Patrick Chan

Canada's Patrick Chan won his third consecutive men's title at the World Figure Skating Championships, even though it was Kazakhstan's Denis Ten who captured the free skate final.

Patrick Chan is well on his way to defending his title after producing one of the greatest short programmes of his career at the World Figure Skating Championships in his native Canada.

Patrick Chan is well on his way to defending his title after producing one of the greatest short programmes of his career at the World Figure Skating Championships in his native Canada.

Canada's Kevin Reynolds landed three quadruple jumps in the free skate to capture the men's title at the Four Continents championships on Saturday for his first international victory.

Former world champions Mao Asada and Daisuke Takahashi will lead Japan's medal hunt at the Four Continents figure skating championships on home ice this week in the absence of their arch-rivals.

Daisuke Takahashi made more history on Saturday when he became the first Japanese man to win the ISU figure skating Grand Prix Final after countrywoman Mao Asada earlier won a third women's gold.

Japan's Mao Asada blew away her rivals to claim a third ISU Grand Prix figure skating series final title on the ice which will stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games here on Saturday.

Former world champions Daisuke Takahashi and Mao Asada put Japan top after the opening day of the ISU Grand Prix figure skating series finals being staged in 2014 Winter Olympics host city Sochi on Friday.

A couple of morning earth tremors and two pratfalls on the ice failed to stop 17-year-old Yuzuru Hanyu from gliding to a figure skating Grand Prix victory in his tsunami-hit home town.

Figure skating's Grand Prix series winds up in Japan this weekend in an arena that doubled as a temporary mortuary after the 2011 tsunami that devastated the country's northeast.

Reigning world champion Patrick Chan of Canada clinched his season's first title here on Saturday in the men's section of the Cup of Russia, the fourth stage of the six-leg ISU Grand Prix series.

Reigning world champion Patrick Chan of Canada, who is seeking his first title of the season at the Cup of Russia, the fourth stage of ISU Grand Prix series, clinched the lead after the men's short programme here Friday.

Canadian teenager Kaetlyn Osmond capped a sparkling Grand Prix debut with a surprise triumph Saturday at Skate Canada.

Spain's Javier Fernandez upstaged Canadian star Patrick Chan in the men's short programme at Skate Canada, second stop on Figure Skating's Grand Prix circuit at Windsor, Ontario.

Reigning world men's figure skating champion Patrick Chan will open his season on home ice at Skate Canada, the second event on the ISU Grand Prix tour that begins on Friday.

World figure skating champion Patrick Chan has insisted his blunders at the Japan Open would serve as a wake-up call as he prepares to defend his crown in the run-up to the 2014 Olympics.

World figure skating champion Patrick Chan, who suffered his first defeat this season at the World Team Trophy in Tokyo, pledged Sunday to develop new skills against rising competition.

World figure skating champion Patrick Chan, who suffered his first defeat this season at the World Team Trophy in Tokyo, pledged Sunday to develop new skills against rising competition.

Veteran Akiko Suzuki edged Italy's world figure skating champion Carolina Kostner in the final women's free skating to help host Japan lift the World Team Trophy in Tokyo Saturday.

Japan's Daisuke Takahashi handed world champion Patrick Chan his first defeat in almost two seasons Friday as the Canadian fell again on the second day of the World Team Trophy in Tokyo.