Cup Of China

Third Grand Prix event and third mens winner who did a quad. Also in pairs Sui/Han did a quad throw salchow. Sui messed up on the landing a little but that quad throw was well done and no doubt about her doing four revolutions!

Takhito Kozuka did one in his free skate that with negative GOE was worth 9.30 points. Even with the negative GOE it might have been one of his best quads ever. Brandon Mroz was the surprise silver medalist mostly due to his quad and other jumps. Bronze went to now quadless Tomas Verner who is not going to be doing the jump to gain consistency. The root of his problems last season was apparently the quad was using too much of his energy and focus? Only thing I can think of.

Short program

2-Brian Joubert 4t+3t
4-Brandon Mroz 4t+3t
5-Sergei Voronov 4t+1t
8-Jinlin Guan 4t

Long Program
1-Takahito Kazuka
2-Brandon Mroz
5-Brian Joubert 4t< - He slightly underrotated his one official quad. Think he also attempted a quad salchow but tripled it.
6-Tatsuki Machida -4T fell -7.30
7-Jinlin Guan-4T fell -7.30

Voronov had to withdraw because he hurt himself on his opening quad and so did not finish his free skate. Best showing still goes to Artur Gachinski.

Sui/Han quad throw salchow was worth 6.71 though the bv is 8 points. They came in second nearly beating Pang/Tong who were off. Well Pang was off with her jumps.