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FIGURE SKATING: China and Russia split golds at Shiseido Cup of China

Reigning World Champions Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won the Pairs as expected and Boyang Jin won the men’s competition in front of a home crowd in Chongqing at the ISU Grand Prix/Shiseido Cup of China.

Sui and Han compiled a big lead of nearly 12 points in the Short Program and won the Free Skate by exactly 16 points for a 228.37-199.97 final margin.

Jin, the two-time Worlds bronze medalist, won easily over teammate Han Yan, 261.53-249.45, coming from second after the Short Program to win his first Grand Prix gold medal.

Russians won the women’s event and the Ice Dance. Fifteen-year-old Anna Shcherbakova added to her Skate America win with a dominant 226.04-211.18 victory over Japan’s Satoko Miyahara, with 2015 World Champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva – still just 22 – in third.

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won the Ice Dance in a tussle with Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates. The Russians won the Short Program, but Chock and Bates won the Free Program, ending up just a little short, 209.90-208.55. Summaries:

ISU Grand Prix/Shiseido Cup of China
Chongqing (CHN) ~ 8-10 November 2019
(Full results here)

Men/Singles: 1. Boyang Jin (CHN), 261.53 (2nd in Short Program + 1st in Free Skate); 2. Han Yan (CHN), 249.45 (1+2); 3. Matteo Rizzo (ITA), 241.88 (3+4); 4. Keegan Messing (CAN), 237.36 (5+3); 5. Keiji Tanaka (JPN), 233.62 (7+5).

Women/Singles: 1. Anna Shcherbakova (RUS), 226.04 (1+1); 2. Satoko Miyahara (JPN), 211.18 (2+3); 3. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS), 209.10 (4+2); 4. Young You (KOR), 191.81 (7+4); 5. Sofia Samodurova (RUS), 185.29 (5+5). Also: 6. Amber Glenn (USA), 178.35 (3+6).

Pairs: 1. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN), 228.37 (1+1); 2. Cheng Peng/Yang Jin (CHN), 199.97 (3+2); 3. Liubov Ilyushechkina/Charlie Bilodeau (CAN), 190.73; 4. Nicole Della Monica/Matteo Guarise (ITA), 182.88 (4+5); 5. Tae Ok Ryom/Ju Sik Kim (PRK), 179.55 (8+4). Also: 6. Tarah Kayne/Danny O’Shea (USA), 178.79 (5+6).

Ice Dance: 1. Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS), 209.90 (1+2); 2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA), 208.55 (2+1); 3. Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Nikolaj Sorenson (CAN), 190.74 (3+3); 4. Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu (CHN), 186.45 (4+4); 5. Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker (USA), 179.96 (5+5).

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