Entries by Skate Canada

Canadian ice dancers headed to France for Cup of Nice

OTTAWA, ON: Ice dancers Carolane Soucisse and Simon Tanguay will represent Canada at the 20th annual Cup of Nice, a senior international competition. The event runs from October 14-18, 2015 at the Patinoire Jean Bouin in Nice, France. Carolane Soucisse, 20, Chateauguay, Que., and Simon Tanguay, 22, Montreal, Que., will be the sole Canadian entry […]

Another productive weekend for Canadian figure skaters in Europe

OTTAWA, ON – Canadian figure skaters collected gold and silver this past weekend at European stops on the ISU Challenger Series and ISU Junior Grand Prix. In Espoo, Finland at the third stop on the Challenger series, ice dancers Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., picked-up where they left off last season with […]

Ninth place finishes for Canadians at ISU Junior Grand Prix

ZAGREB, Croatia – Kim Decelles of Baie-Comeau Que., finished ninth in women’s singles while ice dancers Audrey Croteau-Villeneuve of Montreal and Jeff Hough of Russell, Ont., produced the same result at the seventh stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit. In women’s competition, Japan was 1-2 with Marin Honda and Wakaba Higuchi […]

Weaver and Poje dance to gold at Challenger Series

ESPOO, Finland – Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., opened their international season on Saturday with a gold medal performance at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition, the fourth stop on the ISU Challenger Series circuit. Weaver and Poje, who won five gold medals last season in international competition, totalled 161.67 points placing […]

Canada’s Nicolas Nadeau wins silver at ISU Junior Grand Prix

ZAGREB, Croatia – Canadian junior champion Nicolas Nadeau of Boisbriand, Que., won the silver medal in a very close men’s competition on Friday at the seventh stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit. Alexander Samarin of Russia was the winner with 223.84 points edging the 18-year-old Nadeau who totalled 223.46. Tomoki Hiwatashi […]

Gilles and Poirier complete golden comeback at Challenger Series

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Toronto won the gold medal Saturday in ice dancing at the 23rd Ondrej Nepela Trophy figure skating competition, the third stop on the ISU Challenger Series circuit. Gilles and Poirier, third after Friday’s short dance, were the last skaters to perform and shot to the top of […]

Canadians stay put at ISU Junior Grand Prix

LOGRONO, Spain – Canada’s two ice dancing entries at the sixth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit placed sixth and seventh on Saturday. Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac of France won the gold medal with Betina Popova and Yuri Vlasenko of Russia second and Elliana Pogrebinsky and Alex Benoit of […]

Canadian ice dancers need to play catch-up at ISU Junior Grand Prix

LOGRONO, Spain – Canada’s two ice dance entries at the sixth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit are in sixth and seventh place after the short dance on Friday. Mackenzie Bent of Uxbridge, Ont., and Dmitre Razgulajevs of Ajax, Ont., silver medallists earlier this season, are in sixth place with 55.76 […]

Canadian pair takes fourth spot at ISU Challenger Series event

BRATISLAVA,  Slovakia– Canadians Lubov Ilyushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto placed fourth in pairs on Friday at the Ondrej Nepela figure skating competition, the third stop on the ISU Challenger Series. Russia swept the medals with Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov winning gold at 190.28, Kristina Astakhova and Alexei Rogonov silver at 185.00 and Evgenia […]

Skate Canada sends six skaters to Ondrej Nepela Trophy

OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada will have four entries, for a total of six skaters at the 23rd annual Ondrej Nepela Trophy, the third event on the 2015 ISU Challenger Series. Canada will have one entry in each discipline (men’s, ladies, pair, ice dance) at the competition which runs from September 30 – October 4, 2015 […]