SHENZHEN, China (AP) — World silver medalist Mone Chiba led the best way within the girls’s brief program on the Cup of China as Russian Alexandra Ignatova made a long-awaited return to the determine skating Grand Prix sequence Friday.
Chiba took the lead on 76.08 factors together with her James Bond-themed program, regardless of an error on a double axel, in her first skate because the world championships in March following an offseason ankle damage.
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It was simply sufficient to maintain Chiba forward of Anastasiia Gubanova of Georgia, who celebrated a personal-best 75.05 with a double fist pump as her rating was introduced.
Ignatova, skating as a impartial athlete, was third on 72.37 in her largest worldwide occasion because the 2022 Olympics. The 17-year-old Alexandra Trusova who raged rinkside at her silver medal in 2022 is now 22, competing below her married identify, and mom to a one-year-old son.
The Worldwide Skating Union has accredited impartial athletes from Russia and Belarus to enter a wider vary of occasions this season after they had been solely eligible to enter the Olympics and one Olympic qualifier final season.
British staff leads ice dance
Britain’s Lilah Worry and Lewis Gibson paved the way in ice dance after scoring 80 factors within the rhythm dance to beat Georgia’s Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin on 79.31. Natalie Taschlerova and Filip Taschler of the Czech Republic are a distant third on 73.10.
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Olympic gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov goals to get well from a shaky begin to the season within the males’s brief program later Friday, because the pairs occasion additionally begins.
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