Moore-Towers and Marinaro win free, take silver at Filandia Open
ESPOO, Finland — Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ont., won Saturday’s free skate to earn the silver medal in pairs on Saturday at the Filandia Open figure skating competition.
Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov of Russia won the gold with 198.98 points. The Canadians, third after Friday’s short, followed closely at 193.93 and Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii of Russia were third at 188.54.
Moore-Towers and Marinaro also placed second at the Autumn Classic International in Oakville, Ont., two weeks ago.
”We felt good about our competition but we had mistakes in both programs,” said Moore-Towers. ”Our goal was to was have an improvement from the Autumn Classic International and we definitely did that. We’ll follow the same path to be ready for Skate Canada International.”