Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier recorded the ice dancing title at the ISU’s Four Continents occasion on Saturday in Seoul, South Korea.
Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier of Unionville, Ont., directly bordered globe champs Madison Chock and Evan Bates of theUnited States The Canadians, that won the occasion in 2024, gone into Saturday’s competitors with a one-point lead and took gold by publishing the second-best rating in the totally free dancing.
Chock and Bates had the most effective totally free dancing, however completed with a total amount of 217.93 factors– 0.53 behind Gilles and Poirier’s 218.46.
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Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier efficiently protected their ice dancing title at the ISU Four Continents champions inSeoul
Gilles and Poirier were signed up with on the platform by other Canadians Marjorie Lajoie, of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha, of Greenfield Park,Que The duo took bronze with an overall rating of 201.04.
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Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha won the bronze medal in the ice dancing competitors at the ISU Four Continents champions in Seoul.
Shaidorov takes males’s title
In the males’s occasion, Mikhail Shaidorov won the totally free skate with a season-best rating to end up being the initial skater from Kazakhstan to win the Four Continents title because Denis Ten in 2015.
Shaidorov held a 12-point lead after the brief program and was just as outstanding in the totally free skate, touchdown 4 quadruple leaps for 190.37 factors for a general total amount of 285.10.
Cha Jun- hwan of South Korea was 2nd with 265.02 factors complied with by Jimmy Ma of the United States with 245.01.
Roman Sadovsky was the top Canadian finisher, racking up 213.90 factors for a 10th-place outcome. Matthew Newnham (205.34) and Aleksa Rakic (197.91) ended up 12th and 16th, specifically.
Shaidorov opened up with an exceptional three-way axel, solitary Euler and quad salchow mix that established the tone for his regimen. He adhered to with a quad lutz and a quad toe loophole prior to including an additional quad toe-triple toe mix later on in his regimen.
Cha was 4th after the brief program and kipped down an incredible totally free skate to order the silver medal prior to the home followers.
The South Korean skater began his regular with a quadruple salchow. His following aspect was meant to be a quad toeloop however he might just take care of a dual, however that was the only significant error for the 2022 Four Continents champ.
Ma, that was 2nd after the brief program, dropped on a three-way loophole early in his regular and touched down on three-way axel however was or else strong and completed with the bronze medal.
The competitors surfaces Sunday with the females’s totally free skate.
