A 12-year-old boy of Vietnamese origin has skated into the history of
the Canadian figure skating as the youngest ever winner of the Canadian
Juvenile Figure Skating Championships held early this year.
The
triumph, made in the male single’s event, is the latest that broad
smile-wearing Nam Nguyen has scooped from the ice-rink in Canada , a
nation strong in skating.
The boy earned his first championship
title at the Juveniles Male Championship in at age of eight, just three
years after taking up the sport.
Two years later, Nam shined on
the rink again bagging two more championship titles in different age
groups at the Canadian Figure Skating Championship, namely Pre-Novice
and Novice.
The Canadian Press called Nam the skater of the
future while his coach, Joanne McLeod, who has trained many figure
skating champions in Canada , praised him for possessing a high
degree of musical absorbability and performing skills.
The
current Grade 7 Brentwood Park Elementary Public School student said
“When going over there, my goal wasn’t to beat the older guys. It was to
lay down a fantastic skate and to entertain.”
Nam Nguyen has
showed he is committed to the sport in the long term as he writes on his
own blog that “I am passionate about figure skating. I am very
dedicated to my skating.”
Together with these championship
titles, Nam Nguyen has also been hailed as a charming performer as he
confidently took the rink with such well-known figure skaters in the
world as Even Lysacek from the US and Patrick Chan from Canada at major
events.
The boy unveiled that his immediate goal is to represent
Canada at the Grand Prix Figure Skating Competition hosted by the
World Figure Skating Association in September this year.
He also
looks to finish in the top 5 of the Canadian Figure Skating
Championships scheduled for January 2012 and represent Canada at the
world skating championships and the Winter Olympics in 2014./.
