WELCOME TO THE SYDNEY FIGURE SKATING CLUB
Dear Members & Visitors,
Our rink’s closure brought some extra challenges to our training schedule in the lead up to States and Nationals in 2022 and unfortunately, these have continued into 2023. 2023 will conclude with the Australian Figure Skating Championships to be held at Erina Ice Arena from 1st December. We wish all skaters competing at AFSC good luck for this final chapter of 2023.
With the continued closure of the Canterbury Olympic Ice Rink, our challenges will continue into 2024 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 and continue to do so as we approach 2024. The Rinks’ continued assistance with ice time has helped enormously in preparation for States and Nationals.
Those skaters/Sych teams who received nomination to International Competitions/Championships in 2023 could not have done it without the incredible support received from the rinks in NSW & ACT and the wider skating community.
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
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- Majestic Ice Junior World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships Australian Representatives 2023
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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’s Senior Synchronised Team
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)