The first round of the figure skating Grand Prix series, the American Tournament, opened on the 21st, and in the short program of the first half of the men's single, Japan's Yoshio Miura scored a personal best, including two quadruple jumps, and took the lead.
The figure skating Grand Prix series is a competition in which the world's top athletes participate, and the first American tournament opened on the 21st in Massachusetts.
In the first half of the men's single short program held on the first day, 17-year-old Miura from Japan, as well as Seinan Miyake and Koshiro Shimada, participated. A year old Ilya Malinin participated.
Of these, Miura landed a triple axel and a quadruple toe loop in the second half of the performance when he scored a high performance score by making a continuous jump from the quadruple salchow at the beginning.
Although she missed some levels in her spins and steps, she put together her performance without any major mistakes and marked a personal best of 94.96, finishing the short program and taking the lead.
Miyake is 6th with 77.87, and Shimada is 12th with 62.54.
In addition, Malinin did not improve his score, such as falling on a quadruple toe loop, and was 4th with 86.08.