Danaé Blais

Biography

Danaé Blais made her first Olympic appearance at Beijing 2022 where she competed in the women’s 1500m. She has since won three world championship medals in relay events.

Blais made her ISU World Cup debut during the fall of 2018. One of her fondest memories came at the third stop of the season in Almaty, Kazakhstan where Canada won gold in the mixed relay. It was the first time she had skated in a senior international event with her older brother Cédrik and they got to stand on the top step of the podium together. It was also in Almaty that Blais won her first World Cup medal with the women’s 3000m relay team as they took bronze.

As a fulltime member of the World Cup team in 2019-20, Blais won five medals with the women’s 3000m relay team, including a gold in Shanghai. She won her first career individual World Cup medals at the beginning of the 2023-24 season in Montreal, taking silver and bronze in the 1000m and 1500m, respectively, while also winning gold with the women’s relay team.

In 2024-25 she was a member of the Canadian Ice Maples that won the inaugural Team Crystal Globe on the newly formed ISU Short Track World Tour. She helped the women’s 3000m relay team to three consecutive victories during the season and ended the campaign third in the 1000m standings after winning gold in Beijing and silver in Seoul. That was her first individual victory on the international circuit. Blais helped Canada win a second straight Team Crystal Globe during the 2025-26 ISU Short Track World Tour

At the inaugural Four Continents Championships in 2020, she took home a silver in the 3000m relay. She returned to the competition in 2023-24 and took gold with the women’s relay team while also picking up a pair of individual bronze medals in the 1000m and 1500m.

Blais competed at her first ISU World Championships in 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the only international short track event that Canadian skaters entered in what would have been the 2020-21 season. She was part of an eighth-place finish with the 3000m relay. She won her first world championship medal in 2022, a silver with the women’s relay team after racing in the earlier rounds. She became a world champion in 2025 with the mixed relay team.

Blais has been representing Canada internationally since 2016 when she competed at her first of three ISU World Junior Championships. After they just missed the podium in 2017, Blais and the women’s 3000m relay team captured gold at the 2018 World Juniors, where she also posted her best individual results.

A Little More About Danaé

Getting into the Sport: Started speed skating at age 7… Did not like it at first and told everyone that she wanted to do gymnastics but her parents kept her in skating and a few months later she decided she was done with gymnastics… Older brother Cédrik was also a member of the national short track team until retiring in June 2021; she competed at her first World Cups alongside him… Outside Interests: Studied psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal… Odds and Ends: Always travels with her small bear, Teddy…