China will be hosting the 2024 Four Continents Championships, taking place from January 30 to February 4 in Shanghai. Established in 1999, this Championships was created by the International Skating Union to provide an alternative similar to the European Championships to non-European countries. The four continents that can send teams to the event are the Americas (North and South), Africa, Asia and Oceania.<\/p>\n
Fourteen countries will be competing at this year\u2019s Four Continents Championships, with ice dance teams representing seven countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea and USA.<\/p>\n
The Medal Hunt<\/b><\/p>\n
The favourite team to win this Championships is the reigning bronze World medallists Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier. This season, the Canadian champions have earned the highest results across the teams competing at this event, including winning both of their Grand Prix assignments and a bronze at the Grand Prix Final. This will be their eight Four Continents Championships, where they hope to add a gold to their bronze and two silver medals previously earned at the event.<\/p>\n
Also from Canada will be Laurence Fournier-Beaudry & Nikolaj S\u00f8rensen, who withdrew from the National Championships following some news relating to S\u00f8rensen, but will be competing for the third time at this event and hope to add a medal to the silver they won last year, and Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac, the silver medallist at Canadian Nationals called to replace Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha, still recovering from an injury that affected Lajoie.<\/p>\n
Going straight from U.S. Nationals into this event and fresh off a silver medal will be Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko. They will be competing at their third Four Continents Championships, and already won a bronze medal at their first appearance two years ago.<\/p>\n
Also from the USA will be Caroline Green & Michael Parsons, who finished fourth at the National Championships, and Emilea Zingas & Vadym Kolesnik, who replace Madison Chock & Evan Bates after their withdrawal to recover from sickness that affected them during Nationals and to focus on their preparation for Worlds.<\/p>\n
Korea\u2019s Hannah Lim & Ye Quan will be competing for the first time at this event and, although in their first year as seniors, they could also pose a threat for a podium finish.<\/p>\n
Internal competition for the three Japanese teams competing at this event (Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto; Azusa Tanaka & Shingo Nishiyama; Utana Yoshida& Masaya Morita): the Japanese Federation will decide which team will take the available spot to represent Japan at Worlds based on the final placements in this competition.<\/p>\n
Event info<\/b>: Teams have official practices from Tuesday, January 30. The rhythm dance kicks off on Friday, February 02, at 12:30pm (GMT+8); the free dance occurs on Sunday, February 4, at 12:00pm (GMT+8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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