The new year began with a bang, as we hosted the 2025 Canadian National Skating Championships in Laval, Quebec, where top athletes from all disciplines performed in front of the sold-out Place Bell crowd.  

Here are some of our top moments from the competition. 

1. Alberta’s Lia Cho showed us that a lot can change in one year, as she went from volunteering as an ice patcher at last year’s event in Calgary to earning the junior women’s title this year in Laval. Competing at her first national championships, Cho wowed the crowd by also setting a new Canadian junior women’s record.

2. Layla Veillon represented Ontario in both the junior ice dance and junior synchro competitions, where she landed in the top four in both disciplines. 

3. World Champion Deanna Stellato-Dudek (Quebec) made fans proud as she competed at her first national championships as a Canadian citizen – and took home the gold medal alongside partner Maxime Deschamps to top it off!

4. After battling injury during the first half of the season, Ontario’s Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov made a spectacular return to competition with back-to-back wins at Skate Canada Challenge and the National Championships. 

5. Madeline Schizas (Ontario) debuted a beautiful new free program at Place Bell where she reclaimed the women’s national title and set a new Canadian senior women’s record in the process. 

6. Quebec’s Sara-Maude Dupuis and Ontario’s Katherine Medland Spence brought home their first national medals, earning silver and bronze in the senior women’s competition respectively.  

7. Ice dance veterans Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier (Ontario) celebrated Gilles’ birthday in style by earning their fourth national title in front of a sold-out crowd. 

8. The senior men’s competition had crowds on the edge of their seats, with Ontario’s Roman Sadovsky claiming his second national title and Quebec’s Anthony Paradis earning the silver medal with a personal best performance.  

9. Reigning world synchro champions Les Suprêmes Senior and Les Suprêmes Junior (Quebec) performed in front of an electric home crowd, who cheered them both onto gold medal performances. Les Suprêmes Junior added to the excitement by breaking the Canadian junior synchro record.

10. The final day of competition featured an emotional ceremony, inducting Olympic bronze medallist Joannie Rochette and her longtime coach and friend, Manon Perron into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame.

Thanks for tuning in for another fantastic year of the Canadian National Skating Championships. We can’t wait to see what our athletes will achieve at next year’s event.