Russia's Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov won the ice dance championship at Skate Canada in Ontario on Sunday.The Russians won US,000 in edging Bulgarians Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviyski.

　　Canada's Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon surged up to take third place with a sensational free dance in the second Grand Prix event of the season.

　　Navka, 28, and Kostomarov, 26, are coached by former world dance champion Alexander Zhulin, who is Navka's husband.

　　Their free dance to music from the movie "The Pink Panther" - she was dressed in pink and he in black - mixed with sound bites from Austin Powers movies actually was more classical than the far-out programs they've done in the past.

　　"This is to show the judges we can skate different styles," said Navka.

　　"We want to be different from everybody else."

　　Denkova, 28, and Staviyski, 25, who train in Moscow with coach Alexei Gorshkov, skated to classical music and got the highest free dance points total, 107, to 106 for Navka and Kosto-marov. The Russians had a big enough lead to remain first and win 207-204 overall.

　　Navka and Kostomarov were edged out of bronze by Denkova and Staviyski at the world championships in March, but now appear to have drawn even or overtaken the Bulgarians.

　　Dubreuil and Lauzon train in France with Muriel Boucher-Zazoui, who steered Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat to 2002 Olympic gold. That influence oozed out of a sensuous free dance that earned them 103 points to give them to 191 overall. Their highly athletic dance had a level of difficulty pegged at 39 compared to 27 for the Russians.