Amber Glenn overcame neck ache to beat her US world champion teammate Alysa Liu to win the determine skating Cup of China for the second yr in a row on Saturday.
Glenn, the U.S. nationwide champion, clutched her neck after ending her free skate, wherein she recovered from a shaky touchdown on a triple toeloop close to the beginning.
Glenn was in third place after Friday’s brief program, which means she needed to anticipate Liu and Japan’s Rinka Watanabe to carry out their free skates earlier than realizing the place she stood.
Liu dropped to second place with a complete of 212.07 factors to Glenn’s 214.78 after a shaky touchdown in a triple leap, whereas Watanabe simply remained on the rostrum, dropping to 3rd after delivering simply the fifth-best free skate rating.
Glenn stated she felt “superb” and was “so excited for my teammate and I to be first and second on the rostrum.” Regardless of being a two-time world champion, it’s the first time that Liu has stood on the rostrum in a Grand Prix.
Japan’s Shun Sato gained the lads’s Cup of China occasion for the second yr in a row, touchdown three quadruple jumps in a clear free skate for a complete of 278.12, forward of Italy’s Daniel Grassl with 269.43. Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan with 262.67 after falling on his final leap.
In ice dancing, world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates gained their first Cup of China on the sixth try, scoring a complete of 208.25 to beat their North American teammates Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik on 202.27. Third went to Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud of France at 196.60.
The pairs free skate is afterward Saturday.
The Cup of China is the second of six common season Grand Prix occasions that attain the ultimate in December. It’s a key check for skaters searching for medals on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.
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