John Wilson - The Perfection To Your Routine

Savchenko and Szolkowy snap up silver

Yuna skates to perfection at World Championships

Competing internationally for the first time in two years, Gold Seal skater, Yuna Kim, wowed the audience at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario and won her second world title. Her awe inspiring performance - scoring 218.31 - sets her up as favourite to take Gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 

Fellow Gold Seal skater, Mao Asada, scooped bronze. 

Wagner retains US ladies title

Ashley Wagner took Gold at the 2013 US Figure Skating Championships in Omaha on her John Wilson Pattern 99 blades.  The celebrations were shared with fellow John Wilson Pattern 99 skater Gracie Gold who produced the best free skate of the night to rise from 9^th to take the silver medal.

Commenting on her win, Wagner said: “I’m pleased to have another national title under my belt and I think that this lights the fire in my belly to keep on pushing through to perhaps the Four Continents and Worlds”. Wagner went on to praise Gracie Gold: “I want to congratulate Gracie because I heard she had a lights-out skate, phenomenal. For a first year senior, that’s very impressive. Awesome job to her!”

Gold skated early in the competition, which appeared to take the pressure away allowing her to produce a world-class performance. Gold completed seven triple jumps, including an opening triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination.

Afterwards Gold said: “I stopped focusing on what was around me, the crowd, the screaming, the other skaters, the pressure, the expectations – I let it all go, I just pictured myself at my rink in Chicago and even the practices here, how I would skate if I was practicing.”