Canada has won 11 world championships in men's figure skating. Five times, Canadians have been world champions heading into an Olympics, but they haven't been able to covert that into Olympic gold. Donald McPherson didn't compete at Innsbruck in 1964. Brian Orser took the silver medal at Calgary in 1988. Kurt Browning was sixth at Albertville, France, in 1992 and fifth at Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. Elvis Stojko took silver at Nagano in 1998.
Canada's world champions
- 1962 Prague, Donald Jackson
- 1963 Cortina, Donald McPherson
- 1987 Cincinnati, Brian Orser
- 1989 Paris, Kurt Browning
- 1990 Halifax, Kurt Browning
- 1991 Munich, Kurt Browning
- 1993 Prague, Kurt Browning
- 1994 Chiba, Elvis Stojko
- 1995 Birmingham, Elvis Stojko
- 1997 Lauzon, Elvis Stojko
- 2008 Gothenburg, Jeffery Buttle
Canada's Olympic medalists
- 1932 Lake Placid, Montgomery Wilson, bronze
- 1960 Squaw Valley, Donald Jackson, bronze
- 1976 Innsbruck, Toller Cranston, bronze
- 1984 Sarajevo, Brian Orser, silver
- 1988 Calgary, Brian Orser, silver
- 1994 Lillehammer, Elvis Stojko, silver
- 1998 Nagano, Elvis Stojko, silver
- 2006 Turin, Jeffrey Buttle, bronze
