national champion. He has won a total of fourteen senior international medals and finished in the top ten at three ISU Championships (2014 Worlds, 2013 Europeans, 2017 Europeans).
Chafik Besseghier was born in Grenoble, France. His parents are from Algeria, close to Oran, and he has two siblings.
Besseghier began skating at a relatively late age, almost 13, in August 2002. Within a year, he had landed all the double jumps, and was landing triples by the end of his second year. Training in Grenoble, he competed mostly domestically before making his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in 2008.
In the 2009–10 season, Besseghier won the bronze medal at the Crystal Skate of Romania and 2010 Triglav Trophy.
In 2010, he was invited to his first senior Grand Prix event, the 2010 Trophée Éric Bompard. After landing his first quadruple-triple jump combination in the short program, he was in fourth place, with the second-highest technical score. He made several mistakes in the free skate and placed fifth overall.
Prior to the 2011–12 season, Besseghier spent several months working with Yuka Sato and Jason Dungjen at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was the silver medalist at the 2011 Coupe de Nice, where he won the free skate. Besseghier again competed at the Trophée Éric Bompard, coming in ninth. Competing with tendinitis in his knee, he won the bronze medal at the 2012 French Championships and placed 12th in his European Championship debut. At the end of the season, he moved from Grenoble to Paris.
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