Cléo Hamon
Cléo Hamon is a French pair skater. With her skating partner, Denys Strekalin, she is the 2020 French national champion, 2018 Volvo Open Cup champion, and has competed in the final segment at three World Junior Championships.
Personal life
Cléo Hamon was born on 25 November 2001 in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. Her brother, Axel, is a triathlete.Career
Single skating
Hamon began learning to skate in 2006. Competing in ladies' singles, she won silver in the advanced novice category at the Rooster Cup in April 2016. She appeared once on the junior level, placing 13th at the Golden Bear of Zagreb in October 2016.Early partnerships
In the 2014–2015 season, Hamon competed in partnership with Xavier Vauclin. The two became the French national novice champions in March 2015.Hamon also skated with Brice Panizzi.
Partnership with Strekalin
In August 2016, Hamon teamed up with Ukraine's Denys Strekalin to compete for France in pairs. Coached by Mehdi Bouzzine in Courbevoie, they made their international debut in February 2017, placing seventh in junior pairs at the Bavarian Open. In March, they placed fourteenth at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.In September 2017, Hamon/Strekalin debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing eighth in Riga, Latvia. In December, appearing on the senior level, they won silver at the French Championships, behind Lola Esbrat / Andrei Novoselov. In March, they finished eleventh at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Competing in the 2018 JGP series, Hamon/Strekalin placed sixth in Linz, Austria, and fifth in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Making their senior international debut, the pair took gold at the Volvo Open Cup in November 2018. In March 2019, they finished ninth at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
After placing eighth at the 2019 JGP United States, Hamon/Streklain debuted on the senior Challenger series with a seventh-place finish at the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy. They would go on to place tenth at the 2019 CS Warsaw Cup, and ninth at their first European Championships. Hamon/Strekalin also won the French senior national title for the first time, due to the absence of James/Cipres from the competition season. They finished the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, where they placed fifth. Hamon/Strekalin were scheduled to participate in the 2020 World Championships in Montreal, which would have been their senior World debut, but these were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2019–2020 | by Asaf Avidan choreo. by Leonie Corbin | by Riccardo Cocciante, Luc Plamondon choreo. by Fabian Bourzat, Silvia Fontana |
| 2018–2019 |
choreo. by Leonie Corbin |
performed by L.E.J
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| 2017–2018 | performed by Tony Succar, Tito Nieves choreo. by Leonie Corbin |
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| 2016–2017 |
choreo. by Leonie Corbin | by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Leonie Corbin |