Figure skating world championship results

Following are the results from the world figure skating championships Wednesday in Nice, France:

Pairs

Short program (top 16 advance to free skate final)

1. Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (Germany) 68.63 points

2. Pang Qing/Tong Jian (China) 67.10

3. Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran (Japan) 65.37

4. Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov (Russia) 65.02

5. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (Canada) 63.69

6. Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (China) 63.27

7. Caydee Denney/John Coughlin (United States) 62.48

8. Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (Russia) 60.48

9. Stefania Berton/Ondrej Hotarek (Italy) 60.39

10. Mary Beth Marley/Rockne Brubaker (United States) 59.62

11. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (Russia) 59.59

12. Jessica Dube/Sebastien Wolfe (Canada) 55.83

13. Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (France) 50.51

14. Nicole Della Monica/Matteo Guarise (Italy) 49.07

15. Maylin Hausch/Daniel Wende (Germany) 48.48

16. Mari Vartmann/Aaron Van Cleave (Germany) 47.91