Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France successfully defended their ice dance title at the figure skating world championships in Boston on Thursday, while Americans filled out the podium.
Figure Skating - ISU World Figure Skating Championships - Ice Dance
Free Dance - Boston, Massachusetts, United States - 31/03/16 - Gabriella
Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France accept their gold medals.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Figure Skating - ISU World Figure Skating Championships - Ice Dance
Free Dance - Boston, Massachusetts, United States - 31/03/16 - Gold
medalists Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France react
after competing. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Silver medalists Maia Shibutani (L) and Alex Shibutani (2nd L) of the
United States, gold medalists Gabriella Papadakis (3rd L) and Guillaume
Cizeron (3rd R) of France, and bronze medalists Madison Chock (2nd L)
and Evan Bates (R) of the United States pose on the medals podium.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
REUTERS: Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France
successfully defended their ice dance title at the figure skating world
championships in Boston on Thursday, while Americans filled out the
podium.
The French pair backed up their first place finish in the
short dance with a record score in the free dance, posting the second
highest total of all-time at 194.46 points on the way to the title.
Becoming the first ice dance couple to retain the title
since 2007, the duo posted the highest scoring free dance (118.17) in
international competition under the scoring system implemented in 2005.
Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White's 195.52 from the
Sochi Olympics is the only better total, but Davis and White lost their
free-dance world record.
"I could not be happier to pass that along to them," White
said on Icenetwork.com. "I was just in awe the entire programme. I’ve
never seen anything like it."
Four Continents champions Maia and Alex Shibutani took
second place with 188.43, while 2015 world silver medallists Madison
Chock and Evan Bates clocked up 185.77 points to take third for the USA.
(Reporting by Ben Everill in Los Angeles, editing by Nick Mulvenney)
- Reuters
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