World champion figure skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek is switching back to the United States after seven seasons representing Canada, forming a new pairs partnership with Danil Siianytsia.
Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu is taking the season off following her triumph in Milan. This time, she is certain she will be back.
Skate Canada announced Wednesday that Mike Slipchuk will step down as high-performance director after the 2026-27 season, following 20 years in the role.
Decorated ice dancer Paul Poirier is joining Skate Canada’s board of directors, the organization announced Thursday.
Former world pairs champion Maxime Deschamps is hanging up his skates.
Two-time Olympic champion Artur Dmitriev, who won figure skating gold medals with different partners, has died, the Russian ice skating federation said on Tuesday. He was 58.
Olympic ice dance bronze medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are not listed among Skate Canada’s assignments for the 2026-27 Grand Prix season.
All four world championships in ice skating plus an annual awards ceremony will be brought to one city in 2028 as a showcase for the sports, the International Skating Union said Wednesday.
Canada’s Stephen Gogolev finished fourth in men’s singles with another impressive performance Saturday at the world figure skating championships.
Ilia Malinin is back on the top step of the podium. Six weeks after a disastrous skate knocked the Olympic gold-medal favorite off the podium, the “quad god” reeled off one huge jump after another, and a backflip for good measure, to retain his world championship title for the third year running.
Olympic bronze medallists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier finished second in Friday’s rhythm dance at the world figure skating championships.
Canada’s Madeline Schizas sits 15th after the women’s singles short program Wednesday at the world figure skating championships.
Gogolev, now 21, enters this week’s world championships in Prague with momentum after a breakout performance at last month’s Milan Cortina Olympics, where he placed fifth for the best result by a Canadian man since Chan took silver at the 2014 Winter Games.
Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champ after she won the first Winter Games gold medal by an American woman in more than two decades.
Newly minted Olympic bronze medallist ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier will be part of the Canadian contingent at the figure skating world championships in March.
Alysa Liu probably cared the least of all the women in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics about winning the gold medal. Maybe that is why she won it.
Alysa Liu will try to end a 24-year drought for American women in Olympic figure skating on Thursday night when the “Blade Angel” attempts to chase down Japanese rivals Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto in the free skate at the Milan Cortina Games.
The 18-year-old Russian, who was expected to contend for a gold medal, had only competed in one senior event outside her homeland before Tuesday’s short program, resulting in one of the lowest seedings and a position near the top of the start list.
It wasn’t exactly a prayer that Madonna answered for American figure skater Amber Glenn. More like a wish and a dream.
Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara delivered Japan’s first Olympic gold medal in pairs skating, earning a world-record score for their free skate on Monday night to climb from fifth after their short program to the top step of the podium at the Milan Cortina Games.
Canadian figure skaters Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud fell to eighth in pairs, while former world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps placed 11th at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games on Monday.
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