TOKYO -- Gracie Gold won the women's short program at the World Team Trophy on Thursday to give the United States a five-point lead over Japan and Russia on the first day of competition.
Gold earned 71.26 points, while world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia fell on the landing of a triple axel and finished second with 70.93 points. Elena Radionova of Russia was third with 68.77 points.
Gracie Gold won the women's short program and Jason Brown was third in the men's event as the United States leads at the World Team Trophy. AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan topped the men's short program with 96.27 points to place comfortably ahead of Han Yan of China, who had 87.13 points. American champion Jason Brown was third with 86.48 points.
Hanyu, who won the silver medal at the world championships last month in Shanghai, opened with a flawless quad jump. He was deducted points for falling on the landing of a combination triple lutz-triple toeloop.
The event, which runs through Sunday, features the six best national teams among International Skating Union member nations. Each team is composed of eight skaters.
In ice dance, world bronze medalists Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Canada won the short program with 73.14 points. Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States, who took the silver medal at the world championships, were second with 72.17 followed by world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France with 70.86.
The team event consists of two phases of competition: the short program and the free skate.
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