James & Radford Win Free Skate Portion
Vanessa James and Eric Radford won the pairs free skate at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, an event on the ISU Challenger Series circuit.
The Skate Canada website said, “Canada’s Vanessa James and Eric Radford won Friday’s free skate in pairs but it wasn’t enough to lift them into the medals at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, an event on the ISU Challenger Series circuit.
“The first-year partners took fourth spot overall on the strength of a personal best free skate score of 130.83 for 187.57 total. Unfortunately, the short program on Thursday didn’t go as well as they stood ninth.
“Audrey Lu and Misha Misha Mitrofanov of the U.S. won the gold with 195.32 followed by Anastasiia Metelkina and Daniil Parkman of Georgia in second at 189.60 and Iuliia Artemeva and Mikhail Nazarychev of Russia third at 189.29.
“Kirsten Moore-Towers of St.Catharines, Ont., and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ont., were eighth despite ranking sixth in the short and seventh in the long just ahead of Evelyn Walsh of London, Ont., and Trennt Michaud of Trenton, Ont., in ninth.
“It was the fifth competition for James and Radford this fall. Most recently they were also fourth at their two Grand Prix assignments.”
“We are definitely proud of this performance after the disappointment of the short program,” said Ms James. “It’s going to give us a lot of confidence.”
