{"id":953198,"date":"2026-10-31T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953198\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:48:14","slug":"canadas-lia-pereira-trennt-michaud-lead-pairs-event-at-skate-canada-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953198\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Lia Pereira, Trennt Michaud lead pairs event at Skate Canada International"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian duo Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud lead the pairs competition at Skate Canada International in Kelowna, B.C., after their performance in Friday night’s short program.<\/p>\n

Pereira of Milton, Ont., and Michaud of Brantford, Ont., skated to a score of 77.06 points.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg’s Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov were third with 64.94 points.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Kemp, Elizarov sit 3rd in pairs:\"\"<\/p>\n

Canada’s Kemp, Elizarov sit 3rd after pairs short program at Skate Canada International<\/p>\n

Canadian pair Ava Kemp and Yohnatan Elizarov are in third place at Skate Canada International with a score of 64.94.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Rio Nakata led the 12-skater men’s field with 92.64 points in the short program Friday. David Bodnar of Richmond Hill, Ont., was the top Canadian (77.48) in seventh place.<\/p>\n

Skate Canada is the second stop on the ISU’s Grand Prix circuit, the top series in figure skating.<\/p>\n

Live coverage of the event continues on Saturday at 3:25 p.m. ET with the women’s short program. Every event will stream live on CBC Gem and CBCSports.ca.<\/p>\n

The competition will also be part of the CBC Sports Primetime broadcast on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET (CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca).<\/p>\n

WATCH | Japan’s Nakata leads after men’s short program:\"\"<\/p>\n

Japan’s Rio Nakata leads heading into free program at Skate Canada International<\/p>\n

Rio Nakata of Japan sits in first place after the men’s short program with a score of 92.64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-953198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}