In Olympic tune-up, Japan's Kao Miura captures Four Continents men’s figure skating title

Kao Miura of Japan won the Four Continents men’s figure skating title on Sunday in his final tune-up for the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Performing to Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a 1960s musical drama, Miura finished his free skate with a total of 273.73 points to edge Junhwan Cha by the slimmest of margins. The South Korean skater won the free skate to vault from sixth place after his short program into second place with a total score of 273.62 points.

Sota Yamamoto of Japan finished third with 270.07 points at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing.

Miura and Cha are both headed to the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, where figure skating begins with the team event in fewer than two weeks. So are Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, who finished fifth at Four Continents, and Boyang Jin of China, who finished sixth.

Roman Sadovsky led the Canadian contingent, placing ninth of 26 skaters with 233.51 points, followed by Vancouver’s Wesley Chiu (12th, 220.31) and Aleksa Rakic of Burnaby, B.C., (14th, 213.18).

Japan's Kao captures his second Four Continents title