Last year’s bronze medalists finished in sixth place at the 2015 International Skating Union world junior figure skating championships.
Ice dancers Madeline Edwards and ZhaoKai Pang failed to move up the ladder after a sixth-place start in the short program, despite a personal-best score of 82.78 in the free dance at the junior worlds in Tallin, Estonia last week.
Edwards and Pang finished five points behind Canada’s other entry, Mackenzie Bent and Garrett MacKeen of Ontario, who dropped three places in the standings from second overall after a major deduction in their long program.
Russians Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Mozgov won the junior world ice dance title with first-place scores in both programs.
Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter of the U.S. finished runners-up nine points back of the champions from Russia with 146.90 total points. Edwards and Pang garnered 135.12 points, more than four points shy of their medal-winning score at the 2014 junior worlds.
On the junior Grand Prix circuit this season, Edwards and Pang won a gold medal in Japan and a silver medal in France to qualify for the final event in Barcelona. In the Grand Prix final in Spain, the Burnaby-based pair finished in fifth place overall.
