Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu topped the free skate on Sunday but had to settle for his third runner-up finish as U.S. national champion Nathan Chen held on to win the Four Continents championships in South Korea. Hanyu trailed in third place after the short program ...
Shoma Uno said Monday before taking off for the Four Continents championships in South Korea that he is planning on opening his free program with a quadruple loop. At Chubu airport in Nagoya, the 19-year-old Uno revealed that his free program at the Feb. 14-19 ...
Satoko Miyahara will not defend her Four Continents championship or skate in this month's Asian Winter Games due to a leg injury, the Japan Skating Federation announced Tuesday. The three-time defending national champion informed the federation on Monday night of a stress fracture in her ...
Shoma Uno finished fourth and Takahito Mura fifth at the Four Continents Championships on Sunday as Canada's Patrick Chan won the event for the third time. Uno, in second after a personal-high 92.99 points in the short program, was only able to add another 176.82 ...
Olympic bronze medalist Denis Ten won the men's event Saturday at the Four Continents figure skating competition, landing most of his big jumps in a dominating performance. The Kazakh skater, who started his routine with a quad toe loop and a quad toe loop-triple toe ...
Kanako Murakami completed a winning double for Japan at the Four Continents Championships on Saturday. Murakami scored 132.18 in the free skate for a total of 196.91 points, over 10 points clear of 15-year-old Satoko Miyahara. The bronze went to Zijun Li of China. "I did ...
Kanako Murakami shrugged off ankle pain on Thursday to finish first in the women's short program at the Four Continents Championships. Murakami, who had been dealing with pain in her ankle from ill-fitting skates she's been trying since December, will go into Saturday's free skate ...
Mao Asada leads a Japanese sweep of the women's medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Mao Asada lands a triple axel and wins the women's short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the 2012 national champion, wins the men's short program with an impressive performance at the Four Continents.
"The level I am at now is the best for now, but I want to push myself even more looking toward the world championships," says the two-time world champion.
