Amber Glenn gets on program for her initial number skating Grand Prix win after taking a large lead in the brief program at the French round of the collection on Friday.
Glenn, of the United States, was the only skater in the females’s occasion to land a three-way axel on her method to 78.14 factors, taking the lead by greater than 7 factors from South Korea’s Kim Chaeyeon on 70.90.
Wakaba Higuchi of Japan, the victor at Skate America last month, remains in 3rd on 66.98. The previous European champ Anastasiia Gubanova of Georgia was down in nine location after an autumn.
SEE|China’s Jin leads after males’s brief program:
Jin Boyang led the males’s brief program searching for his initial Grand Prix win considering that his home Cup of China in 2020. Jin landed a quadruple toeloop as he racked up 88.12, with Estonia’s Aleksandr Selevko on 85.73 and Kazuki Tomono of Japan on 83.45.
There was a wave of drops amongst leading challengers, with two-time European champ and home much-loved Adam Siao Him Fa of France just 8th on 74.90 after dropping on his last 2 dives.
SEE|Canada’s Pereira and Michaud rest third after sets brief program:
In the ice dancing, two-time European champs Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy baited 82.20, with France’s Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud 2nd and Lithuania’s Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius 3rd.
All 4 techniques wrap up with complimentary skates on Saturday.
SEE|Germany’s Hase and Volodin lead in sets brief: