Skate Canada International

For the domestic competition, see Skate Canada Challenge.

Skate Canada International
Status	Active
Genre	ISU Grand Prix
Frequency	Annual
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	1973
Previous event	2024 Skate Canada International
Next event	2025 Skate Canada International
Organised by	Skate Canada

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the men's event at the 2017 Skate Canada International: Shoma Uno of Japan (center), Jason Brown of the United States (left), and Alexander Samarin of Russia (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the women's event at the 2018 Skate Canada International: Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia (center), Mako Yamashita of Japan (left), and Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the pairs event at the 2011 Skate Canada International: Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia (center), Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China (left), and Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada (right)

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the ice dance event at the 2016 Skate Canada International: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada (center), Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States (left), and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada (right)

Skate Canada International is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organised and hosted by Skate Canada. The first Skate Canada competition was held in 1973 in Calgary, Alberta. When the ISU launched the Champions Series (later renamed the Grand Prix Series) in 1995, Skate Canada International was one of the five qualifying events. It has been a Grand Prix event every year, except for 2020, when Skate Canada was forced to cancel the event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn points based on their results at the qualifying competitions each season, and the top skaters or teams in each discipline are invited to then compete at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.

Patrick Chan of Canada currently holds the record for winning the most Skate Canada titles in men's singles (with six), while Michelle Kwan of the United States and Joannie Rochette of Canada are tied for winning the most titles in women's singles (with three each). Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany, are tied for winning the most titles in pair skating (with four each). Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada hold the record in ice dance (with seven).

History

Between 1923 and 1971, the Canadian Figure Skating Association, which changed its name to Skate Canada in 2000, ^[1] and the U.S. Figure Skating Association co-hosted the North American Figure Skating Championships. At this time, medal contenders at the World Figure Skating Championships and the Winter Olympics came from either Europe or North America. The North American Championships allowed Canadian and American skaters the opportunity to compete at a comparable event to the European Figure Skating Championships. The championships were held every other year, with Canada and the United States alternating as hosts, and only skaters from Canada and the United States were eligible to compete. ^[2]

At a planning meeting held in April 1972, representatives from the Canadian Figure Skating Association announced Canada's plans to withdraw from the North American Championships. With one of the two participating nations out, this effectively marked the end of the championships. The delegation from the U.S. Figure Skating Association was unaware at the time that the Canadian Figure Skating Association was already in the planning stages of launching their own international skating competition. ^[2]

The first edition of the Skate Canada International, then simply called Skate Canada, was held in 1973 in Calgary, Alberta. ^[3] Nine countries were invited to participate: Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, the Soviet Union, the United States, and West Germany. ^[2] Each nation could field one entry in each of three events – men's singles, women's singles, and ice dance – while Canada fielded three entries in each event. Toller Cranston and Lynn Nightingale, both of Canada, won the men's and women's events, respectively, while Hilary Green and Glyn Watts of Great Britain won the ice dance event. ^[2]

Canada did not hold the competition in 1979 after reaching an agreement with the U.S. Figure Skating Association to accommodate the Olympic test event at Lake Placid, New York, in anticipation of the 1980 Winter Olympics. ^[2] In 1987, Skate Canada hosted their own test event at the Olympic Saddledome in Calgary, site of the 1988 Winter Olympics. ^[4]

Compulsory figures, which had been a required element of men's and women's single skating since the beginning, were retired after the 1988 competition. ^[5] In 1989, Skate Canada unveiled three new events: men's artistic programs, women's artistic programs, and four skating. ^[5] The artistic events – later rechristened "interpretive programs" – required each skater to present a 2:30 minute program with an emphasis on musical interpretation. No double Axels or triple-rotation jumps were permitted, and skaters had total latitude over their choice of music and costume, even allowing for vocal music, which was not allowed in regular competition at this time. ^[5] Four skating was not simply two sets of pair skaters performing together; but rather, four individual skaters performing a single routine. This routine included solo jumps, spins, paired throw jumps, paired lifts, paired combination spins, death spirals – all with an exchange of partners – as well as four-person combination spins, lifts, and death spirals. ^[5]

Beginning with the 1995–96 season, the International Skating Union (ISU) launched the Champions Series – later renamed the Grand Prix Series – which, at its inception, consisted of five qualifying competitions and the Champions Series Final. This allowed skaters to perfect their programs earlier in the season, as well as compete against the skaters with whom they would later compete at the World Championships. This series also provided the viewing public with additional televised skating, which was in high demand. ^[2] The five qualifying competitions during this inaugural season were the 1995 Nations Cup, the 1995 NHK Trophy, the 1995 Skate America, the 1995 Skate Canada, and the 1995 Trophée de France. ^[6] Skaters earned points based on their results in their respective competitions and the top skaters or teams in each discipline were invited to compete at the Champions Series Final. ^[2] Skate Canada International has been a qualifying event of the Grand Prix Series every year since, except for 2020, when rising COVID-19 cases in Ontario forced its cancellation. The competition had been scheduled to take place in Ottawa with no audience present, but Skate Canada and city officials decided to cancel it altogether. ^[7]

The 2025 Skate Canada International is scheduled to be held from 31 October to 2 November at the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. ^[8]

Medalists

From left to right: The reigning Skate Canada International champions: Ilia Malinin of the United States (men's singles); Kaori Sakamoto of Japan (women's singles); Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada (pair skating); and Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1973	Calgary	Toller Cranston	Ron Shaver	Minoru Sano	[3]
1974	Kitchener	Ron Shaver	Minoru Sano	Charles Tickner	[9]
1975	Edmonton	Toller Cranston	Ron Shaver	Terry Kubicka	[10]
1976	Ottawa	Ron Shaver	Robin Cousins	David Santee	[11]
1977	Moncton	Robin Cousins	Charles Tickner	Scott Cramer	[12]
1978	Vancouver	Fumio Igarashi		Brian Pockar	[13]
1979	No competition held				[2]
1980	Calgary	Scott Hamilton	Brian Pockar	David Santee	[14]
1981	Ottawa	Norbert Schramm	Brian Orser	Jozef Sabovčík	[15]
1982	Kitchener	Brian Boitano		Heiko Fischer	[16]
1983	Halifax	Brian Orser	Grzegorz Filipowski	Masaru Ogawa	[17]
1984	Victoria				[18]
1985	London	Jozef Sabovčík	Scott Williams	Grzegorz Filipowski	[19]
1986	Regina	Vitali Egorov	Christopher Bowman		[20]
1987	Calgary	Brian Orser	Brian Boitano	Viktor Petrenko	[21]
1988	Thunder Bay	Kurt Browning	Viktor Petrenko	Angelo D'Agostino	[22]
1989	Cornwall	Petr Barna	Paul Wylie	Daniel Weiss	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Kurt Browning	Grzegorz Filipowski	Mark Mitchell	[23]
1991	London	Elvis Stojko	Vasili Eremenko	Paul Wylie	[24]
1992	Victoria		Scott Davis	Éric Millot	[25]
1993	Ottawa	Kurt Browning	Mark Mitchell	Steven Cousins	[26]
1994	Red Deer	Elvis Stojko	Michael Shmerkin	Sébastien Britten	[27]
1995	Saint John	Alexei Urmanov		Éric Millot	[28]
1996	Kitchener	Elvis Stojko	Ilia Kulik	Scott Davis	[29]
1997	Halifax			Michael Tyllesen	[30]
1998	Kamloops	Evgeni Plushenko	Elvis Stojko	Szabolcs Vidrai	[31]
1999	Saint John	Alexei Yagudin		Takeshi Honda	[32]
2000	Mississauga		Todd Eldredge	Matthew Savoie	[33]
2001	Saskatoon		Elvis Stojko	Todd Eldredge	[34]
2002	Quebec City	Takeshi Honda	Emanuel Sandhu	Stanislav Timchenko	[35]
2003	Mississauga	Evgeni Plushenko	Jeffrey Buttle	Takeshi Honda	[36]
2004	Halifax	Emanuel Sandhu	Ben Ferreira	Jeffrey Buttle	[37]
2005	St. John's		Jeffrey Buttle	Nobunari Oda	[38]
2006	Victoria	Stéphane Lambiel	Daisuke Takahashi	Johnny Weir	[39]
2007	Quebec City	Brian Joubert	Kevin van der Perren	Jeffrey Buttle	[40]
2008	Ottawa	Patrick Chan	Ryan Bradley	Evan Lysacek	[41]
2009	Kitchener	Jeremy Abbott	Daisuke Takahashi	Alban Préaubert	[42]
2010	Kingston	Patrick Chan	Nobunari Oda	Adam Rippon	[43]
2011	Mississauga		Javier Fernández	Daisuke Takahashi	[44]
2012	Windsor	Javier Fernández	Patrick Chan	Nobunari Oda	[45]
2013	Saint John	Patrick Chan	Yuzuru Hanyu		[46]
2014	Kelowna	Takahito Mura	Javier Fernández	Max Aaron	[47]
2015	Lethbridge	Patrick Chan	Yuzuru Hanyu	Daisuke Murakami	[48]
2016	Mississauga			Kevin Reynolds	[49]
2017	Regina	Shoma Uno	Jason Brown	Alexander Samarin	[50]
2018	Laval		Keegan Messing	Cha Jun-hwan	[51]
2019	Kelowna	Yuzuru Hanyu	Nam Nguyen	Keiji Tanaka	[52]
2020	Ottawa	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[7]
2021	Vancouver	Nathan Chen	Jason Brown	Evgeni Semenenko	[53]
2022	Mississauga	Shoma Uno	Kao Miura	Matteo Rizzo	[54]
2023	Vancouver	Sōta Yamamoto			[55]
2024	Halifax	Ilia Malinin	Shun Sato	Cha Jun-hwan	[56]

Women's singles

Women's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1973	Calgary	Lynn Nightingale	Barbara Terpenning	Jean Scott	[3]
1974	Kitchener		Anett Pötzsch	Wendy Burge	[9]
1975	Edmonton	Susanna Driano	Kath Malmberg	Emi Watanabe	[10]
1976	Ottawa	Kim Alletson	Karena Richardson	Garnet Ostermeier	[11]
1977	Moncton	Linda Fratianne	Lisa-Marie Allen	Heather Kemkaran	[12]
1978	Vancouver	Lisa-Marie Allen	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	Kristiina Wegelius	[13]
1979	No competition held				[2]
1980	Calgary	Elaine Zayak	Tracey Wainman	Claudia Kristofics-Binder	[14]
1981	Ottawa	Tracey Wainman	Rosalynn Sumners	Kira Ivanova	[15]
1982	Kitchener	Vikki De Vries	Kristiina Wegelius	Rosalynn Sumners	[16]
1983	Halifax	Katarina Witt	Kay Thomson	Tiffany Chin	[17]
1984	Victoria	Midori Ito	Tiffany Chin	Natalia Lebedeva	[18]
1985	London	Caryn Kadavy	Elizabeth Manley	Patricia Neske	[57]
1986	Regina	Elizabeth Manley	Claudia Leistner	Joanne Conway	[20]
1987	Calgary	Debi Thomas	Elizabeth Manley		[21]
1988	Thunder Bay	Natalia Lebedeva	Jill Trenary	Patricia Neske	[22]
1989	Cornwall	Kristi Yamaguchi	Simone Lang	Natalia Lebedeva	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Josée Chouinard	Lisa Sargeant	Holly Cook	[23]
1991	London	Surya Bonaly	Marina Kielmann	Karen Preston	[24]
1992	Victoria	Maria Butyrskaya	Alice Sue Claeys	Josée Chouinard	[25]
1993	Ottawa	Chen Lu	Olga Markova	Karen Preston	[26]
1994	Red Deer	Krisztina Czakó	Laëtitia Hubert	Jessica Mills	[27]
1995	Saint John	Michelle Kwan	Hanae Yokoya	Josée Chouinard	[28]
1996	Kitchener	Irina Slutskaya	Tara Lipinski	Lucinda Ruh	[29]
1997	Halifax	Michelle Kwan	Maria Butyrskaya	Surya Bonaly	[30]
1998	Kamloops	Elena Liashenko	Fumie Suguri	Irina Slutskaya	[31]
1999	Saint John	Michelle Kwan	Julia Soldatova	Jennifer Robinson	[32]
2000	Mississauga	Irina Slutskaya	Michelle Kwan	Fumie Suguri	[33]
2001	Saskatoon	Sarah Hughes	Irina Slutskaya	Michelle Kwan	[34]
2002	Quebec City	Sasha Cohen	Fumie Suguri	Viktoria Volchkova	[35]
2003	Mississauga		Shizuka Arakawa	Júlia Sebestyén	[36]
2004	Halifax	Cynthia Phaneuf	Yoshie Onda	Susanna Pöykiö	[37]
2005	St. John's	Alissa Czisny	Joannie Rochette	Yukari Nakano	[38]
2006	Victoria	Joannie Rochette	Fumie Suguri	Yuna Kim	[39]
2007	Quebec City	Mao Asada	Yukari Nakano	Joannie Rochette	[40]
2008	Ottawa	Joannie Rochette	Fumie Suguri	Alissa Czisny	[41]
2009	Kitchener		Alissa Czisny	Laura Lepistö	[42]
2010	Kingston	Alissa Czisny	Ksenia Makarova	Amélie Lacoste	[43]
2011	Mississauga	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Akiko Suzuki	Ashley Wagner	[44]
2012	Windsor	Kaetlyn Osmond		Kanako Murakami	[45]
2013	Saint John	Yulia Lipnitskaya		Gracie Gold	[46]
2014	Kelowna	Anna Pogorilaya	Ashley Wagner	Satoko Miyahara	[47]
2015	Lethbridge	Ashley Wagner	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Yuka Nagai	[48]
2016	Mississauga	Evgenia Medvedeva	Kaetlyn Osmond	Satoko Miyahara	[49]
2017	Regina	Kaetlyn Osmond	Maria Sotskova	Ashley Wagner	[50]
2018	Laval	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Mako Yamashita	Evgenia Medvedeva	[51]
2019	Kelowna	Alexandra Trusova	Rika Kihira	You Young	[52]
2020	Ottawa	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[7]
2021	Vancouver	Kamila Valieva	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Alena Kostornaia	[53]
2022	Mississauga	Rinka Watanabe	Starr Andrews	You Young	[54]
2023	Vancouver	Kaori Sakamoto	Kim Chae-yeon	Rino Matsuike	[55]
2024	Halifax		Rino Matsuike	Hana Yoshida	[56]

Pairs

Pairs event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1984	Victoria	Elena Bechke Valeri Kornienko	Cynthia Coull Mark Rowsom	Katherina Matousek Lloyd Eisler	[18]
1985	London	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Veronika Pershina Marat Akbarov	Denise Benning Lyndon Johnston	[57]
1986	Regina	Cynthia Coull Mark Rowsom	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Natalie Seybold Wayne Seybold	[20]
1987	Calgary	Christine Hough Doug Ladret	Elena Kvitchenko Rashid Kadyrkaev	Katy Keeley Joseph Mero	[21]
1988	Thunder Bay	Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler	Peggy Schwarz Alexander König	Ekaterina Murugova Artem Torgashev	[22]
1989	Cornwall	Elena Leonova Gennadi Krasnitski	Cindy Landry Lyndon Johnston	Michelle Menzies Kevin Wheeler	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov		[23]
1991	London	Stacey Ball Jean-Michel Bombardier	Michelle Menzies Kevin Wheeler	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	[24]
1992	Victoria	Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	Michelle Menzies Jean-Michel Bombardier	Danielle Carr Stephen Carr	[25]
1993	Ottawa	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Radka Kovaříková René Novotný	Michelle Menzies Jean-Michel Bombardier	[26]
1994	Red Deer	Kristy Sargeant Kris Wirtz	Elena Berezhnaya Oleg Shliakhov	Sarah Abitbol Stéphane Bernadis	[27]
1995	Saint John	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Maria Petrova Anton Sikharulidze	Jodeyne Higgins Sean Rice	[28]
1996	Kitchener	Mandy Wötzel Ingo Steuer	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Kyoko Ina Jason Dungjen	[29]
1997	Halifax	Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev	Marina Khalturina Andrei Kroukov	Sarah Abitbol Stéphane Bernadis	[30]
1998	Kamloops	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Jamie Salé David Pelletier	[31]
1999	Saint John	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Kyoko Ina John Zimmerman	Kristy Wirtz Kris Wirtz	[32]
2000	Mississauga	Jamie Salé David Pelletier	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	[33]
2001	Saskatoon		Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	Anabelle Langlois Patrice Archetto	[34]
2002	Quebec City	Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	Pang Qing Tong Jian		[35]
2003	Mississauga		Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Dorota Zagórska Mariusz Siudek	[36]
2004	Halifax	Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo	Pang Qing Tong Jian		[37]
2005	St. John's	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Valérie Marcoux Craig Buntin	[38]
2006	Victoria	Zhang Dan Zhang Hao	Rena Inoue John Baldwin		[39]
2007	Quebec City	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Jessica Dubé Bryce Davison	Yuko Kawaguchi Alexander Smirnov	[40]
2008	Ottawa	Yuko Kawaguchi Alexander Smirnov		Keauna McLaughlin Rockne Brubaker	[41]
2009	Kitchener	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	Jessica Dubé Bryce Davison	[42]
2010	Kingston	Lubov Iliushechkina Nodari Maisuradze	Kirsten Moore-Towers Dylan Moscovitch	Paige Lawrence Rudi Swiegers	[43]
2011	Mississauga	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	[44]
2012	Windsor	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	Stefania Berton Ondřej Hotárek	[45]
2013	Saint John	Stefania Berton Ondřej Hotárek	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	[46]
2014	Kelowna	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford		Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	[47]
2015	Lethbridge		Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	[48]
2016	Mississauga		Yu Xiaoyu Zhang Hao	Liubov Ilyushechkina Dylan Moscovitch	[49]
2017	Regina		Aljona Savchenko Bruno Massot	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	[50]
2018	Laval	Vanessa James Morgan Ciprès	Peng Cheng Jin Yang	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	[51]
2019	Kelowna	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Kirsten Moore-Towers Michael Marinaro	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	[52]
2020	Ottawa	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[7]
2021	Vancouver	Sui Wenjing Han Cong	Daria Pavliuchenko Denis Khodykin	Ashley Cain-Gribble Timothy LeDuc	[53]
2022	Mississauga	Riku Miura Ryuichi Kihara	Emily Chan Spencer Akira Howe	Sara Conti Niccolò Macii	[54]
2023	Vancouver	Deanna Stellato-Dudek Maxime Deschamps	Maria Pavlova Alexei Sviatchenko	Lucrezia Beccari Matteo Guarise	[55]
2024	Halifax		Ekaterina Geynish Dmitrii Chigirev	Anastasia Golubeva Hektor Giotopoulos Moore	[56]

Ice dance

Ice dance event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1973	Calgary	Hilary Green Glyn Watts	Louise Soper Barry Soper	Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	[3]
1974	Kitchener	Irina Moiseeva Andrei Minenkov	Colleen O'Connor Jim Millns	Janet Thompson Warren Maxwell	[9]
1975	Edmonton	Natalia Linichuk Gennadi Karponosov	Barbara Berezowski David Porter	Matilde Ciccia Lamberto Ceserani	[10]
1976	Ottawa		Janet Thompson Warren Maxwell	Susan Carscallen Eric Gillies	[11]
1977	Moncton	Janet Thompson Warren Maxwell	Marina Zueva Andrei Vitman	Lorna Wighton John Dowding	[12]
1978	Vancouver	Krisztina Regőczy András Sallay	Lorna Wighton John Dowding	Marina Zueva Andrei Vitman	[13]
1979	No competition held				[2]
1980	Calgary	Judy Blumberg Michael Seibert	Karen Barber Nicky Slater	Marie McNeill Rob McCall	[14]
1981	Ottawa	Carol Fox Richard Dalley		Natalia Karamysheva Rostislav Sinitsyn	[15]
1982	Kitchener	Elisa Spitz Scott Gregory	Tracy Wilson Rob McCall	Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	[16]
1983	Halifax	Tracy Wilson Rob McCall	Wendy Sessions Stephen Williams		[17]
1984	Victoria	Olga Volozhinskaya Alexander Svinin	Petra Born Rainer Schönborn	Kelly Johnson John Thomas	[18]
1985	London	Renée Roca Donald Adair	Olga Volozhinskaya Alexander Svinin	Kathrin Beck Christoff Beck	[57]
1986	Regina	Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	Suzanne Semanick Scott Gregory	Karyn Garossino Rod Garossino	[20]
1987	Calgary	Tracy Wilson Rob McCall	Kathrin Beck Christoff Beck	Lia Trovati Roberto Pelizzola	[21]
1988	Thunder Bay	Natalia Annenko Genrikh Sretenski	April Sargent Russ Witherby	Melanie Cole Michael Farrington	[22]
1989	Cornwall	Suzanne Semanick Ron Kravette	Michelle McDonald Mark Mitchell	Jacqueline Petr Mark Janoschak	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Jacqueline Petr Mark Janoschak	Irina Romanova Igor Yaroshenko	Małgorzata Grajcar Andrzej Dostatni	[23]
1991	London	Stefania Calegari Pasquale Camerlengo	Sophie Moniotte Pascal Lavanchy	Kateřina Mrázová Martin Šimeček	[24]
1992	Victoria	Susanna Rahkamo Petri Kokko	Yaroslava Nechaeva Yuri Chesnichenko		[25]
1993	Ottawa	Sophie Moniotte Pascal Lavanchy	Tatiana Navka Samuel Gezolian	Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz	[26]
1994	Red Deer	Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz	Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas	Renée Roca Gorsha Sur	[27]
1995	Saint John		Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	Irina Romanova Igor Yaroshenko	[28]
1996	Kitchener			Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio	[29]
1997	Halifax		Elizabeth Punsalan Jerod Swallow	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	[30]
1998	Kamloops		Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas	Sylwia Nowak Sebastian Kolasiński	[31]
1999	Saint John	Margarita Drobiazko Povilas Vanagas	Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov	Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder	[32]
2000	Mississauga	Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	Galit Chait Sergei Sakhnovski	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	[33]
2001	Saskatoon	Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz		Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder	[34]
2002	Quebec City	Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	Svetlana Kulikova Arseni Markov	[35]
2003	Mississauga	Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	[36]
2004	Halifax	Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	Galit Chait Sergei Sakhnovski	[37]
2005	St. John's	Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon	Elena Grushina Ruslan Goncharov	Melissa Gregory Denis Petukhov	[38]
2006	Victoria		Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Federica Faiella Massimo Scali	[39]
2007	Quebec City	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	Pernelle Carron Matthieu Jost	[40]
2008	Ottawa	Meryl Davis Charlie White	Vanessa Crone Paul Poirier	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	[41]
2009	Kitchener	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Nathalie Péchalat Fabian Bourzat	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	[42]
2010	Kingston	Vanessa Crone Paul Poirier	Sinead Kerr John Kerr	Madison Chock Greg Zuerlein	[43]
2011	Mississauga	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	[44]
2012	Windsor		Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte	Ekaterina Riazanova Ilia Tkachenko	[45]
2013	Saint John		Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	[46]
2014	Kelowna	Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier		[47]
2015	Lethbridge		Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	[48]
2016	Mississauga	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	Madison Chock Evan Bates	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	[49]
2017	Regina		Kaitlyn Weaver Andrew Poje	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	[50]
2018	Laval	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	[51]
2019	Kelowna	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Madison Hubbell Zachary Donohue	Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	[52]
2020	Ottawa	Competition cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic			[7]
2021	Vancouver	Piper Gilles Paul Poirier	Charlène Guignard Marco Fabbri	Olivia Smart Adrián Díaz	[53]
2022	Mississauga		Lilah Fear Lewis Gibson	Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha	[54]
2023	Vancouver			Allison Reed Saulius Ambrulevičius	[55]
2024	Halifax		Marjorie Lajoie Zachary Lagha	Evgeniia Lopareva Geoffrey Brissaud	[56]

Discontinued events

Men's interpretive program

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1989	Cornwall	Daniel Weiss	Paul Wylie	Norm Proft	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Steven Bélanger	Daniel Weiss	Cameron Medhurst	[23]
1991	London	Daniel Weiss	David Liu	Bill Bridel	[24]
1992	Victoria	David Liu	Troy Goldstein & Henrik Walentin (tied)	No bronze medal awarded	[25]
1993	Ottawa	No interpretive programs			[26]
1994	Red Deer	Daniel Weiss	David Liu	Henrik Walentin	[27]

Women's interpretive program

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1989	Cornwall	Yukiko Kashihara	Dianne Takeuchi	Jenni Meno	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Joanna Ng	Trudy Treslan	Anisette Torp-Lind	[23]
1991	London	Laurie Palmer	Anisette Torp-Lind	Leana Naczynski	[24]
1992	Victoria	Maria Butyrskaya	Junko Yaginuma	Robin Johnstone	[25]
1993	Ottawa	No interpretive programs			[26]
1994	Red Deer	No women's interpretive programs			[27]

Four skating

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1989	Cornwall	Christine Hough Doug Ladret Cindy Landry Lyndon Johnston	Patricia MacNeil Cory Watson Michelle Menzies Kevin Wheeler	Calla Urbanski Mark Naylor Elaine Asanakis Joel McKeever	[5]
1990	Lethbridge	Stacey Ball Isabelle Brasseur Jean-Michel Bombardier Lloyd Eisler	Christine Hough Doug Ladret Michelle Menzies Kevin Wheeler	Elaine Asanakis Calla Urbanski Rocky Marval Joel McKeever	[23]

Records

From left to right: Patrick Chan of Canada has won six Skate Canada International titles in men's singles, while Michelle Kwan of the United States and Joannie Rochette of Canada have each won three Skate Canada International titles in women's singles.

From left to right: Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, and Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany, have each won four Skate Canada International titles in pair skating; while Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada have won seven Skate Canada International titles in ice dance.

Records

Discipline	Most titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Patrick Chan	6	2008; 2010–11; 2013; 2015–16	[58]
Women's singles	Michelle Kwan	3	1995; 1997; 1999	[59]
	Joannie Rochette	3	2006; 2008–09	[60]
Pairs	Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford	4	2014–17	[61]
	Aljona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy	4	2005; 2007; 2009; 2012	[62]
Ice dance	Tessa Virtue Scott Moir	7	2007; 2009; 2011–13; 2016–17	[63]

Cumulative medal count

Men's singles

Total number of Skate Canada medals in men's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	23	15	5	43
2	Japan	8	10	11	29
3	Russia	6	2	3	11
4	United States	5	12	15	32
5	Czechoslovakia	2	0	1	3
6	Soviet Union	1	2	1	4
7	Spain	1	2	0	3
8	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
9	France	1	0	3	4
10	Germany	1	0	2	3
11	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
12	Poland	0	3	2	5
13	Israel	0	2	0	2
14	Belgium	0	1	0	1
15	Italy	0	0	2	2
	South Korea	0	0	2	2
17	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		50	50	50	150

Women's singles

Total number of Skate Canada medals in women's singles by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	10	10	36
2	Canada	12	8	8	28
3	Russia	10	8	4	22
4	Japan	5	14	9	28
5	East Germany	1	2	0	3
6	France	1	1	1	3
7	Soviet Union	1	0	3	4
8	Hungary	1	0	1	2
9	China	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
12	Finland	0	1	3	4
	Great Britain	0	1	3	4
	South Korea	0	1	3	4
	West Germany	0	1	3	4
16	Austria	0	1	1	2
17	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
19	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		50	50	50	150

Pairs

Total number of Skate Canada medals in pair skating by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	14	9	19	42
2	Russia	10	9	4	23
3	Germany	6	1	0	7
4	China	4	8	0	12
5	Soviet Union	3	4	2	9
6	France	1	0	3	4
	Italy	1	0	3	4
8	Japan	1	0	0	1
9	United States	0	3	5	8
10	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	East Germany	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
16	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Poland	0	0	2	2
Totals (17 entries)		40	40	40	120

Ice dance

Total number of Skate Canada medals in ice dance by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	26	14	14	54
2	United States	7	7	6	20
3	Soviet Union	6	3	5	14
4	Great Britain	2	7	2	11
5	France	2	4	5	11
6	Italy	1	3	5	9
7	Russia	1	2	4	7
8	Lithuania	1	2	1	4
	Ukraine	1	2	1	4
10	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
11	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
13	Israel	0	2	1	3
14	Austria	0	1	1	2
15	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
17	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
	Poland	0	0	2	2
19	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		50	50	50	150

Total medals

Total number of Skate Canada medals by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	79	50	49	178
2	United States	29	34	40	103
3	Russia	28	21	15	64
4	Japan	15	25	20	60
5	Soviet Union	11	9	11	31
6	Germany	9	2	2	13
7	China	5	8	0	13
8	France	5	5	12	22
9	Great Britain	3	9	6	18
10	Italy	3	3	10	16
11	Ukraine	2	2	1	5
12	Hungary	2	1	2	5
13	Czechoslovakia	2	0	1	3
14	West Germany	1	3	3	7
15	East Germany	1	3	0	4
16	Lithuania	1	2	1	4
	Spain	1	2	1	4
18	Chinese Taipei	1	2	0	3
19	Finland	1	1	3	5
20	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
21	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
22	Israel	0	4	1	5
23	Poland	0	3	6	9
24	Denmark	0	2	3	5
25	Austria	0	2	2	4
26	Belgium	0	2	0	2
27	South Korea	0	1	5	6
28	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
29	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
33	Australia	0	0	3	3
Totals (33 entries)		201	202	200	603

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External links

• Skate Canada
• ISU Grand Prix
• Skate Canada International at Skating Scores