Brooke McIntosh
| Brooke McIntosh | ||||||||||||
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 Brooke McIntosh and Brandon Toste at the 2019 JGP United States | ||||||||||||
| Born | January 5, 2005 | |||||||||||
| Hometown | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Figure skating career | ||||||||||||
| Country |  Spain (since 2024) Canada (2017–24) | |||||||||||
| Discipline | Pair skating | |||||||||||
| Partner | Marco Zandron (since 2024) Benjamin Mimar (2020–24) Brandon Toste (2016–20) | |||||||||||
| Coach | Dmitri Savin | |||||||||||
| Skating club | Canadian Ice Academy Toronto | |||||||||||
| Began skating | 2013 | |||||||||||
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Brooke McIntosh (born January 5, 2005) is a Canadian pair skater. With her former partner, Benjamin Mimar, she is the 2022 NHK Trophy bronze medallist and 2023 Canadian national silver medallist.
McIntosh/Mimar are also the 2022 World Junior bronze medallists and 2022 Canadian national junior champions.
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.
Since July 2024, she competes with Marco Zandron for Spain.
Personal life
[edit]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 and the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career
[edit]2017–18 season
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]The COVID-19 pandemic shut down training centres in Ontario for several months, after which McIntosh and Mimar were added to 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, held virtually across several hub locations to minimize gatherings, they placed fourth, qualifying to the national championships.[7]
2021–22 season
[edit]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 also won gold there, 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 attend 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
[edit]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] At their second assignment, the 2022 NHK Trophy in Sapporo, they placed third in the short program despite a minor throw error and set a new personal best in that segment. McIntosh said it was a "lot of fun skating in front of the Japanese crowd."[19] They were third in the free skate as well, despite McIntosh falling on a throw triple loop and seeming to hurt her shoulder. The team won the bronze medal, their first on the Grand Prix, with Mimar saying he was "very proud of my partner that she fought until then end despite a fall." McIntosh subsequently said her arm had been checked by a doctor and was fine.[20][21]
Shortly after the end of the Grand Prix, McIntosh/Mimar were the silver medallists at the 2022–23 Skate Canada Challenge after a rough free skate dropped them behind the new team Pereira/Michaud.[22] They went on to win the silver medal at the 2023 Canadian Championships. Mimar said that it was the first time he had felt "really confident on the ice" with their free skate.[23] Despite their silver medal, they were not one of the three teams selected to compete at the 2023 Four Continents Championships, though they were named to make their World Championship debut.[24] McIntosh/Mimar finished eleventh in Saitama.[25]
2023–24 season
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The team was hampered by injury in the leadup to the season, being able to train heavily only in the final three weeks before their first competition, the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy. They finished sixth at the event, having encountered difficulties in the free skate, including an aborted lift. Reflecting on their lack of preparation, Mimar said that "in general, we just have to keep working."[26] On the Grand Prix, they finished sixth at the 2023 Skate Canada International.[26] McIntosh/Mimar placed fifth in the short program at the 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo, but a difficult free skate dropped them to seventh place.[27]
In February, it was announced that her partnership with Mimar had ended.[28]
2024–25 season
[edit]In July, it was announced that McIntosh had teamed up with Italian-Spanish skater Marco Zandron to compete for Spain.[29] She was officially released from Skate Canada in October 2024.[30]
Programs
[edit]With Mimar
[edit]| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2023–2024 [31][32] |
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| 2022–2023 [33] |
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| 2021–2022 [34] |
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| 2020–2021 |
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With Toste
[edit]| Season | Short program | Free skating |
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| 2019–2020 [35][36] |
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| 2018–2019 [37] |
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Competitive highlights
[edit]- GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
- JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
- CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series
Pair skating with Marco Zandron (for Spain)
[edit]| Season | 2024–25 |
|---|---|
| CS Warsaw Cup | TBD |
Pair skating with Benjamin Mimar (for Canada)
[edit]| Season | 2020–21 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 |
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| World Championships | 11th | ||
| Canadian Championships | 2nd | ||
| GP Finland | 7th | ||
| GP NHK Trophy | 3rd | ||
| GP Skate Canada | 4th | 6th | |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 3rd | 6th | |
| Skate Canada Challenge | 4th | 2nd |
| Season | 2021–22 |
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| World Junior Championships | 3rd |
| Canadian Championships | 1st |
| Bavarian Open | 1st |
| Skate Canada Challenge | 1st |
Pair skating with Brandon Toste (for Canada)
[edit]| Season | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
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| Winter Youth Olympics | 4th | |
| Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) |
4th | |
| World Junior Championships | 10th | |
| Canadian Championships | 2nd | |
| JGP Czech Republic | 10th | |
| JGP Russia | 6th | |
| JGP Slovakia | 5th | |
| JGP United States | 5th | |
| Skate Canada Challenge | 6th | 2nd |
Detailed results
[edit]Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.
With Mimar
[edit]Senior level
[edit]| 2023–2024 season | ||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| November 17–19, 2023 | 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo | 5 56.61 |
8 90.66 |
7 147.27 |
| October 27–29, 2023 | 2023 Skate Canada International | 5 59.83 |
7 106.17 |
6 166.00 |
| October 4–8, 2023 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 4 58.73 |
6 98.77 |
6 157.50 |
| 2022–2023 season | ||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| March 20–26, 2023 | 2023 World Championships | 10 63.33 |
11 118.62 |
11 181.95 |
| January 9–15, 2023 | 2023 Canadian Championships | 2 66.67 |
2 120.59 |
2 187.26 |
| Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2022 | 2022–23 Skate Canada Challenge | 1 63.64 |
2 109.02 |
2 172.66 |
| November 18–20, 2022 | 2022 NHK Trophy | 3 62.31 |
3 113.34 |
3 175.65 |
| October 28–30, 2022 | 2022 Skate Canada International | 4 60.82 |
4 114.67 |
4 175.49 |
| October 4–9, 2022 | 2022 CS Finlandia Trophy | 3 61.23 |
4 105.38 |
3 166.61 |
Junior level
[edit]| 2021–2022 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
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| April 13–17, 2022 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Junior | 4 58.00 |
3 98.80 |
3 156.80 |
| January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Bavarian Open | Junior | 1 51.81 |
1 103.26 |
1 155.07 |
| January 6–12, 2022 | 2022 Canadian Junior Championships | Junior | 1 56.91 |
1 99.04 |
1 155.95 |
| December 1–5, 2022 | 2022 Skate Canada Challenge | Junior | 1 54.75 |
1 97.93 |
1 152.68 |
| 2020–2021 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| January 8–17, 2021 | 2022 Skate Canada Challenge | Senior | 4 55.18 |
3 111.51 |
4 166.69 |
References
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- ^ "Silver medal streak continues for ice dancers Fournier Beaudry & Soerensen". Skate Canada. November 18, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ^ @benjamin_mimar (February 22, 2024). "Happy to announce our new partnership!!!" – via Instagram.
- ^ @AnythingGOE (July 20, 2024). "🇪🇸 Brooke McIntosh / Marco Zandron are announced as a new pairs team" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ @AnythingGOE (October 29, 2024). "Also 🇪🇸 Brooke McIntosh has clearly received her release to skate for Spain 😉" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2023/2024 (1st FS)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2023/2024 (2nd FS)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 14, 2023.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 19, 2022.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Benjamin MIMAR: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE: 2019/2020 (first)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 16, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE: 2019/2020 (second)". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 19, 2020.
- ^ "Brooke MCINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on November 13, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "CAN–Brooke McIntosh/Benjamin Mimar". SkatingScores.com.
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External links
[edit]- Brooke McIntosh & Benjamin Mimar at the International Skating Union
- Brooke McIntosh & Benjamin Mimar at SkatingScores.com
- Brooke McIntosh & Brandon Toste at the International Skating Union
- Brooke McIntosh & Brandon Toste at SkatingScores.com