American Nathan Chen dominates the men's figure skating to clinch a first gold medal, Australia's Brendan Kerry finishes 17th

American Nathan Chen has lived up to his billing as the new king of men's figure skating, with a brilliant performance to win gold at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

The three-time world champion had not previously managed to put it all together at an Olympics.

GOLD: Nathan Chen (USA) — 332.60

SILVER: Yuma Kagiyama (JAP) 310.05

BRONZE: Shoma Uno (JAP) 293.00

Others:

4th: Yuzuru Hanyu (JAP) 283.21

17th: Brendan Kerry (AUS) 244.80

That frustration ended in Beijing, as Chen smashed his rivals with a powerful routine, to beat Japan's 18-year-old rising star, Yuma Kagiyama, and his fellow Japanese skater Shoma Uno.

The American, known as a master of quad jumps, delivered a world record score for the short program of 113.97 on Tuesday.

He led by five points ahead of the free skate but there was still doubt over whether he would clinch the gold.

From the moment he landed his opening quad flip–triple toe loop combination in his final routine, however, that doubt disappeared.

Skating to Elton John's Rocket Man, Chen landed five quad jumps and four triples, building up an incredible technical elements score of 121.41. The crowd roared him on, as it became clear they were watching the new champion.

Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu's attempt to win a third straight Olympic title was all but over after he blew his first quad jump in the short program to trail Chen by nearly 19 points.

Hanyu switched focus to a bid to make history, with what would have been the first-ever quad axel landed in competition. There were reports that he had injured his ankle attempting to land the quad in practice ahead of the final.

His first item on his program was the 4.5 rotation quad axel jump, the oldest and hardest in all of skating. Hanyu came close to achieving the