World champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates won a record-tying sixth U.S. ice dance championship — a decade after their first title.
Chock, 32, and Bates, 35, topped Friday’s rhythm dance and Saturday’s free dance for 223.52 total points.
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, silver medalists for a second consecutive year, were 12.73 points back.
Chock and Bates now share the U.S. record for ice dance titles with Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the only American couple to win Olympic gold (2014).
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Chock and Bates made their Olympic debut as a couple in 2014 and have placed eighth, ninth and fourth at the Winter Games, plus won team event gold in 2022.
All of the 2022 Olympic ice dance medalist couples have since stopped competing.
Chock and Bates ascended to become the oldest world champions in ice dance in 2023, then repeated in 2024. At this March’s worlds in Boston, they can become the first couple to win three consecutive world titles in 28 years.
A U.S. Figure Skating committee selects the three dance couples for the world team after nationals. Carreira and Ponomarenko were 10th and seventh at the last two worlds.
Caroline Green and Michael Parsons edged Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik for third place at nationals by 1.2 points. Green and Parsons were sixth at the 2023 Worlds.
The Prevagen U.S. Championships continue later Saturday with the pairs’ free skate (8 ET, USA Network and Peacock).
For Madison Chock, Evan Bates, an ice dance to seize, at long last, at figure skating worlds
Madison Chock and Evan Bates, ice dance partners for 12 years and three Olympics, can win a first global title at the world figure skating championships.
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