Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin won the pairs competition at the Figure Skating World Championships in Prague with 228.33 points. It is Germany's first world title since 2018. The duo defended their short program lead despite minor errors in the free skate.
Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin secured gold in pairs at the Figure Skating World Championships in Prague with 228.33 points. Anastasia Metelkina and Luka Berulawa of Georgia took silver with 218.41 points, while Canada's Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud earned bronze with 216.09 points. Germany's second pair, Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel, improved to seventh place with 194.11 points, as reported by Die Zeit and Der Spiegel. The Japanese Olympic champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara withdrew beforehand. This marks Germany's first world pairs title since Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot's win in Milan in 2018. Together for three and a half years, Hase and Volodin previously won world bronze in 2024, silver last year, and Olympic bronze five weeks ago in Italy. Hase indicated they would decide on their future after the worlds: 'We will sit down after the WM and then decide.' Volodin added after the free skate: 'Perhaps the world title is a good start to a joint journey.'