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Sports: Canadian figure skaters win bronze at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Armenia

National Post, Canada
Oct 13 2018
Canadian figure skaters win bronze at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Armenia

YEREVAN, Armenia — Figure skater Iliya Kovler won bronze in the men’s competition and fellow Canadians Ellie Fisher and Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette took bronze in the ice dance Saturday at the ISU Junior Grand Prix.

Kovler, from Richmond Hill, Ont., was fifth in Saturday’s free skate but still took third overall with 201.20 points. Adam Siao Him Fa of France won gold with 205.83 and Yuma Kagiyama of Japan was second with 202.02.

In ice dance, Arina Ushakova and Maxim Nekrasov of Russia took gold with 172.81 points and Georgia’s Masia Kazakova and Georgy Riviya won silver with 164.65.

Fisher and Malette-Paquette, from Montreal, were third with 152.46 points.

The next event on the junior circuit is the Dec. 6-9 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Vancouver.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS