Mone Chiba’s elegant free skate edges quad queen and mom Alexandra Ignatova for Cup of China win
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The returning Russian quad queen of figure skating was edged for victory Saturday at the Cup of China by the elegant free skate of Japan’s Mone ...
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — The returning Russian quad queen of figure skating was edged for victory Saturday at the Cup of China by the elegant free skate of Japan’s Mone Chiba.
Alexandra Ignatova landed a quad lutz early in what was the highest-scoring free skate aiming to be the first mother ever to win a Grand Prix event.
The 22-year-old Ignatova, who welcomed a baby son last year, also was competing in her first major international event since taking silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympics as Alexandra Trusova. Those Winter Games ended days before Russia launched a full military invasion of Ukraine leading to an International Skating Union ban from its competitions. Russian skaters now compete as approved neutral individuals.
Chiba led after the short program and produced an error-free skate to the classical piano of “Clair de Lune” by composer Claude Debussy.
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