Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno recovered from a shaky begin to win the lads’s free skate closing on the Japan Open, because the 23-year-old ramps up his preparation forward of the 2022 Winters Video games in Beijing.
Shoma, who received silver on the Pyeongchang Olympics, fell on his first quad try however landed the opposite three quad jumps to earn 181.21 factors, ending forward of Shun Sato’s 179.32 on Saturday.
The Japan Open, an annual worldwide determine skating workforce competitors, normally options groups from Japan, Europe and North America however the occasion noticed solely Japanese skaters for a second successive 12 months on account of COVID-19 precautions.
The house skaters had been divided into two groups and solely carried out their free skates, with Group Blue claiming victory over Group Purple after Shoma received the lads’s closing and Wakaba Higuchi triumphed within the girls’s closing.
Neither Yuzuru Hanyu — who received gold on the 2018 Olympics — or world silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama each took half within the males’s occasion.
The Beijing Olympics are scheduled to open on Feb. 4, with solely spectators from mainland China allowed to attend the occasion.
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