Deanna Stellato-Dudek

Deanna Stellato-Dudek pair skater who currently competes with Danylo Siianytsia for the United States. With former skating partner Maxime Deschamps, she is the 2024 World champion, the 2024 Four Continents champion, the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, an eight-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, a three-time ISU Challenger Series gold medalist, and a three-time Canadian national champion (2023–25). She is the oldest female figure skater to win a World title in any discipline.

She and Deschamps are also the first pair team to perform an assisted backflip in an ISU competition. She married a consultant, Michael Dudek, in 2013. In an interview with the New York Times in February of 2026, she indicated that she had "sacrificed a relationship" as a result of her pursuit of her pairs skating comeback, but declined to discuss this further.

She is a licensed aesthetician and permanent cosmetic professional.

Given the difficulty of obtaining Canadian citizenship before 2022, Stellato-Dudek said that her goal was to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics, joking, "I'm already too old to be doing this, so I can be too old in six years, too. So what's the difference?"

Selected to compete for Team Canada at the 2025 World Team Trophy, Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps placed fourth in all segments of the pairs event and Team Canada finished fifth overall.

They then went on to win the silver medal at the 2025 Grand Prix de France. "For me, winning the medal means that we fought through, and despite the mistakes, we didn't give up," said Stellato-Dudek after the free skate. Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps were subsequently named to the 2026 Winter Olympic team.

On 2 February, days before the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Team Event, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that Stellato-Dudek/Deschamps would be unable to participate due to Stellato-Dudek sustaining an injury during training. They further stated that Stellato-Dudek's condition would be closely monitored to determine whether she and Deschamps will be able to partake in the Individual Pairs Event set to take place the following week. On 10 February, it was announced that Stellato-Dudek had been cleared to compete in the individual pair skating event despite having hit her head during a training accident.

The team went on to compete in the Pairs' individual event at the 2026 Winter Olympics where they placed 11th overall. “We lost two weeks of training leading up to this,” said Stellato-Dudek after the free skate. “We had to make some strategic decisions going into the free program. But the way that we held that together after not doing a run-through for two weeks is pretty amazing. I joke with Maxim that he literally and figuratively always carries me through when I’m having a hard time, and he did not disappoint tonight.”

Partnership with Siianytsia

2026–27 season On August 27, the US Skating Federation published the news that Stellato-Dudek had returned to representing the US and had teamed up with Danil Siianytsia. This followed an instagram post she had released the weekend before in which she thanked Skate Canada, her coaches, the Canadian fans, and her former partner Maxime, who had previously announced his retirement. Stellato-Dudek and Siianytsia train in Colorado Springs with Drew Meekins and hope to qualify for Nationals. That same evening, Stellato-Dudek and Siianytsia skated in front of a bigger audience for the first time at the Boston Summer Sizzler event.

Programs

Pair skating with Maxime Deschamps (for Canada) Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2025–2026