The fourth and final ISU Short Track World Tour event was held in Dordrecht, Netherlands, with Brendan Corey once again advancing to the B-Final stage.
 
The VIS supported skater reached the B-Final in the 1500m for the third time this season, finishing fourth to secure an overall ranking of 11th. In the 1000m, Corey placed 24th after the repechage semifinals, and in the 500m, he finished 26th, also reaching the repechage semifinal round.
 
Australia was also represented by Lucas Wareham and Hyo Jin Kim, with Kim delivering her second consecutive top-25 finish in the 1000m, placing 25th.
 
Corey concluded the season ranked 12th in the 1500m, 17th in the 1000m, and 18th overall across all three distances.
 
Dordrecht marked the final Olympic qualification opportunity for Short Track Speed Skating. Corey is in a strong position to qualify for all three distances when the International Skating Union confirm quota allocations for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games on December 12.

Three-time Australian Olympian Alex Ferlazzo has launched his international season on the track set to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, finishing 20th in the official Olympic Test Event.
 
The Cortina track welcomed athletes for two separate training weeks in November, culminating in the Test Event over the weekend, which counts towards Olympic qualification.
 
Ferlazzo posted a time of 54.041 seconds in his opening run, ranking 20th for the round. In the final run, he improved slightly with the 19th fastest time of 54.113 seconds, bringing his combined two-run total to 1:48.154 and 20th place overall—1.79 seconds behind event winner Jonas Mueller of Austria. The podium was rounded out by Kristers Aparjods of Latvia in second and Austrian Wolfgang Kindl, third.
 
The 30-year-old QAS slider from Townsville commented after the race.
 
“Cortina has been a blast! Learning a new track is always fun. Racing was difficult, there’s still a lot of work to do with the equipment side of things.”
 
“The North American races are home races now. It’s important for me now to get back to a familiar track and work on the basics and set up the sled for the rest of the season leading to the games.”
 
The opening World Cup of the season is next weekend in Winterberg, Germany. However, as the event does not count toward Olympic qualification, Ferlazzo has opted to travel to North America early, in preparation for the upcoming World Cup competitions in Park City and Lake Placid, USA.

QAS bobsleigh pilot Bree Walker came agonizingly close to back-to-back podium finishes to start the season, overcoming a lower back injury to secure fourth place at the IBSF World Cup on the Igls track in Innsbruck, Austria.

Walker opened the event in spectacular fashion, posting the fastest time of the first run with 56.01 seconds. However, during the initial push, she sustained a back injury that hampered her performance in the second heat. Despite her best efforts, Walker recorded the 11th fastest time of the round (56.34 seconds), bringing her two-run total to 1:52.35—just 0.02 seconds shy of third place.
 
Victory went to American Kaysha Love, finishing 0.33 seconds ahead of Walker, with Germany’s Laura Nolte in second and Lisa Buckwitz in third.
 
“I was very proud of the first run push and drive,” said the 2022 Olympian from Queensland.

“In the second heat I unfortunately hurt my lower back in the first push, so I couldn’t quite push to the intensity I wanted. This track is a push track, so if you don’t have a strong start, there’s not much you can do to make up for it.

“I’m happy to walk away with fourth considering the situation, and I’m taking away the positives—the first heat was very positive.”
 
In the two-woman event, Walker was joined by brakewoman Kiara Reddingius, but Walker was still impacted by the injury from the previous days which limited the push at the start and the pair finished in 18th place.
 
The next World Cup event is in Lillehammer, Norway, on December 13-14, the site of Walker’s double gold World Cup victories last season.

2022 Olympians Tahli Gill (QAS) and Dean Hewitt (VIS) have delivered an outstanding performance at the Aly Jenkins Memorial Mixed Doubles event, finishing second overall at the Martensville Curling Club in Saskatoon, Canada.
 
The tournament featured 18 teams from eight nations, with Gill and Hewitt dominating Pool A in the group stage, posting a perfect 4–0 record:
 
Group Stage Results

• Defeated Lamontagne/Lamontage (CAN) 8 to 2
• Defeated Lang/Lang (CAN) 11 to 3
• Defeated Kim/Jeong (KOR) 11 to 4
• Defeated Ye/Yu (CHN) 9 to 1

 
In the quarter-final, the Australians edged past Kim/Jeong (KOR) in a nail-biting contest, 8–7, before advancing to the final with a 6–1 semi-final win over Ye/Yu (CHN).
 
The gold medal match against Perret/Rios (SUI) came down to the wire, with Gill and Hewitt narrowly falling 5–4 after the last end, securing a silver medal finish.
 
Next up for the pair is the Madtown Double Down event in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, from December 4–7.

 

The European leg of the ISU Short Track World Tour kicked off over the weekend in Gdańsk, Poland, where 2022 Olympian Brendan Corey delivered standout performances across all three distances.
 
VIS supported Corey advanced to the B-Final in the 1500m, finishing 10th overall, his second B-Final appearance of the season in that distance. In the 1000m, Corey reached the quarter-finals, placing 11th, and recorded a season-best 22nd in the 500m.
 
Also representing Australia were Lucas Wareham and Hyo Jin Kim, with Kim achieving a season-best 22nd in the 1000m.
 
After three World Tour events, Corey sits 13th in the 1500m rankings, 14th in the 1000m, and 16th overall on the World Cup standings.
 
The final stop of the World Cup season and the last Olympic qualification event will take place in Dordrecht, Netherlands, from November 20–23.

Australian bobsleigh star Bree Walker has kicked off the 2025–2026 IBSF World Cup season in style, securing a bronze medal on the newly rebuilt Olympic track in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, the venue for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.
 
The medal performance is the 13th career World Cup podium for QAS bobsleigh pilot Walker, giving the 2022 Olympian great confidence ahead of February’s Olympic showdown.
 
The historic Cortina track, which staged the 1956 Olympics, last welcomed a World Cup in 2008. For years, uncertainty surrounded its future, but a rapid redevelopment, finished in just 300 days, has brought the venue back to life just in time for an official International Training Period in mid-November and opening World Cup of the season.
 
Walker opened the competition with a strong first run of 59.85 seconds, placing fifth in a tightly packed field where the top six athletes were separated by just 0.17 seconds. In the decisive second heat, Walker delivered under pressure with the second-fastest time of the final run (59.78), bringing her a two-run combined time of 1:59.63.
 
The battle for silver came down to mere fractions, with Walker finishing 0.01 seconds behind Kaysha Love of the USA. Germany’s Laura Nolte claimed gold, edging Walker by 0.16 seconds.
 
“My coach always says any day I finish on the podium is a good day, so very happy to finish third here for the first race of the season” said the 33-year-old from Queensland.
 
“I love the track here in Cortina, it’s really fun, a few technical corners especially at the top, and then it has a lovely flow down to the bottom, I am really enjoying driving here.
 
“My runs weren’t perfect, I am excited to come back here in February and be able to fix them up and see what happens on the other side.
 
Also in action for Australia was fellow QAS bobsleigh pilot Sarah Blizzard in 23rd place.

In the two-woman event, Walker was joined by another QAS scholar, brakewoman Kiara Reddingius, with the duo finishing in 18th place.
 
Sarah Blizzard was joined by brakewoman Desi Johnson in her World Cup debut, to register 23rd in the two woman sled.
 
The IBSF World Cup tour now moves to Innsbruck, Austria, where the monobob competition is scheduled for November 29, followed by the two-woman event on November 30.

Australian bobsleigh star Bree Walker has completed a ten-day training block on the newly rebuilt Eugenio Monti Sliding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, the venue for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games sliding events.
 
The historic Cortina track, which staged the 1956 Olympics, last welcomed a World Cup in 2008. For years, uncertainty surrounded its future, but a rapid redevelopment, finished in just 300 days, has brought the venue back to life. Recently homologated by the IBSF and FIL, the track opened for the first time for official Bobsleigh and Skeleton sliding during the International Training Period (ITP) from 7–16 November.
 
Athletes had their first runs on the 1,730-metre course, featuring 16 curves and speeds exceeding 140 km/h. Its technical upper section, flowing rhythm have already drawn praise from competitors.
 
“It’s been super special,” Walker said. “We originally thought that we weren’t going to have a track here in Cortina, so being here these past two weeks has been really exciting for many reasons.”
 
“I love learning new tracks from scratch. It’s such a challenge in the beginning, but when you start to get it, it’s really rewarding.”
 
“The track is really fun! It has a great flow to it. It’s not tricky to get down, but it’s still going to be good fun racing.”
 
“Our preparation is going well. We have worked really hard to learn the track as best as we can for now and I think we have done a great job considering it’s just my coach Pierre and I. So we go into this World Cup week feeling good and ready.”
 
The IBSF World Cup opener returns to Cortina this weekend for the first time in 17 years. Walker will line up in:

• Women’s Monobob on 22 November.
• Two-Woman Bobsleigh with brakewoman Kiara Reddingius on 23 November.

Sarah Blizzard also took part in the ITP, and will compete in both World Cup events in Cortina, teaming up with either Desi Johnson or Ashleigh Werner as her brakewoman for the two-woman.
 
This event marks the start of the final two months of Olympic qualification, which concludes on January 18, 2026.

2022 Australian Olympians Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt wrapped up a successful European competition block with a second-place finish at the Geneva Mixed Doubles Invitational, held from October 28–30.

The event featured a four-team round-robin format, with Gill and Hewitt facing off twice against elite pairs from Great Britain, Estonia, and Switzerland. The Australians delivered a strong performance, finishing with a 3–3 record, securing second place behind the undefeated British duo of Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds, the 2025 World Championship silver medallists.

Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill placed third, while Switzerland’s Briar and Yannick Schwaller rounded out the standings in fourth.

Match Results – Gill & Hewitt

• Draw 1 – Lost to Dodds/Mouat (GBR) 6–5
• Draw 2 – Defeated Kaldvee/Lill (EST) 8–7
• Draw 3 – Lost to Schwaller/Schwaller (SUI) 7–6
• Draw 4 – Lost to Dodds/Mouat (GBR) 6–5
• Draw 5 – Defeated Kaldvee/Lill (EST) 11–4
• Draw 6 – Defeated Schwaller/Schwaller (SUI) 10–5

This silver medal performance caps off a highly successful October campaign for Gill and Hewitt in Switzerland, where they also claimed two gold medals at earlier events. 

Their consistent podium results reinforce their status as one of the world’s top mixed doubles teams as they build momentum toward the final Olympic Qualification Event (OQE), which will determine the last two spots for the Milano-Cortina Games, taking place in Kelowna, Canada, from December 13 to 18.

2022 Olympians Tahli Gill (QAS) and Dean Hewitt (VIS) have continued their impressive form, claiming back-to-back Curling Mixed Doubles titles in Switzerland with a gold medal performance in Gstaad.
 
The Australian duo has now secured four podium finishes this season, two golds in Switzerland, along with silver medals at the Colorado Cup in the USA and the Stirling Invitational in Scotland.
 
Drawn in Group B for the round-robin phase, Gill and Hewitt posted a 3–2 win-loss record, advancing to the finals as the second-ranked team in their group.
 
They opened the playoffs with a dominant 9–2 victory over Estonia’s Kaldvee/Lill, followed by a hard-fought 8–6 win in the quarterfinals against Japan’s Matsumura/Tanida.
 
In the semi-final, the Australian’s won a close game, trailing heading into the last end but prevailed with s score of 8-7 over Westman/Ahlberg of Sweden.
 
The gold medal match proved just as dramatic, with Gill and Hewitt once again rallying in the final end to secure a 7–6 win and their second consecutive title.
 
An elated Gill reflected on the result:
 
“We’re excited to celebrate back-to-back wins here in Switzerland, wrapping up with a gold medal at the Mixed Doubles Curling event in Gstaad.
 
“It’s been a fantastic couple of weeks filled with great teamwork, consistency, and fantastic competition. With such a strong field in both events we knew we had to play our best, and we’re proud of how we’ve carried our momentum from one event to the next.
 
“Next up we’ll be competing in Geneva before heading home. Looking to finish our Swiss tour on a high note and more importantly feeling ready to roll in December for the Olympic Qualification Event!
 
The next event in Geneva is scheduled for October 28–30, followed by the final Olympic Qualification Event (OQE), which will determine the last two spots for the Milano-Cortina Games, taking place in Kelowna, Canada, from December 13 to 18.

Curling duo, Tahli Gill (QAS) and Dean Hewitt (VIS), have continued their impressive start to the Northern Hemisphere season, securing gold in Bern, Switzerland over the weekend with an undefeated run through the tournament.
 
The victory marks their third podium finish of the season for the 2022 Olympians, following silver medals at both the Colorado Cup and Stirling International.
 
Competing in a triple knockout format featuring some of the best teams in the world, Gill and Hewitt delivered dominant performances en route to the final:

• Draw 1: Defeated Hoffmann/Dryburgh (SUI) 10–3
• Draw 3: Defeated Kjaerland/Braenden (NOR) 12–6
• Draw 5: Defeated Matsumura/Tanida (JPN) 6–2
• Quarterfinal: Defeated Skaslien/Nedregotten (NOR) 10–4
• Semifinal: Defeated Kaldvee/Lill (EST) 7–6

 
In the gold medal match, Gill and Hewitt faced Germany’s Schoell/Sutor and sealed the win with a 6–4 victory, completing a flawless tournament campaign.
 
Gill and Hewitt will remain in Switzerland to compete in in Gstaad from November 21–23. They will also take part in a number of other events in the lead-in to the final Olympic Qualification Event (OQE) for Curling will take place in Kelowna, Canada, from December 13 to 18.
 
Dean Hewitt commented after the victory.
 
‘We’ve had a great start to the year and feel we’ve just about picked up from where we left off last year. We put in more training hours to start the year than we ever had in the past and emphasised training over games earlier. This has really fine tuned our technical aspects earlier in the season.”

‘It was exciting to win this event. We came into the event with two silvers so to take out the title feels extra special and a little bit of a relief to go that extra step!’

‘We’re feeling great on the ice. It was great to be in the same event as a lot of the teams who will be either at the OQE in Kelowna or already qualified for the Olympics. We’re looking forward to playing most of the same teams again starting Tuesday 21st in Gstaad, Switzerland.’

Australian Olympian Brendan Corey has kicked off his Olympic qualifying campaign with a series of impressive performances at the opening rounds of the ISU Short Track World Tour in Montreal.
 
Competing in back-to-back Olympic qualification events, Corey’s standout result came in the 1500m, where he reached the B Final in the first event (October 9–12), finishing 11th overall. He also placed 13th in the 1000m, advancing to the quarterfinals, and 35th in the 500m.
 
In the second Montreal event held this past weekend, Corey continued his strong form in the 1500 and 1000 metre distances. Corey reached the semi-final in the 1500 metres, ranked 16th overall. Corey also placed 16th in the 1000 metres advancing to the quarter-final stage and was 26th in the 500 metres.
 
Joining Corey in Montreal were fellow Australian Ice Racing athletes Lucas Wareham and Hyo Jin Kim, who competed in the heat and repechage rounds across both events.
 
Reflecting on his Olympic season preparation, Corey said:
 
“My preparation for the season was quite intense. I'm feeling stronger on the ice than ever before. I tend to perform better as the season progresses, and I’m keen to see what I can do as we get closer to the Games.”
 
“It’s Olympic season, so every team brings their best. Many have stepped up their game—there are no ‘easy’ races anymore. I need to stay focused from the preliminaries all the way to the final.”
 
After the first two events, Corey is ranked 15th in the 1000 metres, 17th in the 1500 metres, and 21st overall.
 
The third stop on the ISU World Tour will be held in Gdańsk, Poland, from November 20–23.

IMAGE Martin Holtom

Australian Ice Dance couple Holly Harris and Jason Chan have continued their strong recent form with another silver medal performance at the ISU Figure Skating Challenger Series Trialeti Trophy in Tbilisi, Georgia, their first medal at a Challenger series event.
 
Harris and Chan are on a high following their silver medal performance in September at the Olympic qualifying event in Beijing, China, where they secured a place for Australia in the Ice Dance at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Winter Games with career best scores.
 
In Tbilisi, Harris and Chan set a new personal best score of 110.96 points in the free dance, and 69.88 in the rhythm dance, putting them in second place overall on 180.84 points.
 
In first place was Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin of Georgia on 203.39 with French couple Loïcia Demougeot and Théo le Mercier in third on 178.09 points.
 
Harris and Chan commented after the event.
 
Harris: "We were aiming for a medal indeed, we don’t focus on it too much though. We ultimately just want to improve off the last competition and stay focused on ourselves. Today’s skate was pretty good, it was technically better than the Olympic qualifier.”
 
Chan: "After Worlds when we came so close to qualifying, we knew that we had to be ready really early for the Olympic season. So it was purely strategically for the September qualifier. We decided to keep the free dance something familiar so that we could really focus on the rhythm dance." 
 
The next event on the schedule for Harris and Chan will be the ISU Challenger PGE Warsaw Cup in Poland, where they will also be joined by Hektor Giotopoulos Moore and Anastasiia Golubeva in the pairs event on November 19-23.
 
Giotopoulos Moore and Golubeva have been training this month at the O'Brien Icehouse in Melbourne’s Docklands.

Australia has won its first ever Curling World Championship medal, with a historic bronze medal performance in the mixed doubles event from Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt in Fredericton, Canada.
 
The medal performance is Australia’s first at the World Championships, improving on their previous best result of fourth in 2019.
 
The 2022 Olympians made an incredible start to the event, winning Groub B with a record of eight wins and one loss in the round robin standings, including victories over the Czech Republic, Estonia, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, USA and a single loss against Japan.
 
Finishing first on the Groub B standings advanced them directly to the semi-final, where they were matched against Scotland. In a close match with Australia trailing by just one point heading into the final end, Scotland scored the final two points to take the win with a score of nine to six, sending Australia to the bronze medal match against Estonia.
 
In the bronze medal game, Gill and Hewitt dominated to emerge victorious with a score of nine to two, claiming Australia’s first ever major Championship medal in Curling.
 
“Since 2018 we have built and built year in year out, got to the 2022 Olympics and that was a fantastic feeling, and then this year we have had close to 11 podiums, it’s impressive and I am proud of what we have done”, said the 30-year-old Hewitt from Melbourne.
 
“We have come up a little bit short for direct Olympic Qualification which is bittersweet, but still getting the bronze can’t be too disappointed with that.”
 
“It’s huge for us, we have worked really hard for this moment, and like Dean said it’s a bittersweet feeling, but definitely gives us a lot of confidence moving forward and the momentum isn’t going to stop here,” said the 25-year-old Gill from Brisbane.
 
Olympic Winter Institute of Australia CEO, Geoff Lipshut commented:
 
“This is an amazing result for two great young Australian athletes and their Australian Curling community. When we think that there is not one dedicated Curling facility in our country and still Tahli and Dean and their supporters have found a way to be close to the very best in the world.
“Congratulations also to their coach Perry Marhsall and Curling Australia, who will all be very proud of this remarkable achievement.” 
 
Ten teams qualify to compete in Curling at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, with the eight highest ranked countries from points earned at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships. Australia just fell agonisingly short by one place, ranked ninth after the two World Championship events.
 
The pair will be aiming to qualify for one of the final two places in the Milano-Cortina field at the last chance Olympic Qualification Event in December 2025 in Kelowna, Canada.
 
Gill and Hewitt will be full of confidence following the World Championship medal and an incredible season which included 11 podiums in international tournaments which catapulted their world ranking to number three in the world.

2022 Olympians Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have competed in their final event ahead of the 2025 World Championships, taking part in the Mixed Doubles Players Championship at the Brant Curling Club in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
 
20 teams from eight nations took part in the competition separated into four different groups for the opening round robin stage.
 
Gill and Hewitt were drawn in Pool B and made a great start to the competition going undefeated in their four opening games.
 

• Defeated Wasylkiw/Konings (Canada) – 9 to 4
  
• Defeated Han/Ye (China) – 8 to 4
• Defeated Seol/Kim (Korea) – 7 to 1
• Defeated Mallett/Jackson (Canada) – 9 to 6

Unfortunately in the quarter-final, Gill/Hewitt were defeated by Canadian pair Weeks/Steep in a very close game, with the score 9 to 8 ending their tournament.
 
Winning the gold medal match was Kald/Lill from Estonia who defeated Skas/Nedr of Norway 10 to 9.
 
Gill commented on the performance.
 
“A quarterfinal finish at the Mixed Doubles Super Series Player Championships this weekend. This event was the final competition before heading to the World Championships, and though we didn’t make it as far as we’d have liked, the experience has been invaluable.
 
“Every game has been a learning opportunity, and we’re taking all of that knowledge and momentum into the World Championships with us.
 
“We’re focused, motivated, and ready to take on the world stage at the end of this month!”

Figure Skating pair Anastasia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore have secured an Olympic quota place for Australia in the pairs event at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics after a ninth place finish at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, USA.
 
The pair started the event in great form, with a career best score of 66.73 in the short program, the eighth best score of the round.
 
In the final free skate program, they had another great skate scoring a season’s best 122.51, the ninth highest of the round.
 
The combined total score of 188.24 gave them a final ranking of ninth, securing a place for Australia at the Milano-Cortina games.
 
Ice Dance couple Holly Harris and Jason Chan have come heartbreakingly close to also securing a quote place, missing out by one spot after finishing 19th, and will have to attend an Olympic Qualification event later this year to secure a quota for Australia in 2026.
 
The couple opened with a score of 63.84 points in the rhythm dance, putting them in 18th and through to the top-20 free dance.
 
In the free dance, the couple scored 104.94 in the 19th highest score of the round, for a combined score of 174.78 and final ranking of 19th.
 
The skaters will be able to compete for additional Olympic quota places at the ISU Qualifying Competition in Beijing, China in late September 2025.
 
Quotes from Giotopoulos Moore and Golubeva (Courtesy of Golden Skate)


Giotopoulos Moore: “We’re definitely happy to have reached the end of this season and to have gotten through it fairly well today. Anastasia, I think, is a little upset about some small mistakes, but overall, we’re just happy to be done with this season.”
 
Golubeva: “Yeah, it was definitely a tough season. We missed a lot of competitions, but luckily, we’re healthy again now.”
 
Both shared that they feel really sad about letting go of this free program. “I loved it so much,” Golubeva said. “I think it’s our Favorite program that we’ve ever skated together.”

Lars Young Vik has finished 31st in the sprint event at the final World Cup of the season in Lahti, Finland, just missing the 30-man final by two hundredths of a second.
 
The result is a personal best for Young Vik on World Cup and Australia’s best male sprint performance since Phillip Bellingham made the top-30 in January 2018 just prior to the PyeongChang Olympics where he finished 29th. 
 
Young Vik also teamed up with 2022 Olympian Seve De Campo to finish in 26th place in the men’s team sprint.
 
A midweek World Cup took place prior to Lahti, in Tallinn, Estonia, where Young Vik was 53rd.
 
No Australian women competed in the final two events, due to a combination of illness and university commitments.
 
Australian Result Summary
 
Tallinn, Estonia
Men’s Sprint
Lars Young Vik – 53rd
Bently Walker-Broose – 75th
Fedele De Campo – 81st
 
Lahti, Finland
 
Men’s Sprint
Lars Young Vik – 31st
Seve De Campo – 77th
Fedele De Campo – 94th
 
Men’s Team Sprint
Lars Young Vik/Seve De Campo – 26th
 
50km Mass Start Classic
Seve De Campo – 59th
Lars Young Vik - 65th
Fedele De Campo - 68th

2022 Olympian Brendan Corey has skated to his third straight 1500m A-Final at the World Championships, just missing a medal in fifth place in Beijing, China.
 
In the opening round Corey finished first in his heat placing him straight into the semi-final avoiding the repechage rounds.
 
In the semi-final Corey crossed the line in fourth, but was advanced to the A-Final after being interfered with earlier in the race
 
In the A-Final, Corey came close to making it back-to-back World Championship podiums, just missing out on fifth place.  
 
Corey also finished 20th in the 1000m and 29th in the 500m.
 
Also in action was Australian Ice Racing skater Hyo Jin Kim who finished 27th (1500m), 39th 1000m and 33rd (500m) in women’s competition and in the men’s, Lucas Wareham was 39th (1500m), 42nd (1000m), and 49th (500m).
 
After the event Corey reflected on a successful World Championships.
 
“I was feeling very strong in the 1500m. I was well positioned, in third with two laps to go. Then one of my competitors did a desperate pass and I got pushed to the back of the back. He got penalised from the move but unfortunately, there's not advancements to medals!
 
“Overall, I'm happy with my performance. I was skating strong and confidently. I've been in the 1500m A final three consecutive years, and I'm sure my competitors are taking notice.”
 
“This has been my most consistent season in a single distance five times in the top 10 in the 1500m. I would not have been able to achieve this without the continued support of the OWIA and my personal sponsor, Heraldry Gold.”
 
“I'm feeling confident in the 1500m event and would consider myself a top contender in that distance. I need to focus this off-season on the short events. I'd like to be competitive in all three individual events at Milano Cortina 2026.”

2022 Olympians Bree Walker and Kiarra Reddingius have finished their competition season placing 13th in the two-woman event at the 2025 IBSF World Championships in Lake, Placid, USA.
 
Walker was impacted by illness for the entire event, the QAS pilot was ninth in monobob during the previous week. Both the two woman and monobob competitions were four-run combined time major championship format over two days.
 
The pair were 14th fastest in run one, two and three, and in the fourth and final run improved to the 11th best time of the round, posting a four-run combined time of 3:50.75 seconds.
 
The event winner 4.75 seconds ahead of Walker and Reddingius and leading a German clean sweep were Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi, their teammates Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig were second and Lisa Buckwitz and Kira Lipperheide third.
 
Australia also competed in the four-man bobsleigh, with pilot Rhys Peters joined by Jermayne Takapautolo, Jack Pennington and Benjamin Forst.
 
Unfortunately in the first run they crashed just after the halfway point, sliding the remainder of the track to the finish line in 24th.
 
The Australian sled did complete the run, so they were eligible for a second run, but it was cancelled due to warm conditions. They did not make the result cut for runs three and four.

The Australian Cross Country Skiing Team has returned to competition a week after the 2025 World Championships, remaining in Norway for a World Cup in Oslo.
 
Phoebe Cridland was the best place finisher for Australia in a personal best placing of 41st in the women’s 20km Interval Start Classic.
 
See below results summary
 
The next World Cup will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, with a city spring race on March 19.
 
Women's 20km Interval Start Classic
41st Phoebe Cridland
46th Rosie Fordham
 
Men's 20km Interval Start Classic
63rd Seve De Campo
66th Phillip Bellingham
68th Bentley Walker-Broose
74th Fedele De Campo
 
Women’s 10km Interval Start Free
45th Rosie Fordham
51st Phoebe Cridland
 
Men’s 10km Interval Start Free
68th Seve De Campo
69th Lars Young Vik
71st Phillip Bellingham
78th Bentley Walker-Broose

2022 Olympian has battled illness to finish in the top-10 in the monobob at the World Championships in Lake Placid, NY, USA, finishing in ninth place.
 
Competing in the four-run combined time major championship format over two days, the QAS bobsleigh pilot was 11th fastest  in run one, seventh in run two, 10th in run three and ninth in the final run to finish in a total time of 3:59.58.
 
The event winner 1.76 seconds ahead of Walker on her home track was Kaysha Love of the USA, Laura Nolte of Germany was second and another American, Elana Meyers-Taylor was third.
 
Walker still holds the track record for Lake Placid set 12 months ago, with no athletes able to improve on the time which saw changing weather conditions throughout the two days of competition.
 
A heartbroken Walker commented after the race.
 
“Certainly not the race I had prepared or planned for all season.
 
“I got extremely sick with a viral infection a day or so out from the race. I thought I would be able to still challenge for what I worked so hard for, but my starts were unfortunately so weak which left me on the back foot from the get-go!
 
“I gave it everything I had and that’s all I could do with the cards I was dealt! Heartbroken but it is what it is.”
 
Walker will now focus on the two-woman World Championship event in Lake Placid alongside brakewoman Kiara Reddingius on March 15 and 16.
 
Others in action in Lake Placid competing for Australia included Nicholas Timmings 20th in the men’s skeleton event and in the two-man bobsleigh, Rhys Peters and Benjamin Frost were 27th & Cam Scott and Patrick Castelli 28th.

It’s been a highly successful World championships for the Australian Cross Country Ski Team in Trondheim, Norway, where Australians skied to best ever individual and team result performances at the World Championship level.
 
Competing in front of fanatical Norwegian crowds of up to 100,000 spectators, the locals were ecstatic to witness hometown superstar Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo win an incredible six gold medals from six events.
 
Rosie Fordham claimed a 20th place finish in the women’s 50km Mass Start Free, the best ever finish in an individual distance. Fordham was also a member of the women’s Team Sprint alongside Ellen Soehol Lie finishing 15th, the first time an Australian team has made a championship final.
 
The women’s 4x7.5km relay team featuring Fordham, Soehol Lie, Tuva Bygrave and Phoebe Cridland placed 12th, the best World Championship relay result  for an Australian team.
 
In the men’s event, the individual highlight was Lars Young Vik finishing 33rd in the men’s sprint, just missing the finals (top 30) by 0.21 of a second. No Australian has ever made the Sprint finals at the World Championships.
 
The men's relay team also finished 20th in team sprint and the 4x7.5km relay.
 
Full results below.
 
7.5km Classic Women’s (Qualification Event)

• Phoebe Cridland 4th (top-10 needed to qualify for individual)

 
7.5km Classic Men’s (Qualification Event)

• Liam Burton 24th

 
Sprint Free Women’s

• Rosie Fordham 44th
• Phoebe Cridland 55th
• Ellen Soehol Lie 57th
• Tuva Bygrave 60th

 
Sprint Free Men’s

• Lars Young Vik 33rd
• Phillip Bellingham 63rd
• Bentley Walker-Broose 65th
• Fedele De Campo 102nd

 
20km Skiathlon Classic/Free Women’s

• Rosie Fordham 38th
• Ellen Soehol Lie DNF
• Tuva Bygrave 51st

 
20km Skiathlon Classic/Free Men’s

• Bentley Walker-Broose 79th
• Phillip Bellingham 87th
• Fedele De Campo 90th

 
10km Interval Start Classic Women’s

• Rosie Fordham 37th
• Phoebe Cridland 41st
• Ellen Soehol Lie 42nd
• Tuva Bygrave 44th

 
10km Interval Start Classic Men’s

• Seve De Campo 52nd
• Lars Young Vik 75th

• Bentley Walker-Broose 83rd
• Fedele De Campo 88th
• Liam Burton 122nd

 
Team Sprint Classic Women’s

• Australia (Rosie Fordham & Ellen Soehol Lie) 15th

 
Team Sprint Classic Men’s

• Australia (Lars Young Vik & Seve De Campo) 20th

 
4 x 4.75km Relay Classic/Free Women’s

• Australia (Tuva Bygrave, Ellen Soehol Lie, Rosie Fordham, Phoebe Cridland) 12th

 
4 x 4.75km Relay Classic/Free Men’s

• Australia (Seve De Campo, Lars Young Vik, Bentley Walker-Broose, Fedele De Campo) 20th

50km Mass Start Free Women’s

• Rosie Fordham 20th
• Tuva Bygrave 32nd

 
50km Mass Start Free Men’s

• Seve De Campo 50th
• Phillip Bellingham 60th
• Bentley Walker-Broose 65th
• Fedele De Campo 70th

Congratulations to the athletes, their coaches, and staff together with Snow Australia and everyone in the Australian cross country skiing community on these outstanding results and a most successful championships.

2022 Olympians Dean Hewitt (VIS) and Tahli Gill (QAS) have won their final event of a very successful European training and competition block, going undefeated to claim gold at the Hvidovre Mixed Doubles Cup in Denmark.
 
The pair won all of the opening group A matches, and remained undefeated in finals games, winning impressively in their three finals matches.
 
In the gold medal match they defeated Lander/Holtermann of Denmark 8 to 2.

Group A
Defeated Nyboe/Jurlander (DEN) 7 to 4
Defeated Wiksten/Wiksten (DEN) 6 to 5
Defeated Devaux/ Devaux (SUI) 9 to 2
Defeated Patel/Raju (IND) 9 to 0
 
Quarter Final
Defeated Jensen/Vilandt (DEN) 8 to 1
 
Semi Final
Defeated Schmidt/Qvist (DEN) 6 to 2
 
Final
Defeated Lander/Holtermann (DEN) 8 to 2
 
Hewitt reflected on a successful month in Europe.
“We’ve finished off the European leg of our season with a bang, winning the Hvidovre Mixed Doubles Cup in Denmark. Going through undefeated made it our sixth gold and eighth podium for the season. Overall, we’ve had a great European tour with 17 wins and just two losses along the way. “
“We’ve had a great time getting to experience the AIS European Training Centre in Italy while we’ve been over here. It’s been incredible to spend some time with other Aussie athletes with an atmosphere that made us feel right at home (Vegemite and Milo especially)! “
 
“We now head back to Canada for a big training block as we head into our last event before World Championships. More to come!”

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Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt celebrate another tournament win in Denmark
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The prestigious ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Seoul, Korea, over the weekend, where Australia achieved top-10 finishes in both the pairs and ice dance events.
 
In the pairs skating, Anastasia Golubeva and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore made a great start in the short program, recording a personal best score of 65.36 points, the sixth highest score of the round.
 
The final free skate program saw the pair score the seventh highest score of the round with 113.40, and a combined score of 178.76 for a final ranking of sixth.
 
“I am really happy, at Skate Canada earlier in the season we set our seasons best, and now to beat that again in our second comp wea re really happy with that” said Giotopoulos Moore after the short program.
 
Holly Harris and Jason Chan also had personal best score in the opening rhythm dance program, scoring 108.75 points in seventh place.
 
In the final free dance, the couple scored 69.37, and a combined total of 178.12 points to be ranked seventh overall, which is also their highest ever finish at the Four Continents.
 
In the women’s singles event Australian skaters Maria Chernyshova finished 21st and in the men’s singles Darian Kapitch was 18th and Douglas Gerber 20th.
 
The next major event is the ISU World Championships will take place this year in Boston, USA, from March 25-30.

Three-time QAS Olympian Alex Ferlazzo has finished the FIL World Cup season with a 12th place result on the 2022 Olympic track in Yanqing, China.
 
Following strong recent World Cup performances which included a season’s best 9th place result last week in Korea, Ferlazzo was a seeded slider for the final event, and did not have to qualify via the Nations Cup race.
 
Ferlazzo opened with the 17th fastest time in the first heat in a time of 58.858 seconds.
 
In the final run, Ferlazzo improved to record the 10th fastest time of the round in 58.531 seconds, giving him a two-run time of 1:57.389 and a final ranking of 12th.
 
Taking the win 2.338 seconds ahead of Ferlazzo was Max Langerhan of Germany, with Austrian Jonas Mueller in second and another Austrian David Gleirscher in third.
 
On the final rankings for the season, Ferlazzo finished in 17th.
 
Another highlight for Ferlazzo this season was the World Championships in Whistler, Canada, where he placed 11th, his second best performance at the major event.

The final World Cup event before the 2025 World Championships has taken place in Falun, Sweden, featuring events in sprint (Classic), 10km Interval Start Classic and 20km Mass Start Free.
 
The highlight was recent U23 World Championship medallist Rosie Fordham achieving her best World Cup result in the 20km Mass Start Free distance, finishing 35th.
 
Seve De Campo was the highest placed Australian male in all three events, finishing 69th in the sprint, 70th 10km and 66th 20km.
 
Next up is the 2025 FIS Cross Country World Championships, on February 26 to March 9 in Trondheim, Norway.
 
Result Summary

Women’s Sprint Classic
Tuva Bygrave – 53rd
Phoebe Cridland – 54th
Ellen Soehol Lie – 55th

Men’s Sprint Classic
Seve De Campo – 69th
Phillip Bellingham – 71st
Fedele De Campo – 75th
 
Women’s 10km Interval Start Classic
Rosie Fordham – 54th
Phoebe Cridland – 56th
Ellen Soehol Lie – 57th
Tuva Bygrave – 58th

Men’s 10km Interval Start Free
Seve De Campo – 70th
Phillip Bellingham – 75th
Bentely Walker-Broose – 84th
Fedele De Campo – 87th

Women’s 20km Mass Start Free
Rosie Fordham – 35th
Phoebe Cridland – 44th
Tuva Bygrave – 47th

Men’s 20km Mass Start Free
Seve De Campo – 66th
Phillip Bellingham – 69th
Bentely Walker-Broose – 74th
Fedele De Campo – DNF