Figure skating|Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen also claimed Finland a place for the Turin Olympics.
Finnish ice dancers Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis With free dance, they rose to 11th in the Boston World Championships.
Before the free dance section, the couple was in 20th place. They had advanced to free dance with one hundredth after their rhythm dance performance had fiercely scoring points due to a fall.
However, in free dance, they managed to grab a whopping 120.86 points, and their joint points were 188.95.
Figure skating federation announcement According to Turkkila and Versluis, they said they had managed to reset the thoughts between two races well.
“Today we lived on the ice with an instant and emotion, and everything flowed well. We skated together to focus on music,” Versluis described after a couple of tango -themed performances.
“The last couple of weeks will be remembered as a positive memory trail for a rewarding American training period and a big success,” Turkkila continued.
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“Today we lived on the ice in an instant and emotion, and everything flowed well.”
Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis.
The audience loved the performance of Yuka Orihara Juho Pirinen.
In Finland as well as representing Yuka Orihara and Juho Pirinen After the free dance, they finished 14th with a total score of 184.72.
According to the Figure Skating Association, the US audience showed popularity after Orihara and Pirinen’s free dance. Due to minor technical shortcomings, they missed their record reading but earned 110.74 points for free dance with a strong entity.
“The popularity of the audience seemed really awesome and brought power to skating. The end of our free dance position was certainly one of the highlights of the rest of the season, as that kind of mood was condensed throughout the season,” Pirinen said.
As the tunes familiar to the A Chorus Line musical, Orihara and Pirinen said they headed from Boston to New York to look for their next season’s programs.
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“The popularity of the audience felt really awesome and brought power to skating.”
The World Championship of Ice Dance went to the US Madison Chockille and Evan Batesillethe final score of 222.06. They won the World Championship for the third time in a row.
The silver position reached Canada Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier with a score of 216.54, and bronze grabbed Britain Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibsonwith a score of 207.11.
According to the Figure Skating Association, the strong performances of Finnish couples brought Finland two places to the ice dance to the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics for the 2026. At the same time, Finland secured two seats for the 2026 Figure Skating World Championships.
Yuka Orihara and Juho Pirinen were in the final score in 14th place