BOSTON - Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France repeated as ice dance world champs Thursday, defending their title despite missing the Grand Prix season because of injury.
They were followed by two American teams, just the third time the U.S. has had multiple ice dance medallists at the same world championships.
Papadakis and Cizeron scored a record 118.17 points for a total of 194.46 and easily held off local favourites Maia and Alex Shibutani. The siblings from nearby Connecticut scored 113.73 points for a total of 188.43 for their second world championship medal and first since 2011.
Madison Chock and Evan Bates, last year's silver medallists , scored 113.31 points for 185.77 total.
Papadakis suffered a concussion in a fall in training in August and was still dealing with symptoms several months later.
