HALIFAX — The Canadian pairs team of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will join fellow world champions Ilia Malinin and Kaori Sakamoto to headline a strong field at Skate Canada International this week.
The second Grand Prix stop of the year goes Friday through Sunday at Scotiabank Centre as the pre-Olympic figure skating season kicks into high gear for Canada’s top medal hopes.After skating to silver at the world championships in Montreal, ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are back for another season.
Lajoie and Lagha withdrew from the Budapest Trophy Challenger event two weeks ago due to an undisclosed injury but are expected to compete in Halifax.Also looking to repeat at Skate Canada International are Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps. The world champions opened their season by claiming silver at the Nebelhorn Trophy Challenger event in September. In Halifax, their biggest challengers will be Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel of Germany, who rank sixth in the world.Men’s champion Malinin of the U.S. — the self-proclaimed “Quad God” — and three-time reigning women’s champion Sakamoto of Japan are also gracing the ice surface this weekend.
Sakamoto is aiming for a fourth straight world title this season. Carol Heiss of the U.S. was the last woman to achieve the feat, winning five consecutive titles from 1956-1960.Canadians aren’t likely to challenge Malinin or Sakamoto. Canada hasn’t won a singles medal at the world championships since Kaetlyn Osmond captured women’s gold in 2018, and the last men’s medallist was Patrick Chan in 2013.
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