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2015 Skate Canada Autumn Classic
The Autumn Classic International is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by Skate Canada. The competition debuted in 2014 in Barrie, Ontario, as one of the inaugural competitions of the ISU Challenger Series. The Autumn Classic International has been a Challenger Series event six times during its history. Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; and when the event is part of the Challenger Series, skaters earn ISU World Standing points based on their results. The Autumn Classic International was last held in 2023 in Montreal. Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan holds the record for the most wins at the Autumn Classic International in men's singles (with four). Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès of France, are tied for winning the most titles in pair skating (with two each). Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, and Piper Gilles and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISU Challenger Series
The ISU Challenger Series is a series of international figure skating competitions. Established by the International Skating Union in the 2014–15 figure skating season, 2014–15 season, it is a group of senior-level events ranked below the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Each event consists of at least three disciplines out of four (Single skating, men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing), and is required to take place between August 1 and December 15. The ISU Challenger Series Synchronized Skating is a separate competition series in the discipline of synchronized skating. History The ISU Council decided to create the series at its February 2014 meeting. Eleven competitions were selected in June 2014. The Triglav Trophy dropped out by October 10, 2014, resulting in a series composed of ten events. The Nebelhorn Trophy, Finlandia Trophy, Ondrej Nepela Memorial, and Golden Spin of Zagreb are the "core group". The event criteria were published in April 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piper Gilles
Piper Gilles (; born January 16, 1992) is an American-Canadian Ice dancing, ice dancer. Competing for Canada with Paul Poirier, she is a four-time World Figure Skating Championships, World medalist, a two-time Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Four Continents champion (2024 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2024–2025 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 25), and the 2022–23 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2022–23 Grand Prix Final champion. As well, she is a seven-time ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, ISU Grand Prix gold medalist and four-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion (2020, 2022, 2024–25). Gilles and Poirier competed for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. Earlier in her career, Gilles competed for the United States with Timothy McKernan and Zachary Donohue, winning four medals altogether on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series. Personal life Piper Gilles was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Deschamps
Maxime Deschamps (born December 20, 1991) is a Canadian pair skater. With his skating partner, Deanna Stellato-Dudek, he is the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, 2024 World champion, the 2024 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2024 Four Continents champion, 2023–24 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2023–24 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a three-time ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, ISU Grand Prix gold medalist, a two-time ISU Challenger Series gold medalist, and three-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion (2023–2025). With Vanessa Grenier and Sydney Kolodziej, he competed at two Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Four Continents Championships (2016, 2018) and four ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Grand Prix events. Personal life Deschamps suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. With respect to its impact on his competitive career, he has said "when I come into competitions, concentration is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deanna Stellato-Dudek
Deanna Stellato-Dudek (born June 22, 1983) is an American-Canadian pair skater who currently competes with Maxime Deschamps for Canada. With Deschamps, she is the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, 2024 World champion, the 2024 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2024 Four Continents champion, the 2023–24 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2023–24 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a three-time ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, ISU Grand Prix gold medalist, a two-time ISU Challenger Series gold medalist, and a three-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion (2023–25). She is the oldest female figure skater to win a World title in any discipline. Competing for the United States with her former skating partner, Nathan Bartholomay, she is the 2018 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy, 2018 Ondrej Nepela Trophy silver medalist, the 2018 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, 2018 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist, the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, 2018 Golden Spin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Sakamoto
is a Japanese figure skater. She is the Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 Olympic bronze medalist, a Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event, 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, a three-time World Figure Skating Championships, World champion (2022-2024), the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships, 2025 World silver medalist, the 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2023–24 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2023–24 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2024-25 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2024-25 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, an eleven-time ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, ISU Grand Prix medalist (seven golds, three silvers, and one bronze), the Figure skating at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, 2025 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, the Figure skating at the 2023 Winter World University Games, 2023 World University Games silver medalist, and a five-time Japan Figure Skating Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single Skating
Single skating is a discipline of figure skating in which male and female skaters compete individually. Men's singles and women's singles are governed by the International Skating Union (ISU). Figure skating is the oldest winter sport contested at the Olympics, with men's and women's single skating appearing as two of the four figure skating events at the London Games in 1908. Single skaters are required to perform two segments in all international competitions, the short program and the free skating program. Nathan Chen from the United States holds both the highest single men's short program and free skating scores; Russian skater Kamila Valieva holds both the highest single women's short program and free skating scores. Compulsory figures, from which the sport of figure skating gets its name, were a crucial part of the sport for most of its history until the ISU voted to remove them in 1990. Single skating has required elements that skaters must perform during a competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilia Malinin
Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American competitive figure skater. He is a two-time World champion (2024 World Figure Skating Championships, 2024 & 2025 World Figure Skating Championships, 2025), two-time Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Grand Prix Final champion (2023–24 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2023–24 & 2024–25 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2024–25), 2023 World Figure Skating Championships, 2023 World bronze medalist, the 2022–23 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2022–23 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, a six-time ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Grand Prix medalist (five gold, one silver), a four-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (three gold, one bronze), the 2023 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2023, 2024 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2024 and 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2025 U.S. national champion, and the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2022 U.S. national silver medalist. At the junior level, Mali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Sports
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant disruption to the 2020 in sports, worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events were cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. Only a few countries and territories—such as Hong Kong, Turkmenistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua—continued professional sporting matches as planned. International multi-sport events Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics, Paralympics were scheduled to take place in Tokyo, starting 24 July and 25 August, respectively. Although the Japanese government had taken extra precautions to help minimize the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, outbreak's impact in the country, qualifying events were being canceled or postponed almost daily. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Tokyo 2020 organizing-committee chief executive Toshiro Muto voiced concerns on 5 February that COVID-19 might ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Cizeron
Guillaume Cizeron (born 12 November 1994) is a French ice dancer. With former partner, Gabriella Papadakis, he is the 2022 Olympic champion, the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a five-time World champion (2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2022), a five-time consecutive European champion (2015–2019), the 2017 and 2019 Grand Prix Final champion, and a seven-time French national champion (2015–2020, 2022). They have won ten gold medals in the Grand Prix series. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final and 2013 World Junior Championships. Papadakis and Cizeron have broken world records 28 times, which is in itself a record across all figure skating disciplines since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2004. They are the current and historical world record holders in short/rhythm dance, free dance, and combined total. They are the first team to have broken the 90-point barrier in the rhythm dance, the 120-point and 130-point barriers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Papadakis
Gabriella Maria Papadakis (born 10 May 1995) is a retired French ice dancer. With former partner, Guillaume Cizeron, she is a 2022 Olympic champion, 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a five-time World champion (2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2022), a five-time consecutive European champion (2015–2019), the 2017 and 2019 Grand Prix Final champion, and a seven-time French national champion (2015–2020, 2022). They have won ten gold medals on the Grand Prix series. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final and at the 2013 World Junior Championships. Papadakis and Cizeron have broken world records 34 times, which is in itself a record across all figure skating disciplines since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2004. They are the current and historical world record holders in the short dance, free dance, and combined total. They are the first team to have broken the 90-point barrier in the rhythm dance, 120-point and 130-point barrier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Daleman
Gabrielle Daleman (born January 13, 1998) is a Canadian Figure skating, figure skater. She is a Figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Team event, 2018 Olympic gold medallist in the team event, the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships, 2017 World bronze medallist, 2017 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2017 Four Continents silver medallist, 2014 CS Skate Canada Autumn Classic, 2014 CS Autumn Classic champion, and two-time Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Canadian national champion. She represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Early life and education Gabrielle Daleman was born January 13, 1998, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Rhonda and Michael Daleman. She has a younger brother, Zack, who is also a competitive figure skater. She lives in Newmarket, Ontario and attended Pickering College. Her father has taught at the same school. Daleman has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Miner
Ross Miner (born January 24, 1991) is an American skating coach and retired competitive figure skater. He is the 2012 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Four Continents bronze medalist, 2009 ISU Junior Grand Prix, JGP Final bronze medalist, 2013 and 2018 United States Figure Skating Championships, U.S. national silver medalist and 2009 U.S. junior champion. In 2021, Miner was suspended from coaching for six months by the United States Center for SafeSport, for sexual harassment. Personal life Ross Miner was born in Burlington, Vermont. In addition to figure skating, he also played hockey until the age of 12. Miner moved from Williston, Vermont, to Watertown, Massachusetts, when he was 12. He takes on-line courses from the University of Missouri. Career Early career Ross Miner began skating at the age of three. When he was 12, he began training at the Skating Club of Boston. He had to relearn much from scratch as his jump technique was extremely poor at the beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
