The ice dancing event at the 2008 Cup of China just concluded with the Free Dance and what an exciting Free Dance! Russia's Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin received 91.19 points for their Spartacus ballet number and the United States' Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto received 91.18 points for their interpretation of Tosca! Oksana and Maxim won the overall title with 186.77 total points. Tanith and Ben took the silver with 186.41 points. Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski of Russia, skating to Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninov, won the bronze with 179.41 points.
Complete results are below. (Note: CD=Compulsory Dance; OD=Original Dance; FD=Free Dance)
FPl |
Name |
Nat |
Points |
CD |
OD |
FD |
1 |
Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin |
RUS |
186.77 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
Tanith Belbin/Benjamin Agosto |
USA |
186.41 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski |
RUS |
179.50 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
Anna Cappellini/Luca LaNotte |
ITA |
173.11 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Anna Zadorozhniuk/Sergei Verbillo |
UKR |
158.90 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje |
CAN |
157.20 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
7 |
Alexandra Zaretski/Roman Zaretski |
ISR |
148.17 |
5 |
7 |
7 |
8 |
Xiaoyang Yu/Chen Wang |
CHN |
139.66 |
9 |
9 |
8 |
9 |
Xintong Huang/Xun Zheng |
CHN |
133.40 |
8 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
Jiameimei Guo/Fei Meng |
CHN |
115.15 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
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