Canadian duos medal in ice dancing

ANAHEIM, CALIF.— Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo took the silver and Toronto’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier followed for the bronze in ice dancing at the ISU Four Continents figure skating competition.

Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the free dance to take gold with 207.42 points.

Weaver and Poje ranked third for both programs but their consistency gave them the silver with 203.93. Gilles and Poirier move from fourth to third with the second best free dance totalling 202.45.

“We feel really proud of our skate today,” Poje said. “We went out there and just tried to perform the whole story behind our program We were more connected to than in our previous performance.”

Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines and Michael Marinaro of Sarnia, Ont., won silver in pairs on Saturday.

SHORT TRACK: Canada’s Kim Boutin won her first individual gold medal of the season in the women’s 1,000-metre race at a World Cup meet in Turin, Italy.

Min Jeong Choi of South Korea took silver while Montreal’s Alyson Charles earned bronze.

Boutin, a three-time Olympic medallist from Sherbrooke, Que., made a pass to the front with two laps remaining and crossed the line in one minute 32.508 seconds to capture gold.

“I skated a good race and am starting to have a lot of different strategies in my tool box,” Boutin said. “Reaching the podium with another Canadian is also extra fun.”

Canada also won silver in the mixed relay, while Steven Dubois of Lachenaie, Que., was third in the men’s 1,000 for his second individual bronze medal in as many days. SNOWBOARDING: Mark McMorris of Regina won the silver medal in slopestyle at the freestyle world championships without competing in Sunday’s final.

Organizers of the event on Park City, Utah, said on Twitter that the slopestyle final was cancelled “due to unsafe wind conditions.” Medals were handed out based on competitors’ qualifying scores instead.

SPEEDSKATING: Canada’s Ivanie Blondin won the silver medal in the women’s mass start on Sunday at the ISU world single distance championships in Inzell, Germany.

The Ottawa native pulled away during the last lap of the race but was passed in the final stretch, finishing second in eight minutes 28.460 seconds.