Olympic champions Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov...

Olympic champions Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of the Soviet Union won the pairs title at the European Figure Skating Championships at Leningrad.

Gordeeva and Grinkov, three-time world champions, were third going into the final free program but rallied with high scores, one of them a perfect 6.0.

Natalia Lebedeva of the Soviet Union strengthened her lead in the women’s event and American-born Richard Zander of West Germany led in the men’s competition.