Jason Chan

Fast Facts

Sport: Figure Skating
Event: Ice Dance
Highlight: Fifth at the 2026 Four Continents
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Year Born: 1996

About Jason

Jason Chan will make his Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026 with Ice Dance partner Holly Harris. The pair went agonisingly close to competing at Beijing 2022 and have used their reserve status for those Games to produce four years of continual improvement and strong results on the world stage. 

Jason was born in Montreal, Canada, where the Ice Dance pair are based at the Ice Academy of Montreal under coaches Marie‑France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer. Jason and Holly won their first Australian senior ice dance title in 2019 and again in 2024. They have steadily climbed the international ranks while training in Canada.  

He grew up skating in Quebec and first made his name with partner Valérie Taillefer. Together they won the Canadian novice ice dance crown in 2014 and competed on the Junior Grand Prix circuit before finishing their partnership in 2018.   

In 2019, Jason joined forces with Holly, who was born in Sydney, to skate for Australia, while moving into one of the world’s premier ice dance training environments in Montreal. The pair won the Australian title that season, placed ninth on their championship debut at the Four Continents in 2020, and reached their first World Championships in 2021. 

The road to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games proved agonisingly close. At the final qualification event in Oberstdorf, the Nebelhorn Trophy in September 2021, the pair finished ninth, earning Australia the fourth reserve position and missing direct Olympic qualification. 

Undeterred, the pair used the experience to consolidate their standing. They were eighth at the 2022 Four Continents in Tallinn and qualified for the free dance at the 2022 World Championships in Montpellier, finishing 18th. The 2022–23 season brought a Grand Prix debut highlighted by fifth at Skate America and eighth at Skate Canada, and a career‑best 16th at the 2023 World Championships in Saitama. 

The 2023–24 campaign marked another step forward. In March 2024, they finished 17th at the World Championships in Montreal after placing ninth at Four Continents in Shanghai. They then reclaimed the national crown at the 2024 Australian Figure Skating Championships in Melbourne. 

Their momentum continued into 2024-25. They opened with seventh at the Budapest Trophy, placed 10th at Skate Canada, and earned strong Challenger Series results with fifth at the Tallinn Trophy and a breakthrough victory at the Ice Challenge. In February, they achieved a personal‑best championship placement of seventh at the Four Continents in Seoul, and in March they placed 19th at the World Championships in Boston, competing in one of the deepest ice dance fields of the cycle. 

The pivotal moment came in September 2025 at the official Olympic qualifying event “Skate to Milano” in Beijing. With second place overall and new personal bests in both segments, Jason and Holly secured an Australian quota place in ice dance for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Australia’s first Olympic ice dance berth since 2014. The result capped a four‑year turnaround from their reserve status for Beijing 2022.  

Weeks later, they added their first Challenger Series medal, taking silver at the Trialeti Trophy in Tbilisi with career‑best numbers of 110.96 in the free dance and 180.84 overall, another marker of their rise towards 2026. 

Just days after their Olympic selection was announced, Jason and Holly finalised their Milano Cortina preparations with a sensational fifth place at the 2026 Four Continents Championships in Beijing.   

Off the ice, Jason is a Montreal resident who began skating at six and enjoys cooking and discovering new coffee spots between sessions. He also notes Japan among his favourite places to compete for its superb organisation, details that round out the picture of a quietly driven athlete whose life is built around high performance.