Wesley Chiu

[dorispulaski]

Wesley Chiu, was born 20 March 2005 in Vancouver, Canada, where he remains to train. Wesley is a young talent, working hard to be one of the future stars in Canadian men’s figure skating.He won 2021 JPG Courchevel 2, and thus qualified for the 2021-22 Junior Grand Prix Final. With that win, plus his gold medal in 2019 Canadian Novice Nationals as well as Silver medal at the 2020 Canadian Junior Nationals, he has for sure become one of the more interesting young Canadian skaters.


ISU Bio: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00107906.htm

Rinkresults: http://www.rinkresults.com/skater?skater_id=34002

Team Canada Next-gen: https://skatecanada.ca/high-performance/nextgen/
Facebook Profile- https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100043244049044

ISU Personal Bests​

Type​	Score​	Competition​
Personal Best Total Score	232.39	ISU CS Warsaw Cup 2021
Personal Best Score Short Program	81.59	ISU World Junior Championships 2022
Personal Best Score Free Skating	162.24	ISU CS Warsaw Cup 2021

Programs
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2022-2023
SP: Vincent by Govardo
FS: Nella Fantasia performed by Nathan Pacheco

2021-2022
SP: "Vincent" by Govardo; choreo by Joey Russell
FS: "I Belong To You" by Muse; choreo by Joey Russell

2020-2021
FS: "I Belong to You (+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre a Ta Voix)" by Muse

2019-2020
SP: "Stargazing"'by Kygo; choreo by Joey Russell, Keegan Murphy
FS: Casablanca (soundtrack) by Max Steiner

Competitive History
videos linked under scores.
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Competition	Level	Score	Score	Score
		SP	FS	Total
Season 2022-23
2023 World Junior Championships	Junior
2023 Canadian Nationals	Senior	11 (65.44)	3 (160.71)	3 (226.15)
2022 Grand Prix de France​	Senior	11 (67.95)	10 (142.00)	10 (209.95)
2022 Skate America​	Senior	9 (71.58)	6 (148.32)	6 (219.90)
2022 US Classic​	Senior	10 (55.14)	9 (116.55)	9 (171.69)
Season 2021-22
World Junior Championships 2022	Junior	2 (81.59)	4 (146.70)	4 (228.29)
Canadian Nationals 2022	Senior	2 (81.47)	5 (150.57)	3 (232.04)
Warsaw Cup 2021	Senior	11 (70.15)	1 (162.24)	4 (232.39)
JGP Krasnoyarsk 2021	Junior	4 (76.63)	3 (140.96)	3 (217.59)
JGP Courchevel2 2021	Junior	1 (76.26)	2 (123.63)	1 (199.89)
Season 2020-21
2021 Skate Canada Challenge	Junior	5 (57.47)	2 (121.83)	3 (179.30)
2021 BC/YK Sectionals (Virtual)	Junior	1 (64.71)	3 (95.16)	2 (159.87)
Season 2019-20
2020 Canadian Championship	Junior	1 (76.12)	4 (122.32)	2 (198.44)
2020 Skate Canada Challenge	Junior	5 (59.11)	1 (120.53)	2 (179.64)
2020 BC/YK Sectionals	Junior	1 (74.35)	1 (117.04)	1 (191.39)
JGP Egna 2019	Junior	14 (55.51)	13 (111.78)	13 (167.29)
Season 2018-19
Bavarian Open 2019	Adv novice	1 (39.01)	1 (81.73)	1 (120.74)
2019 Canadian Championships	novice	1 (52.73)	1 (94.10)	1 (146.83
2019 Skate Canada Challenge	novice	1 (47.68)	1 (86.75)	1 (134.43)
2019 BC/YK Sectionals	novice	1 (45.24)	1 (75.03)	1 (120.27)
Season 2017-18
2018 Canadian Nationals	novice	7 (37.87)	12 (64.63)	9 (102.50)
2018 Skate Canada Challenge	novice	10 (32.19)	2 (80.60)	3 (112.79)
2018 BC/YK Sectionals	novice	2 (39.17)	2 (72.71)	2 (111.88)

Exhibitions and Galas


Interviews, Articles, and Other Media

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Aug. 2021 -Winner's Interview, JGP Courchevel 2

Winner's Interview | Wesley Chiu (CAN) | #JGPFigure

To license ISU footage: https://bit.ly/3M7bcaF Visit https://isu.org/JuniorGrandPrix for more information on the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating.Cour...

m.youtube.com

Jan. 2019- National Novice Men's Winner's Interview

Wesley Chiu (Novice Men - BC/YK)

m.youtube.com

May 2021 newspaper interview - Wesley Chiu, Connaught, figure skating Richmond …

Video: Richmond skating star, 16, lands big jump, first mens title

Wesley Chiu's coach believes the teenager has all the attributes to one day skate for Canada

www.richmond-news.com

Jul. 2021 - Wesley Chiu FS (j) NextGen Camp/Simulation 2021
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5N6rQBNuGs

May 2021 - Senior Short - Skate Canada BCYK Section Victoria Day Virtual Event
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-ZM9Hf_CI

Early Competitions​

Apr. 2017- Novice VISI from BC/YK Section (so young!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-HUf0q_vWk

Nov. 2016- Pre Novice FS BC/YK Sectionals
SP: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLz88CzbEtM
FS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pDisSP0m198

 

[dorispulaski]

Canadian Nationals start this week. Wesley will be competing in Seniors!

 

[lariko]

Canadian Nationals start this week. Wesley will be competing in Seniors!

Looking forward to him competing against Gogolev. New generation on the scene!

 

[siberia82]

I was planning to download CBC TV's Road to the Olympic Games broadcasts of Nationals (they include Kurt Browning as the commentator) from the CBC.ca website, but I've been searching for over a week, and I can't find the archived livestreams anywhere. I had to beg an acquaintance to convert their PVRs into video files, and so far I've completed uploading the Men Short Program. (CBC Montreal DIDN'T air this segment , so I didn't even know there were any SPs that made it to the television broadcast until I received the vids!)


Kurt talks about Wesley during the warm-up section.
2022 CFSC Men SP Keegan Messing Update + Men Discussion + Warm-Up Clips (CBC TV 720p, 59fps):



2022 CFSC SP (CBC TV 720p, 59fps):

 

[siberia82]

I've just noticed that Wesley's name has disappeared from the 4CC Entries List: https://results.isu.org/events/fc2022_Men.htm Does anyone know what happened?

 

[dorispulaski]

January 2022

skatecanada.ca

This news article makes it sound like he was on his way?? I am fearing a positive test

 

[siberia82]

January 2022

skatecanada.ca

This news article makes it sound like he was on his way?? I am fearing a positive test

The article must have been published this morning because it has today's date, so I assume that at the time it was posted, nothing was apparently wrong with Wesley.

 

[Apple1078]

January 2022

skatecanada.ca

This news article makes it sound like he was on his way?? I am fearing a positive test

Yes either that or they needed him to stay home because he's 1st alternate. And that makes me nervous, too, because the other first alternates like Evelyn and Trennt left for Estonia as planned. So... I don't know what this means (a positive test for Wesley or someone else).

 

[siberia82]

2022 CFSC LP (CBC TV 720p, 59fps):



2022 CFSC Post-LP Interview (CBC TV 720p, 59fps):

 

[siberia82]

Wesley is included in the SP recap and the warm-up.
2022 CFSC Men LP Discussion + Men SP Recap + Warm-Up Clips (CBC TV 720p, 59fps):



This discussion (with Wesley as one of the main topics) is from the CBC.ca archived livestream (it wasn't available on the Dailymotion version).
Post-Senior Men SP Discussion (Livestream Commentary 720p):

 

[siberia82]

This discussion also wasn't available on the Dailymotion archived livestream. My original file is 720p, yet the site converted it to only 288p for some odd reason.
Post-Senior Men LP Discussion (Livestream Commentary):



There's no sound for the first 4.5 minutes.
Senior Men Medal Ceremony (720p):

 

[siberia82]

I've belatedly realized that no one has posted the reason for his withdrawal from 4CC on this thread.

 

[surimi]

Happy Birthday to Wesley! He definitely caught my eye this season. Good luck to him at JWC!
@dorispulaski , I think the OP contains a typo, it says Wesley's birthday is the 30th. :]

 

[Jeanie19]

 

[dorispulaski]

Thank you! I fixed it. And happy birthday Wesley.

 

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