{"id":62610,"date":"2026-02-23T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=62610"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:41:45","slug":"figure-skating-team-announced-for-2026-isu-figure-skating-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=62610","title":{"rendered":"Figure skating team announced for 2026 ISU Figure Skating worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OTTAWA, ONT.:<\/strong> Following the conclusion of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, where Canadian skaters set new personal best scores, Skate Canada has named its team for the upcoming ISU World Figure Skating Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The championships will be held in Prague, Czechia from March 24-29, 2026. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team will be comprised of twelve seasoned athletes, representing the country in women\u2019s, men\u2019s, pairs and ice dance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event marks the end of a fantastic season that saw senior figure skaters take home close to 25 international medals. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skate Canada has a robust selection criterion for each ISU Championships to undertake the selection of athletes and teams who will represent Canada at these events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skate Canada\u2019s selection criteria for ISU Championships can be found on skatecanada.ca<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TEAM CANADA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name | Age | Hometown | Coach<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women<\/strong>
Madeline Schizas | 23 | Oakville, Ont. | Nancy Lemaire<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Men<\/strong>
Stephen Gogolev | 21 | Toronto, Ont. | Lee Barkell \u00a0

Pairs<\/strong>
Kelly Ann Laurin | 20 | St-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Que. & Loucas \u00c9thier | 25 | Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby, Que. | St\u00e9phanie Valois \u00a0
Lia Pereira | 21 | Milton, Ont. & Trennt Michaud | 29 | Trenton, Ont. | Alison Purkiss

Ice Dance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piper Gilles | 34 | Toronto, Ont. & Paul Poirier | 34 | Unionville, Ont. | Carol Lane & Juris Razgulajevs \u00a0
Marjorie Lajoie | 25 | Boucherville, Que. & Zachary Lagha | 26 | Saint-Hubert, Que. | Marie-France Dubreuil <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Jade Lauriault | 29 | Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines, Que. & Romain Le Gac | 30 | Laval, Que. | Scott Moir & Cara Moir <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OTTAWA, ONT.: Following the conclusion of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, where Canadian skaters set new personal best scores, Skate Canada has named its team for the upcoming ISU World Figure Skating Championships. The championships will be held in Prague, Czechia from March 24-29, 2026. \u00a0 The team will be comprised of twelve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1923,6846,6322,10416,10417,10418,10419,10420],"class_list":["post-62610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-canada","tag-czech-republic","tag-figure-skating","tag-isu-figure-skating-world-championships","tag-madeline-schizas","tag-piper-giilles","tag-skate-canada","tag-stephen-gogolev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}