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Fear and Gibson win world championship medal

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When Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson first trained together in Montreal a decade ago, even their coach did not let them know exactly how badly it had gone.

Fear was a junior ice dancer but Gibson was new to the discipline.

He had been a singles skater but turning jumps into jives is not an overnight job.

Now they are the first British figure skaters to win a medal at a World Championships since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1984 after taking bronze on Saturday.