Tyler Gunara (born August 18, 2002) is a Canadian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Miku Makita, he is the 2021 JGP France silver medallist and 2022 Canadian Junior bronze medallist. Makita/Gunara finished in the top eight at the 2020 World Junior Championships and competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
| Tyler Gunara | |
|---|---|
_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%931517.jpg) Makita/Gunara at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | |
| Born | August 18, 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Hometown | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
| Figure skating career | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Partner | Miku Makita |
| Coach | Aaron Lowe Megan Wing |
| Skating club | Champs International Skating Centre of BC Vancouver Ice Dance Academy |
| Began skating | 2008 |
Personal life edit
Gunara was born on August 18, 2002, in Vancouver, British Columbia. As of 2020, he attends the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University.
Career edit
Early career edit
Gunara started skating in 2008. He originally competed in men's singles but never reached the Canadian Championships. Gunara skated one season with Victoria Verrelli in ice dance during the 2015–16 season. They were the pre-novice bronze medallists at the 2016 Skate Canada Challenge.[1]
Gunara teamed up with Miku Makita in March 2016.[2] They train under Aaron Lowe and Megan Wing at the Champs International Skating Centre of BC in Burnaby, British Columbia. During the 2016–17 season, Makita/Gunara won the Skate Canada Challenge pre-novice category with a record score.[3] After also winning the provincial title at the 2017 Skate Canada BC/YK Section Awards, they were rewarded with the Ice Dance Youth Promise Award.[4]
2017–2018 season edit
At the 2018 Skate Canada Challenge, Makita/Gunara again won gold, this time in the novice division. They went on to win silver at the 2018 Canadian Championships behind Bashynska/Beaumomt, after making a few mistakes and "underperforming" according to their coach.[5] Their result earned them their first international assignment, the 2018 Egna Dance Trophy. At the event, Makita/Gunara won their first international medal, advanced novice bronze, behind Russians Lukinskaya/Angelopol and Bashynska/Beaumont.[6]
2018–2019 season edit
Makita/Gunara moved up to juniors internationally and opened the season by winning the silver medal at the 2018 Lake Placid Ice Dance International. They earned their first Junior Grand Prix assignment, finishing eighth at 2018 JGP Canada. Makita/Gunara placed eighth at the Skate Canada Challenge. They concluded the season with a ninth-place finish at the 2019 Canadian Championships.
2019–2020 season edit
Makita/Gunara began their season for the second consecutive year at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, finishing sixth. On the Junior Grand Prix, they placed fourth at both their events in the United States and Poland.
Makita/Gunara won the junior bronze at the Skate Canada Challenge but did not attend the 2020 Canadian Championships after they were instead sent to the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, they finished fifth in the ice dance event and eighth (fifth individually) in the team event as part of Team Hope.[7][8]
In February, Makita/Gunara finished fifth at the 2020 Bavarian Open. Alongside Bronsard/Bouraguia and D'Alessandro/Waddell, they earned a spot on the 2020 World Junior Championships team due to their being among the top three Canadian junior ice dance teams at the event.[9] At Junior Worlds, Makita/Gunara were tenth in both segments but finished eighth overall and were the highest-placing among the Canadian teams.[10]
2020–2021 season edit
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where Makita/Gunara would have competed, was cancelled.
With domestic competitions difficult to hold in person, Makita/Gunara competed for the first time at a virtually-held 2021 Skate Canada Challenge, where they placed second in both programs to take the silver medal. The 2021 Canadian Junior Championships were cancelled.[11][12]
2021–2022 season edit
With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, Makita/Gunara were assigned to compete in both phases of the French event held on consecutive weeks in Courchevel. In the first week of competition, they finished second in both segments of the competition to take the silver medal, their first JGP medal. They were disappointed by their rhythm dance score after a twizzle error, but Makita said, "we came back in the long and did what we wanted to do."[13] They had to withdraw from the second stage of the French event, citing illness.[14]
Makita/Gunara won the bronze medal at the 2022 Canadian Junior Championships in Ottawa, in their last season of junior eligibility.[15]
2022–2023 season edit
Having aged out of junior eligibility, Makita/Gunara moved to the senior level for the new season and were named to the Canadian national team for the first time.[16] They were scheduled to make their debuts on the Challenger and Grand Prix series at the 2022 CS Nepela Memorial and the 2022 Skate Canada International, but had to withdraw from both due to injury.[17] They were eighth at their senior debut at the 2023 Canadian Championships.[18]
Programs edit
- With Makita
Competitive highlights edit
CS: Challenger Series; GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
- With Gunara
| International[18] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
| GP Skate Canada | WD | ||||||
| CS Nepela Memorial | WD | ||||||
| International: Junior[18] | |||||||
| Junior Worlds | 8th | ||||||
| Youth Olympics | 5th | ||||||
| JGP Canada | 8th | ||||||
| JGP France I | 2nd | ||||||
| JGP France II | WD | ||||||
| JGP Poland | 4th | ||||||
| JGP USA | 4th | ||||||
| Bavarian Open | 5th | ||||||
| Egna Trophy | 3rd N | ||||||
| Lake Placid IDI | 2nd | 6th | |||||
| National[18] | |||||||
| Canadian Champ. | 2nd N | 9th J | [a] | C | 3rd J | 8th | |
| SC Challenge | 1st P | 1st N | 8th J | 3rd J | 2nd J | WD | |
| Team events[18] | |||||||
| Youth Olympics | 8th T 5th P |
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| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: P = Pre-novice; N = Novice; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals are awarded for team results only. | |||||||
- ^ Event conflict with the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
- With Verrelli
| National[1] | |
|---|---|
| Event | 2015–16 |
| SC Challenge | 3rd P |
| Levels: P = Pre-novice | |
Detailed results edit
ISU Personal Bests highlighted in bold.
- With Makita
Senior results edit
| 2022–23 season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| January 9–15, 2023 | 2023 Canadian Championships | 8 67.11 |
8 97.52 |
8 164.63 |
Junior results edit
| 2021–22 season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| January 6–12, 2022 | 2022 Canadian Championships | 3 65.88 |
3 97.12 |
3 163.00 |
| August 18–21, 2021 | 2021 JGP France I | 2 57.41 |
2 91.98 |
2 149.39 |
| 2020–21 season | ||||
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| January 8–17, 2021 | 2021 Skate Canada Challenge | 2 66.25 |
2 99.92 |
2 166.17 |
| 2019–20 season | ||||
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 10 60.87 |
10 92.33 |
8 153.20 |
| February 3–9, 2020 | 2020 Bavarian Open | 5 57.27 |
4 91.98 |
5 149.25 |
| January 10–15, 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team | – | 5 89.87 |
8T/5P |
| January 10–15, 2020 | 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | 4 58.47 |
6 90.42 |
5 148.89 |
| September 18–21, 2019 | 2019 JGP Poland | 4 62.25 |
4 91.86 |
4 154.11 |
| August 28–31, 2019 | 2019 JGP United States | 3 61.32 |
4 88.31 |
4 149.63 |
| Jul. 30 – Aug. 2, 2019 | 2019 Lake Placid Ice Dance International | 6 51.68 |
5 78.38 |
6 130.06 |
| 2018–19 season | ||||
| Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
| January 13–20, 2019 | 2019 Canadian Championships | 8 55.53 |
9 83.78 |
9 139.31 |
| September 12–15, 2018 | 2018 JGP Canada | 8 46.49 |
7 81.31 |
8 127.80 |
| July 24–27, 2018 | 2018 Lake Placid Ice Dance International | 2 50.94 |
1 78.70 |
2 129.64 |
Novice results edit
| 2017–18 season | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | PD1 | PD2 | FD | Total |
| February 2–4, 2018 | 2018 Egna Dance Trophy | 2 13.30 |
2 16.01 |
3 54.43 |
3 83.74 |
| January 8–14, 2018 | 2018 Canadian Championships | 1 16.19 |
6 12.85 |
2 66.04 |
2 95.08 |
References edit
- ^ a b "Victoria Verrelli & Tyler Gunara". Stats on Ice.
- ^ Olson, Dan (January 10, 2018). "Ice dancers set the table with silver for Burnaby skaters". Burnaby Now.
- ^ "Makita wins record at 2017 Skate Challenge in Quebec". Tri-City News. December 8, 2016.
- ^ "Champs' skaters, coach celebrate Skate Canada BC awards". Burnaby Now. May 17, 2017.
- ^ Olson, Dan (January 18, 2018). "Dancers in fine form at nationals". Burnaby Now.
- ^ "Champs ice dancers medal in international debut". Burnaby Now. February 22, 2018.
- ^ Heroux, Devin (January 13, 2020). "Canadian figure skaters motivated by 'valuable' Youth Olympic experience". CBC.
- ^ "Figure skaters mix it up in glorious send-off". International Olympic Committee. January 15, 2020.
- ^ "Canadian junior skaters headed to Estonia for the 2020 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. March 2, 2020.
- ^ "Alison Schumacher, two Canadian ice dance teams crack top 10 at World Juniors". Skate Canada. March 7, 2020.
- ^ Ewing, Lori (January 16, 2021). "Madeline Schizas moves up 3 spots to win virtual Skate Canada Challenge". CBC Sports.
- ^ "2021 Skate Canada Challenge – Results". Skate Canada.
- ^ "American Juniors Golden in Courchevel". International Figure Skating. August 23, 2021.
- ^ "Canada's Kaiya Ruiter wins a bronze medal and captures a second Junior Grand Prix medal". Skate Canada. August 28, 2021.
- ^ "McIntosh and Mimar break Canadian junior pairs record at 2022 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships". Skate Canada. January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Skate Canada announces 2022-2023 national team". Skate Canada. July 25, 2022.
- ^ "The skating world converges in Mississauga for Skate Canada International". Skate Canada. October 24, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: Competition Results". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 31, 2022.
- ^ "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021.
- ^ "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: 2020/2021". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 3, 2020.
- ^ "Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on July 19, 2019.