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2021 ISU World Ice Dance Champions Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov of Russia danced to the gold in style at the ISU Grand Prix NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN) on Saturday. Two-time World medalists Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) earned the silver medal and Great Britain’s Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson claimed the bronze.

2021 ISU World Champions Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Galliamov of Russia skated to a confident victory with 14 points to spare in the Pair Skating event at the ISU Grand Prix NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN) on Saturday. The silver went to teammates Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov, while Japan’s Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara collected the bronze medal.

Tingyu Gao (CHN) looks to have caught up with the world’s best sprinters right on time. With the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games in front of a home crowd within sight, the 23-year-old from Harbin started the international season with a career-first World Cup win in Tomaszów Mazowiecki (POL) on Friday. Gao crushed the track record in 34.26 seconds. In the 5000m Nils van der Poel (SWE) also pulverized the track record to take gold.

Erin Jackson (USA) enjoyed a flying start to the Olympic Speed Skating season in Tomaszów Mazowiecki (POL) on Friday. The 29-year-old US sprinter won the first Women’s 500m of the 2021/22 ISU World Cup series at the Arena Lodowa in 37.61 seconds, beating Nao Kodaira’s track record by 0.16s. Irene Schouten (NED) also clocked a track record to win the Women’s 3000m.

Two-time ISU World silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan grabbed the lead in the Men’s Short Program at the ISU Grand Prix NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN). Vincent Zhou (USA) sits in second and Korea’s Junhwan Cha placed third on the first day of competition.

2018 Four Continents Champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan captured the Women’s Short Program at the ISU Grand Prix NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN) Friday. Teammate Mana Kawabe was the surprise of the day coming second ahead of Korea’s 2020 Youth Olympic Games Champion Young You.

2021 ISU World Ice Dance Champions Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov of Russia edged two-time World medalists Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) to take a narrow lead in the Rhythm Dance at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN) on Friday. Great Britain’s Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson are in third place.

2021 ISU World Champions Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Galliamov of Russia skated to the lead in the Pairs Short Program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN) Friday, followed by teammates Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov. Japan’s Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara are currently ranked third. 

The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series 2021/22 continues this week with the NHK Trophy in Tokyo (JPN). The 2021 ISU World Ice Dance Champions Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) and World Pair Skating Champions Anastasia Mishina/Alexandr Galliamov (RUS) start their Grand Prix season in Japan, while 2018 Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno (JPN) and Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) aim to secure spots in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.

With this season’s international Short Track and Figure Skating competitions already well underway, the long track Speed Skaters kick off their Olympic campaign at the Arena Lodowa in Tomaszów Mazowiecki (POL) this weekend. After last year’s two bubble events in Heerenveen (NED), ISU World Cup Speed Skating is back in full swing with four events across November and December 2021 serving as qualifying competitions for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the World Cup Final in Heerenveen in March 2022.

The international long track Speed Skating season kicks off with the first of five ISU World Cup Speed Skating events in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland on 12 November. After two legs in Europe, the competition moves to North America, gearing up for a season’s climax at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games in February.

In what was a turbulent Men’s event, Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama surged from seventh place to win the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Gran Premio d’Italia in Turin Saturday. Mikhail Kolyada of Russia pulled up from fourth to second and Italian Daniel Grassl claimed the bronze, his first ISU Grand Prix medal at the senior level.

China’s Wenjing Sui/Cong Han skated off with the gold at the Gran Premio d’Italia ahead of teammates Cheng Peng/Yang Jin. Iuliia Artemeva/Mikhail Nazarychev of Russia earned the bronze in their debut at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

France’s four-time World Ice Dance Champions Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron reigned supreme in the Ice Dance event at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Gran Premio d’Italia in Turin (ITA) Saturday. 2021 World silver medalists Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA) danced to the silver medal and the bronze went to Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin of Russia.

2021 ISU World Champion Anna Shcherbakova of Russia rallied back after the Short Program to take her third ISU Grand Prix gold medal. Maiia Khromykh of Russia claimed the silver medal in her debut at the ISU Grand Prix while Belgium’s Loena Hendrickx earned the bronze, the first ISU Grand Prix medal for a woman from her country.