2024-01-11 20:04:46
Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise / Photo: © NurPhoto / Contributor / NurPhoto / Gettyimages.ru
Italian figure skaters Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise won gold at the European Pair Skating Championships in Kaunas (Lithuania).
On Thursday, Beccari and Guarise won the free skate, receiving 132.14 points for the skate, and took the final first place with a score of 199.19 points.
Silver went to Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulava, representing Georgia, who only became a couple last summer. Metelkina and Berulava, who were in the lead following the short program, finished fifth in the free program (124.84). In total, for the two programs the skaters, each of whom had previously skated for Russia, received 196.14 points.
Another Italian pair, Rebecca Ghilardi/Filippo Ambrosini, took the bronze medal (195.68). Last year this couple took silver.
Last year’s European champions, Italians Sara Conti/Niccolò Macchii, took 6th place (187.25).
Russian figure skaters have been suspended from participation in competitions under the auspices of the International Skating Union (ISU) due to the situation in Ukraine.
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