KINGSTON, ONTARIO – The effects of the post-Olympic season showed up at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships: name skaters taking a year off, team splits, new pairings, new tricks, and new faces emerging. Most of all, said Michael Slipchuk, high performance director at Skate Canada, new and young faces aplenty stepped up to the […]
KINGSTON, ON – At the conclusion of the highly successful 2015 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships Skate Canada named the teams for three upcoming ISU Championships. ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships – Seoul, Korea – February 9 – 15, 2015 Men Nam Nguyen, 16, Toronto, Ont. Jeremy Ten, 25, Vancouver, B.C. Liam Firus, 22, […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – Andrew Poje started this podium selfie thing, and now others are doing it, too. On Saturday night, he took his favourite selfie: he and his partner Kaitlyn Weaver on top of the podium at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. After so many years of seconds and thirds and ups and downs […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – Gabby Daleman has mixed emotions when she finished her long program at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships on Saturday. She had made some mistakes, had a fall, was chugging on after her sixth bout of strep throat this season, and she didn’t know if she had done enough. She did, by […]
SALZBURG, Austria – Les Supremes from St-Léonard, Que., won the gold medal in senior competition and Les Pirouettes from Laval, Que., added a bronze in the junior event on Saturday at the Mozart Cup synchronized figure skating competition. In the senior event, Les Supremes held on to top spot despite ranking second in Saturday’s free […]
Skate Canada and the entire skating family are saddened to hear of the passing of six-time Canadian champion and Olympic bronze medallist Toller Cranston. Cranston passed away at 65 years of age in San Miguel, Mexico where he had lived for many years. Referred to by some as a modern pioneer of artistic skating and […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – No surprise here: Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the pair short program at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships with a wide margin – 14.35 points – something they are not used to. Their winning score of 79.50 was a Canadian record. “This relaxed feeling has allowed us to spread our […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – Nam Nguyen began to felt the pressure this year, the chatter that he could win this national title. Last week, while training, he had a bit of a meltdown. Coach Brian Orser took him aside, and told him he he’d been there in 1981, when Brian Pockar had been three-time Canadian champion […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – It was a fight, every step. But Selena Zhao “is a tough gal,” said coach Christy Krall, after Zhao, in her first appearance at a Canadian championship, won the junior women’s title in a landslide. The 16-year-old skater, born in Seattle, but now representing Canada this year, won the free skate last […]
Welcome to the Skate Canada Hall of Fame Lori Nichol’s skating career began on a backyard rink hanging on to the end of her Dad’s hockey stick while her Mom glided by in a beautiful arabesque. That was London, Ontario. Lori was four years old. After her Dad was transferred to the United States it […]
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje say they’ve been working nine years for this moment: to win the Canadian title at the 101st Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships. They remember their first meeting, when they agreed to a cross-border tryout in 2006. It was July, late in a season to be finding […]
OTTAWA, ON: Canada will have two teams competing at the fifth annual Mozart Cup in Salzburg, Austria. The international synchronized skating competition takes place from January 23-25, 2015, and features 42 teams from 15 countries, in senior, junior, and novice. Canada will have entries in the senior and junior categories. Les Suprêmes, the 2014 Canadian […]