Gabriella Papadakis (R) and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- France's four-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron danced to the gold on Monday.
Papadakis and Cizeron, the 2018 Olympic silver medalists, re-stated their dominance over this discipline with another new highest score, 136.15 points in the free dance, bringing their overall score to 226.98 for the championship.
Russian Olympic Committee athletes Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, the current world champions and the 2020 and 2022 European champions, settled for silver with a 131.66-point free dance and 220.51 points overall.
American 2021 world silver medalists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue took the bronze with a season's-best free dance of 130.89 and 218.02 overall.
Gabriella Papadakis (bottom) and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
Gabriella Papadakis (R) and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)
Gabriella Papadakis (L) and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Wu Wei)
Victoria Sinitsina (L) and Nikita Katsalapov of ROC compete during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Victoria Sinitsina (front) and Nikita Katsalapov of ROC perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Li Ga)
Madison Hubbell (L) and Zachary Donohue of the United States perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Cao Can)
Madison Hubbell (L) and Zachary Donohue of the United States perform during the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)
Victoria Sinitsina, Nikita Katsalapov of ROC, Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron of France and Madison Hubbell, Zachary Donohue of the United States (from L to R) pose after the figure skating ice dance free dance match of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
