Group GB has its first global determine skating medal since Torvill and Dean in 1984, finishing a drought of greater than 40 years.
Lilah Concern and Lewis Gibson secured a bronze medal on the International Determine Skating Championships on Saturday.
Their loose dance to a Beyonce medley won them a complete ranking of 207.11 at Boston’s TD Lawn.
The final time Britain secured a medal on the championships was once when Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean had a run of 4 thru to 1984.
Concern, 25, mentioned she “cried continuous” after profitable the medal and that it was once “a dream come true”.
“I will’t even describe my emotions. I am nonetheless shaking,” she added.
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Gibson, 30, additionally mentioned the pair’s success was once a dream come true and thanked those that cheered them on.
“The group right here was once wonderful, and insane,” he mentioned.
“I believe we were given to the instant we actually labored for, they had been so loud and supportive, we’re grateful to the target audience.”
Concern instructed Sky Sports activities final month that it was once a “large honour” to be thought to be in the similar sentence as Torvill and Dean, after Gibson was once impressed to take in skating via the pair.
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Torvill and Dean are perfect remembered for profitable the gold medal on the 1984 Wintry weather Olympics, after their Bolero regimen.
The duo, who just lately introduced their retirement, are about to embark on a farewell excursion, known as Torvill And Dean, Our Ultimate Dance.
In addition they served as judges on Dancing On Ice, which was once just lately placed on ice via ITV, who showed there have been no present plans for a brand new sequence.
