Japan's Kagiyama wins men's title at Four Continents, Jin Boyang takes 5th

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama scored a season's best 307.58 points to win the men's title at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai on Saturday.

The 21-year-old Olympic silver medalist nailed a quad salchow, a quad flip and a quad toe-triple salchow on top of several triple jumps, including two triple Axels in the free skate, skating to the music of "Rain In Your Black Eyes" by Ezio Bosso.

Fellow Japanese Shun Sato and South Korea's Cha Jun-hwan, who led after the short program, rounded off the podium with 274.59 and 272.95 points, respectively. 

Home favorite Jin Boyang finished fifth with 256.89. The World Championships bronze medalist showed good form, landing a quad lutz and a quad toeloop in his opening program but fell in his following triple Axel triple salchow.

"I was excited when completing my first two quad jumps," said Jin. "I was too fast in the following jump, so there was some mistake in landing the salchow."

"I will make some adjustments to prepare for the National Winter Games, and I will train in Canada for two weeks before the World Championships," he said.

Another Chinese skater, Chen Yudong, finished ninth among the 24 skaters with 218.66.

Earlier on Saturday, Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps struck gold in the pairs. The duo opened their program with a triple twist and went on to complete a throw triple salchow and loop, some difficult lifts and their trademark forward outside death spiral.

The 2023 ISU Four Continents bronze medalists also landed the side-by-side triple toes but singled the double Axel. They scored 129.32 in the free skate and totaled 198.80 points to win the title.

Defending champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan settled for silver with an overall score of 190.77, while the United States' Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea were third with 187.28.

(With input from Xinhua)