Elsewhere on Saturday, figure skaters Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson won their eighth British senior ice dance title, surpassing the previous record of seven jointly held by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, and John and Sinead Kerr.

Fear and Gibson, who won a historic World Championship bronze in March, scored 86.24 for their rhythm dance – soundtracked by a Spice Girls medley – and 124.86 for their free dance, amassing a total score of 211.10 in Sheffield.

“It’s wild because Torvill and Dean are the British ice dance team, and just to have our names mentioned alongside theirs, let alone to have won it eight times, is crazy,” said Fear, 26.

“It means so much and it shows the history we have here, all the memories we’ve built and how we’ve grown over those eight years, so it’s really cool to look back on.”

Fear and 31-year-old Gibson will skate again on British ice in January as the European Championships come to Sheffield, before the Winter Olympics get under way in Italy in February.