Holly's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Figure Skating
Event: Ice Dance
Highlight: Fifth at the 2026 Four Continents
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Year Born: 2002
About Holly
Holly Harris will make her Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 with Ice Dance partner Jason Chan. The pair went agonisingly close to competing at Beijing 2022 and have used that motivation to produce four years of strong results and continual improvement on the world stage.
Born in Sydney, Holly first made her name as a promising singles skater, winning the Australian junior title in 2016 and advancing to the free skate at the World Junior Championships the following year, where she placed inside the top 24. Those formative seasons established Holly’s skating quality and musicality, but a series of head knocks left her wary of returning to big jumping loads.
In 2019, she teamed with Jason from Montreal and relocated her training base to Canada and the Ice Academy of Montreal, one of the world’s leading ice dance hubs - under esteemed coaches Marie‑France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer.
The new partnership was established quickly, with the pair winning the Australian senior Ice Dance title in December 2019, signalling a changing of the guard in the discipline for Australia. Their international championship debut came at the 2020 Four Continents, where they finished inside the top ten, before the pandemic cancelled the scheduled World Championships.
The pair’s upward arc resumed with a first Worlds appearance in 2021, and a ninth place at the Olympic qualifying Nebelhorn Trophy later that year left Australia fourth reserve for the Beijing 2022 ice dance quota, a near miss that hardened their resolve.
They rebounded with steady progress. Eighteenth at the 2022 Worlds, a breakthrough fifth at Skate America on Grand Prix debut that same season, and sixteenth at the 2023 Worlds.
Holly and Jason’s 2023–24 campaign showed their consistency. They were seventh at the Autumn Classic and fourth at the invitational Shanghai Trophy, then ninth at the Four Continents and 17th at the World Championships in Montreal, a city Holly now views as a second home through their training base.
With momentum building, they opened 2024–25 by placing seventh at the Budapest Trophy, earned 10th at Skate Canada International, and took a confidence‑boosting win at Ice Challenge in Austria before adding a top‑five at the Tallinn Trophy. Back home, they reclaimed the Australian title, their second national crown, consolidating their status as the leading local ice dance team.
The 2025 Four Continents in Seoul was where the team produced their best continental result with personal‑best form in the free dance, underlining their competitive growth against deep fields from the Americas and Asia. At the 2025 World Championships in Boston, the Australians placed 19th overall. The event also saw Australia’s pairs secure an Olympic quota, a sign of the sport’s broad lift domestically.
September 2025 brought the most significant milestone of Holly’s ice dance career to date. At the International Skating Union’s “Skate to Milano” Olympic qualifying event in Beijing, Holly and Jason delivered composed rhythm and free dances to finish second, earning Australia an ice dance quota place for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the nation’s first in the discipline since Sochi 2014. The pair sustained that form in October with a silver medal at the Challenger Series Trialeti Trophy in Tbilisi, their first Challenger podium, setting personal‑best segment scores along the way.
Just days after their Olympic selection was announced, Holly and Jason finalised their Milano Cortina preparations with a sensational fifth place at the 2026 Four Continents Championships in Beijing.
On and off the ice, Holly is known for her diligence and lightness of touch. Those qualities that serve the couple’s intricate lifts and step sequences, and reflect a personality shaped as much by long hours at Montreal’s rinks as by a Sydney upbringing. Now a two‑time national champion with international top‑ten finishes to her name, she and Jason have crafted a body of work that blends Australian persistence with the polish of world‑class coaching. Holly heads to her first Olympic Winter Games with the calm confidence of an athlete who has found her event and her voice.
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