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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won their third world title on, taking the gold medal in Helsinki to finish the season undefeated on Sunday.
“We’re thrilled. To come away with the title is a huge accomplishment and something I’m not sure even we expected at the onset of the season,” Virtue said in the post-event press conference.
🌍⛸🏅 #WorldFigure Ice Dance Results
— ISU Figure Skating (@ISU_Figure) April 1, 2017
🥇Virtue/Moir 🇨🇦
🥈Papadakis/Cizeron 🇫🇷
🥉 Shibutani/Shibutani 🇺🇸
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Moir reportedly had a small slip midway through their dance performance that caused him to put his hand to the ice. Luckily, that didn’t prove too costly.
That step sequence was the only element in their free dance to not earn a level four as they scored 116.19 to earn a world record overall total of 198.62.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on top of the world #WorldFigure #Helsinki2017https://t.co/9i8eAo2CDd pic.twitter.com/Ao2E8dcJU5
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“We popped back into it pretty quick and to be honest, when something like that happens, we’re not thinking so much about points, we’re just thinking about delivering a program,” said Moir.
France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron totaled 196.04 for the silver medal, while American siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani took the bronze with an overall score of 185.18.
Just 0.37 behind, in fourth place, were Canada’s Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje with a personal best 184.81.
Virtue and Moir also won world titles in 2010 and 2012.
“It has been a successful season and we tried not to get carried away with that because we’ve never had a quote unquote perfect season, we’ve never had that run of golds,” said Virtue. “At this point it’s fun to have on our resume but more than that I think what we’ve been able to accomplish personally as athletes has been the most satisfying.”
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