MILAN, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results from the first day of the world figure skating championships here on Wednesday:

Pairs short program

1. Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot, Germany, 82.98 points

2. Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, Russia, 81.29

3. Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres, France, 75.32

4. Natalia Zabiako/Alexander Enbert, Russia, 74.38

5. Nicole Della Monica/Matteo Guarise, Italy, 72.53

6. Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, China, 71.98

7. Kristina Astakhova/Alexei Rogonov, Russia, 71.62

8. Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek, Italy, 71.37

9. Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao, China, 71.31

10. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro, Canada, 70.49

11. Alexa Scimeca Knierim/Chris Knierim, United States, 69.55

12. Ryom Tae Ok/Kim Ju Sik, DPR Korea, 66.32

13. Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar, Czech Republic, 66.29

14. Miriam Ziegler/Severin Kiefer, Austria, 65.21

15. Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya/Harley Windsor, Australia, 65.02

16. Annika Hocke/Ruben Blommaert, Germany, 63.26

Did not qualify

17. Deanna Stellato/Nathan Bartholomay, United States, 61.48

18. Camille Ruest/Andrew Wolfe, Canada, 59.98

19. Paige Conners/Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israel, 58.44

20. Laura Barquero/Aritz Maestu, Spain, 58.36

21. Lana Petranovic/Antonio Souza-Kordeiru, Croatia, 57.25

22. Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau, Canada, 55.68

23. Ioulia Chtchetinina/Mikhail Akulov, Switzerland, 53.62

24. Miu Suzaki/Ryuichi Kihara, Japan, 53.33

25. Lola Esbrat/Andrei Novoselov, France, 51.94

26. Kim Kyueun/Alex Kang Chan Kam, South Korea, 42.85

27. Zoe Jones/Christopher Boyadji, Britain, 42.02

28. Elizaveta Kashitsyna/Mark Magyar, Hungary, 36.33

Note: Top 16 qualify for the pairs free skating final. Enditem