Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron set new world record at ISU World Figure Skating Championships

French pair Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron broke their own world record at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships. They delivered a 92.73-point rhythm dance in Montpelier, surpassing their previous world record score of 90.83 from the Olympics which saw the pair take home gold in the ice dance.

Ad/> That score of 92.73 has given them a 3.01-point lead heading into Saturday’s free dance. The pair can now move one title shy of the world championships record won by a single couple, since Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev accomplished this feat in the 1970s.

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They are not competing at this year’s world championships due to the current ban on Russian athletes. Meanwhile, two American pairs occupy second and third place respectively in the standings.

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