Canada's Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford took the bronze medal Wednesday at the world figure skating championships in Saitama, Japan.
Duhamel, from Lively, Ont,. and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., scored a total of 210.84.
The pair scored 133.83 in their free skate after posting a season-best 77.01 in Tuesday's short program.
Duhamel and Radford also won bronze at last year's competition in London, Ont.
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany won gold with a total score of 224.88, claiming their fifth title in an event they have dominated since 2008.
Skating to music from The Nutcracker, the defending champions from Germany were solid on all their elements and earned 224.88 points to beat Russia's Olympic silver medallists Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, who had 215.92 points.
"A fifth title is quite amazing," Szolkowy said. "We did and very good performance yesterday and were very good today."
Savchenko and Szolkowy, who won the Olympic bronze in 2010 and 2014, have been together since August of 2003 and will split up after the worlds.
"I can hardly believe it is over now," Savchenko said. "It feels very strange.
"To be honest, it felt like I was skating in an exhibition gala."
Olympic silver medallists Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia took silver with 215.92.
Kirsten Moore-Towers, from St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch, from Waterloo, Ont., scored 205.52 to finish fourth. The pair had the best score among the Canadians in the free skate with 136.21.
Paige Lawrence of Kennedy, Sask., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., came in 12th with a total score of 168.88.
Mao Asada of Japan set a world record to finish first in the ladies short program.
Skating to Chopin's Nocturne, Asada hit her trademark triple axel at the start of her routine and completed all her remaining jumps to finish with 78.66 points, surpassing the previous record of 78.50 set by Yuna Kim at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
"As the last competition of this season, I am happy to skate the best short program," said Asada, a two-time world champion. "My mission here is to perform both programs perfect so already half is done and tomorrow I want to focus on showing everything I have practiced."
Carolina Kostner of Italy was second with 77.24 points followed by Julia Lipnitskaia of Russia, who had 74.54 points. Defending champion Yuna Kim has retired and Olympic gold medallist Adelina Sotnikova of Russia isn't competing at the worlds.
Canadian hopefuls Kaetlyn Osmond (62.92) and Gabrielle Daleman (55.72) placed eighth and 14th, respectively.
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