BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov retained their title Russia in the pairs event at the European figure skating championships on Sunday despite a series of errors.
Volosozhar and Trankov, skating to music from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” won despite a performance that saw both of them fall. The Russian duo had built a large lead ahead of Sunday’s finale, following a season-best score in Friday’s short program. Volosozhar apologized, promising that “Next time we will try to do better.”
Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov skated without mistakes and surged from fourth in the short program to claim silver ahead of the third Russian pair, Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov.
Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, who were second after the short program, withdrew due to illness.
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