| | NICE, France -- Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizeret of
France rallied to win the ice dance title at the World Figure
Skating Championships Friday, ending the Russians' domination.
The Moscow-born Anissina and Peizerat won the free skate with a
dramatic routine to "Carmina Burana" to overtake Italians Barbara
Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio. Anissina and Peizerat scored
four 6.0s for presentation.
| |  | | | Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizeret end the Russian dance domination. |
It was the first time a non-Russian couple has won an ice dance
title since 1991 when Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay won for France.
Third went to Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas, who gave
Lithuania its first world figure skating medal. They moved past
Russians Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh for the bronze.
It was the first time since 1968 a Russian or Soviet ice dance
couple did not win a medal.
Last year's world champions, Angelika Krylova and Oleg
Ovsiannikov, did not defend the title because of her back problems.
Americans Naomi Lang and Peter Tchernyshev were eighth, and
former junior world champions Jamie Silverstein and Justin Pekarek
finished 12th . | |
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 Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizeret of France (Courtesy: ABC Sports)
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Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizeret perform at Worlds (Courtesy: ABC Sports)
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