Overview
- Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps earned pairs silver with 197.66 after a 123.40 free skate, following a 73.26 short program.
- Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara took pairs gold with 219.15, with Hungary’s Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko earning bronze at 192.76.
- World champion Ilia Malinin led the men’s short program with 105.22, nearly 10 points clear of Nika Egadze, ahead of Sunday’s free skate.
- Ami Nakai captured her first senior Grand Prix victory with 227.08, edging Kaori Sakamoto, as Rion Sumiyoshi secured bronze with 216.06.
- Ice dance leaders after the rhythm dance were Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson (84.38) ahead of Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius (80.98) and Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron (78.00), with Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac sixth (73.75).