Tòn Cónsul Vivar (born 1 April 1998) is a Spanish

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 his former skating partner,

Laura Barquero Laura Barquero Jiménez (born 12 October 2001) is a Spanish pair skater. With her skating partner, Marco Zandron, she is the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist and the 2021 Spanish national champion. With her former skating partner, Tòn ...

, he is the 2020 Spanish national champion and competed in the final segment at the 2020 European Championships. Cónsul is the 2017 Spanish junior national champion in men's singles and in pairs with Alexanne Bouillon, as well as the 2018 Spanish junior national champion in pairs with Isabella Gamez.

Personal life

Cónsul was born on 1 April 1998 in

Vielha e Mijaran Vielha e Mijaran (; ca, Viella – Mitg-Aran ) is a municipality in Aran, Lleida, Spain. It was created in 1970 by the merger of the municipalities of Arròs e Vila, Betlan, Escunhau, Gausac, Vielha and Vilac: some of the former municipalities re ...

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, Spain. His favorite skaters are Javier Fernández and

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. Cónsul is a

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student at

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Career

Early career

Cónsul began skating in 2006 in

Val d'Aran Aran (; ; ) (previously officially called in Occitan Val d'Aran, Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an administrative entity (formerly considered a comarca) in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, consisting of the Aran Valley, in ar ...

under his first coach Nathalie Pardos. He competed in men's singles up through the 2016–17 season, winning several international medals and the 2017 Spanish junior national title. As a singles skater, he trained in

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under Patrick Capmartín and

Marta Andrade Marta Andrade Vidal (born 17 May 1972) is a Spanish former competitive figure skater. She is an eight-time Spanish national champion and competed in two Winter Olympics, placing 20th in 1994 and 22nd in 1998. She competed in eleven World Champio ...

. Cónsul competed pairs with Mónica Carratalá for two seasons, beginning in the 2012–13 season. Together, they were the 2012

Open d'Andorra The Open d'Andorra is an international figure skating competition held annually in Canillo, Andorra, usually in November. Medals may be awarded in Single skating, men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice leve ...

champions and the 2014 Spanish novice national champions. He later moved to

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to team up with Canadian skater Alexanne Bouillon and train with pairs coaches

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, Richard Gauthier, Sylvie Fullum, and Nicholas Young. Bouillon/Cónsul won the 2017 Spanish junior national title and competed in the final segment at the 2017 World Junior Championships, finishing 16th. Cónsul began competing solely in pairs from the 2017–18 season. Competing for Spain with American skater Isabella Gamez, he is the 2018 Spanish junior national champion and the 2018

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champion. Gamez/Cónsul finished 13th at the 2018 World Junior Championships. Cónsul left skating in mid-2018 and thus did not compete during the 2018–19 season.

2019–2020 season

In July 2019, Cónsul teamed up with

. They trained under her coaches Barbara Luoni,

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, and Rosana Murante in

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. The team made their international debut in October 2019 at the

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, where they won the silver medal and earned the technical minimums for both Europeans and Worlds. They then won bronze at the IceLab International Cup. Competing on the

ISU Challenger Series The ISU Challenger Series is a series of international figure skating competitions. Established by the International Skating Union in the 2014–15 season, it is a group of senior-level events ranked below the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. E ...

, Barquero/Cónsul finished fourth at the

2019 CS Warsaw Cup The 2019 CS Warsaw Cup was held in November 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series The 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series was held from September to December 2019. It was the sixth season that the ISU Challenge ...

and eighth at the

2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb The 2019 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb was held in December 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. It was part of the 2019–20 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance Ice d ...

. In their first season together, they won the national title at the 2020 Spanish Championships, ahead of Dorota Broda / Pedro Betegón. At the 2020 European Championships, Barquero/Cónsul were 15th in the short program and 14th in the free skating to finish 14th overall. Although they expressed disappointment with their mistakes, they were happy with their progress over the course of their short partnership. Together with teammates Broda/Betegón, Barquero/Cónsul made history for the

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by marking the first time two Spanish pairs had competed at the

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

. In February 2020, Barquero/Cónsul finished ninth at the

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. They were named to the 2020 World Championships team, but the competition was cancelled due to the

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. On 26 June 2020, it was announced that the pair had split after only one season together.

Programs

With Barquero

With Gamez

With Bouillon

Men's singles

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 Barquero

With Gamez

Isabella Gamez and Ton Consul - 2018 Junior World Championships - 3

With Bouillon

With Carratalá

Men's singles

Detailed results

''Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.''

With Barquero

References

External links

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