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Germans use rebuilt program to win Skate Canada pairsskip to main content (press enter) CBC Global Header NavigationCBCca News news drop down menu Sports sports drop down menu Radio radio drop down menu TV tv drop down menu My Region drop down menu More drop down menu Watch drop down menu Listen drop down menu Search CBCca Submit Search Sign Up Log In Hockey Headlines Scoreboard Standings Stats NHL Schedule Teams Players Hockey Night in Canada Highlights Fantasy Pool Commonwealth Football Headlines CFL Scoreboard CFL Standings CFL Stats CFL Teams NFL Scoreboard NFL Standings NFL Stats NFL Teams NFL Players Video Alpine Skiing Curling Figure Skating Basketball NBA Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Basketball News Feed Baseball MLB Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Baseball News Feed Soccer MLS Scoreboard MLS Standings International Stats Soccer News Feed Amateur Sports Golf Tennis REPUBLISH EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Germans use rebuilt program to win Skate Canada pairsCanadas Dub Davison miss Grand Prix final despite bronze medal Last Updated Saturday November 21 2009 457 PM ET Comments1Recommend12By Malcolm Kelly CBC Sports Germanys Aliona Savchenko is thrown by her partner Robin Szolkowy as they perform their rebuilt free program on Saturday at Skate Canada (Paul ChiassonCanadian Press) The new program worksTwotime world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy ended weeks of speculation over a rebuilt long performance by easily winning the pairs competition on Saturday at HomeSense Skate Canada International in Kitchener OntThe Germans put up a 13255 in the free skate best of the fall series and totalled 20671 for the gold medalRussias Maria Mukhortova and Maxim Trankov overcame a wardrobe malfunction that caused a delay and restart to finish second while Canadas Jessica Dub and Bryce Davison struggled into thirdThat bronze medal was key because the pair needed to finish in at least second place or pick up enough points in third to qualify for the Grand Prix final two weeks hence in TokyoThey did neitherA few pretty big errors in the long today very very costly at the very end in our pairs spin Davison told the CBC Thats the way it goes in sportsIt was a bit of a struggle but we got through it and we tried to keep a nice looking program togetherDub bounced back well from a bad mistake in the short program Friday that saw her single the normally superb sidebyside triple salchow and the twotime Canadian champions performed a romantic sensual program to The Way We Were in the freeBut errors this time by Davison especially stumbling on sidebyside double axels that also meant not being able to hold the speed for a following double cost key marksThey finished with 16693 points overallAnabelle Langlois and Cody Hay skating their first Grand Prix event in two years p...