Maximin Coia (born 5 December 1983) is a French former competitive

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With

Adeline Canac Adeline Canac (born 20 May 1990 in Lagny-sur-Marne) is a French retired pair skater. She is a three-time French champion, twice with Maximin Coia and once with Yannick Bonheur. Career Canac competed internationally as a single skater, and her ...

, he is the 2008 and 2009 French national champion.

Career

Early in his pairs career, Coia competed on the junior circuit with Cyriane Felden. The pair placed 12th at the 2004 World Junior Championships. In 2005, Coia began practicing one hour a day with singles skater

, who switched to pairs completely in July 2006. They were the 2008 French national champions, but were forced to miss the

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after she sustained a stress fracture in her sternum. They returned in time for the 2008 Worlds, where they placed 14th. Canac / Coia moved to Canada for training in 2008. They again won the French national championships and were the highest placed French team at the 2009 Europeans, finishing ninth. They did not compete at that season's Worlds. In the 2009–10 Olympic season, Canac / Coia finished second at the French Championships and 10th at the 2010 Europeans, three places behind the top French pair,

Vanessa James Vanessa James (born 27 September 1987) is a Canadian retired pair skater. Representing France with her former skating partner, Morgan Ciprès, she is the 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World bronze medallist, the 2017 European bronze meda ...

/ Yannick Bonheur. As a result, Canac / Coia were not selected to represent France at the 2010 Winter Olympics and at 2010 Worlds. They ended their partnership soon after.

Programs

With Canac

With Felden

Results

Pair skating with Canac

Pair skating with Felden

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coia, Maximin French male pair skaters 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Aubervilliers