page_title: Kirsten Moore-Towers
section_title: 2017–18 season: Pyeongchang Olympics
hierarchical_section_title: Kirsten Moore-Towers / Partnership with Marinaro / 2017–18 season: Pyeongchang Olympics
caption_attribution_description: English: Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro at the 2017 Cup of China.
context_page_description: Kirsten Moore-Towers is a Canadian pair skater. Since 2014, she has skated with Michael Marinaro. Together they are two-time Canadian national champions. Competing internationally, they are two-time Four Continents medallists, and have won medals on both the Grand Prix and Challenger series, including gold at the 2019 Nebelhorn Trophy and 2017 U.S. International Classic. The two represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  With former partner Dylan Moscovitch, Moore-Towers is the 2013 Four Continents silver medallist, 2014 Olympic team event silver medallist, and 2011 Canadian national champion.
context_section_description: Moore-Towers and Marinaro began the season at the US International Classic, where they won the gold medal.  On the Grand Prix circuit, they placed sixth at the 2017 Skate America event and won bronze at the 2017 Cup of China.  They again placed third at the 2018 Canadian Championships, qualifying them for a spot on the Canadian team for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  They placed eleventh at the Winter Olympics pairs competition.
  Their season ended in dramatic fashion at the 2018 World Championships, where a disastrous short program from Séguin and Bilodeau resulted in Moore-Towers and Marinaro being the only Canadian pairs team to qualify for the free skate, having placed tenth in the short program despite Moore-Towers having an ankle injury that had impeded training for the World Championships.  It was necessary for them to place no lower than tenth in order to qualify Canada for two pairs spots at the next year's world championships, placing additional pressure.  The pair skated a new personal best, resulting in a fourth-place finish in the free skate and a sixth-place overall finish that also represented a personal best combined score.  Moore-Towers commented: "We had a tough couple of weeks leading into this competition with not much training to rely on. We didn't have that same confidence, so this is a testament to how hard we worked all season."
caption: Moore-Towers and Marinaro at the 2017 Cup of China
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