Brianna Delmaestro and Timothy Lum of Burnaby won their first international junior Grand Prix ice dance medal.
The B.C. Centre of Excellence pair, who have been together for just over a year, placed second by a mere fraction at the International Skating Union junior Grand Prix skating circuit in Jjubljana, Slovenia last Saturday.
Delmaestro and Lum posted a personal-best final score of 131.30 in the ice dance to finish runner-up to champions Daria Morozova and Mikhail Zhirmov of Russia, who posted a 131.54 total points following a first-place short program.
“It was the presentation that really got us the medal,” said the 19-year-old Lum in a Skate Canada press release. “We showed strong technical skills, but it was the performance that made the difference. It feels great, and now we can start thinking about potentially going to the junior Grand Prix final and world juniors.”
The pair’s free dance score of 82.16 was also a personal best.
Last year, Delmaestro and Lum placed fifth in two previous junior GP assignments in Poland and Estonia.
The Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe-coached ice dance team placed third at the 2014 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships.
