CHONGQING, China, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — Reigning world champion Shoma Uno set a brand new season finest rating for the boys’s quick program because the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series Cup of China bought underway right here on Friday.
Skating to “Love You Kung Fu” and “Clair de Lune”, the Japanese expertise, who turns 26 years outdated subsequent month, hit his trademark quad flip, a quad toe-triple toe mixture, and a triple Axel, which was credited for “highlight distribution”, to attain 105.25 factors. He additionally earned a degree 4 for his spins and a degree three for the footwork.
The earlier males’s quick program finest rating of the 2023-2024 season was held by US teenage sensation Ilia Malinin, who scored 104.06 factors on October 20 on the season-opening Skate America.
“I did a good job with the jumps today and the whole package,” Uno commented at a post-competition press convention.
“At this competition, I don’t think about the result or the points, I just want to show my program,” he added.
European champion Adam Siao Him Fa got here second to Uno’s robust lead, trailing by 14 factors. Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaidorov stood third additional 1.27 factors again.
Local favourite Jin Boyang, a two-time world bronze medalist, positioned fourth with a private season better of 87.44, beating Italian Gabriele Frangipani and Japanese Kazuki Tomono to the fifth and sixth respectively. Skate Canada champion Sota Yamamoto of Japan solely ranked in eighth with errors on his jumps.
The ISU senior’s GP newcomers, Xu Juwen and Dai Dawei of China, sat on tenth and eleventh with scores of 65.57 and 64.25 respectively.
World bronze medalist Loena Hendrickx of Belgium led the ladies’s quick program with 70.65 factors, regardless of an unsuccessful Axel. Japan’s Rinka Watanabe and Hana Yoshida adopted in second and third.
Niina Petrokina of Estonia was near the rostrum in fourth place at 62.58 factors, whereas China’s Chen Hongyi and An Xiangyi, one other Chinese debutant to the senior determine skating, got here fifth and sixth on 62.57 and 61.86 factors.
Skate Canada champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps of Canada and European silver medalists Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini of Italy completed 1-2 within the pairs quick program on 70.39 and 66.33, and China’s three-time Olympian Peng Cheng and her new accomplice Wang Lei rounded out the rostrum with a rating of 62.91.
Skate America champions Annika Hocke/Robert Kunkel of Germany got here fourth, whereas the opposite two Chinese pairs, Zhang Siyang/Yang Yongchao and Wang Yuchen/Zhu Lei completed fifth and seventh on 58.71 and 49.95 respectively.
In the ice dance occasion, Skate America silver medalists Majorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha from Canada led the rankings quickly after rhythm dance, claiming 82.02 factors to edge two-time world bronze medalists and compatriots Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier to second place by simply 0.98 factors.
American pair Caroline Green/Michael Parsons, the 2022 Four Continents champions, got here out a distant third with 76.07 factors. China’s children, Chen Xizi/Xing Jailing and Shi Shang/Wu Nan, completed the rhythm dance as the underside two amongst 9 pairs, after the Olympian pair Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu withdrew from the occasion on account of Liu’s harm.
The Cup of China, the fourth of six occasions of the ISU Grand Prix Series through which the world’s finest determine skaters acquire factors in direction of the 2023-2024 GP Final in Beijing on December 7-10, continues right here on Saturday with the free dance and free packages of males’s, ladies’s and pairs determine skates.