Kaetlyn Osmond

She placed a surprising fourth in the short program, which many in the Canadian skating community considered "the best global championship debut by a Canadian woman since the 1970s."

Osmond struggled in the middle section of her long program, falling twice and stepping out of another jump, and placed tenth in the long program, for an eighth-place finish overall.

Kaetlyn Osmond (born December 5, 1995) is a retired competitive Canadian figure skater who competed in ladies' singles.

Osmond noted that her favourite Olympic memory was watching Joannie Rochette win bronze at the 2010 Winter Olympics and Rochette served as a role model to her in the sport.

Osmond remarked that "On the Junior Grand Prix, I was always ninth or 10th, so this is just extraordinary."

Despite winning Skate Canada, Osmond was unable to qualify for that season's Grand Prix Final because she had not been given a second Grand Prix assignment.

In the 2011–12 season, Osmond competed on the senior level for the first time at the Canadian Championships.

She was first after the short program, ahead of the defending champion Cynthia Phaneuf and the 2011 bronze medallist Amelie Lacoste.

Osmond won the bronze medal overall.

Osmond debuted on the senior level in 2012 and won gold at the 2012 Skate Canada International.

After winning what would be the first of three national titles, she placed eighth in her World Championship debut.

At the 2012 World Junior Championships, Osmond won the preliminary round.

She finished tenth overall.

In the 2012–13 season, Osmond won her first international title at 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy.

She then made her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2012 Skate Canada International.

She was second in both the short and free programs, but it was enough to win the competition.

A three-time Canadian national champion (2013, 2014, 2017), Osmond competed internationally at the senior level from 2012 to 2018, winning three Olympic medals (gold and silver in the team event, and individual bronze), two World Championship medals (gold and silver), and one Grand Prix Final medal (bronze).

Osmond went on to win her first senior national title at the 2013 Canadian Championships.

It was the first time in ten years that a ladies' single skater from outside Quebec won the Canadian title.

At the 2013 Four Continents, Osmond finished seventh.

Osmond's national championship resulted in her being named as the lone Canadian ladies' singles skater at the 2013 World Championships in London, Ontario.

Osmond trained in southern California for about two weeks in August 2013 under the guidance of Walia and Frank Carroll.

Due to a stress reaction in her left ankle, she was off the ice for most of September 2013.

In late October, she competed at the 2013 Skate Canada International, placing fifth in the short program, but pulled out before the free skate due to a torn hamstring in her right leg.

She also withdrew from the 2013 Rostelecom Cup but returned to competition at the 2014 Skate Canada Challenge.

As part of the 2014 Canadian Olympic team, Osmond won a silver medal in the team event.

In April 2014, Marystown renamed their home rink the Kaetlyn Osmond Arena, named a street after her, and presented her with a symbolic key to the town.

This result secured two spots for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Interviewed afterwards, Osmond stated: "I had a little thought of a possible medal in my head, but I put it out of my mind and focused on my goal, which was top 10."

At the 2014 Canadian Championships, she placed first in both segments and repeated as national champion.

After being sidelined by injury and struggling to return to competitive form, Osmond reclaimed her Canadian title in 2017 and won silver at the 2017 World Championships.

The following season, she stood on the podium at every event she entered, winning the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2017–18 Grand Prix Final, and taking gold at the 2018 World Championships and with the Canadian team in the 2018 Olympic team event.

One of her country's most successful women's skaters, she was Canada's sixth Olympic ladies' medallist and its first ladies' World champion in 45 years.

Osmond was born in Marystown, Newfoundland to Jeff and Jackie Osmond.

At age seven, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, and at age ten, she moved to Sherwood Park, Alberta Osmond attended Vimy Ridge Academy in Edmonton.

She has two older siblings.

On January 29, 2019, Osmond received the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, her home province's top civilian honour for "excellence and achievement."

Osmond began skating at age three, following her elder sister Natasha.

Due to a lack of ice during the summer in Marystown, they often travelled to Montreal to train.

Since the age of ten, after her parents came west because of work in the oil industry Osmond trained at the Ice Palace Figure Skating Club in Edmonton, coached by Ravi Walia with choreography by Lance Vipond.