sport.wikisort.org - Athlete

Brooke McIntosh (born January 5, 2005) is a Canadian pair skater. With her skating partner, Benjamin Mimar, she is the 2022 World Junior bronze medalist and 2022 Canadian national junior champion.

Brooke McIntosh
McIntosh/Toste at the 2019 JGP United States
Personal information
Country represented	Canada
Born	(2005-01-05) January 5, 2005 (age 17) Canada
Home town	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Partner	Benjamin Mimar
Former partner	Brandon Toste
Coach	Andrew Evans, Alexander Sheldrik-Male, Dmitry Savin
Former coach	Alison Purkiss
Choreographer	David Wilson, Carol Lane, Juris Razgulajevs
Former choreographer	Alison Purkiss, Mary Angela Larmer
Skating club	Canadian Ice Academy Toronto
Training locations	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Began skating	2013
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	175.49 2022 Skate Canada International
Short program	61.23 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy
Free skate	114.67 2022 Skate Canada International
Medal record Representing  Canada Figure skating: Pair skating World Junior Championships 2022 Tallinn Pairs

With her former skating partner, Brandon Toste, she represented Canada at the 2019 World Junior Championships, finishing in the top ten, and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, finishing fourth. McIntosh/Toste were national novice champions and national junior silver medalists.

Personal life

McIntosh was born on January 5, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario. She is the daughter of Greg McIntosh and Jill Horstead, a former competitive swimmer who competed for Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics. McIntosh's younger sister, Summer, is also a competitive swimmer and was part of the Canadian team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Career

2017–18 season

In January 2018, McIntosh/Toste won gold in the novice division at the Canadian Championships, setting a new Canadian record (120.24).[2]

2018–19 season

In the 2018–2019 season McIntosh/Toste debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series. They opened the season in August at the JGP Slovakia, where they finished fifth. In September, they competed at the JGP Czech Republic, finishing tenth.

In January 2019, they won silver in the junior division at the Canadian Championships. Both also competed in the singles events (in the novice division) – McIntosh finished eighth and Toste ninth.

In March 2019, they represented Canada at the World Junior Championships, finishing tenth.

2019–20 season

Competing on the Junior Grand Prix for their second season, McIntosh/Toste placed fifth at the 2019 JGP United States in Lake Placid and sixth at the 2019 JGP Russia in Chelyabinsk.

These results qualified a place for a Canadian junior pair team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, and they were subsequently selected to take that spot; as a result of which, they did not attend the 2020 Canadian Junior Championships, which overlapped with the Youth Olympics. They placed fourth at the Youth Olympics in the pairs event, and also placed fourth in the team competition.[3]

Following the Youth Olympics, coach Andrew Evans announced that Toste would be retiring to focus on attending university, while McIntosh would search for a new partner.[4] A month later, Evans announced that McIntosh had formed a new partnership with Benjamin Mimar.[5]

2020–21 season

The COVID-19 pandemic shut down training centers in Ontario for several months, after which McIntosh and Mimar were added a list of competitive skaters cleared to keep training through subsequent lockdowns.[6]

There being no international season to speak of for Canadian skaters, McIntosh/Mimar competed as seniors on the domestic level, debuting at the Ontario Sectionals to win the gold medal. At the 2021 Skate Canada Challenge, which was held virtually across several hub locations to minimize gatherings, they placed fourth, qualifying to the national championships.[7]

2021–22 season

McIntosh/Mimar did not compete internationally on the Junior Grand Prix, debuting at and winning the 2022 Skate Canada Challenge to qualify for the 2022 Canadian Junior Championships. They won gold there as well, setting a new Canadian junior pairs record for total score.[8]

Following the junior championships, McIntosh/Mimar were sent to make their international debut at the Bavarian Open, which they won by a margin of almost twenty points, in the process acquiring the minimum technical scores necessary to attending ISU championship events.[9] They went on to finish the season at the 2022 World Junior Championships, which had originally been scheduled to be held in Sofia in the traditional early March period. However, due to the pandemic they were moved to mid-April in Tallinn.[10] 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.[11][12] McIntosh/Mimar placed fourth in the short program with a clean skate, 2.38 points behind third-place Americans Smirnova/Siianytsia.[13] They were third in the free skate, despite McIntosh falling on her triple Salchow attempt and a shaky jump combination from Mimar, and won the bronze medal overall. She said "our program was not perfect, but we're happy that we got the medal."[14]

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.[15] 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."[16]

McIntosh and Mimar were invited to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate Canada International.[17] McIntosh/Mimar finished fourth in their first Grand Prix appearance, setting new personal bests in the free skate and total score.[18]

Programs

With Mimar

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [19]	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 [20]	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 Toste

Season	Short program	Free skating
2019–2020 [21][22]	Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears performed by Cinematic Pop choreo. by Mary Angela Larmer	Say Something performed by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera choreo. by Mary Angela Larmer Piano Fantasy by William Joseph choreo. by Mary Angela Larmer
2018–2019 [23]	Il Postino by Luis Bacalov	Piano Fantasy by William Joseph choreo. by Mary Angela Larmer

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Pair skating with Mimar

International
Event	20–21	21–22	22–23
GP NHK Trophy			TBD
GP Skate Canada			4th
CS Finlandia			3rd
International: Junior[24]
Junior Worlds		3rd
Bavarian Open		1st
National[24]
Canadian Champ.	C	1st J
SC Challenge	4th	1st J
ON Sectionals	1st	WD
TBD = Assigned, C = Event canceled

Pair skating with Toste

International[25]
Event	17–18	18–19	19–20
Junior Worlds		10th
Youth Olympics			4th
JGP Czech Republic		10th
JGP Russia			6th
JGP Slovakia		5th
JGP United States			5th
National
Canadian Champ.	1st N	2nd J
Ontario Sectionals	1st N		2nd J
Team events
Youth Olympics			4th T 4th P
N = Novice; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result.

Single skating

National
Event	18–19
Canadian Champ.	8th N
Ontario Sectionals	2nd N

References

External links

• Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union

• Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste at the International Skating Union
• Brooke McIntosh & Brandon Toste on the Skate Ontario website

---