Stellato-Dudek, Deschamps fifth at figure skating worlds

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Boston – Canada vs. Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps missed the podium after catching gold in native soil in Montreal for a year after catching gold in Montreal’s native soil.

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Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the second world championship with 219.79 points. They barely beat Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, who scored 219.08 after excellent free skating.

Italy’s Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii won the bronze medal (210.47).

Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps scored 132.44 on their underwater-themed freeboards, and at TD Garden in Boston, totaling 199.76. They remained the lead until all four teams in the final group scored higher.

Last year’s champions ranked seventh in Wednesday’s short show, with a disappointing 67.32 points, the lowest of the season.

Stellato-Dudek, a U.S.-born skater who became a Canadian citizen in December, allowed her to compete for the country at the Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy next year.

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The 41-year-old worked with Deschamps in 2019, a 33-year-old from Vaudreuil-Dorion of Que. She became the oldest woman to win a world championship in any figure skating discipline last year.

Despite winning two gold medals on the Grand Prix track, the duo hasn’t reached the same height this season. Their season-best total score of 210.92 is well below their 221.56 personal best score in the world last year.

Deschamps’ illness also forced them to withdraw from the Grand Prix in December’s Grand Prix final, while Stellato-Dudek suffered several minor injuries.

Milton’s Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud of Trenton finished 13th (179.50), dropping from 10th after a brief free skating.

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Kelly Ann Laurin of St. Jerome, Quebec and Loucas Ethier of Deux-Montagnes, Quebec were No. 18 (169.55).

The results in the world this year will have an impact on the 2026 Winter Olympics. Canada’s first two teams are well above the overall score of 13 or less to secure three temporary attractions for next year’s Olympics.

Earlier Thursday, American star Ilia Malinin won the exciting men’s brief show with a score of 110.41, setting a world record three-pointer by Nathan Chen at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Yuma Kagiyama of Japan scored 107.09 in his outstanding program, while Mikhail Shaidorov of Hazakhstan was a distant third (94.77).

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“Overall, it’s a very positive experience, and the energy in the crowd is very good – a lot of Canadian flags,” Sadwski said.

The 25-year-old is eligible for free skateboarding on Saturday and may have won a Canadian man’s event at the Olympics. Sadovsky needs to climb the top ten to get a second temporary position.

Competition continues on Friday, rhythmic dance and women’s free programs.

Canadian Pipers Gilles and Paul Poirier won the Ice Dance Silver last year and will fight Boston’s gold against two-time dominant champions Madison Chock and U.S. Evan Bates.

Madeline Schizas of Oakville is ranked sixth after the women’s short program.

The World Championships are hosted by Boston Skating Club in mourning as the death of six members was saddened on January 29, when an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter near Washington, D.C.

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