Nadiia Bashynska

Nadiia Bashynska (born November 15, 2003) is a Ukrainian-Canadian ice dancer, who competes internationally for Canada.

With her skating partner, Peter Beaumont, she is a two-time World Junior bronze medalist (2022, 2023), 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, a four-time ISU Junior Grand Prix medallist, and the 2023 Canadian Junior champion.

Bashynska was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Her family subsequently emigrated to Canada.

After learning to skate in 2006, Bashynska's first ice dance partnership in Ukraine was with Andrei Kapran.

When the Bashynska family began planning a move to Canada, Kapran was initially planned to accompany them to continue their on-ice partnership, but this ultimately did not happen.

Upon arrival in Toronto, she began training by herself at the Scarboro Figure Skating Club under coaches Carol and Jon Lane and Juris Razgulajevs, who she had previously met at a seminar in Oberstdorf when she was 10 years old.

After a year of skating by herself, Bashynska was contemplating accepting a scholarship to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.

However, her coaches arranged a meeting with English dancer Peter Beaumont in January 2017, and they announced their partnership in June of that year.

Bashynska and Beaumont began competing together domestically, winning the silver medal at the 2018 Skate Canada Challenge's novice division.

This qualified them to the 2022 Canadian Novice Championships, where they won the gold medal.

Based on this, they were given their first international assignment to the advanced novice competition at the Egna Trophy in Val Gardena.

Third after the short dance, they rose to second overall in the free dance.

Beaumont said they were "really thankful for the opportunity to skate abroad."

Moving up to the junior level, Bashynska/Beaumont were fifth at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International in New York.

They were assigned to make their Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2018 JGP Slovakia in Bratislava.

Placing ninth in the rhythm dance, they were fifth in the free dance despite an audience member throwing a stuffed toy onto the ice midway through the program, requiring them to adjust where they were going.

They remained ninth overall.

Thirteenth at Skate Canada Challenge, they finished the season competing at the 2019 Canadian Junior Championships, where they were tenth.

Bashynska/Beaumont returned to Lake Placid Ice Dance International to start the season, winning the gold medal.

They were assigned to two events on the Junior Grand Prix, beginning with the 2019 JGP Russia in Chelyabinsk.

They set personal bests in all three programs, finishing third in the rhythm dance, fifth in the free dance, and taking the bronze medal overall.

Bashysnka and Beaumont were the only non-Russian medallists in any discipline in Chelyabinsk.

Bashynska noted that the well-attended Russian event was the largest audience they had ever performed in front of.

They were fourth at their second event, the 2019 JGP Croatia.

She became a Canadian citizen in September 2020.

When not skating, Bashynska also works as a barista.

She documents her life on her self-titled YouTube channel.

Winning silver medals at both Skate Canada Challenge and the 2020 Canadian Junior Championships, Bashynska Beaumont were next assigned to the Bavarian Open along with the other three top Canadian junior dance teams to determine which would attend the 2020 World Junior Championships.

They performed poorly at the event, finishing ninth overall and last among the Canadian teams, and as such, their season concluded.

With the COVID-19 pandemic severely constraining competitions, both the ISU Junior Grand Prix and the 2021 World Junior Championships were cancelled.

Additionally, in-person domestic competition was limited; as a result, Bashynska/Beaumont competed only once during the season at a virtually-held 2021 Skate Canada Challenge.

They won the bronze medal.

The 2021 Canadian Junior Championships were subsequently cancelled.

With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, Bashynska/Beaumont returned to international competition at the 2021 JGP Russia in Krasnoyarsk.

They finished fourth, less than three points back of third.

Bashynska said they were satisfied with their overall performance but needed to address some technical issues.

Weeks later, at their second event, the 2021 JGP Austria in Linz, they initially placed fourth in the rhythm dance.

Third in the free dance, they rose to third overall to win their second JGP bronze medal.

Beaumont said that going into the free dance, they "had the mindset that we've moved up in the standings before, and we can do it again."