2026 Canadian Nationals: General Info and Pregame Chat

[4everchan]

The 2026 Canadian National Skating Championships features the country’s best junior and senior athletes in the men, women, pairs, ice dance, and synchronized skating disciplines. The event will take place January 5-11, 2026, in Gatineau, QC, at the Slush Puppie Centre.

• Official Site
• Tickets
• Schedule
• Livestream
• Livestream en français
• Start Orders /Results

Note: The full list of athlete entries will be confirmed in December 2025 upon completion of the 2025-2026 Skate Canada Challenge.

 

[saine]

I am tracking byes and Challenge/Nationals entry quotas here.

I'm updating as international entries come in. Domestic categories are based on the latest category the skater/team is entered for in the latest domestic competition. Challenge entries tracks the possible number of skaters/teams that each section can send to Skate Canada Challenge to qualify for Nationals. Nationals entries tracks the available spots at Nationals as skaters earn byes to it.

There are three types of byes that I am tracking:

Nationals - direct entry to Nationals, they will skate in reverse order of World Standings in the short program after the skaters who qualify through Skate Canada Challenge. If they choose to compete at Skate Canada Challenge, their result there will not have any effect on their bye or on their skating order in the short program.

They qualify for it with one of these criteria:
- top 3 at 2025 Senior Nationals
- Grand Prix assignment for the 2025-26 season
- qualification to Junior Grand Prix Final
- international assignment within 7 days of Skate Canada Challenge (Golden Spin of Zagreb, Warsaw Cup and Tallinn Trophy would be Challengers that fit this criteria for this season.)

Challenge - direct entry to Skate Canada Challenge, they will not count towards the section's quota of entries for Challenge.

The criteria for the bye is a Senior international competition assigned by Skate Canada. Lake Placid Ice Dance International does not count for these byes.

Challenge - Conditional - direct entry to Skate Canada Challenge, the bye will need confirmation by competing at Sectional Championships. They will not count towards the section's quota of entries for Challenge. Their bye will be confirmed regardless of their result at Sectional Championships. If they have an international assignment within 14 days of Sectional Championships, that will count as confirmation of the bye.

The crtieria for the bye is a Junior Grand Prix assignment or Junior international assignment. The Junior competition at Cranberry Cup does not count for these byes.

 

[saine]

Google Calendar Sectionals Schedule for November 6-9 (Web version that defaults to EST)

This includes Junior and Senior events only for Ontario, Quebec, BC and Saskatchewan.

 

[RatedPG]

Google Calendar Sectionals Schedule for November 6-9 (Web version that defaults to EST)

This includes Junior and Senior events only for Ontario, Quebec, BC and Saskatchewan.

This will come in handy. OMG!! There is too many competitions next weekend.

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

The schedule is online. Is pairs in the middle of the night for me again? Of course. Do I care? Of course NOT.

 

[4everchan]

For those who missed it, Challenge was this weekend. A few skaters were cut off from Nationals there (especially in Women, both senior and junior).

Please visit the Challenge thread for more information. Entries to Nationals will be posted in the next couple days and I will link to them soon.

 

[4everchan]

As provided by @saine

Entries for Nationals should look like this

(if you are too anxious and want to know right away)

S

Post in thread '2025-26 Skate Canada Challenge | Nov 27-30'

Nov 30, 2025

Here's what the approximate start orders should be based on the Challenge results and world standings of skaters with byes:

	Men	Women	Pairs	Ice Dance
Junior	Antony Pard QC James Moskowitz ON Eric Swalm SK Liam Schmidt QC Jonathon Moravec ON Lincoln Clarke ON Tehryn Lee BC Petro Chebotarov ON Tommy Dayong Liu QC Nico Conforti BC Jake Willing-Sato BC Christopher Manis BC Henrick Chan ON Travis Trang AB James Cha ON Ethan Luo ON William Chan BC Parker Heiderich AB	Konstantina Lock BC Alena Kolomiets ON...

• saine

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[gsk8]

Here are current entries. SC will update online soon!

SR MEN

Name	Section	Qualification
Alec Guinzbourg	ON	CHA
Aleksa Rakic	BC/YT	Bye
Anthony Paradis	QC	Bye
Bruce Waddell	ON	CHA
David Bondar	ON	CHA
David Howes	MB	CHA
David Li	BC/YT	Bye
David Shteyngart	ON	CHA
Edward Nicholas Vasii	QC	CHA
Grayson Long	ON	CHA
Jake Ellis	ON	CHA
John Kim	ON	CHA
Keegan Messing	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Matthew Newnham	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Roman Sadovsky	ON	Bye
Shohei Law	BC/YT	CHA
Stephen Gogolev	ON	Bye
Wesley Chiu	BC/YT	Bye

SR WOMEN

Name	Section	Qualification
Amy Shao Ning Yang	BC/YT	CHA
Breken Brezden	MB	CHA
Cristina Lyons	ON	CHA
Fée-Ann Landry	QC	CHA
Gabrielle Daleman	ON	CHA
Hetty Shi	ON	CHA
Justine Miclette	QC	CHA
Kaiya Ruiter	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Katherine Medland Spence	ON	Bye
Lulu Lin	ON	CHA
Madeline Schizas	ON	Bye
Marie-Maude Pomerleau	QC	CHA
Megan Woodley	ON	CHA
Minsol Kwon	ON	CHA
Reese Rose	ON	CHA
Sandrine Blais	QC	CHA
Sarah-Maude Dupuis	QC	Bye
Uliana Shiryaeva	BC/YT	Bye

SR PAIRS

Name	Section	Qualification
Ava Kemp / Yohnatan Elizarov	ON	Bye
Deanna Stellato / Maxime Deschamps	QC	Bye
Eliana Secunda / Thierry Ferland	QC	CHA
Jazmine Desrochers / Kieran Thrasher	ON	Bye
Kelly Ann Laurin / Loucas Éthier	QC	Bye
Lia Perreira/Trennt Michaud	ON	Bye
Miyu Yunoki / Tristan Taylor	SK	CHA

SR ICE DANCE

Name	Section	Qualification
Addison Pehl / Daniel Yu	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer	QC	Bye
Alisa Korneva / Kieran MacDonald	ON	CHA
Alyssa Robinson / Jacob Portz	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Amanda Urban / Peter Beaumont	ON	CHA
Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang	BC/YT	CHA
Éliane Foroglou-Gadoury / Luke Anderson	QC	CHA
Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu	QC	CHA
Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers	ON	CHA
Lucy Hancock / Aiden Dotzert	ON	CHA
Majorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha	QC	Bye
Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac	QC	Bye
Nadiia Bashynska / Noé Perron	ON	CHA
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier	ON	Bye
Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren	QC	CHA

JR MEN

Name	Section	Qualification
Antony Pard	QC	CHA
Christopher Manis	BC/YT	CHA
Eric Swalm	SK	CHA
Ethan Luo	ON	CHA
Henrick Chan	ON	CHA
Jake Willing-Sato	BC/YT	CHA
James Cha	ON	CHA
James Moskowitz	ON	CHA
Jonathon Moravec	ON	CHA
Liam Schmidt	QC	CHA
Lincoln Clarke	ON	CHA
Nico Conforti	BC/YT	CHA
Parker Heiderich	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Petro Chebotarov	QC	CHA
Tehryn Lee	BC/YT	CHA
Tommy Dayoung Liu	QC	CHA
Travis Trang	AB/NT/NU	CHA
William Chan	BC/YT	CHA

JR WOMEN

Name	Section	Qualification
Konstantina Lock	BC/YT	CHA
Alena Kolomiets	ON	CHA
Chantalle-Elizabeth Chipilo	ON	CHA
Mila Marleau	ON	CHA
Julianne Hébert	QC	CHA
Kaydee Kallay	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Maélia Ruel	QC	CHA
Yaena Nam	QC	CHA
Uxia Gonzalez-Abraldes	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Hannah Quinn	ON	CHA
Mégane Vallières	QC	CHA
Ksenia Krouzkevitch	ON	CHA
Kaylee Sun	ON	CHA
Calissa Adlem	BC/YT	CHA
Camila Volkova	QC	CHA
Victoria Barakhtina	ON	CHA
Quinn Startek	ON	CHA
Lia Cho	AB/NT/NU	CHA

JR PAIRS

Name	Section	Qualification
Amy Ritchie / Mitchell Dunn	BC/YT	CHA
Ava Cheung / Stephen Parc Qu Lee	BC/YT	CHA
Beau Callahan / Vladimir Furman	QC	CHA
Brianna Dion / Jacob Cote	ON	CHA
Julia Quattrocchi / Étienne Lacasse	QC	Bye
Rebecca Laiu / Marty Haubrich	ON	CHA

JR ICE DANCE

Name	Section	Qualification
Anjou Karino / Andrew Song	AB/NT/NU	CHA
Annabelle Théroux / Rafael Gossard	QC	CHA
Auréa Cinçon-Debout / Earl Jesse Celestino	QC	CHA
Charlie Anderson / Cayden Dawson	ON	CHA
Émilie Proulx / Corentin Cincon-Debout	QC	CHA
Hannah Li / Nathan Feng	BC/YT	CHA
Laurence Brière / Julien Lévesque	QC	CHA
Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys	ON	Bye
Madelaine Breau / Kurtis Che	BC/YT	CHA
Madison Tong / Michael Boutsan	ON	CHA
Olivia Corneil / Alexandre Emery	ON	CHA
Olympia Kalaganis / Émile Deveau	QC	CHA
Rilee Eby / Jacob Stark	ON	CHA
Summer Homick / Nicholas Buelow	ON	CHA
Victoria Carandiuc / Andrei Carandiuc	QC	CHA

 

[saine]

JR PAIRS

Name	Section	Qualification
Amy Ritchie / Mitchell Dunn	BC/YT	CHA
Ava Cheung / Stephen Parc Qu Lee	BC/YT	CHA
Beau Callahan / Vladimir Furman	QC	CHA
Brianna Dion / Jacob Cote	ON	CHA
Julia Quattrocchi / Étienne Lacasse	QC	Bye
Rebecca Laiu / Marty Haubrich	ON	CHA

I noticed that the Junior Pairs schedule was adjusted to be shorter, I guess this means Lucia/James and Wong/Conforti are out.

Edit - Updated schedule since I mentioned it - https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-CDN-JR-SR-Schedule-Dec-8.pdf

 

[moonvine]

Oh thank God Keegan made it.

 

[4everchan]

Oh thank God Keegan made it.

Only one senior man was going to get cut after Challenge.. so it would have been quite a surprise If Keegan didn't make it.

 

[4everchan]

Livestream updated in the OP.

Dailymotion

www.dailymotion.com

 

[4everchan]

And bit by bit, the website got updated. New this morning, start orders and results.

Individual event threads will come over the holidays.

But for now,

https://scitops.blob.core.windows.net/assets/cssWebWidget/index.html?lang=en&event=019b04be-f748-7889-95b5-ef6e4fa48bc0&detailLocation=%20https://skatecanada.ca/results/

 

[saine]

Stephen and Roman ending the Senior Men short, that is so fitting. I'll miss their head-to-heads.

 

[4everchan]

Stephen and Roman ending the Senior Men short, that is so fitting. I'll miss their head-to-heads.

hopefully there will be another head-to head in the LP

 

[RatedPG]

I love this head to head.
So far, tied 2:2 heading into Nationals

 

[saine]

French livestream link - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9vth54

 

[moonvine]

Only one senior man was going to get cut after Challenge.. so it would have been quite a surprise If Keegan didn't make it.

I don’t understand the Canadian system. I should probably try harder.

 

[saine]

Kevin Reynolds is on the tech panel for Senior Women, Junior Women and Junior Men.

 

[RatedPG]

Kevin Reynolds is on the tech panel for Senior Women, Junior Women and Junior Men.

I recall him being a focused carrot giver. So, should be a fair competition in 3/4 events