Representing France, Vanessa James and her partner Morgan Cipres competed in the ISU GP Trophee Bompard in Paris late last month, finishing 5th with a score of 172.27.
Qing Pang and Jian Tong from China won the event with a score of 193.86, Canadian pair Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford finished second with a score of 190.89 and American pair Caydee Denney and John Coughlin finished 3rd with a score of 184.01.
Ms James is Bermudian, and lived in Bermuda as a child before moving overseas. She initially represented England, then switched to France.
The first black woman to win the British National Championships, Ms James and her old partner Yannick Bohuer became the first black couple to ever make an Olympic appearance in pairs skating.
