Day one of Cup of China is over and out! Here are the results.
On the men's side, Russia's Artur Gachinski continues to impress, with a slight lead over Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu. More experienced competitors Jeremy Abbott of the USA and Nobunari Oda of Japan are not too far behind. This was the best start to a men's competition so far in the Grand Prix...some much less sloppy performances than we have been seeing.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artur GACHINSKI |
|
81.64 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Yuzuru HANYU |
|
81.37 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Jeremy ABBOTT |
|
79.32 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Nobunari ODA |
|
77.65 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Nan SONG |
|
72.72 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Jialiang WU |
|
65.06 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Kevin REYNOLDS |
|
64.31 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Richard DORNBUSH |
|
62.93 | 8 |
Russia's Kavaguti and Smirnov are out in front in pairs but pairs two through four are so very close together that the medals are really anyone's game.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV |
|
64.45 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH |
|
60.78 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG |
|
60.57 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN |
|
60.00 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG |
|
57.88 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN |
|
54.42 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Taylor STEELE / Robert SCHULTZ |
|
48.25 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR |
|
38.34 | 8 |
In ice dancing, it's somewhat surprising that the USA's Shibutanis are not only in second place to Russia' s Bobrova and Soloviev, but by a rather wide margin. I will be interested to see what happened in their short dance.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV |
|
65.73 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI |
|
57.79 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND |
|
53.89 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES |
|
52.41 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG |
|
48.36 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG |
|
45.07 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Emily SAMUELSON / Todd GILLES |
|
43.64 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Charlotte LICHTMAN / Dean COPELY |
|
40.26 | 8 |
On the ladies side, things got off to a much better start for Mirai Nagasu of the USA. She sits in second place behind Carolina Kostner (who I assume edged Nagasu out on the strength of her triple/triple combination). Both are several points ahead of Russia's Adelina Sotnikova, who had a fall.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina KOSTNER |
|
61.88 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Mirai NAGASU |
|
60.96 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Adelina SOTNIKOVA |
|
53.74 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Kanako MURAKAMI |
|
53.09 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Kexin ZHANG |
|
52.85 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Bingwa GENG |
|
52.61 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Valentina MARCHEI |
|
52.42 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Christina GAO |
|
51.99 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | Ksenia MAKAROVA |
|
45.90 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | Qiuying ZHU |
|
35.28 | 10 |
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