Background
Sadovsky was born on May 31, 1999 in Toronto.
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Sadovsky began learning to skate at age five in order to play hockey. He is coached by Tracey Wainman, who started working with him when he was eight, and Grzegorz Filipowski at the York Region Skating Academy in Richmond Hill, Ontario. 2012-2013 season
He withdrew from the 2013 Canadian Championships due to a stress fracture in his right foot on a growth plate near the toe.
2013-2014 season
Competing on the 2013-2014 Junior Grand Prix, Sadovsky placed 14th in Riga, Latvia and 8th in Minsk, Belarus.
Nationally, he competed on the senior level, finishing 8th at the 2014 Canadian Championships. He was selected for the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ranked 14th in the short program and 12th in the free skate, he finished 13th overall. 2014-2015 season
Sadovsky"s first assignment of the 2014-2015 Junior Grand Prix season was in Ostrava, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Ranked 1st in the short program and 3rd in the free skate, he finished 1st overall by a margin of 3.39 points over the silver medalist, Alexander Samarin.
After the event, Sadovsky said his goal was to develop a solid triple Axel. He then went on to place 4th at his second JGP event in Dresden, Germany. With those results, Sadovsky qualified for the 2014-2015 JGP Final and placed 5th.
At the 2015 Canadian Championships, Sadovsky placed 4th.
He ended his season with a 14th place finish at the 2015 World Junior Championships. 2015-2016 season
In the 2015-2016 Junior Grand Prix season, Sadovsky was assigned to the first event, held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
These results qualified him for the 2015-2016 JGP Final, where he was 6th. He represented Canada at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics and finished fourth.
Achievements
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He has won two gold medals on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series and represented Canada at two World Junior Championships. In the 2012-2013 season, making his Junior Grand Prix debut, Sadovsky won a bronze medal in Lake Placid, New York and placed 10th in Bled, Slovenia. With a quad salchow in the free skate — Sadovsky"s first quad in competition — he won the gold medal with a total score 2.87 points ahead of Vincent Zhou of the United States. He then went on to win bronze at his second JGP event, in Toruń, Poland.
