SAITAMA, Japan — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara became the first skaters from Japan to win the pairs at the world figure skating championships on Thursday. Miura and Kihara were first after the short ...

The 2024 ISU World Figure Skating Championships continued Thursday in Montreal with the Men's Short Program and Pairs Free Skate. Japan's Shoma Uno came one step closer to a third consecutive world ...

Four-time Grand Prix series medalist Rika Kihira will miss the upcoming figure skating season because of a stress fracture in her right ankle that has not fully healed, the Japanese star announced ...

Japan has 13 world figure skating championships gold medals from singles skaters. Now, it has its first gold medal from a pairs’ team. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara dethroned Alexa Knierim and Brandon ...

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Mone Chiba of Japan held off American standout Isabeau Levito with a near-flawless free skate to win Skate Canada on Saturday night, while Deanna Stellato-Dudek and ...

There's a reason Japan's national championships are considered to be one of the most competitive nationals in the world of figure skating. The level of competition in women's single skating in Japan ...

Three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto repeated as Skate Canada champion, extending a 22-month win streak in top-level figure skating events. Sakamoto, a 24-year-old from Japan, became the oldest ...

SAITAMA, Japan, March 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Kaori Sakamoto claimed back-to-back world titles with a mesmerising free skate for the women's individual gold medal on Friday as Madison Chock and Evan ...

BOSTON — Reigning world champion Ilia Malinin delivered a season-best short program on Thursday night, giving the young American star a slim lead over Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama in what has quickly become ...