Maé-Bérénice Méité

Maé-Bérénice Méité (born 21 September 1994) is a French figure skater.

She won the silver medal in novice ladies at her first international event, the 2007 Cup of Nice.

In addition to her singles skating, Méité participates in ice theatre with her skating club.

Méité moved up to the junior level in 2008–09, finishing eighth and sixth in her two events.

She then took part in her second French Nationals and won the silver medal behind Candice Didier.

Consequently, she was chosen to represent France at the 2009 World Junior Championships, where she finished in twelfth place.

In 2009–10, Méité was thirteenth at the JGP Budapest and sixth at the JGP Croatia.

She won her second silver medal at French Nationals, this time behind Léna Marrocco, who was selected for the French slot at the 2010 Junior Worlds.

In 2010–11, Méité moved up to the senior level.

She competed at the 2010 Skate America, finishing 8th, and the 2010 Trophée Éric Bompard, where she placed ninth.

She is the 2011 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, the 2016 International Cup of Nice champion, the 2015 Winter Universiade silver medalist, and a six-time French national champion.

In December, she won the bronze medal at French Nationals but was nonetheless named to the French team for the 2011 European Championships, where her goal was a top ten finish.

Because France did not have a direct entry to the short program in the ladies' discipline, Méité had to compete in the qualifying round; she finished second and qualified for the short program.

She finished seventh in the program with a new personal best score and tenth in the free skating after falling on both triple lutzes.

She finished in ninth place overall; Méité said that although her skating "wasn't perfect", she was "very satisfied with it".

She was fourteenth in her Worlds debut.

Méité began the 2011–12 season at the 2011 Ondrej Nepela Memorial.

She was first in the short program and second in the free skate and took her first international title.

Competing in the 2011–12 Grand Prix series, she placed seventh at the 2011 NHK Trophy and sixth at the 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard.

She finished thirteenth at the 2012 European Championships and completed the season as part of team France at the World Team Trophy.

Méité began the 2012–13 season at the 2012 Skate America; she was fourth in the short program and 6th overall.

She finished fifth at the 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard and eleventh at the 2013 World Championships.

She has finished in the top six at three European Championships and represented France at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

She is currently the 109th highest ranked ladies' singles skater in the world by the International Skating Union following the 2022-23 figure skating season.

Maé-Bérénice Méité, an only child, was born in Paris, France.

Her parents are from Ivory Coast and Congo.

Fluent in English and Spanish, she is interested in foreign languages and perfume-making.

She plays the violin.

After obtaining a science degree, she studied management through distance education at University of Montpellier 1.

In February 2022, she developed a digital figure skating planner, called Icee Planner.

Méité began learning to skate as a five-year-old.

Méité won her first senior national title at the 2014 French Championships.

She was selected to represent France at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she finished tenth.

In the 2014–15 season, Méité was coached by Katia Krier in Paris.

Although troubled by her right knee from mid-November 2014, she finished sixth at the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm and tenth at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai.

Méité was diagnosed with a tear in her right patellar tendon.

In April 2015, she decided to begin treatment.

She did not jump for three months.

Claude Thevenard was listed as Méité's coach by October 2015.

She won her third national title and placed 6th at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.