A staggering rise from Turkkila and Versable Bridge in World Championship Ice Dance-third consecutive championship for US star couple | In a brief sport

Ice dancers Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis skated seventh in free dance and rose from 20 to 11th. Yuka Orihara and Juho Pirinen ranked 14th.

Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis They were nicely located on Friday’s rhythm dance failure in the Ice Dance of the Figure Skating World Championships in Boston.

There were no errors in the tango -themed, spectacular free dance. Turkkila and Versluis got a great score of 120.86, which will be less than four points in the couple’s record.

– This was their free dance. Now we are at the level that this couple belongs to. The differences are really small and they can grab many more places, narrator Mika Saarelainen quoth.

The island’s estimate hit the right one. In the final score, the couple, who went on to 20, rose to 11th in the final results. Turkkila and Versluis received a total score of 188.95 from their two programs.

Turkkila and Versluisis had dramatic twists and turns. They only survived the free dance competition as the last pair and avoided qualifying with only 0.01 points. Their points were clearly lower than normal, as there was a big mistake in the rhythm dance when Versluis crashed in the step series.

Turkkila and Versluis’s free program points were seventh in the competition. A year ago, a couple in Helsinki was tenth in the World Championship and ninth two years ago.

The second pair of Finland Yuka orihara / Juho Pirinen Skating a clean free dance, but the technical levels were not enough to keep them near the top ten. The couple, who had gone to 11th place, was 14th in the final score with 184.72. Last year they were 16.

The entertaining and fast -paced performance of Orihara and Pirinen made the Boston Arena audience clap.

The biggest applause of all was given to the US For Madison Chock and For Evan Bateswho celebrate their third consecutive world championship. Total points 222.06 were enough for the number one place with about five and a half points in Canada To Piper Gilles and To Paul Poirier. The Canadian couple also received silver a year ago.

British Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson For the first time, they rose to the podium after two World Championships in the World Cup, when they held the third place of the rhythm.

The last competition for the Figure Skating World Championships is the men’s free program, which will take place on Sunday night Finnish time. The unpublished broadcast can be followed in Arena as of 23.55.