GOTEBORG, Sweden — The Canadians were the biggest winners at this year's World Figure Skating Championships, taking home a medal of every color and capping the week with Jeff Buttle's gold in the men's competition.

It was Canada's first world title since Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz won the ice dance crown in 2003, and the first for a Canadian man since Elvis Stojko in 1997.

Brian Joubert of France couldn't defend his 2007 title, but he did win the silver medal. Johnny Weir won the bronze, saving the United States from going home without a medal for the first time since 1994.

That the American pairs and women struggled wasn't a big surprise. But ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto not only didn't win the title most expected, they didn't even get a medal, the first time they've gone home empty-handed since 2004..