2025-26 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

[DemTuppesSeine]

Sihyeong Lee (KOR) has announced his retirement

 

[AlexBreeze]

Anastasia Marasanova (RUS, singles) has announced her retirement on her social media. She's intended to stay in FS but not as an athlete.

Edit: she specified that the reason was her health. She wants to become a coach and judge.

 

[saine]

Anjou Karino and Andrew Song (Ice Dance, Canada) have split. He's now on Ice Partner Search. They competed last week at Canadian Nationals and placed 13th in Juniors.

 

[saine]

Jari Kessler (Men, Croatia) talked in the mixed zone about being at his last Europeans and it being his last season.

He'll try for the World minimums to get to Prague, I hope he can get there.

 

[saine]

And Maurizio Zandron (Men, Austria) also said it would be his last Europeans before retiring too.

 

[saine]

More post-Nationals splits from Ice Partner Search.

Aurea Cincon-Debout/Earl Jesse Celestino (Ice Dance, Canada, placed 5th in Juniors)
Emilie Proulx/Corentin Cincon-Debout (Ice Dance, Canada, placed 11th in Juniors, he's the brother of Aurea)
Addyson McDanold/Aaron Felberbaum (Pairs, USA, placed 5th in Juniors)

 

[4everchan]

More post-Nationals splits from Ice Partner Search.

Aurea Cincon-Debout/Earl Jesse Celestino (Ice Dance, Canada, placed 5th in Juniors)
Emilie Proulx/Corentin Cincon-Debout (Ice Dance, Canada, placed 11th in Juniors, he's the brother of Aurea)
Addyson McDanold/Aaron Felberbaum (Pairs, USA, placed 5th in Juniors)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! And of course, the Cinçon-Debout are dual citizens... so we may lose them

 

[saine]

Laurence Briere/Julien Levesque (Ice Dance, Canada) also split, both are on Ice Partner Search, now I'm off to cry

 

[4everchan]

Laurence Briere/Julien Levesque (Ice Dance, Canada) also split, both are on Ice Partner Search, now I'm off to cry

ok... this is even a bigger NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo. NO OOOOOO NOOOOOOOOO .

@saine maybe it's best to avoid IPS for a couple more months...

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

According to IPS Laura Finelli and Massimiliano Bucchiarelli (Dance, ITA) have split too, can't remember if that's been posted here already...she is on IPS, he isn't...

 

[saine]

Beau Callahan and Vladimir Furman (Canada, Pairs) have split. Beau is looking for a new partner per her Instagram post.

 

[4everchan]

gosh.. it never ends...

 

[saine]

From the Skate Berlin International entries, Irmak Yucel and Danil Pak (Ice Dance, Turkiye) have gotten back together. They're entered for Junior Ice Dance - https://app-cdn.sportity.com/44cdc7...3-40704a81b90e_SBI2026_EntriesPerCategory.pdf

 

[4everchan]

From the Skate Berlin International entries, Irmak Yucel and Danil Pak (Ice Dance, Turkiye) have gotten back together. They're entered for Junior Ice Dance - https://app-cdn.sportity.com/44cdc7...3-40704a81b90e_SBI2026_EntriesPerCategory.pdf

this is probably the first time in a long time that you post good news in this thread LOL

 

[saine]

Jackie Wong confirmed with Tomoki Hiwatashi (Men, USA) that 4CC was his last competition and it was a retirement announcement in the kiss and cry.

 

[labgoat]

Tomoki I will miss you so much

 

[yuumagical]

Jackie Wong confirmed with Tomoki Hiwatashi (Men, USA) that 4CC was his last competition and it was a retirement announcement in the kiss and cry.

Nooooo I had been meaning to send him a fan letter after US Nationals and finally sent it a couple of days ago! Why did this have to happen before he received it?

Tomoki I will miss you so much

I'm gonna miss him a lot too! I only got to see him live during his last junior season, but his performance during the free skate at 4CC 2019 was something else. He always brought a lot of joy to the ice, no matter what!

 

[elbkup]

I will miss him beyond measure; never missed a chance to watch him skate since he was coached by Kori Ade. He has done well the last couple of seasons with the move to Japanese coaches. I wish him every success in the future. Is it known what his plans are moving forward?

 

[el henry]

I will miss Tomoki and his split jumps, so wonderful! Also his "spit take" reaction in the junior worlds KnC will be epic for years to come.

I wish him best of luck in the future.

 

[elektra blue]

Jackie Wong confirmed with Tomoki Hiwatashi (Men, USA) that 4CC was his last competition and it was a retirement announcement in the kiss and cry.

now that he was finding some consistency? what a shame! i'll be missing him