Results of 2008 World Figure Skating Championships: Pairs

At the 2008 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, the pairs competition concluded, and Germany came out on top. Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won the gold medal, China's Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang won the silver, and Canada's Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison won the bronze. (The last time a Canadian pair was on the podium was when Jamie Salé and David Pelletier won Worlds in 2001.) The U.S. team of Rena Inoue and John Baldwin placed tenth and John also announced that they were planning a summer wedding. The second U.S. team of Brooke Castile and Ben Okolski placed eleventh.

Today the ladies champion will be decided. After the short, Italy's Carolina Kostner leads, followed by Japan's Mao Asada and Yukari Nakano.

Complete pairs results are as follows:

FPl	Name	Nat	Points	SP	FS
1	Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	GER	202.86	2	1
2	Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang	CHN	197.82	1	3
3	Jessica Dube / Bryce Davison	CAN	192.78	4	2
4	Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov	RUS	191.33	3	4
5	Qing Pang / Jian Tong	CHN	186.78	5	5
6	Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin	CAN	169.61	7	6
7	Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov	RUS	166.64	6	9
8	Anabelle Langlois / Cody Hay	CAN	164.67	9	7
9	Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov	UKR	159.95	8	10
10	Rena Inoue / John Baldwin	USA	157.20	10	8
11	Brooke Castile / Ben Okolski	USA	146.03	12	11
12	Huibo Dong / Yiming Wu	CHN	142.83	11	12
13	Laura Magitteri / Ondrej Hotarek	ITA	126.38	14	13
14	Adeline Canac / Maximin Coia	FRA	124.68	16	14
15	Stacey Kemp / David King	GBR	123.98	13	15
16	Dominika Piatkowska / Dmitri Khromin	POL	111.94	17	16
17	Hayley Anne Sacks / Vadim Akolzin	ISR	111.23	15	17
18	Marina Aganina / Dmitri Zobnin	UZB	97.31	18	19
19	Ariel Fay Gagnon / Chad Tsagris	GRE	95.65	19	18
20	Amy Ireland / Michael Bahoric	CRO	77.39	20	20

Comments

[JCSkates]

None of the pairs performances was stellar, just shows how nervous everyone was.

[susan white]

It is ashamed for the pair staking competition last night. How Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy could win the first place with both failed to the triple and none of the consequent actions did beautifully and perfectly. We believed that even the winner themselves could not fell so comfortable standing at the leading position. That's why when the ABC interviewed them, they could not say something meaningfully. Because when she asked him, he said you had better ask me tomorrow. He perhapses thought that the result could be changed by a fair judgment tomorrow. We hope even if the result could not be changed, this kind of unfairness will not happen again.