Welcome to the Skate Canada Alumni blog! Looking back over our skating careers, it has been an honour to represent Canada on the international stage. Now as members of the Alumni Committee, we feel privileged to be giving back. Serving on the 2017-2018 Alumni Committee are Denise Benning, Ann Shaw, Nicholas Young, Barry Soper, Emery […]
GRENOBLE, France – Kaetlyn Osmond admitted she wasn’t overly thrilled with her performance but regardless she is in first place in women’s competition after Friday’s short program at the Internationaux de France figure skating competition. It is the fifth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. Osmond, the 21-year-old from Marystown, N.L., earned 69.05 points […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will have four entries, for a total of six skaters, competing at the 2017 Warsaw Cup in Warsaw, Poland, from November 16-19, 2017. Canada will have one entry per discipline in men and ladies, and two entries in ice dance at the eighth event on the 2017 ISU Challenger Series. Liam […]
OSHAWA, ON: Tickets for the 2018 Skate Canada Synchronized Skating Championships will go on sale on November 14, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The championships will take place from February 23-25, 2018 at the Tribute Communities Centre in Oshawa, Ont. TICKETS All Event tickets are priced at $60 and single tickets for Friday, Saturday and […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will have three entries, for a total of five skaters, competing at the fifth stop on the 2017 ISU Grand Prix series, the Internationaux de France. The event will take place from November 17-19, 2017, in Grenoble, France. Canada will have one entry per discipline in ladies, pairs and ice dance. […]
OSAKA, Japan – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won the gold medal in ice dancing Sunday at the NHK Trophy figure skating competition – the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. The Canadian couple earned 198.64 points for the gold with Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the U.S. second at 188.35 and […]
OSAKA, Japan – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir came within two points of their world record score in the short dance on Saturday to grab an early lead at the NHK Trophy figure skating competition- the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. The Canadian couple gave another stirring performance of their routine to […]
OSAKA, Japan – Keegan Messing of Sherwood Park, Alta., and the pairs combo of Julianne Séguin of Longueuil, Que., and Charlie Bilodeau of Trois-Pistoles, Que., stand fifth after Friday’s short programs at the NHK Trophy figure skating competition – the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. In men’s competition, Sergei Voronov of Russia […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will have five entries, for a total of seven skaters competing at the 2017 NHK Trophy, the fourth event on the 2017 ISU Grand Prix circuit. Canada will have one entry per discipline in ladies, pairs and ice dance, and two entries in the men’s discipline. The event takes place from […]
Vancouver, BC: Single Session Tickets for the 2018 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships will go on sale on Wednesday, November 8 at 10 a.m. PST. The event will take place in Vancouver, B.C., at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre from January 8-14, 2018. The 2018 event will serve as a qualification event for the […]
BEIJING – Canada’s Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro produced a personal best free skate to win the bronze medal on Saturday in pairs to conclude the Cup of China figure skating competition – the third stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit. It was a 1-2 Chinese finish. World champions Wenjing Sui and Cong Han […]
OTTAWA, ON: Three-time World Champion Patrick Chan, 26, Toronto, Ont., has withdrawn from the NHK Trophy, the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Chan finished fourth at Skate Canada International last week and has decided to focus on his training leading into the national championships in January. Chan is a nine-time […]