Australian & New Zealand figure skating news

Just realized that @clairecloutier's Anastasia Golubeva/Hektor Giotopoulos Moore article was never posted in this thread (I will cross-post the link in the Pairs discussion thread later). Claire interviewed them before they won their first Sr. Grand Prix medal -- bronze -- at Skate Canada International in Halifax (Oct. 25, 2024):
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Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore: "We're trying to mature our skating" - A divine sport

Australian pairs skaters Anastasia Golubeva and Hector Giotopolous Moore look to improve their connection on ice in their third year as senior pairs skaters.
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ETA: They did not have to return to Australia for Nationals; their next competition should be 4CC.
 
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leilaofpaper said:
That article isn’t entirely correct in terms of newest ice rink, I’m in Darwin and our ice rink opened about 7 years ago.
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And Ice Zoo in Sydney is also pretty recent.

There's a list of ice rinks on Wikipedia and there are indeed 20. I confess I'd forogtten about the rink in Newcastle, didn't know there was one in the Blue Mountains and there are more in Queensland and W.A. than I thought. Mind you, the list also includes Canterbury which is currently closed and I'm sceptical will ever re-open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ice_rinks_in_Australia
 
Bunny Hop said:
And Ice Zoo in Sydney is also pretty recent.

There's a list of ice rinks on Wikipedia and there are indeed 20. I confess I'd forogtten about the rink in Newcastle, didn't know there was one in the Blue Mountains and there are more in Queensland and W.A. than I thought. Mind you, the list also includes Canterbury which is currently closed and I'm sceptical will ever re-open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ice_rinks_in_Australia
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Ah yes I did go to Ice Zoo last month when I visited Sydney, unfortunately I didn’t like it too much.
 
Who wrote the article didn't really research it properly. Darwin is not mentioned and as @leilaofpaper said it has now been going quite a while. The Darwin rink is the "Coolest place in town" literally. :)

Ice HQ is the latest rink in Victoria. It opened about 7 or 8 years ago. And O'Brien Icehouse opened in 2010.

With the Bayswater rink, basically the guy who ran it just suddenly closed it and owed over $100K in rent and electricity. He loaded up the zambonis on a truck and told people who turned up that he was taking to get them serviced.
 
Well, it did say Tasmania is now the only state without a rink, so that does at least indicate Northern Territory has one (yes, I know a Territory rather than a State, but it and the ACT rink are part of the 20).

I still remember turning up for a group class at Prince Alfred Park rink in Sydney one Sunday morning in 1986 to find it had closed permanently.
 
We will have a temporary rink for about 5 weeks here in June/July. MyState Arena have brought equipment from the guy who had the rinks in North Queensland. They had a trial a few weeks ago and did a good job of the ice. So our skaters will at least be able to get some training done and won't have to go to Melbourne.
 
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That's great news! I haven't seen an update on the Hobart rink situation for some time so was wondering if there had been progress. A temporary rink is at least something.
 
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We found this free skating performance from Australia's Sharon Burley competing at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck.

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Is it any wonder Sharon was invited to skate with the Ice Capades following her Olympic Games experience. She really had a dynamic on ice presence.

Special thanks to the YouTube Channel - SydFigSka figure skating archive
 
The ISA AGM is on this weekend. It is the first meeting after the change from Incorporated Association to Limited Company. Much of the weekend is being taken up with Governance and Strategic Planning. The AGM itself will take place tomorrow. There is probably nothing too exciting as there are no elections to be held.
 
Earlier today, Mia Zixuan Zeng of Australia dazzled in the Advanced Novice Girls Free Skate at the 2025 Oceana International Figure Skating Competition from Docklands in Melbourne.

Skating to selections from Don Quixote, the skater reeled off six triple jumps with absolute ease including a triple flip / triple loop and a triple lutz - double axel - double axel sequence.

Zeng scored an impressive 92.52 points for her performance.

Combined with the 45.49 points she earned yesterday for her top ranked short program, the skater earned a total of 138.01 points and the gold medal.
 
The temporary rink in Hobart is now open. For at least for 6 weeks our figure skaters can train and we can run the Aussie Skate program. It is at MyState Arena in the main arena. Is small - 15x30 metres but the ice looks very good. They have set it up very well and looks great. The Arena has been very accommodating with our needs.
 
tony said:
Brendan Kerry's mother, 1988 Olympian Monica MacDonald, lost her home and youngest pet in a home fire yesterday. Not sure if she is with Australian skating in any capacity anymore.
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Yes Monica is still involved as a coach. I last saw her in August.
 
tony said:
Brendan Kerry's mother, 1988 Olympian Monica MacDonald, lost her home and youngest pet in a home fire yesterday. Not sure if she is with Australian skating in any capacity anymore.
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A sad loss.

McDonald and her coaching partner, John Dunn, had students competing at the recent Crystal Challenge in Melbourne.
 
Davis Giotopolous Moore, the brother of pair skater, Hektor Giotopoulos Moore, will be joining the ensemble cast announced earlier today for the upcoming professional production of Anastasia - The Hit Broadway Musical.

(I like the ironic association of a musical Davis is performing in randomly linked to the name of his brother's pair partner, too!)

Keeping artistry in the family, Davis is a trained ballet dancer and a graduate of the famed Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia.

The Australian national tour will have stops at the:

Regent Theatre, Melbourne from December 2025.
Crown Theatre, Perth from March 2026.
Lyric Theatre, Sydney from April 2026.

Click on the link below to read his show biography.

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Cast | Anastasia the Musical | Australia

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