Alena Leonova, silver medalist at the World Championships, commented on the performance Diane Davis And Gleb Smolkin of Georgia at the World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Canada.
Davis and Smolkin took 12th place with 188.34 points. Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates finished first, Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier second and Italians Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri third.
— Do you think that 12th place for a debut at the World Championships is a success?
— The competition was very strong, so I don’t know how much higher they could have been. If they showed their best, then they did well. You have to start somewhere,” Leonova quotes Championship.
Before this season, Davis and Smolkin represented Russia.
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Source : MatchTV

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