Canada's Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps win 3rd straight Skate Canada pairs title

Canadian pairs fig skaters Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps won their consecutive Skate Canada International rubric connected Saturday nighttime successful Saskatoon.

The duo had the location federation roaring astatine SaskTel Centre erstwhile they came from down to instrumentality the golden medal up of German rivals Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps scored 213.40 full points portion Hase and Volodin scored 207.18.

WATCH | Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps seizure pairs rubric successful Saskatoon:

Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea of the United States finished 3rd with 199.11 points.

The Canadians were successful 2nd spot aft Friday's abbreviated program, 4.50 points down the Germans, but they earned 140.37 with their winning escaped skate program.

Hase and Volodin, the reigning Grand Prix Final champions and satellite metallic medallists, endured a brace of falls during their escaped skate, him connected their side-by-side triple toed loop and her connected their throw-triple flip.

Canadians Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud finished 4th with 186.54, 1 spot up of countrymates Kelly Ann Laurin and Loucas Éthier (168.24).

It's the archetypal Grand Prix triumph of the play for 2024 satellite champions Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps, who took metallic astatine the season-opening Grand Prix of France.

“We’re truly happy, and there’s inactive country for improvement. We’ve managed to amusement much of what we bash successful training. We privation to vie successful arsenic galore events arsenic imaginable to robust retired each the small details earlier the Olympics,” Stellato-Dudek said.

WATCH | Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps bespeak connected escaped programme performance:

Chiba wins women's competition

Mone Chiba of Japan held disconnected American standout Isabeau Levito with a near-flawless escaped skate to triumph the women's contention aboriginal successful the night.

Chiba held a constrictive pb implicit Levito aft their abbreviated program, but the 18-year-old from Philadelphia enactment the unit connected with a superb escaped skate acceptable to euphony from the Italian comedy-drama "Cinema Paradiso." Levito landed each 7 of her jumping passes with her emblematic balletic precision, and scored of 209.77 points.

Chiba, the 20-year-old satellite bronze medallist, followed and ne'er faltered during her ain escaped skate, though. With her sprightly programme acceptable to "Csardas," a accepted Hungarian people creation tune, Chiba posted a season-best people of 217.23 points, giving her a Grand Prix golden medal for the archetypal clip aft runner-up finishes successful some of her assignments past year.

WATCH | China skates to gold:

Ami Nakai, caller disconnected her Grand Prix de France title, finished 3rd with 203.09 points.

Canadians Madeline Schizas, Sara-Maude Dupuis and Uliana Shiryaeva finished 9th (166.64), 11th (163.58), and 12th (161.98), respectively.

The men's rubric and crystal creation events volition beryllium decided Sunday.

WATCH | Schizas finishes 9th:

Gilles, Poirier pb crystal dance

Canadian crystal creation stars Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are successful the pb pursuing the bushed creation earlier Saturday.

The four-time satellite medallists from Toronto earned 85.38 points portion making their Grand Prix play debut, placing up of Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius of Lithuania (80.89) and Americans Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko (80.89).

“It was truly fun. […] We astir had to defy our excess vigor to enactment focused. We had a blast and the assemblage truly enjoyed it,” Gilles said.

“We were comfy today, arrogant of what we did and wherever we tin instrumentality our programme successful the coming months. It’s breathtaking for what’s to come,” Poirier added.

WATCH | Gilles, Poirier instrumentality the pb astatine Skate Canada International:

Fellow Canadians Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, who won metallic astatine the lawsuit past year, are presently 4th with a people of 75.95.

Gilles and Poirier, the metallic medallists astatine this year's worlds, are aiming for a grounds sixth consecutive Skate Canada title.

The escaped creation programme is scheduled for Sunday astatine 1:40 p.m. ET, with unrecorded sum disposable connected CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. A afloat streaming docket is disposable here.

WATCH | Gilles, Poirier sermon their bushed creation performance:

Now successful their 15th play together, Gilles and Poirier are firmly among the world's champion and genuine contenders for golden astatine the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games successful February.

They've won medals astatine 3 consecutive satellite championships, claiming bronze successful 2023 followed by back-to-back metallic medals down Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States.

Both Gilles and Poirier volition beryllium 34 successful Milan, and longtime manager Carol Lane has said she believes this play volition beryllium their last.

WATCH | Full replay of Skate Canada bushed dance:

Malinin shines again

American satellite champion Ilia Malinin built a comfy pb successful the men's contention with 104.84 points successful the abbreviated programme aboriginal Saturday, 12.77 up of Japan's Kazuki Tomono.

Estonia's Aleksandr Selevko was 3rd with 91.28.

WATCH | Malinin earns 104.84 points:

Toronto's Stephen Gogolev (86.13) sits successful seventh arsenic the apical Canadian, with Aleksa Rakic of Burnaby, B.C., successful past spot among the 12 skaters with 75.50.

Malinin, known arsenic the "Quad God", won the season-opening Grand Prix of France by a 40-point margin. The 20-year-old hasn't mislaid a contention since November 2023.

The men's escaped skate volition instrumentality spot Sunday astatine 11:30 a.m. ET.

WATCH | Gogolev skates to 7th successful abbreviated program: