2023-24 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

[surimi]

This thread serves as a quick and informative resource for 2023-24 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships in figure skating. Please feel free to post additions/changes, along with the source. Here is the thread for last season.

Retirements

Women
- Nana Araki (Japan)
- Marin Honda (Japan)
- Tomoe Kawabata (Japan)
- EunSoo Lim (South Korea)
- Nicole Schott (Germany)
- Valeria Shulskaya (Russia)
- Maia Sørensen (Denmark)
- Maria Talalaikina (Russia)
- unconfirmed - taking a break: Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (Russia)
- Sui Takeuchi (Japan)
- Darya Usacheva (Russia)

Men
- unconfirmed - taking a break: Mikhail Kolyada (Russia)
- Sumitada Moriguchi (Japan) - will focus on pairs
- Graham Newberry (Great Britain)
- Alexander Samarin (Russia)
- Haruya Sasaki (Japan)

Ice dance
- Emma Goodstadt (Canada)
- Volodymyr Horovyi (USA)
- Richard Kang In Kam (New Zealand)
- Misato Komatsubara (Japan)
- Anna Lavrova (USA)
- Tiffany Zagorski / Jonathan Guerreiro (Russia)

Pairs
- Gabriel Farand (Canada)
- Lucy Hay (Great Britain)
- Shoya Ichihashi (Japan)
- Gabriella Izzo (USA)
- Valeri Kolesov (Russia)
- Ekaterina Petushkova / Evgeny Malikov (Russia)
- Roman Pleshkov (Russia)
- Emmanuelle Proft / Nicolas Nadeau (Canada)
- Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (Russia)
- Cong Han (China)

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Splits

Ice dance
- Maria Bjørkli / James Koszuta (Norway)
- Louise Bordet / Thomas Gipoulou (France)
- Estelle Bouillet / Martin Chardain (France)
- Emmy Bronsard / Jacob Richmond (Canada)
- Sophia Bushell / Anthony Haddad (Great Britain)
- Nicole Calderari / Christian Murer (Switzerland)
- Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi (USA)
- Audra Gans / Michael Boutsan (Canada)
- Giorgia Galimberti / Matteo Libasse Mandelli (Italy)
- Emma Goodstadt / Christian Bennett (Canada)
- Catharina Guedes Tibau / Cayden Dawson (Brazil)
- Jenna Hauer / Ben Starr (USA)
- Vasilisa Kaganovskaia / Valeri Angelopol (Russia)
- Maria Kazakova / Giorgi Reviya (Georgia)
- Jinny Kim / Namu Lee (South Korea)
- Lou Koch / Alexander Buchholdt (Great Britain)
- Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto (Japan)
- Caroline Kravets / Jacob Stark (Canada)
- Anna Lavrova / Jonathan Rogers (USA)
- Harlow Lynella Stanley / Nikita Sosnenko (Mexico)
- Savanna Martel / William Oddson (Canada)
- Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov (USA)
- Chloe Mentha / Emile Deveau (Canada)
- Yahli Pedersen / Jeffrey Chen (USA)
- Andrea Psurna / Jachym Novak (Czech Republic)
- Dana Sabatini-Speciale / Nicholas Buelow (Canada)
- Elizaveta Shanaeva / Pavel Drozd (Russia)

Pairs
- Tilda Alteryd / Valtter Virtanen (Finland)
- Sofia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev (USA)
- Fiona Bombardier / Gabriel Farans (Canada)
- Daria Boyarintseva / Roman Pleshkov (Russia)
- Hye-Jin Cho / Harley Windsor (South Korea)
- Summer Homick / Marty Haubrich (Canada)
- Chelsea Liu / Balazs Nagy (USA)
- Lori-Ann Matte / Noël-Antoine Pierre (France)
- Brooke McIntosh / Benjamin Mimar (Canada)
- Nika Osipova / Dmitry Epstein (Netherlands)
- Ashlyn Schmitz / Tristan Taylor (Canada)
- Anastasiia Smirnova / Danylo Siianytsia (USA)
- Cayla Smith / Jared McPike (USA)
- Wenjing Sui / Cong Han (China)
- Oxana Vouillamoz / Flavien Giniaux (France)

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New partnerships
(pairs and couples in strikethrough have since split again)

Ice dance
- Sophia Bushell / Anthony Haddad (Great Britain)
- Emese Csiszer / Mark Shapiro (Hungary)
- Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu (Canada)
- Summer Homick / Nicholas Buelow (Canada)
- Cilla Laine / Urho Reina (Finland)
- Anya Lavrova / Jonathan Rogers (USA)
- Alisa Ovsiankina / Maximilien Rahier (France)
- Yahli Pedersen / Jeffrey Chen (USA)
- Philomène Sabourin / Raúl Bermejo (Spain)
- Agathe Tournadre / Thomas Gipoulou (France)
- Arina Ushakova and Valeriy Angelopol (Russia)
- Beatrice Ventura / Stefano Frasca (Italy)

Pairs
- Fiona Bombardier / Gabriel Farand (Canada)
- Fiona Bombardier / Benjamin Mimar (Canada)
- Hyejin Cho / Harley Windsor (South Korea)
- Gabriella Izzo / Thierry Ferland (Canada)
- Martina Ariano Kent / Charly Laliberté-Laurent (Canada)
- Lori-Ann Matte / Noël-Antoine Pierre (France)
- Chiara Michaela Pazienza / Maxim Knorr (Switzerland)
- Nora Rothenbühler / Mozes Jozsef Berei (Hungary)
- Haley Scott / Danylo Siianytsia (USA)
- Julia Szczecinina / Michał Woźniak (Poland)
- Taisiya Shcherbinina / Artem Petrov (Russia)

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Comebacks

- Courtney Hicks (USA)
- Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker (Canada) - Ice dance

 

[ladyjane]

Good to open up a new thread @surimi!

 

[AlexBreeze]

Mikhail Kolyada has announced on Channel One that he suspends his career.

 

[el henry]

Mikhail Kolyada has announced on Channel One that he suspends his career.

@AlexBreeze, can you explain what he meant by "Suspend"? Does that mean he is not competing this year, but he may or may not come back, or that he is retiring from competitive skating?

 

[Caliban]

@AlexBreeze, can you explain what he meant by "Suspend"? Does that mean he is not competing this year, but he may or may not come back, or that he is retiring from competitive skating?

Tatiana Mishina, in a conversation with Match TV, said that Mikhail Kolyada is still in thought.

"He is still thinking himself. So far, have made this decision. Final or not?.. He haven't talked to Alexey Nikolaevich yet, apparently, he decided to pause and think, see how and what will develop further"

 

[AlexBreeze]

@AlexBreeze, can you explain what he meant by "Suspend"? Does that mean he is not competing this year, but he may or may not come back, or that he is retiring from competitive skating?

On pause.

 

[surimi]

hmm, should I add 'on hiatus' as category then?

 

[Green Carrots]

So, Eunsoo Lim (Korea) officially stated her retirement I wish her all the best and hopefully she's happy now as a student and choreographer. She helps her former coach Hyunkyun Choi and has already made some beautiful programs for little skaters she published in Instagram recently. Moreover, she's a part of G-SHOW, big ice show in Korea. So, I really hope she's living her best times. Her achievements for korean figure skating will never be forgotten

 

[Mariott]

hmm, should I add 'on hiatus' as category then?

Especially for Russian figure skaters They don't like to say directly that they are ending their careers, they always suspend them. The last person to make an official statement about finishing, if I remember well, was Kovtun.

 

[ladyjane]

hmm, should I add 'on hiatus' as category then?

Or 'on hold'?

 

[kolyadafan2002]

Or 'on hold'?

That sounds like he's an item up for auction

 

[ladyjane]

It wasn't meant like that. I meant it more like 'the competitive career is on hold'. Many figure skaters say that when they are not sure they are going to return or not.

 

[surimi]

Okay, I solved the language issue by writing 'taking a break', then. At least I hope I did. :]
I'm sorry to hear of EunSoo's retirement, although it was to be expected, with the Korean ladies being very strong recently, and the field only grows deeper. EunSoo was lovely on the ice.

 

[macy]

So, Eunsoo Lim (Korea) officially stated her retirement I wish her all the best and hopefully she's happy now as a student and choreographer. She helps her former coach Hyunkyun Choi and has already made some beautiful programs for little skaters she published in Instagram recently. Moreover, she's a part of G-SHOW, big ice show in Korea. So, I really hope she's living her best times. Her achievements for korean figure skating will never be forgotten

wow, i'm sad to hear this. i liked her skating a lot. i wish her all the best and much happiness!

 

[theblade]

Okay, I solved the language issue by writing 'taking a break', then. At least I hope I did. :]

I'm thinking "taking a pause, becoz" myself.

 

[Flying Feijoa]

I'm thinking "taking a pause, becoz" myself.

Maybe 'just chilling' - or 'just warming up' since they're spending less of their time now in a chilly place
Ok I digress...

 

[moonvine]

Didn't I already say no more retirements were allowed? It's not an Olympic year so stop.

 

[4everchan]

Didn't I already say no more retirements were allowed? It's not an Olympic year so stop.

climate change is messing up the post-olympic migration.

ETA... sorry i didn't mean to trigger a reaction with this unplanned pun... omg... forgive me : i put it in smaller font now

 

[gleungc6]

Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu, Canada Dance

I.AM on Instagram: ""I AM est fier d'annoncer l'arrivée d'un nouveau couple au sein de la grande famille! Bienvenue à... Représentant le Canada 🇨🇦 ! Jamie Fournier & Everest Zhu Bienvenue dans la famille I AM! . . . I AM is proud to announce that

550 likes, 9 comments - iceacademyofmontrealJuly 11, 2023 on : ""I AM est fier d'annoncer l'arrivée d'un nouveau couple au sein de la grande famille! Bienvenue à... Représentant le Canada 🇨🇦..."

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[4everchan]

Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu, Canada Dance

I.AM on Instagram: ""I AM est fier d'annoncer l'arrivée d'un nouveau couple au sein de la grande famille! Bienvenue à... Représentant le Canada 🇨🇦 ! Jamie Fournier & Everest Zhu Bienvenue dans la famille I AM! . . . I AM is proud to announce that

550 likes, 9 comments - iceacademyofmontrealJuly 11, 2023 on : ""I AM est fier d'annoncer l'arrivée d'un nouveau couple au sein de la grande famille! Bienvenue à... Représentant le Canada 🇨🇦..."

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the championnats québécois d'été entry list had revealed this new partnership but now it's even more confirmed as IAM ! thanks for sharing it ! I like Everest who doesn't like him?