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The 2022 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships were held on January 6–12, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results were part of the Canadian selection criteria for the 2022 World Championships, the 2022 Four Continents Championships, the 2022 World Junior Championships, and the 2022 Winter Olympics.
2022 Canadian National Skating Championships | |
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Type: | National championship |
Date: | January 6–12 (S/J) February 26–27 (N) |
Season: | 2021–22 |
Location: | Ottawa, Ontario (S/J) Calgary, Alberta (N) |
Host: | Skate Canada |
Venue: | TD Place Arena (S/J) Seven Chiefs Sportsplex (N) |
Champions | |
Men's singles: Keegan Messing (S) Anthony Paradis (J) David Shteyngart (N) | |
Women's singles: Madeline Schizas (S) Justine Miclette (J) Hetty Shi (N) | |
Pairs: Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro (S) Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar (J) Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov (N) | |
Ice dance: Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier (S) Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell (J) Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys (N) | |
Previous: 2020 Canadian Championships | |
Next: 2023 Canadian Championships |
Ottawa was announced as the host in February 2021.[1] The city has hosted the event eleven times previously. Competitors qualified at the Skate Canada Challenge in January.[2]
On December 30, 2021, due to the Omicron variant and Ontario COVID-19 public health orders, it was announced that the competition would be held behind closed doors with no spectators, and all tickets refunded. Competitions for the novice level were also postponed to an undetermined future date.[3][4] The event was later rescheduled for February 26–27 in Calgary, Alberta.[5]
A list of entries was posted prior to the competition.[6]
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
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Liam Carney | Lauren Batka | Emy Carignan / Bryan Pierro | Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont |
Maksim Chelmaev | Fiona Bombardier | Summer Homick / Marty Haubrich | Chaïma Ben Khelifa / Everest Zhu |
Simon Desmarais | Michelle Deng | Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | Nicole Bolender / Aiden Dotzert |
Yohnatan Elizarov | Audréanne Foster | Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher | Mikala Cutler / Mackenzie Mah |
Jackson Ellis | Vienna Harwood | Ashlyn Schmitz / Tristan Taylor | Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell |
Jake Ellis | Katherine Karon | Elizabeth Thibodeau-Mailhot / Daniel Villeneuve | Sydney Embro / Eric Millar |
Alec Guinzbourg | Miriam Kleiman | Lily Wilberforce / Aidan Wright | Erica Estepa / Nolen Hickey |
Christopher Hammer | Caitlyn Kukulowicz | Éliane Foroglou-Gadoury / Félix Desmarais | |
Terry Yu Tao Jin | Lulu Lin | Jamie Fournier / Anthony Haddad | |
John Kim | Julianne Lussier | Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren | |
Shohei Law | Cristina Lyons | Sophia Gover / Daniel Patriquin | |
Grayson Long | Alexa Matveev | Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara | |
Rio Morita | Justine Miclette | Savanna Martel / Kobi Chant | |
Christian Nainer | Marie-Maude Pomerleau | Chloe Nguyen / Alec Roueche | |
William Oddson | Natalie Roccatani | Alyssa Robinson / Jacob Portz | |
Anthony Paradis | Ashley Sales | Hailey Yu / Brendan Giang | |
Ethan Scott | Marie-Raphaële Savoie | ||
Jonathan Wu | Rose Théroux |
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance |
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Ian Alsop | Abbie Baltzer | Felicia Holterman / Christopher Hammer | Charlotte Chung / Jacob Yang |
David Bondar | Abby Bouma | Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov | Olivia Corneil / Anthony Brandys |
Anson Chung | Abby Bulawka | Lilly Napier / Joshua Dore | Malorie Desmarais / Simon Desmarais |
Jacob Côté | Mia Clarke | Jessie Sun / Victor Lum | Kaitlyn Ho / Daniel Yu |
Emmet Dewar | Marie-France D'Amour | Sarah Lawton / Henri Curry | |
Mitchell Dunn | Ashley Dinh | Chloé Mentha / Émile Deveau | |
David Howes | Angelina Grant | Dana Sabatini-Speciale / Nicholas Buelow | |
Etienne Lacasse | Angelina YinLin Guan | Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys | |
Herman Lau | Kayla Halliday | Eden Zukerman / William Bradette-Chénier | |
Tehryn Lee | Gabrielle Jugnauth | ||
Julien Lévesque | Emily Karkic | ||
David Li | Konstantina Lock | ||
Gavin Mahoney | Reese Rose | ||
Kenneth Naces | Hetty Shi | ||
David Shteyngart | Megan Yudin | ||
Neo Tran | Kara Yun | ||
Edward Nicholas Vasii | Lara Zeldovich | ||
Edward Wang | Eva Zhao |
Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | Keegan Messing | Roman Sadovsky | Wesley Chiu |
Women | Madeline Schizas | Véronik Mallet | Gabrielle Daleman |
Pairs | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps |
Ice dance | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha |
Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | Anthony Paradis | Grayson Long | John Kim |
Women | Justine Miclette | Fiona Bombardier | Michelle Deng |
Pairs | Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | Summer Homick / Marty Haubrich | Emy Carignan / Bryan Pierro |
Ice dance | Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell | Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont | Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara |
Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | David Shteyngart | Edward Nicholas Vasii | Jacob Côté |
Women | Hetty Shi | Kara Yun | Abbie Baltzer |
Pairs | Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov | Lilly Napier / Joshua Dore | Jessie Sun / Victor Lum |
Ice dance | Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys | Dana Sabatini-Speciale / Nicholas Buelow | Kaitlyn Ho / Daniel Yu |
Stephen Gogolev withdrew a day prior to the event due to testing positive for COVID-19.
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Keegan Messing | AB/NWT/NT | 258.03 | 1 | 84.38 | 1 | 173.65 |
2 | Roman Sadovsky | ON | 247.60 | 4 | 77.17 | 2 | 170.43 |
3 | Wesley Chiu | BC/YK | 232.04 | 2 | 81.47 | 5 | 150.57 |
4 | Joseph Phan | QC | 231.50 | 3 | 78.14 | 3 | 153.36 |
5 | Corey Circelli | ON | 229.61 | 5 | 76.64 | 4 | 152.97 |
6 | Nam Nguyen | ON | 202.04 | 7 | 71.27 | 8 | 130.77 |
7 | Jack Dushenski | ON | 195.09 | 10 | 72.83 | 9 | 128.02 |
8 | Aleksa Rakic | BC/YK | 193.15 | 13 | 61.47 | 7 | 131.68 |
9 | Conrad Orzel | ON | 192.92 | 14 | 59.13 | 6 | 133.79 |
10 | Samuel Turcotte | QC | 189.71 | 11 | 66.99 | 10 | 122.79 |
11 | Matthew Markell | ON | 187.74 | 9 | 68.31 | 12 | 119.43 |
12 | Max Denk | ON | 185.91 | 12 | 64.54 | 11 | 121.37 |
13 | Beres Clements | BC/YK | 185.28 | 8 | 68.93 | 15 | 116.35 |
14 | Bennet Toman | ON | 179.39 | 6 | 72.83 | 16 | 106.56 |
15 | Matthew Newnham | AB/NWT/NT | 176.76 | 15 | 58.04 | 13 | 118.72 |
16 | Bruce Waddell | ON | 172.51 | 17 | 54.88 | 14 | 117.63 |
17 | Marek Simon Ramilison | QC | 160.01 | 16 | 56.03 | 17 | 103.98 |
WD | Stephen Gogolev | ON | withdrew from competition |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Madeline Schizas | ON | 198.24 | 1 | 72.05 | 1 | 126.19 |
2 | Véronik Mallet | QC | 170.65 | 2 | 59.35 | 2 | 111.30 |
3 | Gabrielle Daleman | ON | 167.50 | 3 | 58.48 | 3 | 109.02 |
4 | Michelle Long | ON | 160.90 | 4 | 57.14 | 5 | 103.76 |
5 | Alison Schumacher | ON | 159.36 | 6 | 56.38 | 6 | 102.98 |
6 | Katherine Medland Spence | ON | 158.39 | 7 | 55.74 | 7 | 102.65 |
7 | Alicia Pineault | QC | 156.33 | 9 | 50.31 | 4 | 106.02 |
8 | Amanda Tobin | ON | 156.01 | 8 | 53.39 | 8 | 102.62 |
9 | Emily Bausback | BC/YK | 148.91 | 5 | 56.82 | 11 | 92.09 |
10 | Lia Pereira | ON | 144.36 | 13 | 48.37 | 9 | 95.99 |
11 | Sara-Maude Dupuis | QC | 141.05 | 10 | 50.18 | 13 | 90.87 |
12 | Catherine Carle | ON | 139.51 | 16 | 46.51 | 10 | 93.00 |
13 | Madison Moore | AB/NWT/NT | 138.77 | 15 | 47.46 | 12 | 91.31 |
14 | Béatrice Lavoie-Léonard | QC | 133.43 | 14 | 48.34 | 15 | 85.09 |
15 | Angel Green | ON | 131.59 | 12 | 48.39 | 16 | 83.20 |
16 | Jennyfer Richer-Labelle | QC | 126.90 | 18 | 41.33 | 14 | 85.57 |
17 | Alexandra Sarmiento Diaz | AB/NWT/NT | 118.35 | 17 | 42.11 | 17 | 76.24 |
18 | Leah Lee | BC/YK | 112.55 | 11 | 48.64 | 18 | 63.91 |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | ON | 212.54 | 1 | 73.02 | 1 | 139.52 |
2 | Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud | ON | 186.52 | 2 | 66.88 | 2 | 119.64 |
3 | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | QC | 178.60 | 3 | 63.54 | 4 | 115.06 |
4 | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | QC | 176.65 | 5 | 60.13 | 3 | 116.52 |
5 | Patricia Andrew / Steven Adcock | ON | 161.57 | 6 | 56.37 | 5 | 105.20 |
6 | Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier | QC | 148.77 | 7 | 49.93 | 6 | 98.84 |
WD | Vanessa James / Eric Radford | QC | withdrew | 4 | 63.33 | withdrew from competition |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | RD | FD | ||
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1 | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | ON | 219.24 | 1 | 86.98 | 1 | 132.26 |
2 | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen | QC | 206.65 | 2 | 81.04 | 2 | 125.61 |
3 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | QC | 192.67 | 3 | 76.67 | 3 | 116.00 |
4 | Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus | QC | 182.54 | 4 | 72.55 | 5 | 109.99 |
5 | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | QC | 181.74 | 5 | 71.29 | 4 | 110.45 |
6 | Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker | BC/YK | 173.59 | 6 | 70.00 | 7 | 103.59 |
7 | Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer | QC | 171.15 | 8 | 66.43 | 6 | 104.72 |
8 | Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs | ON | 169.86 | 7 | 67.51 | 8 | 102.35 |
9 | Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers | ON | 149.70 | 9 | 57.03 | 9 | 92.67 |
10 | Elysia-Marie Campbell / Liam Fawcett | QC | 144.93 | 12 | 54.94 | 10 | 89.99 |
11 | Jessica Lee Behiel / Jackson Behiel | AB/NWT/NT | 141.52 | 10 | 56.60 | 11 | 84.92 |
12 | Maia Iannetta / Liam Carr | ON | 140.72 | 11 | 56.00 | 12 | 84.72 |
13 | Torri Hollstein / Joshua Burger | AB/NWT/NT | 130.78 | 13 | 51.41 | 13 | 79.37 |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Anthony Paradis | QC | 189.57 | 4 | 61.54 | 1 | 128.03 |
2 | Grayson Long | ON | 189.15 | 1 | 64.18 | 3 | 124.97 |
3 | John Kim | ON | 187.52 | 3 | 61.98 | 2 | 125.54 |
4 | Rio Morita | ON | 175.05 | 6 | 57.84 | 4 | 117.21 |
5 | Maksim Chelmaev | QC | 164.19 | 5 | 59.62 | 5 | 104.57 |
6 | Shohei Law | BC/YK | 160.08 | 7 | 56.82 | 6 | 103.26 |
7 | Jake Ellis | ON | 147.04 | 8 | 52.78 | 7 | 94.26 |
8 | Jackson Ellis | ON | 139.68 | 9 | 49.03 | 8 | 90.65 |
9 | Yohnatan Elizarov | MB | 137.29 | 10 | 47.54 | 9 | 89.75 |
10 | Terry Yu Tao Jin | BC/YK | 136.57 | 2 | 62.42 | 14 | 74.15 |
11 | Christian Nainer | ON | 126.30 | 13 | 46.11 | 10 | 80.19 |
12 | Simon Desmarais | QC | 124.02 | 12 | 46.13 | 11 | 77.89 |
13 | William Oddson | AB/NWT/NT | 122.57 | 11 | 47.21 | 13 | 75.36 |
14 | Ethan Scott | AB/NWT/NT | 114.54 | 14 | 44.20 | 15 | 70.34 |
15 | Liam Carney | ON | 113.16 | 15 | 36.85 | 12 | 76.31 |
16 | Christopher Hammer | AB/NWT/NT | 105.26 | 16 | 35.06 | 16 | 70.20 |
WD | Alec Guinzbourg | ON | withdrew | withdrew from competition | |||
WD | Jonathan Wu | BC/YK | withdrew | withdrew from competition |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Justine Miclette | QC | 170.01 | 1 | 61.43 | 1 | 108.58 |
2 | Fiona Bombardier | ON | 158.71 | 4 | 53.31 | 2 | 105.40 |
3 | Michelle Deng | AB/NWT/NT | 152.01 | 5 | 51.98 | 3 | 100.03 |
4 | Julianne Lussier | QC | 144.39 | 11 | 48.61 | 4 | 95.78 |
5 | Ashley Sales | BC/YK | 142.10 | 6 | 51.42 | 6 | 90.68 |
6 | Audréanne Foster | QC | 140.58 | 3 | 53.41 | 13 | 87.17 |
7 | Lauren Batka | ON | 138.37 | 10 | 48.16 | 7 | 90.21 |
8 | Rose Théroux | QC | 138.13 | 7 | 50.82 | 11 | 87.31 |
9 | Lulu Lin | ON | 137.78 | 16 | 43.54 | 5 | 94.24 |
10 | Caitlyn Kukulowicz | ON | 137.15 | 8 | 49.68 | 10 | 87.47 |
11 | Miriam Kleiman | ON | 136.93 | 9 | 49.24 | 9 | 87.69 |
12 | Cristina Lyons | ON | 136.35 | 13 | 48.23 | 8 | 88.12 |
13 | Natalie Roccatini | ON | 135.07 | 14 | 47.77 | 12 | 87.30 |
14 | Vienna Harwood | BC/YK | 130.65 | 2 | 53.74 | 17 | 76.91 |
15 | Marie-Raphaële Savoie | QC | 129.99 | 15 | 46.53 | 14 | 83.46 |
16 | Katherine Karon | ON | 129.00 | 12 | 48.39 | 16 | 80.61 |
17 | Marie-Maude Pomerleau | QC | 121.95 | 17 | 39.35 | 15 | 82.60 |
WD | Alexa Matveev | ON | withdrew | withdrew from competition |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | ON | 155.95 | 1 | 56.91 | 1 | 99.04 |
2 | Summer Homick / Marty Haubrich | ON | 136.24 | 2 | 52.03 | 3 | 84.21 |
3 | Emy Carignan / Bryan Pierro | QC | 133.85 | 3 | 47.59 | 2 | 86.26 |
4 | Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher | ON | 125.73 | 4 | 47.58 | 5 | 78.15 |
5 | Lily Wilberforce / Aidan Wright | ON | 124.55 | 7 | 42.68 | 4 | 81.87 |
5 | Elizabeth Thibodeau-Mailhot / Daniel Villeneuve | QC | 121.22 | 5 | 46.15 | 6 | 75.07 |
6 | Ashlyn Schmitz / Tristan Taylor | SK | 109.77 | 6 | 44.43 | 7 | 65.34 |
Rank | Name | Section | Total points | RD | FD | ||
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1 | Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell | ON | 175.03 | 1 | 70.79 | 1 | 104.24 |
2 | Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont | ON | 170.79 | 2 | 70.66 | 2 | 100.13 |
3 | Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara | BC/YK | 163.00 | 3 | 65.88 | 3 | 97.12 |
4 | Hailey Yu / Brendan Giang | BC/YK | 147.52 | 4 | 58.51 | 4 | 89.01 |
5 | Chaïma Ben Khelifa / Everest Zhu | QC | 144.82 | 6 | 55.91 | 5 | 88.91 |
6 | Alyssa Robinson / Jacob Portz | AB/NWT/NT | 141.21 | 5 | 56.56 | 7 | 84.65 |
7 | Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren | QC | 138.77 | 8 | 52.46 | 6 | 86.31 |
8 | Erica Estepa / Nolen Hickey | ON | 129.35 | 9 | 52.39 | 9 | 76.96 |
9 | Sydney Embro / Eric Millar | ON | 127.62 | 7 | 52.76 | 12 | 74.86 |
10 | Mikala Cutler / Mackenzie Mah | AB/NWT/NT | 126.66 | 12 | 48.17 | 8 | 78.49 |
11 | Savanna Martel / Kobi Chant | AB/NWT/NT | 126.57 | 10 | 50.14 | 10 | 76.43 |
12 | Chloe Nguyen / Alec Roueche | BC/YK | 124.46 | 11 | 49.38 | 11 | 75.08 |
13 | Éliane Foroglou-Gadoury / Félix Desmarais | QC | 121.71 | 13 | 47.35 | 13 | 74.36 |
14 | Sophia Gover / Daniel Patriquin | ON | 116.58 | 14 | 46.56 | 14 | 70.02 |
15 | Jamie Fournier / Anthony Haddad | QC | 112.14 | 16 | 44.83 | 15 | 67.31 |
16 | Nicole Bolender / Aiden Dotzert | ON | 111.43 | 15 | 46.07 | 16 | 65.36 |
The novice competition was postponed to an unknown future date on December 30, 2021.[3] Skate Canada later announced that the event would be rescheduled for February 26–27 in Calgary, Alberta.[5]
The 2022 Four Continents Championships were held from January 18–23 in Tallinn, Estonia. Teams were selected using the International Teams Selection Criteria.[7][8] The entire team was named on January 9, 2022.[9]
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance | |
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1 | Gabrielle Daleman | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac | |
2 | Corey Circelli | Véronik Mallet | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker |
3 | Joseph Phan | Alison Schumacher | Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud | Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus |
The 2022 Winter Olympics were held from February 4–20 in Beijing, China. Teams were selected using the International Teams Selection Criteria.[7][10] The entire team was named on January 9, 2022.[11]
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Keegan Messing | Madeline Schizas | Vanessa James / Eric Radford | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen |
2 | Roman Sadovsky | Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | |
3 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha |
Commonly referred to as "Junior Worlds", the 2022 World Junior Championships were held from April 13–17 in Tallinn, Estonia.[12] Teams were selected using the International Teams Selection Criteria.[7][8] The initial entire team was named on January 14, 2022.[13] Alternates and substitutions have been published by the ISU on March 25, 2022.[14]
The pair team of Homick and Haubrich failed to obtain the Short Program minimum Technical Elements Score by 0.85 points at the 2022 Bavarian Open.[15] Consequently, on February 6, they have been replaced by 4th place holders Panetta and Thrasher, who already met all their TES.[16]
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance | |
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1 | Wesley Chiu | Justine Miclette | Nadiia Bashynska / Peter Beaumont | |
2 | Stephen Gogolev | Lia Pereira | Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar | Natalie D'Alessandro / Bruce Waddell |
1st alt. | Corey Circelli | Sara-Maude Dupuis | Chloe Panetta / Kieran Thrasher (called up) | Miku Makita / Tyler Gunara |
2nd alt. | Aleksa Rakic | Audréanne Foster | Hailey Yu / Brendan Giang |
The 2022 World Championships were held from March 21–27 in Montpellier, France. Teams were selected using the International Teams Selection Criteria.[7][8] The initial entire team was named on January 9, 2022.[9] Alternates and substitutions have been published by the ISU on March 2, 2022.[17]
Men | Women | Pairs | Ice dance | |
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1 | Keegan Messing | Madeline Schizas | Vanessa James / Eric Radford | Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sørensen |
2 | Roman Sadovsky | Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier | ||
3 | Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha | |||
1st alt. | Nam Nguyen | Gabrielle Daleman | Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud (called up) | Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac |
2nd alt. | Conrad Orzel | Alison Schumacher | Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland | Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker |
3rd alt. | Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps | Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus |
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