Jeremy Abbott won his first U.S. National Championship last night. It was only a fair free skate (although his short program was a thing of beauty, as usual) but it was enough to keep the lead. Charging hard behind him was Brandon Mroz, who landed a quad and had a great skate. Man obviously has to work on his program components to up that score, but wow. Evan Lysacek went for the quad/triple combination, which he landed beautifully in practice but then of course fell on in the competition. I know he was going for broke, but it would have been interesting if he had just skated triples and skated cleanly, because Abbott's skate had watered down jumps and it would have been nicer to see him really focus and go for it. Maybe he did, but there was something about his loop that made me think he figured he had it in the bag or something. Anyway, we'll see more at worlds... Sadly, Johnny Weir popped another triple axel, and fell on a jump. He did not look good here - came in fifth overall.
2009 U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
01/18/2009 - 01/25/2009
Championship Men
| Place | Name | Points | SP | FS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeremy Abbott, Broadmoor SC | 241.89 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Brandon Mroz, Broadmoor SC | 229.70 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Evan Lysacek, DuPage FSC | 229.10 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Ryan Bradley, Broadmoor SC | 221.40 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Johnny Weir, SC of New York | 203.99 | 7 | 5 |
| 6 | Curran Oi, SC of Boston | 194.03 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | Adam Rippon, SC of New York | 193.76 | 12 | 6 |
| 8 | Parker Pennington, Winterhurst FSC | 192.48 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Stephen Carriere, SC of Boston | 185.31 | 8 | 11 |
| 10 | Tommy Steenberg, SC of Northern Virginia | 184.99 | 14 | 7 |
| 11 | Dennis Phan, All Year FSC | 183.25 | 9 | 12 |
| 12 | Shaun Rogers, University of Delaware FSC | 175.72 | 10 | 13 |
| 13 | Eliot Halverson, Ann Arbor FSC | 171.14 | 18 | 9 |
| 14 | Douglas Razzano, Coyotes SC of Arizona | 164.14 | 16 | 14 |
| 15 | William Brewster, Detroit SC | 152.80 | 13 | 16 |
| 16 | Jonathan Cassar, Detroit SC | 151.10 | 17 | 15 |
| 17 | Jason Wong, SC of Boston | 140.73 | 11 | 17 |
| W | Nicholas LaRoche, All Year FSC | 15 | ||
| W | Scott Smith, Salt Lake Figure Skating |