Overview
- Niina Petrokina posted a personal-best 70.61 to lead the women’s field, returning from October Achilles surgery after missing the Grand Prix series.
- Nina Pinzarrone sits second with 64.97 and Anna Pezzetta is third with 64.85 entering Friday’s free skate.
- Loena Hendrickx fell and is fifth, while former champion Anastasiia Gubanova also fell and ranks 11th after the short program.
- Georgia’s Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava lead pairs with 75.96, edging Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin at 74.81, with Hungary’s Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko at 73.32.
- The Georgian pair arrived late due to a visa delay and practiced only Wednesday morning, as Russia’s federation remains absent and the pairs and women’s free skates follow on Thursday and Friday.