Australia's Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor made history when they skated to the Pairs gold medal at the 2017 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei, on Friday. The Russian-Australian duo became the first skaters to claim gold at an ISU figure skating championship and the first ones to win a medal for Australia in 41 years. In 1976, Elizabeth and Peter Cain had taken a bronze medal in Pairs at Junior Worlds, which was until now, the only figure skating championship medal for the country. Peter Cain, who is coaching singles and pairs in the USA now, witnessed the historic moment in Taipei.
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No doubt, Alexandrovskaya and Windsor's triumph was the biggest story of the day. Short program leaders Alexandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii of Russia earned the silver medal and China's Yumeng Gao and Zhong Xie took the bronze. Interestingly, all three teams competed in their first season together and debuted at Junior Worlds except for Xie, who competed in 2016 with his previous partner, Ying Zhao.
What are your thoughts on the Pairs event?
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No doubt, Alexandrovskaya and Windsor's triumph was the biggest story of the day. Short program leaders Alexandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii of Russia earned the silver medal and China's Yumeng Gao and Zhong Xie took the bronze. Interestingly, all three teams competed in their first season together and debuted at Junior Worlds except for Xie, who competed in 2016 with his previous partner, Ying Zhao.
What are your thoughts on the Pairs event?