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Benjamin Mimar (born 26 November 2000) is a Canadian pair skater. With his skating partner, Brooke McIntosh, he is the 2022 NHK Trophy bronze medalist.

Benjamin Mimar
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(2000-11-26) November 26, 2000 (age 21) Laval, Quebec, Canada
Home town	Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Partner	Brooke McIntosh
Former partner	Chloe Panetta, Marjolaine Ouimet
Coach	Andrew Evans, Alexander Sheldrik-Male, Alison Purkiss
Former coach	Richard Gauthier, Eric Radford, Ian Connoly, Sylvie Fullum, Marlene Picard, Bruno Marcotte
Choreographer	Alison Purkiss
Former choreographer	Julie Marcotte
Skating club	CPA St-Michel
Began skating	2003
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	175.49 2022 Skate Canada
Short program	62.31 2022 NHK Trophy
Free skate	114.67 2022 Skate Canada
Medal record Representing  Canada Figure skating: Pair skating World Junior Championships 2022 Tallinn Pairs

On the junior level, McIntosh/Mimar are the 2022 World Junior bronze medalists and the 2022 Canadian junior champions.

Personal life

Mimar was born on 26 November 2000 in Laval, Quebec, Canada.[1] He has a younger sister, Frédérique, who is also a skater.

Career

Early years

Mimar began learning how to skate in 2003.[1] Skating with Marjolaine Ouimet, he placed fifth in novice pairs at the 2016 Canadian Championships.

He later competed in junior pairs with Chloe Panetta, coached by Richard Gauthier, Eric Radford, Ian Connoly, Sylvie Fullum, and Marlene Picard in Montreal.[2] The team appeared twice on the Junior Grand Prix circuit, placing ninth at the 2018 JGP Canada and eighth at the 2019 JGP Croatia. At the Canadian Junior Figure Skating Championships, they finished fourth in 2019 and fifth in 2020.[3] Panetta/Mimar ended their partnership sometime between late January 2020 and 18 February 2020, when Mimar began skating with McIntosh.[4] McIntosh/Mimar competed twice domestically during the 2020–21 season.

2021–22 season: Junior World bronze

McIntosh/Mimar broke the Canadian junior pairs record to win their first junior national title as a team at the 2022 Canadian Championships in January.[5] Shortly thereafter they competed at their first junior international assignment, the 2022 Bavarian Open in Oberstdorf, Germany, where they won the title and earned their ISU technical minimums to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships in April.[6]

The World Junior Championships had originally been scheduled to be held in Sofia in the traditional early March period. However, due to the pandemic they were moved.[7] Due to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the ISU banned all Russian athletes from competing, which had a significant impact on a pairs field dominated by Russia in recent years.[8][9] McIntosh/Mimar placed fourth in the short program but climbed to third in the free skate to finish in third overall. They took the bronze medal behind Georgian team Safina/Berulava and Australian team Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore.[10] McIntosh later said of their mindset going into the free program, "we focused on what we had to do for the free skate. We knew we were prepared, and we just had to go and show that. Even through the uncertainty of this season we kept training and kept motivated."[11]

2022–23 season

With the Russian ban continuing into the new season, McIntosh/Mimar made their senior international debut in a very open pairs field.[12] In their Challenger series debut at the 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy, they won the bronze medal. Mimar noted the event as a "new experience", and assessed that "our free wasn't the best we could do, after a good short, but we are still happy with third place."[13]

McIntosh and Mimar were invited to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[14] They finished fourth in their first Grand Prix appearance, setting new personal bests in the free skate and total score.[15]

Programs

With McIntosh

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [16]	Release by Jennifer Thomas choreo. by David Wilson	Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg choreo. by Carol Lane, Juris Razgulajevs	Cooler than Me by Mike Posner
2021–2022 [1]	Happy Ending by Mika choreo. by Alison Purkiss	Your Song (from Moulin Rouge!) by Elton John, Bernie Taupin performed by Ewan McGregor, Alessandro Safina choreo. by Alison Purkiss
2020–2021	Never Tear Us Apart by INXS performed by Paloma Faith choreo. by Alison Purkiss	Your Song (from Moulin Rouge!) by Elton John, Bernie Taupin performed by Ewan McGregor, Alessandro Safina choreo. by Alison Purkiss

With Panetta

Season	Short program	Free skating
2019–2020 [2]	Grace Kelly by MIKA choreo. by Julie Marcotte	Dream by Imagine Dragons choreo. by Julie Marcotte

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With McIntosh

International
Event	20–21	21–22	22–23
GP NHK Trophy			3rd
GP Skate Canada			4th
CS Finlandia			3rd
International: Junior[17]
Junior Worlds		3rd
Bavarian Open		1st
National[17]
Canadian Champ.	C	1st J
SC Challenge	4th	1st J
ON Sectionals	1st	WD
TBD = Assigned, C = Event canceled

With Panetta

International: Junior[3]
Event	2018–19	2019–20
JGP Canada	9th
JGP Croatia		8th
National[3]
Canadian Champ.	4th J	5th J
J = Junior

With Ouimet

National
Event	2015–16
Canadian Champ.	5th N
N = Novice

References

External links

• Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union
• Chloe Panetta / Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union

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