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Lively medal winner inspires Sudbury skaters

Lively's Meagan Duhamel and her skating partner Balmertown's Eric Radford took bronze in the pairs competition at the World Figure Skating Championships late last week — but the medal was a thrill for some young local skaters in Sudbury too.
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A group of Sudbury figure skaters show their enthusiasm after local skating hero Meagan Duhamel won a bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships with her partner Eric Radford. (Hilary Duff/CBC)

Lively's Meagan Duhamel and her skating partner Balmertown's Eric Radford took bronze in the pairs competition at the World Figure Skating Championships late last week — but the medal was a thrill for some young local skaters in Sudbury too.

Eleven-year-old Abby Obonsawin is one of them

"She's been to Worlds and she's won Canadians and it's just like I know her and I really like her and she's amazing," she said.

Duhamel and partner Eric Radford scaled heights not seen by a Canadian pairs team in half a decade, claiming bronze at the world championships for Canada's first medal at the event. (Canadian Press)

"I want to be there one day and to show how passionate she is about the thing I do - skating. I really want to be like her."

The Walden Figure Skating Club is Duhamel's home club.

Duhamel trains in Montreal, but often comes back to help coach and mentor the next generation of skaters - something that means a lot to coach Margaret Elliott.

"For so long it was hard for a kid from northern Ontario to make it," she said.

"Now, they know that it might be hard, it might be a tough road, it might be an expensive road, but they did it, so why can't I?"

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