Background
Beata Papp was born on 22 April 1995 in Kuopio, Finland and moved to Canada in the summer of 2007. She is the daughter of a figure skating coach, Ulla, and has three siblings who have competed in the sport — Bela, Bettina, and Benjam.
Beata Papp was born on 22 April 1995 in Kuopio, Finland and moved to Canada in the summer of 2007. She is the daughter of a figure skating coach, Ulla, and has three siblings who have competed in the sport — Bela, Bettina, and Benjam.
Ranked 20th in the short program, she qualified for the free skate where she placed 14th, pulling her up to 15th overall. The following season, she made her senior international debut, at the North Rhine-Westphalia Trophy in December 2010. She also competed on the senior level at the Finnish Championships, winning silver behind Kiira Korpi.
Papp debuted on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series in September 2011, finishing seventh in Brisbane, Australia and tenth in Innsbruck, Austria.
She trained in Burnaby, British Columbia under Joanne McLeod until the end of the 2011-2012 season. In the summer of 2012, she relocated to Toronto, Ontario, where she was coached by Brian Orser.
After moving back to British Columbia, she joined Bruno Delmaestro and Kelly Champagne, who coach her in Coquitlam. Papp announced her retirement from competitive skating on October 24th 2015.