MOSCOW – Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier almost duplicated their rhythm dance performance from last month’s victory at Skate Canada International to stand second at the sixth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit in figure skating. Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia are first with 86.09 points followed by the Toronto couple with 82.56 […]
OTTAWA, ON: Team Canada will be competing this week at the Rostelecom Cup, the fifth event of the 2019 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Canada will be sending one entry in men, one entry in pair and two entries in ice dance, for a total of seven skaters. The event will take place from November […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will have seven entries, for a total of 11 skaters competing at the 2019 Warsaw Cup in Warsaw, Poland, from November 14-17, 2019. Team Canada will have one entry in men, two entries in women, three entries in pairs and one entry in ice dance at the 2019 ISU Challenger series event. Joseph Phan, […]
IRVINE, California – Les Suprêmes from St-Léonard, Que., and Nexxice from Burlington, Ont., each won a bronze medal Saturday night at the California Cup synchronized skating competition. In junior competition, Mystique from Finland won the gold with 185.24, Skyliners from the U.S. were second at 181.17 and Nexxice moved from fourth after the short to third […]
IRVINE, California – Les Suprêmes from St-Léonard, Que., are in third place after Friday’s short program in senior competition at the California Cup synchronized skating competition. The Haydenettes from the U.S. are in first place with 72.77 points followed by the Helsinki Rockettes from Finland in second at 67.97 and Les Suprêmes in third at 63.93. […]
CHONGQIN, China – Ice dancers Laurence Fournier Beaury and Nikolaj Sorensen of Montreal and new Canadian pairs team Lubov Ilyushechkina and Charlie Bilodeau won bronze medals Saturday to conclude the Cup of China, the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix figure skating circuit. In ice dancing, the top-three remained unchanged with Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita […]
CHONGQIN, China – The new Canadian pairs team of Lubov Ilyushechkina and Charlie Bilodeau are in second place after the short program while ice dancers Laurence Fournier Beaury and Nikolaj Sorensen of Montreal are third after the rhythm dance in Friday’s action at the Cup of China figure skating competition, the fourth stop on the ISU […]
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 5 of the ten-part series reflects on the 1984 world championships in Ottawa. For Canadian pair legends Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini, it was a world title that […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will send four entries, for a total of six skaters to the fourth stop of the 2019 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. Cup of China takes place from November 8-10, 2019 in Chongqing, China. Canada will have two entries in men, one entry in pair and one entry in ice dance. Keegan […]
OTTAWA, ON: Not that the ISU World Figure Skating Championships® 2020 needed any more star appeal, but figure skating’s flagship event just got it anyway. As Montreal, Quebec gets set to welcome the world to the Centre Bell from March 16-22, 2020, a pair of Canadian legends with 16 national titles between them will once […]
OTTAWA, ON: Three Canadian synchronized skating teams are headed to the 2019 California Cup in Irvine, California, U.S.A., from November 6-9, 2019. The event is an annual International Skating Union (ISU) sanctioned synchronized skating competition and Canada will be represented by Les Suprêmes senior, Nova senior and NEXXICE junior. Canadian Synchronized Skating champions, Nova senior, […]
GRENOBLE, France – Camille Ruest and Drew Wolfe earned Canada’s best result on Saturday at the ISU Grand Prix with a sixth place finish in pairs and a personal best score. Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov led Russia to a 1-2 finish with Haven Denney and Brandon Frazier of the U.S. third. Ruest, from Rimouski, […]