Russians win European ice dancing gold

TALLINN (AFP) - Russia's Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin won their second ice dancing gold at the European figure skating championships here on Friday.

Oksana Dominina and Maxim Shabalin (© AFP - Janek Skarzynski)

The 2008 champions took the title ahead of Italy's Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali with defending champions Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski of Russia winning bronze after the free skating final.

They gave Russia their third gold of the championships after Yevgeny Plushenko claimed his sixth men's title and Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov won the pairs earlier in the week.