Background
Denis Margalik was born on June 3, 1997, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Margalik, the second of three boys, grew up in Mississauga before moving to Richmond Hill, Ontario.
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He attended Silverthorn Collegiate Institute.
Career
Margalik began skating in 2005. His first coach was Robert O"Toole, who taught him for eight years, mainly at the Woodbine Winter Club in Toronto. Margalik"s early career was hindered by Osgood–Schlatter disease, which affected his knees.
He changed coaches later in 2013, joining Andrei Berezintsev and Inga Zusev at the Richmond Training Centre in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Making his senior international debut, he finished seventh at the 2014 Skate Canada Autumn Classic, a part of the International Skating Union Challenger Series. In February 2015, he competed at his first International Skating Union Championship, the Four Continents in Seoul, South of Korea.
Ranked 18th in the short program, he qualified for the free skate, where he placed 15th and rose to 16th overall.
Achievements
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He is the first skater representing Argentina to win a medal on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series, winning bronze at JGP Bratislava in 2015. Competing on the junior level, he won the silver medal at the 2013 Canadian Championships and gold at the 2013 Mladost Trophy, his only international appearance for Canada. He won the national junior title at the 2014 Canadian Championships. Margalik debuted for Argentina in September 2014, placing fourth at the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix in Japan. In August 2015, Margalik won Argentina"s first International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix medal, taking bronze at the 2015 JGP in Bratislava, Slovakia.
