At the World Figure Skating Championships in France, the pair of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara came in second and became the first Japanese pair to stand on the podium.
The "Rikuryu" pair of Miura and Kihara, who won the 7th place in the Beijing Olympics, which is the highest ever in Japan, finished 3rd in the short program in the first half and marked 127.97 in the free game in the second half on the 24th. It came in 3rd place.
As a result, he moved up to 2nd place with a total of 199.55, the highest ranking ever for Japanese in this event of the world championship.
Narumi Takahashi was in 3rd place in the 2012 tournament with a Canadian player, and this is the first time that a pair of Japanese players has been on the podium.
Russia and Belarus were not allowed to participate in the tournament due to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, and the winner was a pair of American Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier who were sixth in the Beijing Olympics. was.
The pair of Knierim and Frazier won first place in both the short program and free, and won the world championship for the first time with a total of 221.09.