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December
4th, 2006 Watch
New Zealand's Denyse Adam compete in the ladies' free program at
the 1981 World Championships. Also, Danielle & Stephen Carr
perform their long program at both the 1995 and 1996 World Championships.
October
30th, 2006 World roller skating in-line (2005) and quad (1995) champion, Jayson Sutcliffe, will premiere his new movie, Jesus Can't Skate, at the Australian International Film Festival on October 30th. Self-described as roller skating's answer to the popular documentary, Murderball, Sutcliffe chronicals a group of skaters, local and internationally renowned, in the lead up to their respective competitions. Click here to visit the official website, and here to reserve your ticket. aussieSKATES
has reviewed the film here. October
25th, 2006 For the past few weeks, six-time national champion, Joanne Carter, has been struggling with an ankle injury to her jump landing leg. The
only competitor from Australia in the entire 2006 / 2007 senior
grand prix series, Carter was very disappointed not to compete. October
24th, 2006 Watch four-time national champion,
Vicki Holland and Denyse Adam (NZL) compete in the ladies' short program at the
1981 World Championships. Also, Cameron Medhurst performs in both
the free and the gala at Skate Canada 1988. October
18th, 2006 Next
year from January 17th - 21st, Sydney will host the
2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival. Click here for the official website. October
15th, 2006 Queensland's men's singles skater, Mitchell Chapman, competed at the Harghita Cup (Romania) and the Spin of Norway, placing 21st in both events. AT
the JGP of Taipai, The Chinese Cup (Oct 12-14), Phoebe Di Tomasso
(ladies singles) placed 12th, August
29th, 2006 Tonight
model, Jake Wall, won Channel's Nine's popular television reality
competition, Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice. The series pitted
celebrities (who began with little or no skating experience) against
each other, culminating in a showdown where the final two teams
skated to the British couple's famous Bolero. Click here for competition highlights. August 26th, 2006 Carter wins sixth title 2006
Winter Olympian, Joanne Carter, won a sixth national title, her
first since 1998. Junior champ, Tina Wang placed second, and the
2005 junior and senior bronze medalist, Janna Kupec (NSW) was third.
August
25th, 2006 Queensland's
Tina Wang
successfully retained the junior ladies crown she first won last
year. She held off strong competition from two NSW skaters, Cheltzie
Lee and the 2004 champion, Phoebe Di Tommaso. August
18th, 2006 Recently,
Sydney skater Matthew Mason, returned truimphant with two medals
from the Gay Games in Chicago, U.S.A. Earning gold and bronze, Matthew's
victories were particularly impressive for the simple reason that
barely four years ago, he
had put blade to ice only twice before in his life. August
17th, 2006 Watch Stephen Carr compete in men's singles at Skate Canada 1994. See him also team up with his sister, Danielle, in the gala. Click here for the link. August, 2006 National Titles in Queensland From
19th - 26th August, Brisbane
will host the Australian Championships. Events
run across all five disciplines, ladies' & men's singles, pairs,
dance and synchronised skating, with the top place-getters bidding
to represent us in international and championship competition. July
9th, 2006 Jayne
Torvill and Christopher Dean, the 1984 Olympic champions, will be
hosting an Australian version of the reality tv series, a smash
hit in Great Britain earlier this year. The
excitement begins Tuesday July 11th on Channel 9 at 7.30pm. June
27th, 2006 She joins a strong line-up including the 2006 World Champion, Kimmie Meissner (USA); 2006 Four Continents Champion, Katy Taylor (USA); 2006 GPF Champion Mao Asada (JPN); and 2004 World Junior Champion, Miki Ando, also of Japan. Competition
begins October 26th, and runs until October 29th. May,
2006 Featuring video clips, images from the 2006 world championships, results and articles, Sean was also voted one of International Figure Skating's ten most beautiful people.
March
23rd, 2006 Original Dance Natalie Buck and Trent Nelson-Bond moved up to 28th place with a clean skate in the Latin Combination. Their dance had good expression and complexity, and the couple can be proud of their performance. Competition concludes on Sunday March
26 with the Exhibition of Champions. March
22nd, 2006 Ladies' Qualifying Round / Pairs' Free
Program Miriam Manzano returned to world competition after a two year absence, placing just outside qualification for the short in 16th place. Emma Brien and Stuart Beckingham skated a
good long program, finishing competition in 20th. March
21st, 2006 Compulsory Dance Day two saw Natalie Buck and Trent Nelson-Bond
complete the Ravensburger Waltz.
Skating their performance with confidence from start to finish,
the team are currently in 29th position. March
20th, 2006 Men's Qualifying Round / Pairs' Short
Program Close to matching his personal best
from this year's Four Continents Championship, Sean Carlow skated
an impressive qualification. Performing with attack and aplomb,
the 20 year old worked the crowd dancing to selections from The
Pink Panther. Sean ended his qualifying
round in 16th place, with the top fifteen advancing to the short
program. In the pairs' competition, Emma Brien
and Stuart Beckingham continue to gain experience in front of international
judging panels. Sharing their warm-up group with pairs from Poland,
Germany and Russia, the couple skated well, apart from making a
mistake each on the side by side double axels. March
13th, 2006 Team Australia represented in all four
disciplines For the first time since 1998, Team Australia has skaters in all four events. Miriam Manzano, a veteran of world competition since 1994, will be skating in her seventh championship. Sean Carlow, the men's national champion,
will be making his second visit to world competition. Competition begins on Monday March 20th
with the men's qualifying round and the pairs' short program. March
10th, 2006 O'Brien and Merriman earn personal
best In the final free dance, Danielle O'Brien and Greg Merriman placed 23rd to finish in the same position overall. The also
scored personal bests in both the original and free dancing phases
of the competition. March
9th, 2006 O'Brien and Merriman qualify for free
dance Yesterday, Robert McNamara skated in Group B of the men's qualifying round against strong competition. He placed 18th overall. March
7th, 2006 Wang misses the free skate Yu-Na Kim of South Korea won the short, with the defending champion, Mao Asada of Japan in second. Christine Zukowski of the United States was third. Dancers Danielle O'Brien and Greg Merriman placed 23rd after their compulsory dance, the Austrian Waltz, which was won by Canadians, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. March
6th, 2006 In ladies' singles, Tina Wang qualified eleventh
in her group which was won by the 2005 runner-up, The top 30 skaters advance to the ladies short program which will be skated tomorrow. March
4th, 2006 Team Australia is represented by Tina Wang in the ladies' event, Robert McNamara in the men's event, Danielle O'Brien & Gregory Merriman in dance. Competition starts on Monday with the ladies' qualifying rounds, the compulsory dance on Tuesday, and the men's qualifying rounds on Wednesday. March 2nd - 4th, 2006 Junior World Cup Synchronised Skating Challenge Helsinki, Finald Ice Magic make their mark Praised by ISU judges, officials and other teams, they skated two fantastic performances. Ice Magic also made headlines in the Finnish Skating Magazine, and Finnish Newspapers along with the winning local teams. The team were 17th in the short program
and 18th overall. February 23rd, 2006 New
TV skating series in development They are currently looking for skaters and coaches to participate in the Australian version of Dancing on Ice. The series is a live ice dancing spectacular, with technically challenging ice dance performances, combined with the glamour of celebrity contestants. The series see nine famous faces some of whom are complete beginners to skating each partnered with an ice dancing expert. Each week the stars and their skating partners learn a difference ice dancing routine. Torvill and Dean will be very hands on through out the series supervising, choreographing and giving expert tuition in the final stages of rehearsals. In addition, couples are trained by two coaches professional ice skaters whose task it is to train, motivate and inspire the couples to victory. Training will start around April with approximately 3 months worth of on the ice tuition prior to first transmission, scheduled to begin in the first week of July. February
22nd, 2006 Carter bows out Joanne Carter planned an ambitious short program, but two costly jump errors put her in 25th place and out of the ladies' final. Nevertheless, Carter skated with her usual speed and attack, refusing to let her presentation suffer after these early stumbles. Leading after this section of the event are Sasha Cohen (USA), Irina Slutskaya (RUS) and Shizuka Arakawa (JPN), with points totals so tight they are in a virtual three-way tie. The ladies' event concludes on Thursday. February
21st, 2006 Good draw for Carter Joanne
Carter has drawn twenty-third position in the starting order
for the ladies' short program. February,
2006 Figure skating representative, Joanne Carter, joins Australia's forty-strong team. The ladies event commences on Tuesday, February
21 with the short program, concluding with the free program on Thursday,
February 23. January
28th , 2006 On the last day of competition, the ladies skated their free program. Joanne Carter maintained eighth place, Miriam Manzano moved up two spots to twelfth, and Laura Downing claimed 22nd position. In her Four Continents debut, the title was won by Katy Taylor of the United States. January
27th, 2006 The men wrapped up competition with the free
skate. National champion, Sean Carlow, maintained 12th spot, while
team members Brad Santer and Robert McNamara placed 15th and 22nd
overall. New Zealand's Tristen Thode and Joel Watson were 18th and
21st respectively. In Dance, Natalie
Buck & Trent Nelson-Bond claimed 12th. Maria
Borounov & Evguenie Borounov ended the competition in
14th. January
26th, 2006 Day two was jam-packed with the conclusion of the pairs' competition, phase two of the dance event featuring the original Latin Combination, and the ladies skating their short program. Emma Brien and Stuart Beckingham, registering another personal best in the pairs' event, seemed pleased with their performance. This young team, together for a very short time, improve with every outing. Against some very seasoned competition from the United States and Canada, they placed 9th overall. The competition was won by the 2006 U.S. Champions, Rene Inoue and John Baldwin Jnr. Natalie Buck & Trent Nelson-Bond skated to another 11th place finish, this time in the original dance. However, their combined overall standings, along with several teams switching positions above them, saw the Australians drop to 12th. Maria Borounov & Evguenie Borounov traded places with the couple from Korea, moving up from 15th to 14th. Twenty-six ladies skated the short program. Despite a fall on the second half of her jump combination, a double lutz / triple loop, Joanne Carter lies eighth. Miriam Manzano popped her solo triple flip and is in 14th. Laura Downing, in her first senior ISU event, placed 23rd. You may download skaters' performances in our video clips section. January
25th, 2006 On the opening day of competition, teams from nine countries skated the compulsory dance, a Tango Romantica. National champions, Natalie Buck & Trent Nelson-Bond placed 11th. Their compatriots, Maria Borounov & Evguenie Borounov, in their first year of ISU championship competition, placed 15th. In the pairs' short program, Emma Brien and Stuart Beckingham, recorded a personal best score, with a solid routine that included difficult side-by-side double axels. The men's short program featured three skaters from Australia, and two from New Zealand. Sean Carlow, the 2005 national champion, was 12th. Former two-time title holder, Brad Santer, placed 15th, and the national junior champ, Robert McNamara, was 23rd. New Zealand's Tristen Thode and Joel Watson were 17th and 22nd respectively. Joel Watson and Tristen Thode, Team New Zealand's sole representatives, were 17th and 22nd respectively. January
23rd, 2006 Australia will send three ladies (Joanne Carter, Laura Downing, Miriam Manzano), three men (Sean Carlow, Brad Santer, Robert McNamara), two dance teams (Maria Borounov / Evguenie Borounov, Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond) and for the first time in the event's eight year history, a pair (Emma Brien / Stuart Beckingham). The competition begins Wednesday with the compulsory dance, concluding with the ladies' free skate on Saturday. aussieSKATES will feature Team Australia's performances in the video clips section of the web site as we receive them. |
