Overview
- Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik won ice dance with 202.86 points, leading the first U.S. podium sweep at Four Continents since 2005.
- Yuna Aoki claimed the women’s title with 217.39 points as Ami Nakai and Mone Chiba secured a Japanese podium sweep.
- U.S. champions Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov took pairs gold with 205.34 over Olympic titleholders Sui Wenjing and Han Cong at 200.99, yet Efimova lacks the U.S. citizenship required for Olympic eligibility.
- Japan’s Kao Miura led the men’s short program with 98.59 points ahead of Kazuki Tomono and Sota Yamamoto, while Cha Jun-hwan sat sixth going into Sunday’s free skate.
- Several contenders treated the event as a final run before Milan-Cortina, with South Korea’s Lee Hae-in finishing fifth overall and Canada’s Gabrielle Daleman placing seventh in her comeback season.