ISU CS Event #5 - Denis Ten Memorial - October 3-6, 2024 - Astana, KAZ

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The entries are now posted: https://t.co/oEwPBrwl2O
There are no Pairs competing.

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September 13th updates:
Marilena Kitromilis has withdrawn from Denis Ten Memorial

Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer replace Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen (who are competing at Shanghai Trophy, a non CS event, instead)

September 25th updates:
Oleg Melnikov, Linnea Ceder, Holly Harris / Jason Chan, and Anastasia Polibina / Pavel Golovishnikov have withdrawn from Denis Ten Memorial Challenge

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Skate Canada press release about skaters going to upcoming CS events Denis Ten Memorial, Budapest Trophy & Trophy Metropole: https://skatecanada.ca/2024/10/canadian ... es-events/

Canadian Skaters to Compete for the Podium at October Challenger Series Events
October 1, 2024/by Skate Canada

OTTAWA, ON (October 1, 2024) – The ISU Challenger Series continues this October with three more events and more opportunities for Canadian figure skaters to perfect their routines while competing for podium positions as they embark on their 2024-2025 season.

The month kicks off with the Denis Ten Memorial taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from October 2-5 and will feature national team members Aleksa Rakic and Kaiya Ruiter competing in their first event of the season. Ruiter is the reigning Canadian senior women’s champion while Rakic was the runner-up in the men’s competition at the Canadian Championships in 2024. Ruiter will be joined by Uliana Shiryaeva in the women’s discipline, while Lily Hensen and Nathan Lickers and Alicia Fabbri and Paul Ayer will compete in ice dance.

The Budapest Trophy runs from October 11-13 in Budapest, Hungary and will see Madeline Schizas looking to improve on her seventh-place finish at the Nebelhorn Trophy that took place in September.

The month will wrap-up with the Trophy Metropole taking place in Nice, France from October 16-20 where Canada will send both junior and senior skaters. In the senior competition, Breken Brezden and Fée Ann Landry will compete in the women’s event, while Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont, bronze medallists at the 2023 ISU World Junior Championships, will compete in ice dance.

The junior competition will see Reese Rose and Aleksa Volkova compete in the women’s event and Parker Heiderich compete in the men’s discipline.

The Challenger Series is an International Figure Skating Series designed to give skaters adequate opportunities to compete at the international senior level and to earn precious World Standing Points. For full competition schedules, entries and results for Challenger Series events, please click here.

Team Canada
Name | Age | Hometown | Coach

DENIS TEN MEMORIAL

Men
Aleksa Rakic | 20 | Burnaby, BC | Joanne McLeod

Women
Uliana Shiryaeva | 17 | Coquitlam, BC | Joanne McLeod
Kaiya Ruiter | 18 | Calgary, AB | Paige Aistrop

Ice Dance
Lily Hensen | 23 | London, ON & Nathan Lickers | 23 | Six Nations of the Grand River, ON | Sheri Moir
Alicia Fabbri | 21 | Terrebonne, QC & Paul Ayer | 26 | Brossard, QC | Pascal Denis

Team Leader – Mike Slipchuk
Medical Team – Leigh Davis
Officials – Andrew Bosco & Andre-Marc Allain

BUDAPEST TROPHY

Women
Madeline Schizas | 21 | Oakville, ON | Nancy Lemaire

Team Leader – Shae Zukiwsky
Medical Team – Emma Lis
Officials – Laura Carr & Ron Conacher

TROPHY METROPOLE

Senior Women
Breken Brezden | 18 | Dauphin, MB | Jennifer Jackson
Fée Ann Landry | 19 | Gatineau, QC | Guylaine Blouin

Junior Women
Reese Rose | 15 | Gananoque, ON | Darlene Joseph
Aleksa Volkova | 15 | Lac Brome, QC | Martine Dagenais

Junior Men
Parker Heiderich | 18 | Calgary, AB | Scott Davis

Senior Ice Dance
Nadiia Bashynska | 20 | Ajax, ON & Peter Beaumont | 23 | Ajax, ON | Carol Lane

Team Leaders – André Bourgeois & Cynthia Ullmark
Medical Team – Siobhan Godwin & Sari Kraft
Officials – Limin Jao & Lorna Schroder

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Entries/Start Orders/Results: https://results.d2024.kz/

SP & RD start orders

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Time conversion table (EDT is 2nd from the bottom)


NOTE: CS & IC Denis Ten Memorial Challenge (only the senior events are part of the Challenger Series)

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There is a free live stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@denistenforever9324

Results of the Women SP - the CDN skaters are in 2nd and 10th:


Results of the Men SP - the CDN skater is last

[Elizabeth]

The free live stream of Day 2 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-qAsST1xU
(It can be rewound I believe.)

The results of the Rhythm Dance have Alicia Fabbri and Paul Ayer in the lead by a small margin.


There were a number of withdrawals, apparently due to injuries as well as to non-arrival of luggage

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The results of the Sr Women free skate


The overall results


Uliana Shiryaeva moved down from 2nd to 4th while Kaiya Ruiter moved up from 10th to 7th.

Uliana Shiryaeva earned her Senior Worlds TES Minimum scores. She joins Madeline Schizas and Sara-Maude Dupuis in having them. Current National Champion Kaiya Ruiter has missed out on achieving them at the Denis Ten Memorial. She will have another chance at SCI in Halifax.

According to her latest ISU biography, Kaiya Ruiter has changed coaches from Scott Davis and Jeff Langdon to Tracy Wilson and Brian Orser. One of the Cricket Club coaches was with her at the Denis Ten Memorial event. Her bio: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00107952.htm

[Elizabeth]

Today's events including the the Men Free Skate and the Free Dance.

Men FS results


Overall results for Men


Canada's Aleksa Rakic moved up to 8th overall with a 7th place finish in the FS, after placing last in the SP.

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Free Dance results


Overall Dance results


After finishing first in the RD, Canada's Fabbri & Ayer finished 3rd in the FD to place 3rd overall and take a bronze medal.

The 2nd CDN team, Hensen & Lickers slipped one place - from 10th to 11th after the FS.