The 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships start tonight at the Whitlam Centre in Liverpool, NSW.

To access the official program of the Championships, click here.

 
Click here for the final results!

Results will be updates once received by the office.

Japan and China will be sending skaters to participate in the 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships next month in Liverpool, NSW.

It has been confirmed that China has 6 skaters competing in Junior Mens Figures, Junior Mens Freeskating, Senior Ladies Freeskating, Senior Mens Solo Dance and Senior Ladies Solo Dance, including Zhi dou Don who placed 7th at the 2012 Artistic World Championships in Junior Ladies Free and 5th in Junior Ladies Figures.

Japan are sending 2 skaters competing in Junior Ladies Figures, Junior Ladies Freeskating, Junior Ladies Solo Dance and Masters Ladies Figures.

Skate Australia would like to welcome all visiting athletes participating in the 2013 Artistic Oceania Championships.

Event Info:

Dates: April 2 - 5

Location: Whitlam Leisure Centre, Liverpool, NSW

Times and schedule to be released soon.

Cooking, singing, dancing, diving and renovating all have their own reality TV show — so why not roller skating?

Scoresby-based former men's figure skating world champion Jayson Sutcliffe believes skating is an ideal candidate to be the next hot show.

As well as being world champion in 1993, 1995, 2002 and 2005, he was also part of a skating troupe that competed in the 2010 finals of Australia's Got Talent.

Hoping to persuade television executives that skating could be the next incarnation of shows such as The Voice, Sutcliffe is hosting a reality-style skate competition at Caribbean Rollerama in Scoresby next week.

Nine teams of up to 20 skaters will perform a routine at the 2012 Roll-Line Team Sk8 Off to a song by a "music legend" — like Lady Gaga, Pink or Madonna.

A celebrity judging panel, including singer Lydia Denker, and the audience will decide the top three finalists, and eventually, the winner.

Sutcliffe said the teams had been preparing for about seven weeks. Each group had a cross-section of ages and experience and four teams from Scoresby were set to compete.

"It's a really nice mix in the groups. The younger ones are excited to be skating with their idols and said to me that they wouldn't even normally say hello to them."

Sutcliffe said the competition between teams had been "really hardcore and quite fierce".

"The teams in Scoresby are even hiding their props and costumes from each other."

The former world champion was also keen to make the event as interactive as possible.

To read the full article written by Tara McGrath at the Knox Weekly, click here.

Our Australian skaters have now returned from a successful and exciting Artistic World Championships.

This year Team Platinum and Rolling Pride, our first show and precision teams joined the Championships, skating against some of the most experienced and successful precision and show teams in the world.

Final results are as follows:

Senior Ladies Figures
Tamera Russell 17th
Teresa Chittick 26th

Senior Ladies Short Programme
Purdy Rawlinson 19th
Sonja Schenker 21st
Megan Cash 22nd

Senior Ladies Solo Dance
Bianca Burrow 12th
Candace Harrison 15th

Junior Ladies Figures
Allira Hanczakowski 9th
Sarah Butler 11th

Inline Ladies Short Programme
Kirsten Slade 2nd

Junior Solo Dance
Courtney McVie 10th
Ebony Cassady 12th

Inline Ladies Free (Short and Long)
Kristen Slade 3rd
Lauren Smith 7th

Junior Ladies Free (Short and Long)
Sarah Butler 13th
Tara Gundlach 14th

Junior Ladies Combined
Sarah Butler 7th

Precision
Rolling Pride 7th

Small Show Group
Team Platinum 5th

Congratulations to all skaters for their achievements, you all skated exceptionally well!

To see more photos of the skaters click here.

To see the official website of the 2012 World Championships, click here.