Lake Placid Ice Dance champs return
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships and International is set to return to the Olympic Center on Sunday and will continue through Wednesday, July 31.
The competition is one of the oldest ice dance events in the world and will bring around 270 skaters — including 72 in the international event — from 11 different countries.
It is part of US Figure Skating’s National Qualifying Series and Solo Dance Series and the Lake Placid Ice Dance International is on the International Skating Union calendar.
The event will feature couples ice dance competitions from juvenile through senior levels, and solo dance events from preliminary through senior levels. The International competition will feature junior and senior levels.
Among the top skaters in the senior international event include: 2022 World Junior Champions Oona Brown and Gage Brown; 2024 World Junior Champions Leah Neset and Artem Markelov; 2024 World Junior silver medalists Elizabeth Tkachenko and Alexei Kiliakov and 2018 Olympians Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain LeGac.