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.
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.
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