Mackenzie Bent (born June 11, 1997) is a Canadian

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. With partner Dmitre Razgulajevs, she is the 2016 Canadian junior champion. With former partner

Garrett MacKeen Garrett MacKeen (born March 23, 1994 in Burnaby) is a Canadian ice dancer. With former partner Mackenzie Bent, he is the 2014 Canadian junior champion and finished 5th at two World Junior Championships. Career Bent/MacKeen won the novice bro ...

, she is the 2014 Canadian junior champion and finished 5th at two World Junior Championships.

Personal life

Mackenzie Bent was born on June 11, 1997 in

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, Canada. In 2016, she studied international relations at the

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Career

Partnership with MacKeen

Bent/MacKeen won the novice bronze medal at the

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in January 2011. Making their

ISU Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

(JGP) debut, they took the bronze medal in Braşov, Romania in September of the same year. They placed fifth at their second JGP assignment, in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

, Estonia, and fourth on the junior level at the 2012 Canadian Championships. Bent/MacKeen returned to the JGP series in

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, winning a bronze medal in

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, Austria and placing fourth in

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, Croatia. Junior silver medalists at the 2013 Canadian Championships, they were named in Canada's team to the 2013 World Junior Championships in

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, Italy. Ranked fourth in the short dance and seventh in the free dance, they finished fifth overall in their debut at the competition. Competing in the 2013–14 JGP series, Bent/MacKeen won gold in

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, Latvia and finished 6th in

Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...

, Slovakia. After winning the junior title at the 2014 Canadian Championships, they were assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria; they placed ninth in the short, 12th in the free, and 12th overall. During the 2014–15 JGP season, Bent/MacKeen won gold in

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...

, Czech Republic and silver in

, Estonia. Their results qualified them for the 2014–15 JGP Final in

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, where they placed fourth. Having already won the junior title, they were required to compete on the senior level at the 2015 Canadian Championships. They finished sixth and were sent again to Tallinn to compete at their third Junior Worlds. They came in fifth after ranking second in the short and eighth in the free. They parted ways at the end of the season.

Partnership with Razgulajevs

Bent teamed up with Dmitre Razgulajevs in spring 2015. Making their international debut, they won the silver medal at the

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event in

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. They finished 5th at their second JGP assignment, in

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, Spain. The two missed the Skate Canada Challenge in December because Razgulajevs experienced

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but the following month they won the junior gold medal at the 2016 Canadian Championships. Ranked ninth in both segments, they finished ninth at the 2016 World Junior Championships in

Debrecen Debrecen ( , is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and i ...

, Hungary. Having aged out of juniors, Bent/Razgulajevs moved up to the senior level in the 2016–17 season. They placed fourth at the

Lake Placid Ice Dance International The Lake Placid Ice Dance International is an annual ice dance competition held in Lake Placid, New York. It was first held in 1932. In 2015 and 2016, the senior international event was included in the International Skating Union's calendar. The eve ...

Programs

With Razgulajevs

With MacKeen

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

With Razgulajevs

With MacKeen

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bent, Mackenzie 1997 births Canadian female ice dancers Living people People from Scugog