2023 Skate Canada International Explained

2023 Skate Canada International
Comptype:	Grand Prix
Startdate:	October 27
Enddate:	29
Skatingseason:	2023–24
Location:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Host:	Skate Canada
Venue:	Thunderbird Sports Centre
Championmen:	Sōta Yamamoto
Championwomen:	Kaori Sakamoto
Championpairs:	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps
Championdance:	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
Previouscomp:	2022 Skate Canada International
Nextcomp:	2024 Skate Canada International
Previousgp:	2023 Skate America
Nextgp:	2023 Grand Prix de France

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.

Entries

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

Country	Men^[3]	Women^[4]	Pairs^[5]	Ice dance^[6]
			Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore
	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
				Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu
		Maé-Bérénice Méité
			Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan
				Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson
			Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko
	Mark Gorodnitsky
	Matteo Rizzo	Lara Naki Gutmann	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise
	Kao Miura Kazuki Tomono Sōta Yamamoto	Rino Matsuike Kaori Sakamoto Rinka Watanabe
	Mikhail Shaidorov
				Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius
			Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba
	Cha Jun-hwan	Kim Chae-yeon
	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	Notes
Date	Skater(s)	Date	Skater(s)
Women	August 24	Nicole Schott	August 31	Maé-Bérénice Méité	Break from competition	^[7]
September 28	Rika Kihira	September 29	Rino Matsuike	Injury	^[8] ^[9]
Men	October 13	Roman Sadovsky	October 16	Aleksa Rakic		^[10]

Results

Men's singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Sōta Yamamoto		258.42	1	89.56	3	168.86
	Kao Miura		257.89	4	80.80	1	177.09
	Matteo Rizzo		246.01	8	74.99	2	171.02
4	Kazuki Tomono		245.12	3	81.63	5	163.49
5	Mikhail Shaidorov		241.65	5	79.18	4	165.47
6	Mark Gorodnitsky		225.35	11	70.69	6	156.66
7	Wesley Chiu		221.54	7	76.94	8	144.60
8	Liam Kapeikis		220.15	10	71.59	7	148.56
9	Cha Jun-hwan		216.61	2	86.18	11	130.43
10	Conrad Orzel		213.22	6	77.68	10	135.44
11			210.78	12	70.18	9	140.60
12	Aleksa Rakic		189.38	9	72.56	12	116.82

Women's singles

Rank	Skater	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Kaori Sakamoto		226.13	1	75.13	1	151.00
	Kim Chae-yeon		201.15	2	70.31	4	130.84
	Rino Matsuike		198.62	3	66.29	3	132.33
4	Madeline Schizas		189.91	8	57.44	2	132.47
5	Lindsay Thorngren		189.52	5	61.99	5	127.53
6	Rinka Watanabe		182.08	7	57.52	6	124.56
7	Audrey Shin		177.14	4	65.19	9	111.95
8	Starr Andrews		174.82	6	61.07	8	113.75
9	Lara Naki Gutmann		165.73	11	50.00	7	115.73
10	Kaiya Ruiter		155.44	9	55.82	11	99.62
11	Sara-Maude Dupuis		151.95	10	52.17	10	99.78
12	Maé-Bérénice Méité		121.13	12	41.65	12	79.48

Pairs

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
	Deanna Stellato-Dudek / Maxime Deschamps		214.64	1	72.25	1	142.39
	Maria Pavlova / Alexei Sviatchenko		187.78	4	62.22	2	125.56
	Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise		181.42	2	65.83	4	115.59
4	Anastasia Golubeva / Hektor Giotopoulos Moore		179.61	3	62.80	3	116.81
5	Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier		168.12	7	57.14	5	110.98
6	Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar		166.00	5	59.83	7	106.17
7	Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba		165.01	6	57.17	6	107.84
8	Letizia Roscher / Luis Schuster		137.54	8	52.07	8	85.47

Ice dance

Rank	Team	Nation	Total points	RD		FD
	Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier		219.01	1	87.55	1	131.46
	Lilah Fear / Lewis Gibson		209.55	2	83.51	2	126.04
	Allison Reed / Saulius Ambrulevičius		192.01	3	75.60	3	116.41
4	Oona Brown / Gage Brown		187.62	4	73.91	4	113.71
5	Emilea Zingas / Vadym Kolesnik		184.96	5	72.25	5	112.71
6	Eva Pate / Logan Bye		181.46	6	72.12	6	109.34
7	Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer		173.34	7	68.31	8	105.03
8	Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan		172.52	8	66.14	7	106.38
9	Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs		168.79	9	65.97	9	102.82
10	Wang Shiyue / Liu Xinyu		160.61	10	64.66	10	95.95

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023 Skate Canada International. Skate Canada. June 23, 2023.
2. 1674055944261468161. AnythingGOEs. 2023/24 Grand Prix Assignments. Anything GOEs. June 28, 2023.
3. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Men: Entries. International Skating Union.
4. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Women: Entries. International Skating Union.
5. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Pairs: Entries. International Skating Union.
6. Web site: ISU GP Skate Canada International 2023 - Ice Dance: Entries. International Skating Union.
7. Web site: ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women: As of August 31, 2023 . August 31, 2023 . International Skating Union.
8. Web site: https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2023-24/grand-prix-4/entries-8/31416-women-3/file . ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2023/24 - Women . September 28, 2023 . International Figure Skating.
9. Kihira Rika . rika_kihira . September 28, 2023 . 1707334590459679146 . 皆様いつも応援ありがとうございます。 . Japanese . Thank you everyone for your continued support..
10. AnythingGOE . Aleksa Rakic has been assigned to Skate Canada. October 16, 2023 . 1713839395344662759.