Mike wins Bronze in Paris

Nov. 15, 2003

Michael Weiss won the Bronze Medal Saturday night in Paris at Trophee Lalique.

Michael, who was the defending champion coming into the competition, skated first of the top contenders. The two-time World Bronze Medalist tripled his opening toeloop but landed a triple Axel-double toeloop combination. He completed three more triples and interesting spins in his routine to American military music. Weiss earned 130.08 points for his performance.

"My skate wasn't as good as I would have liked", Weiss said. "I guess the judging system balances out two programs. So I got lucky with the marks and overall scores. Next week will be a scoring event for me in Russia. So this was a non-scoring event."

Michael was only 1.35 points behind runnerup Kevin Van Deer Perren of Belgium in the battle for the Silver Medal.

Michael won his first Grand Prix scoring event at Skate America. He will compete at Cup of Russia next weekend. A good finish in Moscow will earn Michael a spot in the Grand Prix Final in Colorado Springs, Colo., in December.