Aug 27 (Reuters) \u2013 World champion pairs skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek will return to represent the United States and form a new partnership with Danil Siianytsia, U.S. Figure \u200bSkating said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Stellato-Dudek, 43, previously competed for \u200cCanada with Maxime Deschamps, winning the 2024 world championship and Four Continents title. The pair finished 11th at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in 2026.<\/p>\n
The move reunites Stellato-Dudek with the U.S. program where she \u200cbegan \u200bher international career more than two \u2060decades ago. Born in \u2060Park Ridge, Illinois, she competed in women\u2019s singles early in her career, winning the 1999 U.S. novice title and taking silver at the 2000 world junior championships.<\/p>\n
After injuries \u200bforced her away from competition, Stellato-Dudek returned to the sport in pairs in 2016 following a 16-year absence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m \u2060incredibly excited to begin this new \u2060chapter with Danil,\u201d Stellato-Dudek said in a statement. \u201cThe \u200bUnited States is where it all began for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her 2024 \u200bworld title made her, at age 40, the oldest \u200cwoman to win an ISU World Figure Skating Championships title in any discipline.<\/p>\n
Siianytsia, 25, was born in Dnipro, Ukraine, and has represented the U.S. in pairs competition. Skating previously \u2060with Anastasiia Smirnova, he won the 2021 U.S. junior title, finished fourth at the 2022 world junior championships and captured the \u20602022 Golden Spin \u200cof Zagreb.<\/p>\n
The new pair will train in \u2060Colorado Springs under coach Drew Meekins. They \u200bplan to \u200center the qualifying season for the 2027 \u200bU.S. Figure \u2060Skating Championships, the governing body said.<\/p>\n
U.S. Figure Skating high-performance chief Justin Dillon said the partnership combined Stellato-Dudek\u2019s experience with Siianytsia\u2019s potential as the program begins the four-year cycle towards the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Rory CarrollEditing \u200bby Toby Davis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 27 (Reuters) \u2013 World champion pairs skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek will return to represent the United States and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-827978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}