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Kaetlyn Osmond


Kaetlyn Osmond ONL (born December 5, 1995) is a retired competitive Canadian figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. A three-time Canadian national champion (2013, 2014, 2017), Osmond competed internationally at the senior level from 2012 to 2018, winning three Olympic medals (gold and silver in the team event, and individual bronze), two World Championship medals (gold and silver), and one Grand Prix Final medal (bronze).

Osmond debuted on the senior level in 2012 and won gold at the 2012 Skate Canada International. After winning what would be the first of three national titles, she placed eighth in her World Championship debut. As part of the 2014 Canadian Olympic team, Osmond won a silver medal in the team event. After being sidelined by injury and struggling to return to competitive form, Osmond reclaimed her Canadian title in 2017 and won silver at the 2017 World Championships. The following season, she stood on the podium at every event she entered, winning the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2017–18 Grand Prix Final, and taking gold at the 2018 World Championships and with the Canadian team in the 2018 Olympic team event.

One of her country's most successful women's skaters, she was Canada's sixth Olympic ladies' medallist and its first ladies' World champion in 45 years.

Osmond was born in Marystown, Newfoundland, to Jeff and Jackie Osmond. At age seven, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, and at age ten, she moved to Sherwood Park, Alberta Osmond attended Vimy Ridge Academy in Edmonton. She has two older siblings. In April 2014, Marystown renamed their home rink the Kaetlyn Osmond Arena, named a street after her, and presented her with a symbolic key to the town. Osmond noted that her favourite Olympic memory was watching Joannie Rochette win bronze at the 2010 Winter Olympics and Rochette served as a role model to her in the sport.

On January 29, 2019, Osmond received the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, her home province's top civilian honour for "excellence and achievement."

Osmond began skating at age three, following her elder sister Natasha. Due to a lack of ice during the summer in Marystown, they often travelled to Montreal to train. Since the age of ten, after her parents came west because of work in the oil industry Osmond trained at the Ice Palace Figure Skating Club in Edmonton, coached by Ravi Walia with choreography by Lance Vipond.

In the 2011–12 season, Osmond competed on the senior level for the first time at the Canadian Championships. She was first after the short program, ahead of the defending champion Cynthia Phaneuf and the 2011 bronze medallist Amelie Lacoste. Osmond won the bronze medal overall. At the 2012 World Junior Championships, Osmond won the preliminary round. She finished tenth overall.

In the 2012–13 season, Osmond won her first international title at 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy. She then made her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2012 Skate Canada International. She was second in both the short and free programs, but it was enough to win the competition. Osmond remarked that "On the Junior Grand Prix, I was always ninth or 10th, so this is just extraordinary." Despite winning Skate Canada, Osmond was unable to qualify for that season's Grand Prix Final because she had not been given a second Grand Prix assignment.

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