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<\/a>One week after winning gold at Grand Prix de France, France’s Adam Siao Him Fa beats two-time World champion Shoma Uno, of Japan, to win gold at Cup of China,<\/span>\u00a0the fourth of six events of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\nSiao Him Fa was second place after the short program due to falling on his quadruple toe. He was more than 14 points behind Uno. But in the free skate, Siao Him Fa delivered a strong free skate with a quadruple lutz and a quadruple toe-triple toe competition. His free skate score of 207.17 was a new personal best score and was higher than his free skate score in France. Overall, he finished with a score of 298.38, which was lower than his overall score of 306.78 from last week. With two gold medals, Siao Him Fa qualifies for the Grand Prix Final, which will be his first Grand Prix Final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am really happy about my performance today. This week was really hard, not because of the training, but all around, I had skate issues, food poisoning, it was quite catastrophic, but I managed pretty well stayed strong mentally,\u201d Siao Him Fa revealed.<\/p>\n
For Uno, the free skate started off a bit rocky as Uno fell on his quadruple loop attempt and doubled his planned quadruple flip. He did regain his composure to land two triple Axels and two quadruple toes. With 174.73 points, Uno ranked second in the free skate. Though he had a 14 point lead and had the highest program component score of the men’s event, Uno slipped to second overall with 279.98 points.<\/p>\n \u201cI did not do my job after the short program,\u201d Uno admitted to the media. \u201cAdam showed more besides jumps in the competition. I have to concentrate on my jumps, but I want to show more in my presentation.”<\/p>\n Uno will compete his second Grand Prix event at NHK Trophy.<\/p>\n Mikhail Shaidorov<\/span> of Kazakhstan, who was in third after the short program, keep the third-place spot and claimed the bronze in his first season on Grand Prix Series. In his free skate, Shaidorov<\/span> landed a quadruple toe-triple toe combination and a triple Axel. However, his quadruple Lutz was called on the quarter, and his solo quadruple toe and second triple Axel were underrotated.<\/p>\n Shaidorov earned a personal best free skate score of 174.52 and a total score of 264.46.<\/p>\n This was the first Grand Prix medal for Kazakhstan in the men’s event since 2016 when Denis Ten won silver at Grand Prix France, his second of two Grand Prix medals that season. Shaidorov has 18 points from his two Grand Prix events.<\/span><\/p>\n Japan’s Kazuki Tomono<\/span> moved up from sixth to finish fourth overall with 251.95 points. He also has 18 points from his two Grand Prix events. Gabriele Frangipani<\/span> of Italy finished fifth with 251.59 points, less than 0.36 points out of 4th place. He only had one Grand Prix event. Skate Canada Champion Sota Yamamoto, of Japan, who struggled in the short program,<\/span> pulled up from eighth place to finish sixth with 245.58 points. Yamamoto has 20 points from his two Grand Prix events.<\/p>\n Yoshida kicked off the free skate with a bang with attempting the triple Axel. Unfortunately, Yoshida stepped out of the jump and it was called slightly underrotated. However, she went on to land seven triple jumps. She earned a season’s best free skate score of 139.32 and a total score of 203.97 to move up two spots to claim the gold medal in China.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really surprised that I won today,\u201d Yoshida told the press after the free skate. \u201cI have lots of things to work on. I want to be able to aim for higher points.<\/p>\n Yoshida finished 4th at Skate America and with 24 points will need to see if that\u2019s enough for the Final.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSince Skate Canada two weeks have passed. I feel very regretful for my performance at Skate Canada and I trained very hard to improve,” she said after the free skate.<\/p>\n Watanabe has 18 points from her two Grand Prix events.<\/p>\n World bronze medalist Loena Hendrickx<\/span> of Belgium, the leader after the short program, took home the bronze medal after some under-rotations in the free skate. She earned a 130.84, which was third in the free skate. She earned an overall score of 201.49.<\/p>\n With her gold at Skate America and bronze in China, Hendrickx has 26 points, which should be enough for her to qualify for the Final.<\/p>\n Skate America bronze medalist Niina Petrokina of Estonia finished <\/span>fourth with 188.04 points. She has 20 points from her two Grand Prix events. Madeline Schizas of Canada<\/span> moved up from seventh to fifth with 179.58 points. She has 16 points from her two Grand Prix events. 2023 Four Continents silver medalist Yelim Kim of Korea <\/span>finished sixth with a score of 176.68 Kim is listed to compete her second event at NHK Trophy.<\/p>\n It was all about the vampires in the free skate as the first and second-place teams performed vampire programs to close out the pairs’ free skate. Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps claimed their second Grand Prix gold medal this season and punched their ticket to the Grand Prix Final.<\/p>\n Their \u201cInterview with the Vampire” free skate included a triple twist and side by side triple toe-single Axel-double Axel sequence and two level-four lifts. However, Deschamps stumbled on the side-by-side triple salchow. Nevertheless, they won the free skate with a score of 131.09. Their overall score was 201.48.<\/p>\n \u201cToday was a little hard,\u201d Deschamps admitted. \u201cWe were exhausted at the start of the program and it was fight from beginning to the end, but we are happy with the outcome.” Italy’s Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini kicked off their Grand Prix season in China by taking home the silver medal. Their \u201cDracula\u201d free skate included <\/span>a triple twist, throw triple lutz and salchow. Ghilardi did fall on the side by side salchow, They earned a free skate score of 124.67 and a total score of 191.00.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was hard today, and we are proud of our performance, and how we pushed until the end of the program,\u201d Ghilardi said after the free skate. \u201cIt is interesting music. We do it one way, the other teams do it in a different style,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The team will now compete at NHK Trophy.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cThis is my first medal in an (international) senior competition,” he told the media. “This medal motivates me to go forward and to become more competitive with Shoma and Adam.\u201d<\/p>\nWomen<\/h3>\n
<\/a>Japan’s Hana Yoshida moved up from third after the the short program to claim her first ISU Grand Prix gold. Cup of China was only Yoshida’s second Grand Prix event of her career as this is her senior Grand Prix debut.<\/p>\n<\/a>Teammate Rinka Watanabe held onto her second place after the short program to win her second GP medal of her career.\u00a0 Her free skate included seven triple jumps. Her skates were much improved from her sixth-place finish at Skate Canada. <\/span>She earned a season\u2019s best free skate score of 138.13 and a total of 203.22 to win the silver. She was just 0.75 points out of first-place.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cI feel disappointed about my skate today,\u201d Hendrickx shared with the media. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel well for the past five days. I don\u2019t want to use it as an excuse. I didn\u2019t eat well here, I wasn\u2019t hungry. I tried to eat but it was pretty hard.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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