Canadians Fournier Beaudry and Sorensen stand second at Lombardia Trophy
BERGAMO, Italy – Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen of Montreal stand second after the rhythm dance at the Lombardia Trophy figure skating competition, the first stop on the ISU Challenger Series.
Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy are first with 82.05 points, the Canadians follow at 76.64 and Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khaliavin of Spain are third at 72.65.
Fournier Beaudry and Sorensen were a career-high eighth at the word championships this past spring and won four medals in international competition in 2019 including a silver at the Lombardia Trophy.
Alicia Fabbri of Terrebonne, Que., and Paul Ayer of Calgary, ninth at the world juniors in 2019, are ninth at 64.77.
The free dance is on Sunday.
Full results: https://www.fisg.it/upload/result/5536/index.html
This is one of my favourite teams and I look forward to watching them each year. I’m glad they decided to represent Canada internationally.
Well done and “swing” for the Free Dance. I’ll anticipate searching for your result later today unless I am fortunate to be able to see them skate.