With three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, Les Suprêmes Seniors from Canada are certainly continuing the road to success. Interview and reaction from coach Marilyn Langlois.
Just a few hours remain before the ISU World Synchronized Championships 2024 starts. The competition, which will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, will feature 21 teams from 17 different countries. Let's take a look ahead of the kickoff!
Craving for a peek behind the cultures of our ISU Senior teams preparing for the Worlds? We asked them of the quirks of their skating language, and got responses that spoke of creativity, vivid imagination, and individual coaches’ influence – but also of similarities between the teams.
The Marie Lundmark Trophy took place on Saturday and Sunday in Helsinki, Finland. This top-level competition was the 5th and final leg of the Challenger Series and witnessed some incredible performances. The Helsinki Rockettes won the gold in Senior, Les Suprêmes were the best in the Junior division, and two Finnish junior teams to qualify for the Junior World Championships.
The Challenger series culminates this weekend, February 10-11, for the second Marie Lundmark Trophy in history. The reigning World Champion, Canada's Les Suprêmes, is leading the Senior competition after the short program. Also, in the Junior series, Canadians are in the lead when Les Suprêmes Junior succeeded perfectly in their performance. In addition to the reigning World Cup medalists, tough United States and Canada contenders are seen on the ice.
On the second day of the Budapest Cup, top-level junior and senior teams battled it out for medals. The Basic Novices teams also had the opportunity to impress spectators during this sunny Hungarian weekend.
The 2024 Budapest Cup is the second of the 2023/24 season Challenger Series events, and it has been highly anticipated since many top teams gathered in Budapest since the last time it was held in 2019. Scores were close between some teams and winners were decided only by the end of the game. So what happened on the first day of the Cup?
At the 2024 Canadian National Championships in Calgary, the senior team Les Suprêmes from Saint-Léonard, Quebec, captured the senior national title with a total score of 216.79 points, affirming their status as reigning world champions.
In this article, we discuss skating traditions from the welcoming of new team members to annual team hangouts and competition superstitions. We asked for skaters input and got answers from 15 different ISU Senior teams from Montreal to Milan.
Senior team Team Surprise (SWE) holds the record for gold medals at Worlds, despite retiring from the world stage almost five years ago.
Noora Solaranta, 25, and Emmakaisa Tikkinen, 22, were the two Finnish skaters in Les Supremes senior this year. After pandemic struggles and a remote season with the team in 2020-21, they both finally skated onsite and were crowned World Champions in early April.
The Canadian Senior Supremes were crowned world champions on Saturday in Lake Placid. This is their second world title in a row. A few hours after their victory, Jura Synchro got a reaction from coach Marilyn Langlois.