Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier recorded the ice dancing title on the ISU’s Four Continents event on Saturday in Seoul, South Korea.
Toronto’s Gilles and Poirier of Unionville, Ont., immediately bordered globe champs Madison Chock and Evan Bates of theUnited States The Canadians, that received the event in 2024, gone into Saturday’s rivals with a one-point lead and took gold by publishing the second-best score within the completely free dancing.
Chock and Bates had the simplest completely free dancing, nonetheless accomplished with a complete quantity of 217.93 components– 0.53 behind Gilles and Poirier’s 218.46.
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Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier effectively protected their ice dancing title on the ISU Four Continents champions inSeoul
Gilles and Poirier have been signed up with on the platform by different Canadians Marjorie Lajoie, of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha, of Greenfield Park,Que The duo took bronze with an general score of 201.04.
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Canada’s Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha received the bronze medal within the ice dancing rivals on the ISU Four Continents champions in Seoul.
Shaidorov takes males’s title
In the males’s event, Mikhail Shaidorov received the completely free skate with a season-best score to finish up being the preliminary skater from Kazakhstan to win the Four Continents title as a result of Denis Ten in 2015.
Shaidorov held a 12-point lead after the temporary program and was simply as excellent within the completely free skate, landing 4 quadruple leaps for 190.37 components for a basic complete quantity of 285.10.
Cha Jun- hwan of South Korea was 2nd with 265.02 components complied with by Jimmy Ma of the United States with 245.01.
Roman Sadovsky was the highest Canadian finisher, racking up 213.90 components for a Tenth-place final result. Matthew Newnham (205.34) and Aleksa Rakic (197.91) ended up twelfth and sixteenth, particularly.
Shaidorov opened up with an distinctive three-way axel, solitary Euler and quad salchow combine that established the tone for his routine. He adhered to with a quad lutz and a quad toe loophole previous to together with an extra quad toe-triple toe combine afterward in his routine.
Cha was 4th after the temporary program and kipped down an unbelievable completely free skate to order the silver medal previous to the house followers.
The South Korean skater started his common with a quadruple salchow. His following side was meant to be a quad toeloop nonetheless he may simply maintain a twin, nonetheless that was the one vital error for the 2022 Four Continents champ.
Ma, that was 2nd after the temporary program, dropped on a three-way loophole early in his common and touched down on three-way axel nonetheless was or else robust and accomplished with the bronze medal.
The rivals surfaces Sunday with the females’s completely free skate.
