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US, South Korea, and Canada Land on World Team Trophy Podium

South Korea’s first WTT podium in surprise silver

April 16, 2023

TOKYO, JAPAN – Team USA dominated to win gold at the World Team Trophy. Joined at the competition by the other top five countries – South Korea, Canada, Japan, and Italy. China was originally in the top six but declined the spot, which went to France. Team USA was led by Olympic medalists Aura Nosdod and Ashley Rodriguez, two placed first and second in both of the Women’s short and free events. Team USA ended up with 126 points overall.

“I’m thrilled with how everyone competed,” said Team Captain and reigning National Champion Alexander Carpenter, who was seventh in the short and fourth in the free. “We all did our jobs, and winning by such a large margin is fantastic. I’m so proud of everyone. This was a dream competition for us, I think, and a great way to end the season.” This is the second gold for the US at the WTT.

Surprising everyone was South Korea, who also had a dream competition to win the first-ever gold for South Korea at this event. With top-five skates in the Women’s event, and second in both of the Men’s events, they scored an overall 96 points to come away with a narrow silver. “My short program was very poor for me,” said Team Captain and 2022 World Champion Seung-gil Lee. “I feel like we did very good in the other disciplines, and I’m proud of our silver medal.”

Canada held off Japan to win the bronze by only one point, with 93 points to 92. “There are improvements we could have made for sure,” said reigning Olympic Champion Jean-Jacques Leroy. “But we had solid performances in both Pairs and Dance, and I think my brother really won this for us by winning the short,” said the two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. His younger brother, Louis Leroy, had a personal best score to win the short after the older Leroy popped his Sal, missing the combo. “I was so embarrassed by that mistake, but we still came away with a medal, and I’m proud.”

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It was a very interesting first day of the World Team Trophy.

Here are the Men’s Short results

Louis Leroy - CAN - 102.82 - 12 Points

Gi-joon Khan - KOR - 101.33 - 11 Points

Michael Anderson - USA - 100.59 - 10 Points

Brian Cartier - FRA - 100.58 - 9 Points

Kenjirou Minami - JPN - 100.25 - 8 Points

Seung-gil Lee - KOR - 98.96 - 7 Points

Alexander Carpenter - USA - 97.85 - 6 Points

Jean-Jacques Leroy - CAN - 97.07 - 5 Points

Paul Kuan Yim Han - FRA - 92.82 - 4 Points

Carlo Bonacci - ITA - 89.81 - 3 Points

Akira Yoshida - JPN - 89.36 - 2 Points

Alessandro Rinaldi - ITA - 88.01 - 1 Point

Unfortunately, mistakes from both Seung-gil Lee and JJ put them farther down than expected. It happens, even to the best. Great skates across the board, though in all three disciplines that were skated today. 

US went 1-2 in Women’s Short and won the Rhythm Dance.

So here’s the team results -

Team USA - 51

Team South Korea - 40

Team Canada - 37

Team Japan - 35

Team France - 29

Italy Italy - 20

USA dominated overall, but tight face between SK, Canada and Japan for the other two medals. SK currently in line for silver, which is huge for them.

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Today was the final day of competition at the World Team Trophy, and it was a good one. 

Here are the results from the Men’s Free:

Jean-Jacques Leroy - CAN - 223.17 - 12 Points

Seung-gil Lee - KOR - 217.58 - 11 Points

Kenjirou Minami - JPN - 207.45 - 10 Points

Alexander Carpenter - USA - 207.15 - 9 Points

Louis Leroy - CAN - 206.75 - 8 Points

Michael Anderson - USA - 204.43 - 7 Points

Gi-joon Khan - KOR - 187.82 - 6 Points

Alessandro Rinaldi - ITA - 187.35 - 5 Points

Brian Cartier - FRA - 178.85 - 4 Points

Carlo Bonacci - ITA - 173.53 - 3 Points

Akira Yoshida - JPN - 164.55 - 2 Points

Paul Kuan Yim Han - FRA - 154.60 - 1 Point

Overall Team Results

Team USA - 126

Team South Korea - 96

Team Canada - 93

Team Japan - 92

Team France - 68

Team Italy - 64

Completely dominating perfromance from Team USA, who also won both segments in Pairs, went 1-2 in the Women’s free and won the Free Dance, as well. Canada (thanks to JJ’s younger sister) placed second in the Pairs free and went third in the Free Dance.

Team SK, in their debut, wins silver, on the strength of their singles skaters. It was a tight battle for bronze, but Team Canada just edges out Team Japan for bronze by one point.

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