Top 10 Ice Dance Teams 1989 to present

[LLLLutz]

1. Klimova & Ponomarenko
2. Usova & Zhulin
3. Grishuk & Platov
4. Krylova & Ovsyannikov
5. Annisina & Peizerat
6. Delobel & Schoenfelder
7. Navka & Kostomarov
8. denkova & Staviysky
9. Virtue & Moir
10. Domnina & Shabalin

[SkateElectric]

Of course I had to jump in

1. Klimova/Ponamerenko - duh
2. Grishuk/Platov - double duh's
3. Anisina/Peizerat - triple duh
4. Krylova/Ovsiannikov
5. Navka/Kostamarov
6. Usova/Zhulin

This is where it gets a little more difficult:
7. Virtue/Moir
8. Denkova/Staviiski
9. Bourne/Kraatz
10. Delobel/Schoenfelder

I left out the Duchesnays - yes I loved their routines...but the originality wasn't theirs, and they never looked to me like they truly mastereed their dances. Top 20 perhaps, but not top 10. Isabelle had a few scary Babs moments of her own IIRC.

Honorable mentions: Domnina/Shabalin, Rahkkamo/Kokko, Punsalam/Swallow, and Drobiako/Vanagas. Although they didn't appeal to me, Lobacheva/Averbukh could be very impressive technically too.

For the life of me, I can't see anyone placing Belgosto or Fusar-Poli/Margaglio in the top 10.

[shine]

Restuls + Personal preference:

Klimova & Ponomerenko
Krylova & Ovsiannikov
Usova & Zhulin
Denkova & Staviyski
Anissina & Peizerat
Grishuk & Platov
Delobel & Schoenfelder
Virtue & Moir
Lobacheva & Averbukh (but more for Averbuhk)
Rahkkamo & Kokko

[longingfornia]

1 Marina Klimova & Seegei Ponomarenko Russia
2 Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat France
3 Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov Russia
4 Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay France
5 Angelika Krylova & Oleg Ovsiannikov Russia
6 Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin Russia
7 Tessa VIRTUE & Scott MOIR Canada
8 Tatiana NAVKA & Roman KOSTOMAROV Russia
9 Albena DENKOVA & Maxim STAVISKI Bulgaria
10 Oksana DOMNINA & Maxim SHABALIN Russia

HM
1 Irina LOBACHEVA & Ilia AVERBUKH Russia
2 Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz Canada
3 Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko Finland

After watching a ton of Dance comps from this era the last few weeks i have to move Pasha & Evgeny up to #2 and Angelika & Oleg up to #3

Cheers