Canadian pairs team fifth after short program at world figure skating championships Globe_Sports
Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro perform during the pairs short program at the world figure skating championships in Saitama on March 20, 2019.Canada’s Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro are fifth after the pairs short program on Wednesday at the world figure skating championships.
“There were some good points but, over all, we are a little bit disappointed,” said Moore-Towers, sixth with her partner at last year’s worlds. “We had been training elements a lot better than we executed them today. Still, the score is solid and that’s a testament to the way we’ve been training.”Russian skaters Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov skated to the lead with a season-best score of 81.21 points.
Japanese national champion Kaori Sakamoto was second with 76.86 points, while Elizabet Tursynbaeva of Kazakhstan was third with 75.96. Japanese skater Rika Kihira entered the competition with high expectations after beating Zagitova at the Grand Prix Finals but wasn’t able to execute her triple Axel and finished in seventh with 70.90 points.Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., skated a clean program and was 11th. She finished third at the 2017 worlds.
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