Canadian duo win world pairs championship again

The Canadian duo had struggled most of the season after winning their first pairs gold at the world championship a year ago, but Duhamel and Radford found their form with personal-best, free-skate score of 153.81 points for a 231.99 total.

They skated to Adele's song Hometown Glory and were the only pair to land a quad throw Salchow.

"It was an out-of-body experience," Duhamel told NBC. "How did we just do that? It's like a dream."

China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who led after the short program, struggled with a poor free skate to settle for a silver medal for the second straight year. The Chinese pair led by 2.67 entering the free skate, but managed only a 143.62 score for 224.47 total points.

Five-times world champion Aliona Savchenko of Germany, skating with new partner Bruno Massot for the first time at the world championships, took bronze with a 141.95 skate for a 216.17 total.