Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the gold medal in the pairs event at the world figure skating championships in Shanghai today.
The pair took bronze at the last two world championships, and were also part of the Canadian team that won silver in the team event at the Sochi Olympics. They finished seventh in the pairs competition last year.
“Some dreams are so big that you can’t even imagine them happening and it’s all happening right now,” said Radford, who grew up in Balmertown, Ontario. “I could never have imagined it and I can’t tell if it’s a dream or reality. “We’ve worked so hard to get here and it’s amazing.”
This is the first victory for Canada in the pairs event at worlds since Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won gold in 2001.
Meagan Duhamel, from Lively, Ontario said, “This is a very personal victory. Every single victory along the way this season had a very special meaning,”
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