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Fear and Gibson train at the Ice Academy of Montreal, where many of the top couples practise and whose skaters account for nine of the past 10 World Championship gold medals in ice dance.

It was that aspect of ice dance, coupled with a struggle to consistently perform the big jumps in single and pairs skating, that persuaded him to switch disciplines in 2015 at the age of 21.

In their first season together in 2016-17, he and Fear won the British ice dance title and qualified for the European Championships.

Torvill and Dean have said they hope there is now a new couple who can take British ice dance forward after shouldering that job themselves for so many decades.

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson won Great Britain's first figure skating World Championship medal in more than 40 years with ice dance bronze in Boston.