BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — US determine skating sensation Ilia Malinin achieved a season-best 106.90 factors within the males’s brief program because the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final commenced right here on Thursday.
The 19-year-old star delivered a high-quality quadruple Axel to captivate the viewers and accomplished his brief program flawlessly on the National Indoor Stadium.
“I feel really great and glad that I was able to put the quadruple Axel in the short program under pressure. It is an honor for me to work hard, make all the efforts and spend hours and hours in skating to compete here,” he mentioned after the competitors.
Japanese skaters Shoma Uno and Yuma Kagiyama positioned second and third respectively with 106.02 and 103.72 factors, whereas French favourite Adam Siao Him Fa encountered errors in leaping and scored solely 88.36 factors to rank sixth after the brief program.
German determine skating pair Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin expressed satisfaction with their efficiency, main the brief program with 72.56 factors and anticipating the free skating on Friday. They had been adopted by the Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps with 71.22 factors, victors of the ISU Cup of China final month.
Deschamps mentioned, “We are not very happy. We had some mistakes on the throw and jump in the short program. Some steps are in our direction, and some of them are not so much. So, we need to go and train the short a little bit harder for our next event.”
The third-ranking pair, Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii of Italy, earned 70.30 factors of their first journey to China. “We are happy to skate our best short program here.”
The pairs free skating, ladies’s brief program, and rhythm ice dance occasions of the ISU Grand Prix Final are scheduled for Friday.