2023 Skate Canada International

The 2023 Skate Canada International will be the second event in the 2023–24 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It will be held at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia from October 27–29.[1] Medals will be awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. Skaters will earn 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
Host:Skate Canada
Venue:Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
Defending champions
Men's singles:
Japan Shoma Uno
Ladies' singles:
Japan Rinka Watanabe
Pair skating:
Japan Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara
Ice dance:
Canada 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

The International Skating Union announced the preliminary assignments on June 28, 2023.[2]

Country Men[3] Women[4] Pairs[5] Ice dance[6]
 Australia Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
 Canada Wesley Chiu
Conrad Orzel
Aleksa Rakic		 Sara-Maude Dupuis
Kaiya Ruiter
Madeline Schizas		 Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier
Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar
Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps		 Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer
Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs
 China Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
 Estonia Mihhail Selevko
 France Maé-Bérénice Méité
 Germany Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan
 Great Britain Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
 Hungary Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko
 Israel Mark Gorodnitsky
 Italy Matteo Rizzo Lara Naki Gutmann Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise
 Japan Kao Miura
Kazuki Tomono
Sōta Yamamoto		 Rino Matsuike
Kaori Sakamoto
Rinka Watanabe
 Kazakhstan Mikhail Shaidorov
 Lithuania Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
 Netherlands Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
 South Korea Cha Jun-hwan Kim Chae-yeon
 United States Liam Kapeikis Starr Andrews
Audrey Shin
Lindsay Thorngren		 Oona Brown / Gage Brown
Eva Pate / Logan Bye
Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik

Changes to preliminary assignments
Discipline Withdrew Added Reason/Other notes Refs
Date Skater(s) Date Skater(s)
Women August 24 Germany Nicole Schott August 31 France Maé-Bérénice Méité Break from competition [4][7]
September 28 Japan Rika Kihira September 29 Japan Rino Matsuike Injury [8][9]
Men October 13 Canada Roman Sadovsky October 16 Canada Aleksa Rakic [3][10]

References
  1. "2023 Skate Canada International". Skate Canada. June 23, 2023.
  2. Anything GOEs [@AnythingGOEs] (June 28, 2023). "2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Men: Entries". International Skating Union.
  4. "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Women: Entries". International Skating Union.
  5. "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Pairs: Entries". International Skating Union.
  6. "ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Ice Dance: Entries". International Skating Union.
  7. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023". International Skating Union. August 31, 2023.
  8. "ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women". International Figure Skating. September 28, 2023.
  9. 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.
  10. @AnythingGOE (October 16, 2023). "🇨🇦 Aleksa Rakic has been assigned to Skate Canada" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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