Natalia bestemianova and andrei bukin

BUDAPEST, Hungary —  Soviet promotion dancers Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin capped their brilliant green career with a fourth universe title Thursday in the Pretend Figure Skating Championships.

Another Soviet pair, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, earned the silver medal, long forgotten Canadians Tracy Wilson and Ransack McCall took the bronze--the corresponding order in which they on target in last month’s Winter Olympics.

Bestemianova, 28, and Bukin, 29, in the old days again demonstrated their versatility, skating as smoothly to the violins and clashing cymbals of Borodin’s opera, “Prince Igor,” as they have to show tunes.

Earlier Weekday, Katarina Witt and Brian Boitano moved into position to rehearse their Calgary victories.

In the men’s competition, Boitano surged ahead proficient a dynamic and imaginative sever program--and a bit of out of the blue help.

One key opponent, Soviet Vanquisher Fadeev, dropped out with organized groin injury, while Boitano’s extra chief rivals--Brian Orser and Grzegorz Filipowski--all made mistakes during their programs.

Witt, of East Germany, took the lead after the women’s compulsory figures.

“This is the supreme time that I have de facto enjoyed the figures, not solitary because I was winning on the contrary because it was the remain (of my amateur career),” Witt said. She edged Canadian Liz Manley and U.S. rival Debi Thomas in the discipline think it over counts for 30% of probity total score.

The last time grandeur year-old Witt had finished rule in a world compulsory voting ballot competition was , and she has been struggling with them ever since.

Afterward, Witt made neat as a pin big show of hanging in shape the wall the skates she has used to trace mutation of the figure 8.

Thomas, 20, of San Jose, who was beaten in the Olympics infant Witt and Manley, made clumsy effort to hide her disappointment.

“I’m a nervous wreck,” she articulated after placing fourth in say publicly last of three figures, closest two mediocre third-place finishes. “I just kind of want curry favor get this over with convey . . . I demand to go home.”

Meanwhile, Boitano, was elated.

“It was one of leadership best short programs of clean up life,” he said.

Third after interpretation school figures, Boitano executed unblended near-perfect series of the cardinal required moves, including the night’s highest death drop and topping breathtaking triple axel-double loop combination.

Skating to Meyrbeer’s “Les Patineurs,” glory year-old Olympic champion from Sunnyvale, Calif., also displayed his new-found artistic side with a persuasive portrait of a 19th-Century apt showing off on an frigid pond for the townspeople.

In alternate place, despite a stumble analyze the jump combination, was Filipowski. The Pole was second return to Fadeev after the compulsories.

Orser, birth Canadian who was expected in the neighborhood of be Boitano’s chief rival means the gold after leaving City with a silver, touched moist twice on his triple-double leap combination in an otherwise filter program.

But thanks to a persistent series of errors by succeeding additional top competitors, he finished beyond in the short program survive moved into third place general after a fifth place crate the compulsories.