Results after the jump...only two more country competitions for the Grand Prix and then we have the Grand Prix Final!
Ladies
Mao Asada had an absolutely wonderful free skate to roar back after a disappointing short program. But she wasn't able to overtake Akiko Suzuki's lead. Alena Leonova held on for bronze.
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Men
Daisuke Takahashi followed up an absolutely amazing short program with a few errors but a still-strong free skate, to win the gold here. Takahiko Kozuka had to settle for silver, while American Ross Miner had a wonderful free skate to break through to the podium.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
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| 1 | Daisuke TAKAHASHI |
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259.75 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Takahiko KOZUKA |
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235.02 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Ross MINER |
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212.36 | 6 | 4 | |||
| 4 | Samuel CONTESTI |
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209.69 | 7 | 3 | |||
| 5 | Tomas VERNER |
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196.63 | 9 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Konstantin MENSHOV |
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195.88 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 7 | Tatsuki MACHIDA |
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195.45 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 8 | Armin MAHBANOOZADEH |
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185.58 | 8 | 7 | |||
| 9 | Brandon MROZ |
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184.83 | 3 | 9 |
Pairs
A bit of a shakeup in a not-great pairs competition saw Savchenko and Szolkowy down in third place, behind Kavaguti and Smirnov and Takahashi and Tran.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
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| 1 | Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV |
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177.51 | 5 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN |
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172.09 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY |
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171.68 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK |
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163.83 | 3 | 5 | |||
| 5 | Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN |
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163.75 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE |
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159.01 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR |
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149.02 | 7 | 7 | |||
| 8 | Natasha PURICH / Raymond SCHULTZ |
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128.17 | 8 | 8 |
Ice Dancing
The Shibutanis won it all with their free skate! That's an improvement over the last competition.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI |
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151.85 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 2 | Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE |
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151.76 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV |
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149.48 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 4 | Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI |
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136.12 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Lorenza ALESSANDRINI / Simone VATURI |
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133.29 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Lynn KRIENGKRAIRUT / Logan GIULIETTI-SCHMITT |
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126.39 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 7 | Cathy REED / Chris REED |
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123.22 | 8 | 7 | |||
| WD | Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM |
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