Wesley Chiu was born on March 20,2005 and is a Canadian figure skater.
28 Facts About Wesley Chiu
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Wesley Chiu is the 2024 Canadian champion and a two-time national bronze medallist.
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Wesley Chiu placed fourth at the 2022 World Junior Championships and won two medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix, including gold at the 2021 JGP France II.
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Wesley Chiu competed only domestically, winning bronze at the junior level at a virtually-held Skate Canada Challenge.
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Wesley Chiu returned to international competition with the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, competing at the second installment of the French JGP in Courchevel.
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Wesley Chiu won the short program by a wide margin but struggled in the free skate, remaining narrowly in first overall and taking the gold medal.
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Wesley Chiu was one of only two non-Russian competitors to podium at the event in any discipline.
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Wesley Chiu set a new personal best and won that segment of the competition, finishing fourth overall, ten points behind bronze medallist Petr Gumennik.
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Wesley Chiu next competed at the 2022 Canadian Championships in Ottawa, hoping to qualify for one of the two men's berths on the Canadian team for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Wesley Chiu was only fifth in the free skate after singling a planned triple Axel but narrowly finished third overall, 0.54 points ahead of Joseph Phan.
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Wesley Chiu was assigned to finish his season at the 2022 World Junior Championships, held in mid-April rather than the traditional early March to accommodate a last-minute move from Sofia to Tallinn.
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Wesley Chiu finished second in the segment, 0.33 points ahead of Estonia's Mihhail Selevko and 7.40 points behind leader Ilia Malinin of the USA, winning a silver small medal.
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Wesley Chiu then made his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2022 Skate America, alongside American training partner Liam Kapeikis.
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Wesley Chiu said he was eager to participate in events with larger audiences.
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Wesley Chiu finished sixth at the event, 0.40 points and one placement ahead of his friend Kapeikis.
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Wesley Chiu was tenth at the 2022 Grand Prix de France.
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Wesley Chiu was third in the free skate, rising to third overall and his second consecutive national bronze medal.
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Wesley Chiu related afterwards that he had been sick in advance of the championships, but had persevered through it.
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Wesley Chiu was assigned to compete at the 2023 World Junior Championships.
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At the World Junior Championships on home ice in Calgary, Wesley Chiu had a bad land on the first part of his planned jump combination, but was still able to complete it.
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Wesley Chiu finished second in the segment for the second consecutive year, coming five points behind Japan's Kao Miura and taking another silver small medal.
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Wesley Chiu began the season by winning the silver medal at the 2023 Cranberry Cup International behind Mark Gorodnitsky of Israel.
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Wesley Chiu finished third in the short program at the 2023 CS Autumn Classic International, but dropped to seventh after struggling in the free skate.
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Skate Canada initially declined to name its team for the 2024 World Championships, pending the results of the 2024 Four Continents Championships in Shanghai, which Wesley Chiu attended alongside Conrad Orzel and Roman Sadovsky.
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Wesley Chiu set new personal bests in the short program and total score, and finished seventh overall, the highest placement among the Canadians.
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Wesley Chiu called the experience of his first senior ISU championship ""something you can't truly replicate in training," saying it was "truly eye-opening to skate alongside such incredible athletes.
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Wesley Chiu began the season with a fourteenth-place finish at the 2024 Nebelhorn Trophy.
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Wesley Chiu subsequently withdrew from the 2025 Canadian Championships and later the 2025 Four Continents Championships as well, thus ending his season.