Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron seal another world record to win ice dance gold at Winter Olympics

Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron sealed Olympic gold in the ice dance when obliterating the field with a world-record score. The French pair backed up their world-record display in the rhythm on Saturday with a near-flawless dance in the free on Monday.

Ad/> Dancing to Elegie by Gabriel Faure, Papadakis and Cizeron scored 136.15 in the free dance to finish on a world-record combined total of 226.98, more than six marks clear of world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov. Beijing 2022‘Where art meets sport’ – France's golden duo Papadakis and Cizeron dubbed figure skating greats36 MINUTES AGO The gold is an upgrade on the silver Papadakis and Cizeron won at Pyeongchang four years ago, while this time around it was Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue who took bronze in Beijing ahead of American teammates Madison Chock and Evan Bates The final group saw ROC’s Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin go out first, but their 120.98 was not enough to top the standings after Italy’s Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri produced a 124.37 in the penultimate group.

Guignard and Fabbri’s overall score of 207.05 was the benchmark to beat for the final four pairs, with two sets of Americans up next. French pair set new world record as Team GB skate rocking routine to qualify Papadakis and Cizeron get 'revenge' after horror dress malfunction in 2018 ‘Brilliant!’ Fear and Gibson’s free dance to Lion King soundtrack seals top-10 finish Chock and Bates, three-time American champions, shot into first when scoring 130.63 in the free dance – enough to go more than 7 points clear of the Italian pacesetters.