2024-25 Retirements, Splits and New Partnerships

[AlexBreeze]

RUS pairs

Split: Maria Simonova & Martin Breslavskiy
Teamed up: Maria Simonova & Petr Alekseenko

 

[saine]

Annika Behnke/Kole Sauve (Pairs, Canada) were removed from the Junior Pairs TES statistics page, current as of June 18, 2024.

Other Canadian teams that split/retired were removed from the statistics. They're registered as singles for several domestic competitions in Canada, so this is confirmation that they have split.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Beau Callahan / Christophe Roch (CAN, Jr Pairs) have split. Christophe is on Ice Partner Search: https://icepartnersearch.com/showbio.php?i=7687

 

[Jumping_Bean]

And among the splits, there's a new Ice Dance partnership for JPN: Ayumi Shibayama / Tomoki Kimura

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Another split + retirement + new partnership:
Hilda Taylor / Nolen Hickey (FIN, Jr Ice Dance) have split, as Nolen has retired:


Hilda Taylor has paired up with Alexander Buchholdt (formerly GBR) per the entry list for JGP Riga.

 

[saine]

Liam Carr (Ice Dance, GBR) announced his retirement.

This means that Layla Karnes/Liam Carr are no longer a team.

 

[LadyB]

Laura Barquero and Marco Zandron (ESP) have officially split per Marco's Instagram post. Marco was spotted with Brooke McIntosh at a pairs camp earlier in the summer

Yeah, under the watchful eye of Dima Savin. Klimov team grows and grows

 

[saine]

Tae Ok Ryom/Kum Chol Han are a new Pairs team for North Korea.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Tae Ok Ryom/Kum Chol Han are a new Pairs team for North Korea.

Both of them were good with their former partners, so they'll definitely be in the hunt for Olympic qualification (which is probably why we're going to be seeing them now).

I wonder if a unified team for the figure skating team competition could happen like the Ice Hockey team at the 2018 Olympics. South Korea has competitive entries in both singles disciplines and a decent ice dance team, but no pairs team.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Tae Ok Ryom/Kum Chol Han are a new Pairs team for North Korea.

They were recently seen in Novogorsk.

 

[saine]

Charlie Anderson/Cayden Dawson are a new Junior Ice Dance team for Canada. Charlie previously competed in Senior Ice Dance with Luke Anderson. Cayden previously competed with Catharina Guedes Tibau for Brazil.

Source

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Daniela Ivanitskiy / Matthew Sperry are a new ice dance team for Finland. They competed together at the Finnish test skates, in senior ice dance.

Matthew previously competed with Kristina Bland for the US; Daniela previously competed with David Goldshetyn for Finland.

Source: https://x.com/AnythingGOE/status/1822670477740892170

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

Daniela Ivanitskiy / Matthew Sperry are a new ice dance team for Finland. They competed together at the Finnish test skates, in senior ice dance.

Matthew previously competed with Kristina Bland for the US; Daniela previously competed with David Goldshetyn for Finland.

Source: https://x.com/AnythingGOE/status/1822670477740892170

Daniela and her former partner, David Goldshetyn, trained with Matthew and his former partner, Kristina Bland, under Igor Shpilband in Detroit. So, Daniela and Matthew probably began working together after they both lost their former partners. Looks like a good fit for both. Plus, it's nice for Matthew to be able to rep Finland since the U.S. is stocked full of talented ice dancers with few opportunities to break through to the top.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

New pair for Iceland (in fact, the very first pair for Iceland): Júlía Sylvía Gunnarsdóttir / Manuel Piazza



Julia was a singles skater before and Manuel (obviously) competed for Italy with Anna Valesi.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

^^ Ah, how cool for Iceland!

The way these two are staring into each other's eyes, I imagine they have known each other for awhile as competitors and friends in the skating world. It appears they decided to form an interesting pair team post Piazza's split with Valesi. Are they training in Italy? In any case, Iceland is seemingly conducive as a location for building ice skating talent and an enthusiastic, albeit chill audience!

 

[saine]

Eliane Foroglou-Gadoury/Luke Anderson are a new ice dance team, I'm assuming Canada since they have Quebec clubs listed.

Source

 

[ladyjane]

Dutch singles skater in women, Lindsay van Zundert, is retiring at the age of 19.
Source:

Kunstschaatsster Lindsay van Zundert (19) stopt: 'Het heeft geen zin meer'

Kunstschaatsster Lindsay van Zundert heeft op negentienjarige leeftijd een punt achter haar carrière gezet. De Nederlandse heeft het gevoel dat het geen zin meer heeft om alles op te offeren voor haar sport.

www.nu.nl

 

[surimi]

Dutch singles skater in women, Lindsay van Zundert, is retiring at the age of 19.
Source:

Kunstschaatsster Lindsay van Zundert (19) stopt: 'Het heeft geen zin meer'

Kunstschaatsster Lindsay van Zundert heeft op negentienjarige leeftijd een punt achter haar carrière gezet. De Nederlandse heeft het gevoel dat het geen zin meer heeft om alles op te offeren voor haar sport.

www.nu.nl

That's a pity as she was quite a memorable skater, but I wish her the best in her new life path. Did she give any reasons?

 

[ladyjane]

That's a pity as she was quite a memorable skater, but I wish her the best in her new life path. Did she give any reasons?

She did. She found herself having lost the motivation to train, especially since her two Idols died at the beginning of the year. Both Joan Haanappel and Sjoukje Dijkstra (Olympic champion 1964) inspired her and their deaths were a blow.

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Yahli Pedersen / Benjamin Starr are a new US Ice Dance team.
They were added to the ISP today.