Deanna Stellato-Dudek

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Born: June 22, 1983

Birthplace: Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

Deanna Stellato-Dudek (born June 22, 1983) is an American-Canadian pair skater who currently competes with Maxime Deschamps for Canada. With Deschamps, she is the 2024 World champion, the 2024 Four Continents champion, the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, an eight-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, a three-time ISU Challenger Series gold medalist, and a three-time Canadian national champion (2023–25). She is the oldest female figure skater to win a World title in any discipline. She and Deschamps are also the first pair team to perform an assisted backflip in an ISU competition. Competing for the United States with her former skating partner, Nathan Bartholomay, she is a three-time Challenger Series medalist and a two-time U.S. national bronze medalist (2018, 2019). Stellato-Dudek originally competed in single skating, winning silver at the 2000 World Junior Championships and gold at the 1999–00 Junior Grand Prix Final. She won one senior international medal, a silver at the 2000 Karl Schäfer Memorial, prior to her initial retirement from competitive skating in 2001. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deanna Stellato-Dudek, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.