Burnaby Figure Skating Club’s Eric Liu overcame first-round leader Nicolas Nadeau of Quebec to win the junior men’s bronze medal at the Canadian national skating championships in Ottawa on Wednesday.
Liu made good on six triples, including a triple lutz-double toe combination to start and a triple toe-double toe-double loop later in the program.
Liu’s 171.54 total score was a fraction behind runner-up Bennet Toman of Quebec. Ontario’s Denis Margalik won the junior title with a 181.43 score.
Ice dancers Brianna Delmaestro and Timothy Lum of Burnaby also placed third following a strong final free dance.
Delmaestro and Lum garnered 134.25 points, but were edged out of second place by Quebec’s Melinda and Andrew Meng by less than three-tenths of a point.
First-round leaders Mackenzie Bent and Garrett MacKeen of Ontario also won the free dance portion to win gold in the junior ice dance with an 142.61 score.
Burnaby’s Danielle Wu and Spencer Soo finished off the podium in fourth place with a 128.44 total.
In the junior women’s final, sectional medallists Belvina Mao and Kelsey Wong of Burnaby placed 10th and 12th, respectively.
Mao, who was fourth after the opening day skate, had points deducted off all of her six jumps, including an opening triple toeloop.
Wong had three points deducted off her final score, but got bonus marks for a successful triple lutz earlier in her long program that contained four atttempted triple jumps.
Kim DeGuise of Quebec won the junior women’s title, while B.C. provincial champion Julianne Delaurier of Kelowna held on to the silver medal, despite a fourth-best free-skate score.
Jayda Jurome of B.C. finished in fourth spot, moving up from 11th place after the opening program with a second-best 78.93 score in the free skate.
