2024 Canadian National Skating Championships - Calgary, AB - 8-14 January

[Elizabeth]

The Skate Canada press release: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/01/skaters- ... n-calgary/

Skaters on the Hunt for Canadian Championship Titles at The 2024 Canadian National Skating Championships in Calgary
January 2, 2024/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (January 2, 2024) – The figure skating elite from across Canada are set to converge on the WinSport Arena at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alta. for the 2024 Canadian National Skating Championships from January 8-14, 2024. Over 300 skaters in the men, women, pair, ice dance, and synchronized skating disciplines across the junior and senior levels will look to shine as they compete for the title of 2024 Canadian champion.

With the retirement of last year’s men’s champion Keegan Messing, the men’s title will be up for grabs with several skaters in the mix including 2023 silver medallist Conrad Orzel, 2023 Autumn Classic International bronze medalist Stephen Gogolev, 2022 Olympian Roman Sadovsky, and 2023 Cranberry Cup International silver medallist Wesley Chiu.

Madeline Schizas will be looking to claim her third consecutive women’s title, with 2023 Autumn Classic International silver medallist Kaiya Ruiter hot on her heels.

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, the reigning pair champions, will be coming off a dominating Grand Prix season that saw them capture a bronze medal at the Grand Prix Final. The new team of Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud will also be looking to step on the podium after a successful Grand Prix season that saw the pair win the 2023 Grand Prix de France.

Last year’s ice dance champions Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen will have a fight on their hands with the return of two-time national champions and 2023 Grand Prix Final bronze medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier after the duo missed last year’s event due to illness. Two-time 2023 Grand Prix silver medalists Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha will also be on the watch list after the duo set a new personal best score at the Cup of China.

In synchronized skating, the battle will be fierce between Nexxice who will be looking to defend their 2023 title, and the two-time reigning World Champions, Les Suprêmes.

In addition to competing for medals, skaters will be vying for spots on the Skate Canada National Team and the Canadian teams that will compete at the 2024 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the 2024 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, the 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships being hosted in Montreal, Que., the 2024 ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships, and the 2024 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships.

Single-session tickets for the 2024 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships are currently on sale and begin at $35 (plus applicable fees). Tickets can be purchased at ticketmaster.ca.

For more information including the schedule, entries and start orders, click here: https://skatecanada.ca/2024-canadian-na ... pionships/

[Elizabeth]

The schedule: https://skatecanada.ca/2024-canadian-na ... /#schedule

Download the detailed schedule: https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploa ... -Dec-8.pdf

The start orders/results link: https://skatecanada.ca/2024-canadian-na ... nd-results

[Elizabeth]

The Senior SP Starting Orders:

[Elizabeth]

There has been a withdrawal from the Sr. Pairs at Canadians



Apparently Brooke has a lingering foot injury that has kept her off the ice for the past weeks. McIntosh and Mimar were sixth at Skate Canada and seventh in Finland in their two Grand Prix assignments in the fall.

[Elizabeth]

In addition to the live stream via Skate Canada's DailyMotion, there will be live streaming on CBC Sports and on CBC Gem. There will be no TV coverage.

From: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/streaming-sch ... %20Skating [All times are shown in ET as that is the zone I'm in ]
Tuesday - CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295950915987
Tue Jan 09 - 2:00 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Men's Short
Tue Jan 09 - 4:45 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Pairs Short
Tue Jan 09 - 6:40 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Women's Short
Tue Jan 09 - 9:25 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Rhythm Short

Wednesday CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295950915992
Wed Jan 10 - 11:45 a.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Men's Free
Wed Jan 10 - 2:50 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Synchronised Short
Wed Jan 10 - 4:25 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Pairs Free
Wed Jan 10 - 6:35 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Women's Free
Wed Jan 10 - 10:00 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Dance Free

Thursday CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295950403969
Thu Jan 11 - 7:00 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Jr. Synchronised Free
Thu Jan 11 - 8:45 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Synchronised Short

Friday CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295957059605
Fri Jan 12 - 12:40 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Women's Short
Fri Jan 12 - 3:25 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Rhythm Dance
Fri Jan 12 - 6:15 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Pairs Short
Fri Jan 12 - 8:15 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Synchronised Free
Fri Jan 12 - 9:05 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Men's Short

Satirday CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295956547527
Sat Jan 13 - 12:00 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Women's Free
Sat Jan 13 - 3:15 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Free Dance
Sat Jan 13 - 6:25 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Pairs Free
Sat Jan 13 - 8:40 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships: Sr. Men's Free

Sunday CBC Player link: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295952963790
Sun Jan 14 - 4:00 p.m. - 2024 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships - Gala



The CBC Gem daily links:
TUESDAY JANUARY 9 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37962

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37963

THURSDAY JANUARY 11 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37964

FRIDAY JANUARY 12 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37969

SATURDAY JANUARY 13 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37970

SUNDAY JANUARY 14 - https://gem.cbc.ca/live-event/37971

[Elizabeth]

Fingers crossed for Roman Sadovsky and his skates to arrive safely in Calgary and for his first full competition of this season to go well!

You may remember that he was out with injury in the early part of the season - he was scheduled to compete in a late season event in Poland and at the Golden Spin but had to withdraw from both due to travel and luggage issues.

Bev Smith has written about his season so far: https://bevsmithwrites.com/roman-sadovs ... -stuff-up/

Roman has also posted a YouTube video about the luggage issues related to the Polish competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLc_1xa4y4

[Elizabeth]

Piper and Paul looking forward to return to Canadians after missing last year due to her cancer surgery: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/wint ... -1.7075043

[Elizabeth]

While waiting for the competition to begin tomorrow, you might want to read SkateGuard blog's post about the 1945 Canadian championships in Toronto and the first time Canadians were held in a public arena: https://skateguard1.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... ating.html

[kittykins]

Thanks so much for all the information Elizabeth. I am looking forward to watching! Canadian Nationals has always been my favourite event of the year. It's so great we get to watch the Junior events through live streaming as well.

[Elizabeth]

This is a surprise and a disappointment

[Elizabeth]

The official program can be downloaded here: https://t.co/5HO8V6Copi

[happyheini]

The last two entries in the starting order are indeed surprising and disappointing. I am sure we will hear more over the next few days/weeks.

[Elizabeth]

And Day 1 of competition begins

[Elizabeth]

In Senior Ice Dance we now have a 2nd withdrawal - Laurence Fournier-Beaudry & Nikolaj Soerensen have each posted on their Instagram accounts that they have withdrawn from the competition, mentioning that they do not want to do so but do not wish to be a distraction to the other competitors.

Laurence's post


No update, so far, on the reason for the withdrawal of Lajoie & Lagha.

[Elizabeth]

In the Junior Championships, after the Men SP the top 3 are:
1 - John Kim (ON)

2 - David Bondar (ON)
3 - David Shteyngart (ON)

The scores are all very close and the FS will be interesting
1 John Kim 67.79​
2 David Bondar 67.45​
3 David Shteyngart 65.65​
4 Terry Yu Tao Jin 65.22​
5 William Chan 64.74​
6 David Li 61.72​
7 David Howes 60.08​
8 Grayson Long 56.59​
9 Neo Tran 56.26​
10 Vladimir Furman 51.05​
11 Brennan Webb 48.46​
12 Liam Schmidt 48.41​
13 Julien Lévesque 47.85​
14 Jake Ellis 47.62​
15 Étienne Lacasse 44.65​
16 Jacob Cote 43.53​
17 Christopher Manis 42.25​
18 Herman Lau 35.56​


The replay link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rb7jr
Commentary by Ted Barton & Kaetlyn Weaver.

[Elizabeth]

The top 3 after the Jr Pairs SP
1 - Ava Kemp & Yohnatan Elizarov

2 - Jazmine Desrochers & Kieran Thrasher
3 - Martina Ariano-Kent & Charly Laliberté-Laurent

The overall results:
1 Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov ON 60.45
2 Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher ON 51.54
3 Martina Ariano-Kent / Charly Laliberté-Laurent QC 49.74
4 Julia Quattrocchi / Simon Desmarais QC 46.77
5 Noémie Rolland / Étienne Lacasse QC 46.67
6 Beau Callahan / Christophe Roch QC 45.83
7 Annika Behnke / Kole Sauve AB/NT/NU 44.09
8 Megan Yudin / Aidan Wright ON 40.90
9 Natalia Custodio / Christopher Hammer AB/NT/NU 31.39

The video reply: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rbe6s
There was a problem with the English feed and commentary so this may be the French one.

[Elizabeth]

​The top 3 Jr Women after the SP
1 - Megan Woodley

2 - Aleksa Volkova
3 - Lulu Lin

Final SP standings for the Jr Women:
1 Megan Woodley ON 59.15
2 Aleksa Volkova QC 57.13
3 LuluLin ON 56.58
4 Reese Rose ON 52.41
5 Stvrina Aranitis QC 50.43
6 Lucille Yang ON 49.03
7 Mégane Vallières QC 48.74
8 Mely-Ann Gagner QC 48.34
9 Kara Yun BC/YK 47.15
10 Michelle Lee ON 47.05
11 Gabrielle Jugnauth BC/YK 44.95
12 Valeria Veprjitska ON 44.36
13 Kassidy Sinclair AB/NT/NU 42.10
14 Ashley Dinh ON 41.70
15 Natasha Hewitt ON 41.01
15 Emily Sales BC 40.79
17 Alessia Taddeo QC 40.70
18 Calissa Adlem BC/YK 39.32

[Elizabeth]

Top 3 after the Jr Rhythm Dance
1 - Chloe Nguyen & Brendan Giang

2 - Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys
3 - Jamie Fournier & Everest Zhu

Complete Results of the Jr Rhythm Dance
1 Nguyen/Giang BC/YK 67-06
2 Veillon/Brandys ON 64.41
3 Fournier/Zhu QC 58.67
4 Korneva/MacDonald ON 57.97
5 Martel/Oddson AB/NT/NU 57.95
6 Sabatini-Speciale/Buelow ON 55.27
7 Gover/Wilson-French ON 53.50
8 Bolender/Dotzert ON 50.90
9 Cinçon-Debout/Celestino QC 50.70
10 Gans/Boutsan QC 50.46
11 Pehl/Yu AB/NT/NU 49.44
12 Kravets/Stark ON 49.30
13 Carandiuc/Carandiuc QC 47.37
14 Chung/MacKenzie ON 45.33
15 Mentha/Deveau QC 42.03

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada recap of Day 1: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/01/junior-s ... pionships/

Day 2 overview

[Elizabeth]

The first event of the day - Jr. Men FS produced lots of changes of position.

The top 3:
Terry Yu Tao Jin

David Li
David Shteyngart

The overall results showing SP, FS scores (& placements) & overall scores from: https://cssterminalserv.skatecanada.ca/ ... rMenCR.pdf
1 Terry Yu Tao Jin ON - 65.22 (4) - 119.98 (1) - 185.20
2 David Li BC/YK - 61.72 (6) - 117.73 (2) - 179.45
3 David Shteyngart ON - 65.65 (3) - 109.75 (5) - 175.40
4 David Howes MB - 60.08 (7) - 114.03 (3) - 174.11
5 William Chan BC/YK - 64.74 (5) - 109.05 (6) - 173.79
6 John Kim ON - 67.79 (1) - 104.73 (8) - 172.52
7 Grayson Long ON - 56.59 (8) - 111.99 (4) - 168.58
8 David Bondar ON - 67.45 (2) - 100.98 (9) - 168.43
9 Jake Ellis ON - 47.62 (14) - 104.80 (7) - 152.42
10 Neo Tran BC/YK - 56.26 (9) - 83.23 (12) - 139.49
11 Vladimir Furman QC - 51.05 (10) - 87.92 (10) - 138.97
12 Étienne Lacasse QC - 44.65 (15) - 86.08 (11) - 130.73
13 Liam Schmidt QC - 48.41 (12) - 79.34 (13) - 127.75
14 Julien Lévesque QC - 47.85 (13) - 76.06 (16) - 123.91
15 Jacob Cote NS - 43.53 (16) - 77.23 (14) - 120.76
16 Christopher Manis BC/YK - 42.25 (17) - 77.08 (15) - 119.33
17 Brennan Webb NB - 48.46 (11) - 64.37 (17) - 112.83
18 Herman Lau ON 35.56 (18) 35.56

Podium photo

The 2nd event of the day - the Jr Synchro SP - the top 3
1 - Les Suprêmes

2 - NEXXICE
3 - Nova

[Elizabeth]

The Jr. Pairs Free Skate has been completed.

The overall results showed much less movement than the Jr. Men with just one change of position:

1 Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov ON - 60.45 (1) 60.45 - 105.05 (1) - 165.5
2 Martina Ariano-Kent / Charly Laliberté-Laurent QC - 49.74 (3) - 99.70 (2) - 149.44
3 Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher ON - 51.54 (2) - 97.70 (3) - 149.24
4 Julia Quattrocchi / Simon Desmarais QC - 46.77 (4) - 81.13 (4) - 127.90
5 Noémie Rolland / Étienne Lacasse QC - 46.67 (5) - 79.91 (5) - 126.58
6 Beau Callahan / Christophe Roch QC - 45.83 (6) - 79.30 (6) - 125.13
7 Annika Behnke / Kole Sauve AB/NT/NU - 44.09 (7) - 72.57 (7) - 116.66
8 Megan Yudin / Aidan Wright ON - 40.90 (8) - 62.27 (8) - 103.17
9 Natalia Custodio / Christopher Hammer AB/NT/NU - 31.39 (9) - 63.35 (7) - 94.74


After that event was completed, medals were awarded to the Jr. Pairs and the Jr. Men.

Podium photo for the Pairs
Ava Kemp & Yohnatan Elizarov
Martina Ariano Kent & Charly Laliberté-Laurent
Jazmine Desrochers & Kieran Thrasher

Men's podium photo added to the previous post

[Elizabeth]

The top 3 after the Jr Women Free Skate
Lulu Lin 166.74

Aleksa Volkova 158.00
Mély-Ann Gagner 147.87

The remainder of the field:
4. Reese Rose 147.87 [although she tied the score of the bronze medalist, she had a lower free skate score]
5. Stavrina Aranitis 147.69
6. Megan Woodley 145.51
7. Lucille Yang 140.05
8. Michelle Lee 139.01
9. Kara Yun 129.61
10. Mégane Vallières 128.70
11. Gabrielle Jugnauth 122.61
12. Valeria Veprjitska 121.09
13. Calissa Adlem 120.96
14. Natasha Hewitt 120.30
15. Ashley Dinh 118.32
16. Kassidy Sinclair 116.07
17. Alessia Taddeo 114.45
18. Emily Sales 107.86

Podium photo

[Elizabeth]

The last event of a busy Wednesday was the Junior Free Dance.

The top 3:
Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys
Chloe Nguyen & Brendan Giang
Alisa Korneva & Kieran MacDonald

Overall Jr Dance results
1 Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys ON 64.41 (2) 96.39 (1) 160.80
2 Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang BC/YK 67.06 (1) 87.19 (3) 154.25
3 Alisa Korneva / Kieran MacDonald ON 57.97 (4) 89.03 (2) 147.00
4 Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu QC 58.67 (3) 84.96 (4) 143.63
5 Savanna Martel / William Oddson AB/NT/NU 57.95 (5) 83.74 (5) 141.69
6 Dana Sabatini-Speciale / Nicholas Buelow ON 55.27 (6) 83.52 (6) 138.79
7 Sophia Gover / Billy Wilson-French ON 53.50 (7) 75.82 (8) 129.32
8 Auréa Cinçon-Debout / Earl Jesse Celestino QC 50.70 (9) 76.73 (7) 127.43
9 Nicole Bolender / Aiden Dotzert ON 50.90 (8) 74.68 (9) 125.58
10 Audra Gans / Michael Boutsan QC 50.46 (10) 74.16 (10) 124.62
11 Addison Pehl / Daniel Yu AB/NT/NU 49.44 (11) 73.09 (11) 122.53
12 Caroline Kravets / Jacob Stark ON 49.30 (12) 68.99 (12) 118.29
13 Victoria Carandiuc / Andrei Carandiuc QC 47.27 (13) 62.86 (13) 110.13
14 Charlotte Chung / Axel MacKenzie ON 45.33 (14) 60.97 (15) 106.30
15 Chloé Mentha / Émile Deveau QC 42.03 (15) 62.54 (14) 104.57

Podium photo:

[Elizabeth]

UPDATE on The Lajoie/Lagha withdrawal - according to Rob Brodie's latest Substack post: https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/c ... nthPub=471

The official word is that Lajoie is currently in Skate Canada’s concussion protocol and cannot compete here.

Rob also reports that it's cold in the rink

[Elizabeth]

Just in case any one was worried, after all his travel woes...

From Skate Canada on X (formerly Twitter):

He made it! @_romansadovsky is in the house!