BORDEAUX, France – Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier neared their personal best score for the short dance on Friday to stand second at the fifth stop on the ISU Grand Prix figure skating circuit. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France lead the field with 64.06 points just ahead of the Canadians at 61.90. […]
OTTAWA, ON: Seven Canadians skaters are preparing to head to Bordeaux, France for the 2014 Trophée Eric Bompard competition this week from November 21-23, 2014. Canada will send one entry in ladies and pair and two in ice dance. Trophée Eric Bompard is the fifth of six competitions on the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand […]
OTTAWA, ON: A newly formed pair team will represent Canada at the Warsaw Cup this week. Lubov Iliushechkina, 23, Moscow, Russia and Dylan Moscovitch, 30, Toronto, Ontario will make their international debut at the Torwar Ice Rink in Warsaw, Poland. The competition, which runs November 20-23, is part of the International Skating Union’s (ISU) Challenger […]
MOSCOW – Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., took a giant step in her career on Saturday as she won the bronze medal in women’s competition to conclude the Rostelecom Cup, the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix figure skating circuit. World junior champion Rika Hongo of Japan earned the gold medal with 178.00 points […]
MOSCOW – Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., is in first place after the women’s short program at the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit in figure skating. Chartrand produced 61.18 points as she put herself in position to win a first international medal. Her program included a double Axel which was quickly followed […]
OTTAWA, ON: All-event tickets for the 2015 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships® will go on sale Wednesday, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. (ET). The event, which draws the best teams of skaters from around the world, will take place at the FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario from April 10-11, 2015. “This is like no other […]
OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will send one entry in men’s and one entry in ladies to Moscow, Russia, for the fourth stop on the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The Rostelecom Cup will take place from November 14-16, 2014, at the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena. Jeremy Ten, 25, Vancouver, B.C., will be the Canadian […]
OTTAWA, ON: After a remarkable season, eight Canadian figure skating coaches received the 2014 Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Award over the weekend. The awards were presented Friday, November 7th by the Coaching Association of Canada at the annual Sport Leadership Awards ceremony, during the Petro-Canada Sport Leadership conference in Ottawa, Ont. The Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards […]
SHANGHAI – Canadians are in the medal hunt in all four events after Friday’s short programs at the Cup of China figure skating competition, the third stop on the ISU figure skating circuit. In women’s competition, Olympian Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket stands fourth after the short with 58.49 points just behind Kanako Murakami of Japan […]
SHANGHAI – Toronto’s Nam Nguyen took fourth spot in men’s competition on Saturday in a memorable night at the Cup of China, the third stop on the ISU Grand Prix circuit in figure skating. Maxim Kovtun of Russia won the gold medal with 243.34 points, Olympic and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan, who fell […]
OTTAWA, ON: All-event tickets for the 2015 Skate Canada International are on sale now. Next year’s event takes place in Lethbridge, Alberta at the ENMAX Centre from October 30 – November 1, 2015. “Coming off the excitement of last weekend’s Skate Canada International in Kelowna where Canadian skaters captured two gold and one silver, we […]
Just when you thought pair skating (alas, everywhere) was down at the heels, tattered and torn and riddled with defections, along has come a little herd of intrepid risk-takers. Like Natasha Purich and Drew Wolfe. They – and other new and relatively new faces – are going to make the pair event at the Canadian […]