Updated
Reigning world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps rocked the house and placed first in the pairs short program at Skate Canada International on Friday.
Live coverage continues from Halifax on Saturday
Daniel Rainbird · The Canadian Press
· Posted: Oct 25, 2024 6:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps compete in the pairs short program at the Skate Canada International event in Halifax on Friday. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press)Reigning world champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps rocked the house and placed first in the pairs short program at Skate Canada International on Friday.
The Canadians posted a score of 73.23 to kick off their second competition of the season while skating to a remix of Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” at Scotiabank Centre.
Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel of Germany finished second (64.82) and Anastasia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore of Australia were third (64.81).
Kelly Ann Laurin of Saint-Jerome, Que., and Loucas Ethier of St-Alphonse, Que., ranked last in the eight-team competition (52.16).
WATCH | Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps lead after short program:
Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps in 1st place after pairs short program at Skate Canada International
World champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada lead the pairs competition at Skate Canada International after scoring 73.23 in the short program.
Live streaming coverage of the event continues on Saturday at 12:15 p.m. ET (CBCSports.ca. CBC Gem).
Later Friday, Kaori Sakamoto of Japan led after the women’s program. The three-time world champion scored 74.97 ahead of Alysa Liu of the U.S. (67.68) and Kimmy Repond of Switzerland (66.94).
Madeline Schizas of Oakville, Ont., finished fifth, falling just shy of the top three with 65.28 after a joyful, error-free skate to music from “The Lion King.”
WATCH | Schizas sits 5th after short program:
Madeline Schizas sits in 5th after women’s short program at Skate Canada International
Madeline Schizas of Oakville, Ont., is in fifth place after the women’s short program at Skate Canada International with a score of 65.28.
Calgary’s Kaiya Ruiter was seventh (57.66) while Montreal’s Sara-Maude Dupuis placed ninth (54.15) in the 12-skater field.
The Grand Prix, the top series in figure skating, consists of six events and a final. Skate Canada is the second of the event this year after the circuit kicked off at Skate America last week.
You can also watch more figure skating coverage on CBC Sports Presents, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. Hosted by Brenda Irving, who is joined by Kurt Browning and Carol Lane, the show can be streamed on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem.
WATCH | 3-time world champion Sakamoto of Japan leads after short program:
Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto leads after women’s short program at Skate Canada International
Kaori Sakamoto of Japan sits in first place in the women’s competition at Skate Canada International after scoring 74.97 in the short program.