The 2023 Skate Canada International was the second event of the 2023–24 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, from October 27–29.[1] Medals were awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters also earned points toward qualifying for the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final.
| 2023 Skate Canada International | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Grand Prix |
| Date: | October 27 – 29 |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Location: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Host: | Skate Canada |
| Venue: | Thunderbird Sports Centre |
| Champions | |
Men's singles:  Sōta Yamamoto | |
| Women's singles: Kaori Sakamoto | |
Pairs:  Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | |
| Ice dance: Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | |
| Previous: 2022 Skate Canada International | |
| Next: 2024 Skate Canada International | |
| Previous GP: 2023 Skate America | |
| Next GP: 2023 Grand Prix de France | |
Entries edit
The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 28, 2023.[2]
Changes to preliminary assignments edit
| Discipline | Withdrew | Added | Notes | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Skater(s) | Date | Skater(s) | |||
| Women | August 24 |  Nicole Schott
|
August 31 |  Maé-Bérénice Méité
|
Break from competition | [4][7] |
| September 28 | Rika Kihira
|
September 29 | Rino Matsuike
|
Injury | [8][9] | |
| Men | October 13 | Roman Sadovsky
|
October 16 | Aleksa Rakic
|
[3][10] | |
Results edit
Men's singles edit
| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sōta Yamamoto | Japan
|
258.42 | 1 | 89.56 | 3 | 168.86 |
|
Kao Miura | Japan
|
257.89 | 4 | 80.80 | 1 | 177.09 |
|
Matteo Rizzo |  Italy
|
246.01 | 8 | 74.99 | 2 | 171.02 |
| 4 | Kazuki Tomono | Japan
|
245.12 | 3 | 81.63 | 5 | 163.49 |
| 5 | Mikhail Shaidorov |  Kazakhstan
|
241.65 | 5 | 79.18 | 4 | 165.47 |
| 6 | Mark Gorodnitsky |  Israel
|
225.35 | 11 | 70.69 | 6 | 156.66 |
| 7 | Wesley Chiu | Canada
|
221.54 | 7 | 76.94 | 8 | 144.60 |
| 8 | Liam Kapeikis |  United States
|
220.15 | 10 | 71.59 | 7 | 148.56 |
| 9 | Cha Jun-hwan |  South Korea
|
216.61 | 2 | 86.18 | 11 | 130.43 |
| 10 | Conrad Orzel | Canada
|
213.22 | 6 | 77.68 | 10 | 135.44 |
| 11 | Mihhail Selevko |  Estonia
|
210.78 | 12 | 70.18 | 9 | 140.60 |
| 12 | Aleksa Rakic | Canada
|
189.38 | 9 | 72.56 | 12 | 116.82 |
Women's singles edit
| Rank | Skater | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Kaori Sakamoto | Japan
|
226.13 | 1 | 75.13 | 1 | 151.00 |
|
|
Kim Chae-yeon | South Korea
|
201.15 | 2 | 70.31 | 4 | 130.84 |
|
|
Rino Matsuike | Japan
|
198.62 | 3 | 66.29 | 3 | 132.33 |
| 4 | Madeline Schizas | Canada
|
189.91 | 8 | 57.44 | 2 | 132.47 |
| 5 | Lindsay Thorngren | United States
|
189.52 | 5 | 61.99 | 5 | 127.53 |
| 6 | Rinka Watanabe | Japan
|
182.08 | 7 | 57.52 | 6 | 124.56 |
| 7 | Audrey Shin | United States
|
177.14 | 4 | 65.19 | 9 | 111.95 |
| 8 | Starr Andrews | United States
|
174.82 | 6 | 61.07 | 8 | 113.75 |
| 9 | Lara Naki Gutmann | Italy
|
165.73 | 11 | 50.00 | 7 | 115.73 |
| 10 | Kaiya Ruiter | Canada
|
155.44 | 9 | 55.82 | 11 | 99.62 |
| 11 | Sara-Maude Dupuis | Canada
|
151.95 | 10 | 52.17 | 10 | 99.78 |
| 12 | Maé-Bérénice Méité | France
|
121.13 | 12 | 41.65 | 12 | 79.48 |
Pairs edit
| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | SP | FS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | Canada
|
214.64 | 1 | 72.25 | 1 | 142.39 |
|
|
Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko |  Hungary
|
187.78 | 4 | 62.22 | 2 | 125.56 |
|
|
Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise | Italy
|
181.42 | 2 | 65.83 | 4 | 115.59 |
| 4 | Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore |  Australia
|
179.61 | 3 | 62.80 | 3 | 116.81 |
| 5 | Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier | Canada
|
168.12 | 7 | 57.14 | 5 | 110.98 |
| 6 | Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | Canada
|
166.00 | 5 | 59.83 | 7 | 106.17 |
| 7 | Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba |  Netherlands
|
165.01 | 6 | 57.17 | 6 | 107.84 |
| 8 | Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster | Germany
|
137.54 | 8 | 52.07 | 8 | 85.47 |
Ice dance edit
| Rank | Team | Nation | Total points | RD | FD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Canada
|
219.01 | 1 | 87.55 | 1 | 131.46 |
|
|
Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson |  Great Britain
|
209.55 | 2 | 83.51 | 2 | 126.04 |
|
|
Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius |  Lithuania
|
192.01 | 3 | 75.60 | 3 | 116.41 |
| 4 | Oona Brown / Gage Brown | United States
|
187.62 | 4 | 73.91 | 4 | 113.71 |
| 5 | Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik | United States
|
184.96 | 5 | 72.25 | 5 | 112.71 |
| 6 | Eva Pate / Logan Bye | United States
|
181.46 | 6 | 72.12 | 6 | 109.34 |
| 7 | Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer | Canada
|
173.34 | 7 | 68.31 | 8 | 105.03 |
| 8 | Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan | Germany
|
172.52 | 8 | 66.14 | 7 | 106.38 |
| 9 | Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs | Canada
|
168.79 | 9 | 65.97 | 9 | 102.82 |
| 10 | Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu |  China
|
160.61 | 10 | 64.66 | 10 | 95.95 |
References edit
- ^ "2023 Skate Canada International". Skate Canada. June 23, 2023.
- ^ Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (June 28, 2023). "2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Men: Entries". International Skating Union.
- ^ a b "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Women: Entries". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Pairs: Entries". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Ice Dance: Entries". International Skating Union.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023". International Skating Union. August 31, 2023.
- ^ "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women". International Figure Skating. September 28, 2023.
- ^ Kihira Rika [@rika_kihira] (September 28, 2023). "皆様いつも応援ありがとうございます。" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ @AnythingGOE (October 16, 2023). "🇨🇦 Aleksa Rakic has been assigned to Skate Canada" (Tweet) – via Twitter.