Chafik Besseghier
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Country represented | France |
Born | Grenoble, France |
11 October 1989
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Coach | Annick Dumont |
Former coach | Claude Péri-Thévenard, Francoise Bonnard, Stanick Jeannette, Veronique Cartau-Treille |
Choreographer | Allen Schramm, Stanick Jeannette |
Former choreographer | Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova, Amaury Reot, Laurie May |
Skating club | Gimp Grenoble |
Training locations | Paris Vaujany |
Former training locations | Grenoble |
Began skating | 2002 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 224.19 2014 Worlds |
Short program | 78.22 2014 Trophée Bompard |
Free skate | 147.39 2014 Worlds |
Chafik Besseghier (born 11 October 1989) is a French figure skater. He is the 2016 French national champion and has won nine senior international medals. He finished in the top ten at the 2014 World Championships.
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Personal life
Chafik Besseghier was born in Grenoble, France.[1] His parents are from Algeria, close to Oran, and he has two siblings.[2][3]
Career
Early years
Besseghier began skating at a relatively late age, almost 13, in August 2002.[3] Within a year, he had landed all the double jumps, and was landing triples by the end of his second year.[4] Training in Grenoble, he competed mostly domestically before making his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in 2008.
2009 to 2012
In 2009–10, 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.[5]
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.[6] He was the silver medalist at the 2011 Coupe de Nice, where he won the free skate.[7] Besseghier again competed at the Trophée Éric Bompard, coming in ninth. Competing with tendinitis in his knee,[8] 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.[9][10]
2013–present
Besseghier was awarded a silver medal at the 2013 French Championships and placed ninth at the 2013 European Championships.
Besseghier injured his ankle in October 2013 at the Master's de Patinage.[11] He withdrew from his two Grand Prix assignments, the 2013 NHK Trophy and 2013 Trophée Éric Bompard.[12] Besseghier placed 12th at the 2014 European Championships in Budapest. After scoring well at the International Challenge Cup, he was selected for his first World Championships.[13] Setting personal best scores in both programs, he finished ninth overall at the event in Saitama, Japan.
In the 2014–15 season, Besseghier was selected to compete at two Grand Prix events, the 2014 Skate America and 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard.[14] He finished 7th and 9th at the two events, respectively. He withdrew from the 2015 Europeans and placed 18th at the 2015 Worlds.
In late August 2015, Besseghier began training under Russian coach Elena Buianova in Moscow.[15] He began the 2015–16 season by winning gold at the Lombardia Trophy and International Cup of Nice, before winning the French national title in December. He withdrew from the 2016 European Championships after rupturing a ligament in his right ankle.[16][17]
Programs
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2015–2016 [1][18] |
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2014–2015 [19] |
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2013–2014 [20][2] |
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2012–2013 [10] |
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2011–2012 [9] |
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2010–2011 [21] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[22] | ||||||||||
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Event | 06–07 | 07–08 | 08–09 | 09–10 | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 |
Worlds | 9th | 18th | 20th | |||||||
Europeans | 12th | 9th | 12th | WD | WD | |||||
GP Bompard | 5th | 9th | 7th | WD | 9th | 10th | ||||
GP NHK Trophy | WD | 9th | ||||||||
GP Skate America | 7th | |||||||||
Challenge Cup | 3rd | 3rd | ||||||||
Crystal Skate | 3rd | 1st | 1st | |||||||
Cup of Nice | 5th | 6th | 2nd | 9th | 1st | |||||
Cup of Tyrol | 1st | |||||||||
DS Cup | 2nd | |||||||||
Ice Challenge | 4th | |||||||||
Lombardia | 1st | |||||||||
MNNT Cup | 2nd | |||||||||
Mont Blanc | 3rd | |||||||||
Nepela Trophy | 11th | |||||||||
NRW Trophy | 4th | |||||||||
Triglav Trophy | 3rd | 6th | ||||||||
Universiade | 5th | |||||||||
International: Junior[22] | ||||||||||
JGP Spain | 6th | |||||||||
Cup of Nice | 6th J. | 3rd J. | ||||||||
Gardena | 7th J. | |||||||||
National[22] | ||||||||||
French Champ. | 17th | 12th | 9th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 1st |
Masters | 3rd | 3rd | WD | |||||||
WD: Withdrew |
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