OTTAWA, ON: With just one year to go until Montreal, Que., hosts the ISU World Figure Skating Championships ® 2020, Skate Canada is proud to unveil the theme and logo for the event. The championships will take place next year from March 16-22, 2020 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The theme of the championships […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will send 10 entries, for a total of 15 skaters to the 2019 ISU World Figure Skating Championships. The event will take place from March 18-24, 2019, in Saitama City, Japan. Canada will have three entries in women and ice dance, and two entries in men and pair. Canadian gold medallist […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada will have two junior synchronized skating teams competing at the 2019 ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, from March 15-16, 2019. Nexxice junior and Les Suprêmes junior will represent Canada at the event. Neuchâtel will host 23 of the top junior synchronized skating teams from 18 countries. Canadian junior […]
ZAGREB, Croatia – Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha won the gold medal in ice dancing on Saturday at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Lajoie and Lagha, in their fourth appearance at the world juniors, scored an international personal best of 176.10 placing first in both the rhythm dance on Thursday and the […]
OTTAWA, ON – Eric Radford may have retired from competitive figure skating last year, but the two-time world champion and three-time Olympic medallist wants to remain an integral part of the sport he is so passionate about. Radford, who is also a seven-time Canadian pair champion, will bid for a spot on the International Skating […]
ZAGREB, Croatia – Toronto’s Stephen Gogolev recovered from a painful fall in his men’s free skate Friday and soared from 10th to fifth overall in his debut at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Tomoki Hiwatashi of the U.S. won the gold medal with 230.32 points, Roman Savosin of Russia was second at 229.28 […]
ZAGREB, Croatia – Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha are in first place after Thursday’s rhythm dance at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Lajoie and Lagha, fourth last year, earned 70.14 points for their tango to place ahead of three Russian couples. Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva and Nikita Nazarov are second at 68.69 and Sofia […]
ZAGREB, Croatia – Less than six points separate the top-10, which includes Canadians Joseph Phan and Stephen Gogolev, after the men’s short program which kicked-off the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships on Wednesday. The Americans are 1-2 with Camden Pulkinen first at 82.41 and Tomoki Hiwatashi second at 81.50. Daniel Grassl of Italy is […]
Written by Paul Dore Skating is in my blood. Exactly thirty years ago, I laced up my first pair of skates. On that day, I fell and hit my head, resulting in a goose egg-sized bump above my left eye (wearing helmets was not yet enforced the way it is nowadays). I didn’t really feel […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada has seven entries, for a total of 11 skaters competing at the 2019 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, taking place in Zagreb, Croatia, from March 4-10, 2019. Canada will have two entries per discipline in men, pair and ice dance, one entry in women. Competition begins Wednesday, March 6 with […]
OTTAWA, ON: Lubov Ilyushechkina, 27, Toronto, Ont., and Charlie Bilodeau, 25, Trois-Pistoles, Que., have formed a new skating partnership and will compete for Canada in the pairs discipline. Both skaters have previously been on the Canadian national team and have competed internationally with different partners. “I’m looking forward to our partnership with a lot of […]
RED DEER, Alberta – So long, Red Deer. With a standing-room only crowd on hand for most of the day as the figure skating competition came to a close at the Canada Winter Games Thursday, one thing seems certain: the future of Canadian skating is in good hands. It was the daily double for Team […]