2007 Worlds Pairs FS | Legendary Shen-Zhao capture third World title

HD format, British coverage (commentators: Chris Howarth, Simon Reed) 2007年世界フィギュアスケート選手権 | Selected pairs free skate (FS) performances from the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships (Metropolitan Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan), marked with (^) below: Final Rank Name Nation Total points SP FS^ 1 Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo China 203.50 1 71.07 1 132.43^ 2 Pang Qing / Tong Jian China 188.46 3 66.75 2 121.71^ 3 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy Germany 187.39 2 67.65 3 119.74^ 4 Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov Ukraine 173.62 8 57.62 5 116.00^ 5 Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao China 173.39 10 57.00 4 116.39^ 6 Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin Canada 167.25 5 60.73 6 106.52^ 7 Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison Canada 164.59 7 58.94 7 105.65^ 8 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin United States 163.97 6 59.50 8 104.47^ 9 Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov Russia 163.62 4 62.07 10 101.55^ 11 Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov Russia 150.43 12 56.14 11 94.29^ WD Dorota Siudek / Mariusz Siudek Poland 9 57.23 WD^ (withdrawal, edited) ---- from Golden Skate (https://www.goldenskate.com/shen-and-... ): Shen and Zhao win third World title, March 22, 2007 Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao of China won their third World title at this event, while teammates Qing Pang and Jian Tong rose from third place after the short to capture the silver. Germany’s Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, who were sixth in both 2005 and 2006, slipped from second to third place to settle for bronze. Maria Petrova (29) and Alexei Tikhonov (35) of Russia withdrew from the event before the long program after Tikhonov injured his right leg (adductor) during practice. They were in 11th place after the short program. Poland’s Dorota Siudek (31) and Mariusz Siudek (34) also withdrew after Mariusz injured his back. The husband-and-wife team were ninth after the short. Mariusz injured his back two years ago,” stated coach Richard Gautier. “Since then, a vertebra goes out from time to time. It is put back in and then after two or three days, he is able to skate again. This time, it happened during warmup just before the free program.” “This is just not the way I would have like to finish our career,” said Mariusz. ---- “I just wanted to thank the ice in Tokyo,” explained Zhao when asked about touching the ice while heading to kiss & cry area. “I like Japan and I am happy I was able to do our last performance here. We will be at shows in Japan and the US after the worlds. That is our plan for now.” “Right now I’m very tired,” admitted Shen, “and what we need is a long break. This break might take maybe one year. There may be a comeback in the future, but when this will happen we will have to look at our competence and ability as well as physical strength to decide.” ---- “We are very, very pleased with this performance,” said Tong. “I want to thank my partner Qing Pang – she did a great job tonight. It was the best free program of the season. I want to thank our coach (Bin Yao) and our whole team for their support. They helped us to overcome the hard time we’ve had and they gave us confidence. Next year we want to come back strong and give the very best performances.” ---- “It would be an exaggeration to say we are depressed,” said Szolkowy, “but after the free skate at the European championships, we did expect more. This free skate wasn’t bad, but the fact that we skated first here and left the ice with this performance was bad.” ---- #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique #łyżwiarstwofigurowe #kunstschaatsen special thanks to Kim!