Canadian National Skating Championships
Status	Active
Genre	National championships
Frequency	Annual
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	1905
Previous event	2025 Canadian Championships
Next event	2026 Canadian Championships
Organized by	Skate Canada

TheCanadian National Skating Championships (French:Championnats nationaux canadiens de patinage) are an annualfigure skating competition organized bySkate Canada to crown thenational champions of Canada.^[1] While the first official Canadian Championships were held in 1914, unofficial championships had been hosted by theMinto Skating Club inOttawa since 1905. They have been interrupted only twice since 1920. The event was called theCanadian Figure Skating Championships (French:Championnats du Canada de patinage artistique) prior to 2023, whensynchronized skating, which had previously heldseparate championships, was folded into the competition along with the other figure skating disciplines.^[2]

Medals are awarded inmen's singles, women's singles,pair skating,ice dance, and synchronized skating at the senior and junior levels. The results are among the criteria used to determine the Canadian entries to theWorld Figure Skating Championships,World Junior Figure Skating Championships,Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, andWinter Olympics, as well as the members of the Canadian national team.^[3]

Patrick Chan currently holds the record for winning the most Canadian Championship titles in men's singles (with ten), whileConstance Wilson-Samuel holds the record in women's singles (with nine).Meagan Duhamel andEric Radford hold the record in pair skating (with seven), whileShae-Lynn Bourne andVictor Kraatz hold the record in ice dance (with ten).

TheAmateur Skating Association of Canada was formed in 1887 to governspeed skating and figure skating in Canada.^[4] The first Canadian Championships were held in 1905 inOttawa.^[5] Early editions of the championships were hosted by theMinto Skating Club, whose goal was to encourage a Canadian style of skating uniquely different than the traditionalEnglish style.^[6] This Canadian style was more in line with theinternational style, incorporating ballet and dance movements with skating, "permitting the greatest freedom on the part of the individual in respect to his movements,"^[7] while the English style was much more rigid and formal, focusing on the tracing of elaboratespecial figures.^[8] The earliest championships featuredsingle skating andpair skating (called "hand-in-hand skating").Ormond Haycock won the inaugural singles event, as well as the pairs event with his sister Katherine.^[9] No competitions were held in 1907 after theRideau Skating Rink was destroyed by a fire.^[10] While separate competitions for men and women were not held until 1913,^[11] an award was presented to the "top lady skater" at each competition prior to 1913.^[12] A separate governing organization for figure skating in Canada was established in 1914: the Figure Skating Department of the Amateur Skating Association of Canada.^[4] This was the forerunner of today'sSkate Canada, and as such, the 1914 Canadian Championships are regarded as the first official championships,^[4] although they existed as a continuation of these earlier championships.^[13]

No competitions were held from 1915 through 1919 due toWorld War I.^[5] DuringWorld War II, no senior-level events were contested in 1943,^[14] and the women's event was the only senior-level event contested in 1944.^[15]Ice dance was added as a discipline in 1947, while thewaltz and tenstep competitions were discontinued after 1959.^[5]Compulsory figures, which had been a required element of singles skating since the beginning, were retired after the 1990 championships.^[16] Competition infour skating was held irregularly, with the final competition taking place in 1997.^[5] The 2021 championships were cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic;^[17] and in December 2021, due toOntario's COVID-19 public health orders, Skate Canada announced that the2022 Canadian Championships would be held in a closed arena without spectators or on-site media.^[18] Prior to 2023, theCanadian Synchronized Skating Championships had been held as a separate event.^[5] Beginning in 2023, the junior- and senior-levelsynchronized skating competitions were incorporated into the Canadian Figure Skating Championships; hence the change in the event's name.^[19]

The2026 Canadian Championships are scheduled to be held 5–11 January inGatineau, Quebec.^[20]

The reigning Canadian figure skating champions:Roman Sadovsky (men's singles);Madeline Schizas (women's singles);Deanna Stellato-Dudek andMaxime Deschamps (pair skating); andPiper Gilles andPaul Poirier (ice dance)

Prior to the establishment of a separate event for women in 1913, men and women competed in the same event.^[9]

Although the Canadian Championships from 1905 to 1912 did not have separate competitions for men and women, an award was presented to the "top lady skater".^[127]