Aissa Bouaraguia

Aissa Bouaraguia (born July 6, 2001) is a Canadian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Emmy Bronsard, he is the 2020 Canadian junior national champion, the 2019 JGP Croatia bronze medalist, and finished in the top nine at the 2020 World Junior Championships.

Aissa Bouaraguia
Personal information
Country represented Canada
Born (2001-07-06) July 6, 2001
Montreal, Quebec
Home townMontreal, Quebec
ResidenceMontreal, Quebec
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
PartnerEmmy Bronsard
CoachMarie-France Dubreuil
Patrice Lauzon
Romain Haguenauer
Pascal Denis
ChoreographerÉmilie Josset
Samuel Chouinard
Ginette Cournoyer
Marie-France Dubreuil
Skating clubCPA Gadbois
Training locationsMontreal, Quebec
Began skating2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total153.16
2020 Junior Worlds
Short dance61.98
2020 Junior Worlds
Free dance92.98
2019 JGP France

Personal life

Bouaraguia was born on July 6, 2001 in Montreal, Quebec. He enjoys placing soccer and basketball, as well as watching movies.[1] He can speak French. As of 2020, Bouaraguia is a student at Cégep André-Laurendeau.[2]

Career

Early career

Bouaraguia began skating in 2006 at Centre Gadbois in Montreal. He originally competed in men's singles and placed sixth on the novice level at the 2018 Canadian Championships.[3] At the event, Bouaraguia was the only novice man to attempt a triple Axel jump.[4]

Bouaraguia began competing with Emmy Bronsard in ice dance in 2014.[5] They are the 2016 Québec Sectionals juvenile silver medalists. During the 2016–17 season, Bronsard/Bouaraguia won pre-novice silver at the 2017 Skate Canada Challenge.

2018–2019 season

After taking the 2017–18 season off to concentrate on singles, Bronsard/Bouaraguia returned to ice dance during the 2018–19 season. They bypassed competing in novices and skipped directly from pre-novice to junior.[6]

Bronsard/Bouaraguia made their junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix, placing fourth in the Czech Republic and sixth in Armenia. They then won silver at the 2019 Québec Sectionals held in November 2018. At the 2019 Skate Canada Challenge, Bronsard/Bouaraguia were fourth. They ended their season with a sixth-place finish at the 2019 Canadian Championships.

2019–2020 season

Bronsard/Bouaraguia opened their season at the 2019 Lake Placid Ice Dance International, where they won silver behind Canadian teammates Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont. At their first Junior Grand Prix event, 2019 JGP France, they narrowly missed the bronze medal by 0.29 points and finished fourth with a personal best.[7] Bronsard/Bouaraguia went on to win bronze at their second event, 2019 JGP Croatia. On winning the medal, they said, "we are happy, but we made a few mistakes and that encourages us to work even harder."[2] Bronsard/Bouaraguia next won gold at the 2020 Québec Sectionals. Between the JGP series and Sectionals, they made tweaks to their free dance choreography.[2]

Bronsard/Bouaraguia were fourth at the 2020 Skate Canada Challenge. Although they had hoped to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in January, they were not chosen and instead competed at the 2020 Canadian Championships.[4] At the Championships, Bronsard/Bouaraguia won their first junior national title ahead of Bashynska/Beaumont and Olivia McIsaac / Corey Circelli.

At the 2020 Bavarian Open in February, Bronsard/Bouaraguia won the silver medal behind Americans Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik. Alongside Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell and Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara, they earned a spot on the 2020 World Junior Championships team due to their being among the top three Canadian junior ice dance teams at the event.[8] At Junior Worlds, Bronsard/Bouaragauia were eighth after the rhythm dance, but after an 11th-place finish in the free dance, fell to ninth overall.[9] Prior to the event, the team received praise from Canadian Olympic champion and former Gadbois training teammate Tessa Virtue, who called them her "favourites" and part of the future of Canadian ice dance.[10]

2020–2021 season

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where Bronsard/Bouaraguia would have competed, was cancelled. They later withdrew from the virtual Skate Canada Challenge and the 2021 Canadian Championships were also cancelled.

Programs
With Bronsard
Season Rhythm dance Free dance
2020–2021
[1]
2019–2020
[11]
2018–2019
[12]

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Bronsard
International: Junior[13]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21
Junior Worlds9th
JGP Armenia6th
JGP Croatia3rd
JGP Czech Rep.4th
JGP France4th
Bavarian Open2nd
Lake Placid IDI2nd
National[13]
Canadian Champ.6th J1st JC
SC Challenge2nd P4th J4th JWD
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Cancelled
Levels: P = Pre-novice; J = Junior
Men's singles
National[3]
Event 2016–17 2017–18
Canadian Champ.6th N
SC Challenge14th P15th N
Levels: P = Pre-novice; N = Novice

Detailed results

ISU Personal Bests highlighted in bold.

With Bronsard

Junior results
2020–21 season
Date Event RD FD Total
2019–20 season
Date Event RD FD Total
March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 8
61.98		 11
91.18		 9
153.16
February 3–9, 2020 2020 Bavarian Open 2
62.02		 2
93.83		 2
155.85
September 25–28, 2019 2019 JGP Croatia 3
59.63		 2
90.34		 3
149.97
August 21–24, 2019 2019 JGP France 5
58.38		 3
92.98		 4
151.36
Jul. 30 – Aug. 2, 2019 2019 Lake Placid Ice Dance International 2
54.70		 2
80.75		 2
135.45
2018–19 season
Date Event RD FD Total
January 13–20, 2019 2019 Canadian Championships 7
55.90		 4
93.97		 6
149.87
October 10–13, 2018 2018 JGP Armenia 9
53.72		 6
85.01		 6
138.73
September 26–29, 2018 2018 JGP Czech Republic 4
56.04		 4
84.63		 4
140.67
Men's singles
2017–18 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
January 8–14, 2018 2018 Canadian Championships Novice 6
38.75		 8
67.35		 6
106.10

References
  1. "Emmy BRONSARD / Aissa BOUARAGUIA: 2020/2021". International Skating Union.
  2. Bourque, Annie (November 13, 2019). "Médaille d'or au championnat québécois de patinage artistique" [Gold medal at the Quebec figure skating championship]. Journal Métro (in French).
  3. "Aissa Bouaraguia". Stats on Ice.
  4. Smith, Beverley (January 15, 2020). "Fast rise to success: junior dance champions". Bev Smith Writes.
  5. "Profile – Emmy Bronsard & Aissa Bouaraguia". ice-dance.com.
  6. Wein, Aly Leia (July 8, 2019). "Meet Emmy Bronsard". Edges of Glory.
  7. The Canadian Press (August 24, 2019). "Canada's Rakic wins silver medal at junior figure skating Grand Prix". TSN.
  8. "Canadian junior skaters headed to Estonia for the 2020 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. March 2, 2020.
  9. "Alison Schumacher, two Canadian ice dance teams crack top 10 at World Juniors". Skate Canada. March 7, 2020.
  10. St-Onge, Jean (February 27, 2020). "Tessa Virtue fait confiance à la relève canadienne" [Tessa Virtue trusts the next generation of Canadians]. Radio-Canada (in French). CBC.
  11. "Emmy BRONSARD / Aissa BOUARAGUIA: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 3, 2020.
  12. "Emmy BRONSARD / Aissa BOUARAGUIA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 16, 2019.
  13. "Emmy BRONSARD / Aissa BOUARAGUIA: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
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