February 24, 2024 – What an incredible first two days of skating at the 2024 Novice Canadian Championships / 2024 Skate Canada Cup! We are beyond proud of every athlete that stepped on the ice to represent Ontario with such pride this week. The first four events of this competition; Ice Dance, Pairs, Women and Men have now wrapped up. You can find our re-cap of each event below:
Ice Dance
Five incredible young ice dance teams took to the ice to represent Ontario in this competition. Lilla Horvat and Bryce Aggerholm of Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club achieved their all-time personal best score following their crowd-pleasing beauty and the beast free program to finish 7th place.
Another home-town team, Mackenzie Lockston and Philip Czarnecki of Kitchener Waterloo Skating Club skated three solid skates to finish in 11th place. Madison Tong and Gabriel Liu of Skate Canada Brampton-Chinguacousy finished their first ever national championship in twelfth place overall.
After three beautiful skates, Olivia Corneil and Alexandre Emery of the Ice Academy of Montreal – Ontario Campus took home ninth place.
After a beautiful free dance and an incredibly close race for the bronze medal, Rachel Martins and Juel Kowalczyk of Mariposa School of Skating finished in fourth place, with only a fraction of a point separating them from the medal slot. This team has accomplished an incredible amount in only seven months together, and we are looking forward to seeing what they accomplish in the future.
Pairs
Ontario took home not one but two medals in the Novice Pairs event this week! Huge congratulations to the brand-new Novice National Champions Siyul Back and Gavin Mahoney of the Barrie Skating Club and Mariposa School of Skating on their gold medal – and to Toronto Lakeshore Skating School’s Remie Muramoto and Keith Lau on their silver finish!
Both of these pairs teams skated beautifully this weekend! We are so #SkateOntarioProud!
Women
Huge congratulations are in order for the following competitors who represented our province in the Novice Women’s event:
- Kaylee Sun of the York Region Skating Centre (5th place finish)
- Quinn Startek of the Hamilton Figure Skating Club (6th place finish)
- Mila Marleau of the Gloucester Skating Club (7th place finish)
- Sophia Mekki of the Gloucester Skating Club (9th place finish)
- Alena Kolomiets of the North Point Skating Academy (18th place finish)
- Mina Yang of the Thornhill Figure Skating Club (16th place finish)
A special congratulations goes out to Ksenia Krouzkevitch of the Canadian Ice Academy for bringing home the bronze medal in this event! Congratulations on this huge achievement, Ksenia!
Men
Finally, we would like congratulate the following skaters who represented Ontario in the men’s event:
- James Cha of the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club (5th place)
- Jeffrey Chen of the Granite Club (8th place)
- James Moskowitz of the Granite Club (11th place)
- Henrick Chan of the Thornhill Figure Skating Club (15th place)
- Colton Moness of the Thornhill Figure Skating Club (18th place)
Huge congratulations to the brand National bronze medalist, Rui Qin of the Canadian Ice Academy! So far, Skate Ontario athletes have brought home three national medals this week!
Thank you too all the athletes in these events for an incredible two days of skating, we are so #SkateOntarioProud of all of you.
Nationals will continue on Saturday and Sunday the Skate Canada Cup! Synchro teams from across the country will be competing in the Novice, Intermediate, Open and Senior Elite 12 categories. It is not too late to get tickets! For full event information including schedule, start orders/results and the link to live stream, please visit the Skate Canada website.
