Zhao Kai Pang


Zhao Kai Pang is a Canadian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Madeline Edwards, he is the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist and 2013 Canadian national junior champion.

Career

Zhao Kai Pang teamed up with Madeline Edwards in December 2007. They debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2011, placing fifth in Austria. The following season, they won a pair of bronze medals at their JGP assignments, in France and Turkey, and gold in the junior event at the 2013 Canadian Championships. They were sent to the 2013 World Junior Championships, where they finished 12th.
In the 2013–14 season, Edwards/Pang won two JGP medals, silver in Mexico and bronze in the Czech Republic. Because Skate Canada required junior champions to move up, they competed on the senior level domestically, with a different pattern in the short dance and an additional 30 seconds in the free dance. They finished seventh at the 2014 Canadian Championships. At the 2014 World Junior Championships, they won the bronze medal after placing fifth in the short dance and third in the free dance.
Edwards/Pang decided to continue competing on the JGP series in the 2014–15 season. They were awarded silver in Courchevel, France, finishing second to Russia's Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd by a margin of 2.82 points. After edging Loboda/Drozd by 0.44 to win gold in Aichi, Japan, they qualified for the JGP Final in Barcelona, where they placed fifth. Edwards injured her ankle during training in late December 2014. Ranked sixth in the short and fourth in the free dance, the duo finished sixth at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
Edwards/Pang decided to sit out the 2015–16 season to allow her ankle to heal fully. On July 13, 2016, Pang announced his decision to retire from competition.
In 2019, Pang was accepted into the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine.

Programs

SeasonShort danceFree danceExhibition
2015–16

  • Misa Tango
by Luis Bacalov
choreo. by Mark Pillay
2014–15
Junior-level
  • Chi Samba
by Toni Braxton, Edmundo Ros
  • Rhumba: Eres todo en me
by Ana Gabriel
  • Chi Samba
by Toni Braxton, Edmundo Ros
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Senior-level
  • Paso:
  • Flamenco:
  • Beautiful That Way
    • by Nicola Piovani
    • Il Tema Della Tata
    by Nicola Piovani
    • Hobson's Choice: Act 3, Finale
    by Paul Reade
    • You and I
    by Ingrid Michaelson
    2013–14

  • Les Misérables
  • * Bring Him Home
    • performed by Colm Wilkinson
  • 2012–13
    by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
    by Ludovic Bource
    2011–12
    • Rie Y Lora
    by Celia Cruz
    by Thalia
    by Riccardo Cocciante
    • * Les Temps des Cathedrales
    • * Dechiré
    • * Les Oiseaux Qu'on Met en Cage
    performed by Garou and Hélène Ségara
    • * Les Temps des Cathedrales
    2010–11
    2009–10
    • Tango Innominato
    by Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble
    • Minor Swing

    by Rachel Portman
    2008–09

    by Tito Puente

    Competitive highlights

    JGP: Junior Grand Prix
    With Edwards