Madeline Edwards (born June 14, 1996) is a Canadian

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. With former partner

Zhao Kai Pang Zhao Kai Pang (born March 5, 1995) is a Canadian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Madeline Edwards, he is the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist and 2013 Canadian national junior champion. Career Zhao Kai Pang teamed up with Mad ...

, she is the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist and 2013 Canadian national junior champion.

Career

Madeline Edwards teamed up with

in December 2007. They debuted on the

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 ...

series in 2011, placing fifth in Austria. The following season, they won a pair of bronze medals at their JGP assignments, in France and Turkey, and gold in the junior event at the 2013 Canadian Championships. They were sent to the 2013 World Junior Championships, where they finished 12th. In the 2013–14 season, Edwards/Pang won two JGP medals, silver in Mexico and bronze in the Czech Republic. Because

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required junior champions to move up, they competed on the senior level domestically, with a different pattern in the short dance and an additional 30 seconds in the free dance. They finished seventh at the 2014 Canadian Championships. At the 2014 World Junior Championships, they won the bronze medal after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance. Edwards/Pang decided to continue competing on the JGP series in the 2014–15 season. They were awarded silver in

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, France, finishing second to Russia's

Alla Loboda Alla Andreyevna Loboda (russian: Алла Андреевна Лобода; born 10 December 1998) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With her former skating partner Pavel Drozd, she is a two-time World Junior medalist (silver in 2017, br ...

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by a margin of 2.82 points. After edging Loboda/Drozd by 0.44 to win gold in

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, Japan, they qualified for the JGP Final in

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, where they placed fifth. Edwards injured her ankle during training in late December 2014. Ranked sixth in the short and fourth in the free dance, the duo finished sixth at the 2015 World Junior Championships in

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, Estonia. Edwards/Pang decided to sit out the 2015–16 season to allow her ankle to heal fully. Their partnership came to an end in July 2016 due to Pang's decision to retire from competition.

Programs

(with Pang)

Competitive highlights

''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 Pang

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Madeline 1996 births Canadian female ice dancers Living people People from Trail, British Columbia World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists