OTTAWA, ON: Team Canada is sending four senior skaters, 16 junior skaters and 12 advanced novice skaters for a total 32 skaters to Oberstdorf, Germany for the 2020 Bavarian Open. The event will take place from February 3-9. CANADIAN ENTRIES AT 2020 BAVARIAN OPEN – OBERSTDORF, GERMANY DISCIPLINE NAME AGE HOMETOWN CLUB COACH Advanced Novice Men Brendan […]
OTTAWA, ON: Team Canada will be sending 18 skaters to the 2020 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul, Korea, from February 3-9, 2020. The championships will welcome the best skaters from the Americas, Asia, Australia and Africa. Canada will have three skaters in each discipline: men, women, pair and ice dance, for a total of 12 […]
ROUEN, France – Les Suprêmes from St-Léonard, Que., won the bronze medal on Saturday at the French Cup synchronized skating competition. The Helsinki Rockettes grabbed the gold with 227.48 points followed by their Finnish compatriots Marigold Ice Unity in second at 224.08. Les Suprêmes maintained third place totalling 219.39. Skating for the Suprêmes were: Jessica Allaire, […]
ROUEN, France – Les Suprêmes from St-Léonard, Que., are on track for a second international medal this season after placing third in Friday’s short program at the French Cup synchronized skating competition. Marigold from Russia is first with 79.35 points, Rockettes from Finland are second at 78.12 and les Suprêmes follow at 77.27. Back in November, […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada will be sending three synchronized skating teams to the 26th annual 2020 French Cup, in Rouen, France from January 31-February 2, 2020. This event is an ISU (International Skating Union) sanctioned event and will see teams competing in novice, junior and senior. In junior, NEXXICE junior will be the first of two junior teams representing […]
GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Canada’s Team Nova from St-Hubert Que., took fifth spot in senior competition and sixth in junior on Saturday at the Leon Lurje Trophy synchronized skating event. In the senior event, Paradise from Russia won the gold with 231.85 points with Unique from Finland second at 227.61 and Crystal Ice from Russia third at […]
GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Nexxice from Burlington, Ont., is in the medal hunt at the Leon Lurje Trophy synchronized skating competition after a third place finish in Friday’s short program. Paradise from Russia is first with 81.53 points, Unique from Finland is second at 80.03 and Nexxice, fourth at the world championships last year, is third at […]
As the countdown to the ISU World Figure Skating Championships ® 2020 in Montreal, Quebec continues, we look back at previous world championships staged in Canada. Part 7 of the ten-part series reflects on the 1996 edition of the event in Edmonton. The eyes of the skating world were on two-time defending champion Elvis Stojko […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada’s adult figure skaters brought home 43 medals (17.5 per cent of all medals awarded in figure skating) from the Winter World Masters Games 2020 (WWMG) held in Innsbruck, Austria from January 10-19, 2020. The 43 medals included: 12 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze. This is the first time that figure skating was included in […]
OTTAWA, ON: Four Canadian synchronized skating teams are headed to the 2020 Leon Lurje Trophy in Gothenburg, Sweden from January 23-25, 2020. The event is an annual ISU (International Skating Union) sanctioned synchronized skating competition. Canada will be represented by two junior teams, Nova junior and Ice Ignite, and two senior teams, NEXXICE and Nova. Nova junior, from […]
ZAGREB, Croatia – Gold Ice from Brampton, Ont., produced the third best free program but it wasn’t enough to reach the podium in junior competition this weekend at the Zagreb Snowflakes Trophy synchronized skating competition. Fintastic from Finland took the gold with 198.29 points followed by Lexettes from the U.S., at 172.15, their compatriots Team Image […]
MISSISSAUGA, ON: After completion of the 2020 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, Skate Canada has named the team for the upcoming ISU Championships. The week-long championships were held in Mississauga, ON at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre from January 13-19, 2020. 2020 ISU WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS MONTREAL, CANADA – MARCH 16-22, 2020 MEN TBD* […]