TURIN, Italy, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — Japanese determine skaters Yuma Kagiyama and Rion Sumiyoshi gained gold medals within the males’s and girls’s singles occasions on the Torino 2025 FISU World University Winter Games on Saturday.
Kagiyama, silver medalist on the Beijing Winter Olympics, tallied a formidable rating of 289.04 factors.
Despite some flaws within the free skate, Kagiyama’s excessive rating within the quick program secured him the championship. “This competition is different – it’s so big and it feels almost like a festival. The support here was amazing,” he stated.
In the house crowd’s enthusiastic applause, Italy’s Daniel Grassl took second place, together with his 186.74 factors within the free skate incomes a standing ovation.
Grassl stated that he’s glad to attain the objective of standing on the rostrum, and the Winter Universiade exhibits how college students can do their finest in each sports activities and examine.
South Korea’s Cha Jun-hwan rounded out the rostrum.
Sumiyoshi claimed the ladies’s singles title with 204.29 factors, edging out her teammate Mone Chiba by lower than a degree. Sofia Samodelkina from Kazakhstan gained the bronze medal.