WELCOME TO THE SYDNEY FIGURE SKATING CLUB
Dear Members & Visitors,
We wish all skaters good luck for 2025. Enjoy your achievements and learn from your experiences.
In Review: Our rink’s closure brought many challenges to our skaters’ training schedules in the lead up to States and Nationals in 2022 & 2023 and unfortunately, these continued into 2024.
2024 concluded with the Australian Figure Skating Championships held this year in Melbourne, with some creditable performances by our skater members. Our Synchro teams did us proud with Team Unity securing their nomination to represent Australia at the World Synchronized Skating Championships in Helsinki in early April 2025. Our Junior team missed out by a whisker on securing nomination for The World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships 2025. Considering the challenges both teams face securing ice time, they have done an amazing job and we congratulate them.
Our Resident Pair Team – Anastasiia Gloubeva/Hektor Giotopoulous Moore have had some amazing performances over the year and we wish them continued success as they follow their dream. Read more about them on our ‘Pairs’ page where you will find links to performances, results and more.
With the continued closure of the Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink, our challenges will continue throughout 2025 and we remind ourselves again as to how lucky we are to be part of such a wonderfully supportive skating community.
Again, we thank, sincerely, all rinks for working with us and our members in 2023, 2024 and continue to do so in 2025. The Rinks’ continued assistance with ice time has helped enormously in our preparations for competition.
Our skaters/Sych teams who have received nomination to International Competitions or Championships for 2025 could not have done it without the incredible support received from the rinks in NSW & ACT during 2024 and the wider skating community. An enormous THANK YOU to each and everyone of you.
Raising champions since 1961
The Sydney Figure Skating Club is Australia’s longest continuing figure skating club. It was conceived in 1961 at the Bondi Junction Ice Rink in Spring Street Bondi Junction, and this is quite possibly where the club chose its distinctive colours of blue, white and red. The Bondi Junction rink stood on the same site as the current home of the Roosters Club “Easts”.
Called at that time the Bondi Junction Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club, the Club changed its name to the Sydney Figure Skating Club when it moved to the newly opened Burwood Glaciarium in 1964.
Called at that time the Bondi Junction Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club, the Club changed its name to the Sydney Figure Skating Club when it moved to the newly opened Burwood Glaciarium in 1964.
The Club established the Hollins Trophy in 1968 in honour of the Late Mr Ray Hollins, Club Treasurer and father of two dedicated skaters. This event is Australia’s largest non-championship competition and is conducted annually at Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink as an ISU International Inter-club event.
Over nearly 50 years, the Club has had many members who have gone on to represent Australia at International, World and Winter Olympic events.
The Sydney Figure Skating Club has a very rich history based on strong member involvement and a passion to succeed. It works in close harmony with the Ice Skating Club of NSW (Cooperative) Limited which has operated the Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink and a non-profit facility since 1971.
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- Hektor Giotopoulos Moore & Anastasiia Golubeva 2 time Junior World Pairs Silver Medallist. 8th Place at Senior World Pairs 2023
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- Hektor Giotopoulos Moore & Anastasiia Golubeva 2 time Junior World Pairs Silver Medallist. 8th Place at Senior World Pairs 2023
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- Hektor Giotopoulos Moore & Anastasiia Golubeva 2 time Junior World Pairs Silver Medallist. 8th Place at Senior World Pairs 2023
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- Team Unity – Multiple time Australian Representatives at Senior World Synchronised Skating Championships – shown here winning the AFSC National Championship
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- Harley Windsor and Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya – 2017 Junior World Pairs Champions
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- Majestic Ice Junior World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships Australian Representatives 2023 & 2024
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- Majestic Ice Junior World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships Australian Representatives 2023 & 2024
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- Danielle Obrien and Greg Merriman – 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
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- Cheltzie Lee – 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Olympic representatives have included:
- Jackie Mason OAM (Kendall-Baker) and Mervyn Bower
- Vicky Holland
- Elizabeth & Peter Cain
- Cameron Medhurst
- Tracey Brook
- Danielle Carr OAM(McGrath) & Stephen Carr OAM
- Stephanie Zhang
- Cheltzie Lee
- Danielle O’Brien and Gregory Merriman
The Club has also had many multiple National Champions who also represented at the World Championships, including:
- Harley Windsor and Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya – 2017 Junior World Champions
- Belinda Coulthard (Noonan)
- Michael Pasfield
- Stephen Carr
- Bradley Santer
- Majestic Ice Australia’s Junior Synchronised Team (Junior Worlds)
- Team Unity, Majestic Ice Australia’s Senior Synchronised Team (Senior Worlds)
Other very notable Club members have served at international and Olympic level as coaches and judges. These include:
- Wendy Langton OAM (Olympic Judge)
- Susan Judd (Lynch) (Olympic Judge)
- Debbie Noyes (World Championship Judge)
- Kylie Fennell (Olympic Coach)
- Belinda Coulthard [Noonan] (Olympic Coach)