Montreal's Fournier Beaudry, Sorensen earn ice dance bronze for 4th medal in 4 events

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· Posted: Nov 27, 2021 2:53 PM EST | Last Updated: November 27, 2021

Montreal's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen finished the Rostelecom Cup with a 4th medal successful arsenic galore fig skating competitions this season.

The seasoned crystal dancers earned 191.40 points for bronze astatine the sixth halt connected the ISU circuit connected Saturday successful Sochi, Russia.

Hometown favourites Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won the with 211.72 points, followed by Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy with 203.71.

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The Canadians were besides 3rd astatine their erstwhile Grand Prix duty astatine Skate America past period aft winning metallic astatine 2 ISU Challenger Series events.

"We consciousness we've been improving from contention to competition," Fournier Beaudry told reporters. "We've inactive got small things to enactment on, but we are blessed with the progression. We had 5 weeks betwixt Grand Prix truthful that's been a bully measuring instrumentality for us.''

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Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., delivered a cleanable skate and his champion show of the play successful the men's competition, falling conscionable abbreviated of the medal podium successful 4th with 253.80 points.

The 22-year-old had flimsy turns connected his opening quad Salchow and triple Axel landings but would aboriginal comeback to onshore a cleanable quad Salchow successful operation with a triple Salchow.

'A immense measurement for me'

"To bushed my season's champion by 30 points is simply a immense measurement for me,'' said Sadovsky, the 2020 Canadian champion. "That was much oregon little what I wanted to do. I wanted to bespeak the changes made since my past competition. I'm conscionable going to support going from present and support training."

Morisi Kvitelashvili posted 266.33 points go the archetypal Georgian to triumph a fig skating Grand Prix, with Mikhail Kolyada of Russia (264.64) and Japan's Kazuki Tomono (264.19) rounding retired the podium.

Kvitelashvili represents Georgia but was calved successful Moscow and trains determination with manager Eteri Tutberidze, the manager down galore of Russia's Olympic and satellite championship-winning women's skaters implicit the past decade, including Valieva.

Tomono was the person from the abbreviated programme and, skating past to euphony from the movie La La Land, was cleanable connected 2 of his 3 quadruple jumps but fell connected a triple axel. That helped to guarantee helium couldn't overtake Kvitelashvili, who overcame his ain autumn connected a quad toed loop successful his programme to a Frank Sinatra medley.

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Kolyada had the champion escaped skate people with 180.16 arsenic helium roseate from 4th successful the abbreviated programme to 2nd and secured a spot astatine adjacent month's Grand Prix Final successful Japan.

Elsewhere, Kamila Valieva headed a Russian women's podium expanse to underline her presumption arsenic favourite for Olympic golden medal successful Beijing successful February.

The 15-year-old landed 3 quadruple jumps, 2 of them successful combinations, to Ravel's "Bolero" and scored 185.29 points successful the escaped skate for a 272.71 total. Her abbreviated program, escaped skate and wide scores astatine the contention were each satellite records.

Erratic abbreviated program

Valieva won by a crushing borderline of 43 points from Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the 2015 satellite champion who doesn't execute quad jumps but has stayed successful contention with triple-triple combinations and beardown presumption skills.

Tuktamysheva scored 229.23 to enactment up of chap Russian Maiia Khromykh, who had 2 quad jumps, stepping retired connected the landing of 1 of them. Khromykh scored 219.69 to retrieve from an erratic abbreviated programme and instrumentality the last podium spot up of Mariah Bell of the United States.

Madeline Schizas of Oakville, Ont., was sixth with a season's champion 192.14.

"My escaped skate wasn't precisely what I was hoping," said Schizas, 4th aft the abbreviated program. "I was blessed with the combat I showed done the program. I've been truly motivated this play by the prime of skating I've seen astatine the elder level."

Russia swept the podium successful pairs arsenic satellite champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov dominated the escaped skate aft 2nd spot successful the abbreviated program, to triumph with an wide 226.98 points.

Daria Pavliuchenko and Denis Khodykin were 2nd connected 212.59 and Iasmina Kadyrova and Ivan Balchenko took 3rd connected 193.58.

Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ont., improved from seventh aft the abbreviated programme to 5th with the 5th champion escaped skate.

"We decidedly person overmuch much than that but it was bully to get immoderate assurance today," said Marinaro. ''We inactive person rather a mode to spell to beryllium wherever we privation to be."

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