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SAITAMA, Japan :Shoma Uno retained his men's figure skating world title with a nerveless free skate on home ice on Saturday after Madison Chock and Evan Bates overcame a fall in their free dance to win their first ice dance world title.
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Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara became the first skaters from Japan to win the pairs at the world figure skating championships on Thursday in Saitama, Japan.
SAITAMA, Japan : Japan's Shoma Uno took a big step towards defending his title after topping the men's short programme at the figure skating world championships while compatriots Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won their country's first pairs gold on Thursday.
Japanese duo Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara stormed into a convincing lead on home ice as they got their bid to win a first World Figure Skating Championships gold medal off to the best possible start. The duo won silver in Montpellier in 2022, after finishing behind Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier from the United States. Ad But they have ended the day well ahead of their American rivals on the scorecards in Saitama, with a total of 80.72 points in the short program.
Defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan topped the women’s short program at the world figure skating championships, while Americans are in the medal mix in the women’s and pairs’ events going into the free skates.
Kaori Sakamoto produced a near-flawless display to lead the field after the women's short program at the figure skating world championships in Saitama, Japan on Wednesday with a season's best score of 79.24.
SAITAMA, Japan : Kaori Sakamoto produced a near-flawless display to lead the field after the women's short programme at the figure skating world championships in Saitama, Japan on Wednesday with a season's best score of 79.24.