Entries by Skate Canada

Pettitt Makes Leap to Junior With Hopes of Continuing Gold Rush

Whitehorse, Yukon is known as the least polluted city in the world, and also the driest in Canada. It was the birthplace of Pierre Berton, federal NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin, and Yukon bard Robert Service. It is also the home of Rachel Pettitt, the first Yukon born athlete to win a national skating title. She […]

Canada’s Roman Sadovsky wins gold at ISU Junior Grand Prix

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Roman Sadovsky of Vaughn, Ont. won the gold medal in men’s competition on Saturday to conclude the season-opening stop on the ISU figure skating circuit. The 16-year-old Sadovsky totalled 203.72 points for his second career victory on the circuit. His jump filled long program featured a quadruple Salchow which he landed successfully […]

Canada’s Roman Sadovsky leads after short program at ISU Junior Grand Prix opener

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., is in first place after the men’s short program Friday at the season opening competition on the ISU Junior Grand Prix figure skating circuit. The 16-year-old Sadovsky delivered a clean program that featured his amazing flexibility. He landed his four jumps including a triple-triple combo and produced […]

Skate Canada Goes Shopping and Secures New Merchandise Partner

Ottawa, ON: After nearly a decade working together, Skate Canada announced today that it has signed Gadar Promotions as their Official Online and Event Merchandise Retailer. Through it’s skating programs and events, Skate Canada produces a wide range of apparel, collectables, and development resources each year that were previously administered by Skate Canada. Gadar’s newly […]

Celestino ready for the World Scene

When Daniel Beland was 16 years old, he blazed a significant trail on the world scene. Back then, in 1977, he was the first Canadian man to win a world junior championship title. There have been three others since: Dennis Coi in 1978, Andrei Rogozine in 2009, and Nam Nguyen in 2014. In taking that event, […]

Baldé finds his roots in West African Guinea

On a blistering, hot February day in Africa, Elladj Balde looked into the eyes of his 99-year-old grandfather for the first time and discovered who he really was. Balde, 24, had never set eyes on his grandfather, Elhadj Mamadou Oury Balde, who is an imam in Tombon, a tiny village in the mountains of Guinea […]

Skate Canada Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer

OTTAWA, ON: Skate Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Davidson as Chief Marketing Officer effective July 8th. She will work from and oversee the management of Skate Canada’s Toronto office. With over 18 years of sport and event marketing experience, Davidson has had one of the most dynamic careers in the industry.  […]

Stojko Returns to Canada Healed and Ready to Help

Elvis Stojko is back. Mexico is in his rear-view mirror and so are the tangerine and papaya trees of Ajijic, where he lived for 12 years. He’s come home to Canada a happy man, married to Gladys Orozco for five years, and a career that now takes him in multiple directions: skating, race car driving, […]

Skate Canada CEO Dan Thompson giving back during Pan Am Games

Skate Canada CEO Dan Thompson is giving back to a sport – and a community – that has given him so much. With the 2015 Pan Am Games currently in full swing in Toronto and the surrounding GTA, Thompson, a former Olympic swimmer himself, is volunteering at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatic Centre, the […]

Skating Community Celebrates Toller’s On-ice and Off-ice Artistry

Toller Cranston, skating champion, artist, bon vivant, and force of nature, would have been positively bursting at the sight of it: a posh party honouring him. Surrounded by old friends, chocolates, and best of all: at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a place he was never able to professionally penetrate in his life. But finally […]