Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje finished second in the ice dance competition at the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan.
Weaver and Poje of Waterloo, Ont. were a very close second, just .02 points behind leaders Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, who finished with a total of 175.43 points.
Cappellini and Lanotte finished fourth in the free dance Saturday, but had a big enough lead from the short program to win with a total of 175.43 points.
Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France were third on 175.37 points.
Russia's Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov finished first in the free dance to move up to fourth place overall with 174.38 points.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont finished in eighth spot overall with 153.86 points, while Alexandra Paul of Midhurst, Ont., and Mitchell Islam of Barrie, Ont. finished 10th with 148.76 points.
Defending champions and Olympic gold medallists Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States did not compete.
Mao Asada, centre, Julia Lipnitskaia, left, Carolina Kostner pose for photographers. (The Associated Press)
Mao Asada of Japan topped the free skate on Saturday to capture her third world figure skating title.
Asada, who held a slim 1.42-point lead after the short program, under-rotated three jumps but finished with 216.69 points, 9.19 ahead 15-year-old Julia Lipnitskaia of Russia. Italy's Carolina Kostner, the 2012 world champion, took the bronze with 203.83 points despite only placing sixth in the free program.
Asada, who finished sixth at the Sochi Olympics, also won the world championships in 2008 and 2010 and became the first Japanese three-time champion.
Skating to Sergei Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 2," Asada opened with her trademark triple axel but under-rotated that one as well as a triple flip and double loop, but she earned high style points after impressing the judges.
"I was able to control myself and I have done what I had to do," Asada said. "I was much more nervous than I was for the short program but the cheering from the fans was with me and made me relax."
Yuna Kim, the defending champion, has retired and Olympic gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova of Russia wasn't competing at the worlds.
Kostner fell on the triple toe loop and singled a pair of double jumps.
"I wish I could skate again and do better," Kostner said. "It was really hard. The jumps did not work how I wished but this is the sport, right?"
Lipnitskaia's major mistake was falling on a triple salchow but she completed six other triple jumps.
"It is a shame that I missed the salchow," Lipnitskaia said. "I didn't do it correctly, therefor I fell. In practice I struggled with it as well and for the next season, we need to fix it."
Anna Pogorilaya of Russia was fourth and Gracie Gold of the United States finished fifth.
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