Vanessa James

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Vanessa James figure skating
James Cipres FRA NT2012 bronze.jpg
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 27th September 1987 (age 32)
place of birth Scarborough (Toronto), Canada
size 161 cm
Career
discipline Pair skating
Partner Morgan Ciprès (since 2010)
Former partner Yannick Bonheur , Hamish Gaman
Trainer John Zimmerman , Jeremy Barrett
Former trainers Claude Thevenard, Mariusz Siudek ,
Stanislaw Morosow , Jean-Rolland Racle
choreographer John Kerr , Silvia Fontana
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Milan 2018 Couples
ISU European figure skating championships
bronze Ostrava 2017 Couples
gold Minsk 2019 Couples
Personal best
 Total points 225.66 EM 2019
 Freestyle 149.11 EM 2019
 Short program 76.55 EM 2019
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Grand Prix Final 1 0 0
 Grand Prix competitions 2 2 2
last change: January 24, 2019

Vanessa James (born September 27, 1987 in Scarborough , Ontario , Canada ) is a French figure skater who starts in pair skating . She is the European champion of 2019.

James and her figure skating partner Morgan Ciprès won their first medal at the European Championships with bronze at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava . The following year, the couple won their first medal at world championships with bronze at the world championships in Milan .

At the 2019 European Championships in Minsk , Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès became European champions with personal bests in all segments. This made them only the second French figure skating couple after Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet in 1932, who succeeded, and since 1958, when the Czechoslovaks Věra Suchánková and Zdeněk Doležal won, the first European champions not from Russia or Germany.

Results

Pair skating

(with Morgan Ciprès )

Championship / year 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
winter Olympics 10. 5.
World championships 16. 8th. 10. 9. 10. 8th. 3.
European championships 6th 4th 5. 5. 4th 3. 4th 1.
French championships 2. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Z 1.
Grand Prix competition / season 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Grand Prix Final 1.
Skate Canada 5. 3. 1.
Skate America 4th Z 4th
NHK Trophy 6th
Eric Bompard Trophy 8th. 6th 5. 5. 2. 3. 2. 1.

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