Duhamel and Radford win Grand Prix bronze, Virtue and Moir set world record
MARSEILLE, France — Canadian world champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the bronze medal Friday in pairs at the ISU Grand Prix Final figure skating competition while teammates Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a world record in the ice dance.
In pairs, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morosov of Russia won the gold medal with 213.85 points. Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang of China were second at 206.71 and Duhamel and Radford remained third at 205.99.
“We struggled with our side-by-side jumps and those are normally our strengths,” said Radford from Balmertown, Ont. “We can’t afford missing them because it costs us too many points. We need to find the proper focus for those elements because everything else was really good.”
Julianne Seguin of Longueuil, Que., and Charlie Bilodeau of Trois-Pistoles, Que., climbed to fifth with 186.85.