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Brian Shales
Brian Shales (born June 3, 1985) is a Canadian former pair skater. He represented Canada at the 2005 World Junior Championships. Career In the 2004–05 season, Shales and Michelle Cronin won the Canadian national junior title and were selected to compete at the 2005 World Junior Championships, where they placed seventh. During their career, they trained at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club. Their partnership ended in December 2006. Shales teamed up with Becky Cosford in 2007. They won the 2007 |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Moore-Towers
Kirsten Moore-Towers (born July 1, 1992) is a Canadian retired competitive pair skater who competed internationally at the senior level for thirteen seasons from 2009 to 2022. She first achieved distinction partnered with Dylan Moscovitch, winning the 2011 Canadian national title. The two won silver at the 2013 Four Continents Championships, as well as seven medals on the ISU Grand Prix, qualifying to three Grand Prix Finals and finishing fourth at two consecutive World Championships. As part of the Canadian team at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Moore-Towers/Moscovitch won an Olympic silver medal in the figure skating team event. After the end of her partnership with Moscovitch, Moore-Towers formed a new partnership with Michael Marinaro. Together they were three-time Canadian national champions (2019–20, 2022). Competing internationally, they were two-time Four Continents medalists (silver in 2019, bronze in 2020), and won medals on both the Grand Prix and Challenger series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Births
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States space exploration programs, United States or the Soviet space program, Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is Brazilian presidential election, 1985, elected president of Brazil by the National Congress of Brazil, Congress, ending the Military dictatorship in Brazil, 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Pair Skaters
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Skating Union
The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international sport governing body, governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Netherlands, in July 1892, making it one of the oldest international sport federations. The ISU was formed to establish standardized international rules and regulations for the skating disciplines it governs, and to organize international competitions in these disciplines. It is now based in Switzerland. History The International Skating Union (ISU) was founded in 1892 in the Dutch seaside town of Scheveningen. The meeting was attended by 15 men, as the national association representatives from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany/Austria, and two clubs from Stockholm (Sweden) and Budapest (Hungary). The ISU was the first international winter sports federation to govern speed skating and figure skating, as it laid dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda
is a Japanese figure skater, who currently competes in the pair skating, pairs discipline. With former partner, Sae Shimizu, they are the 2024–25 Japan Figure Skating Championships, 2024–25 Japan national bronze medalists, two-time Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships, Japan Junior national champions (2023, 2024), and the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Turkey, 2024 JGP Turkey bronze medalists. As a singles skater, he is the 2021 CS Cup of Austria silver medalist, the 2020 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, and the 2020–21 Japan Figure Skating Championships, 2020–21 Japan junior national champion. Personal life Honda was born on September 15, 2002, in Osaka, Japan. He is a fourth generation Japanese Brazilian. In addition, Honda is able to speak English (language), English proficiently. He was a student at Ayaha High School before enrolling at Doshisha University in 2021, where he currently studies in the Faculty of Sports and Health Science. His figure skating idol is Takah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sae Shimizu
is a Japanese figure skater. With former pair skating partner, Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda, she is the 2024–25 Japan national bronze medalist, two-time Japan Junior national champion (2023, 2024), and the 2024 JGP Turkey bronze medalist. Personal life Shimizu was born on August 10, 2005, in Osaka, Japan. In addition to figure skating, Shimizu enjoys sewing, cooking, and visiting shrines as hobbies. She graduated from Renaissance Osaka High School in 2024, before enrolling at Doshisha University's Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences. Her figure skating idol is Alena Kostornaia. Career Early career Shimizu began figure skating at the age of four after watching the sport on TV with her mom and wanting to try it for herself. She soon joined the Osaka Skate Club and was coached by Mie Hamada. As a singles skater, Shimizu competed at the basic novice level at the 2015–16 and 2016–17 Japan Basic Novice Championships, finishing thirty-first and fifteenth, respectively. Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuna Nagaoka
is a Japanese pair skater. With partner, Sumitada Moriguchi, she is the 2025 Asian Winter Games bronze medalist, the 2023–24 Japan national champion and the 2024–25 Japan national silver medalist. Personal life Nagaoka was born on July 13, 2005 in Hokkaido, Japan. In 2024, she graduated from Fuji Women's Junior and Senior High School. Career Early career Nagaoka began figure skating in 2012. Originally a singles skater, she trained at the ROYCE'F･S･C in Sapporo, Hokkaido, coached by Mami Yamada, the childhood coach of Yuzuru Hanyu. Nagaoka got to meet Hanyu when he visited her training rink to personally thank Yamada and have a Q&A session with Yamada's students following his second Olympic gold medal win in 2018. In 2019, a member of the Japan Skating Federation approached a fourteen-year old Nagaoka, asking if she would be interested in skating in the pairs discipline due to her small stature. Following the encounter, Nagaoka, who did not know much about p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazmine Desrochers
Jasmine (botanical name: ''Jasminum'', pronounced ) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers. The village of Shubra Beloula in Egypt grows most of the jasmine used by the global perfume industry. Description Jasmine can be either deciduous or evergreen, and can be erect, spreading, or climbing shrubs and vines. The leaves are borne in opposing or alternating arrangement and can be of simple, trifoliate, or pinnate formation. The flowers are typically around in diameter. They are white or yellow, although in rare instances they can be slightly reddish. The flowers are borne in cymose clusters with a minimum of three flowers, though they can also be solitary on the ends of branchlets. Each flower has about four to nine petals, two locules, and one to four ovules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livio Mayr
Livio Mayr (born 21 December 1997) is an Austrian pair skater. With his current skating partner, Sophia Schaller, he is the 2023 Trophée Métropole Nice bronze medalist and a three-time Austrian national champion (2023–25). Personal life Mayr was born on 21 December 1997 in Salzburg, Austria. Career Early years Mayr began learning how to skate in 2006. He began representing Austria internationally as a junior-level single skater in 2012. He competed in singles for five seasons, placing third at the Austrian Junior National Championships in 2014, 2016, and 2017, before opting to transition to pair skating. 2018–19 season: Debut of Dana/Mayr Mayr teamed up with his first pairs partner, American skater Sara Jane Dana, in advance of the 2018–19 season. They competed at two Junior Grand Prix events during their partnership, finishing 12th in Austria and 15th in the Czech Republic, as well as one international junior B event, the 2018 Golden Spin of Zagreb, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Schaller
Sophia Schaller (born 17 September 2000) is an Austrian figure skater who currently competes in the pairs discipline with Livio Mayr. Together, they are three-time Austrian Figure Skating Championships, Austrian national champions (2023–25). As a singles skater, she is the 2018 Sarajevo Open champion, the 2019 Santa Claus Cup bronze medalist, the 2017 Austrian Figure Skating Championships, Austrian junior national silver medalist, and a six-time Austrian Figure Skating Championships, Austrian national medalist. Personal life Schaller was born on September 17, 2000 in Salzburg, Austria. Her younger sister, Flora Marie Schaller, is also a competitive figure skater, competing in the women's singles event. Career Early career Schaller began figure skating in 2007. Joining the Salzburg Skating Club, she was first coached by Iva Žvachtová before switching to Julia Kiefer and Sandra Riegler prior to the 2016–17 figure skating season. On the junior level, she would win silve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
