Nagoya (Japan), Dec. 5 -- Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs title at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final here on Friday, while Mone Chiba led the women's short program with a new personal best of 77.27 points.
South Korea's Seo Min-kyu surged late to take the junior men's crown, and Japan's Mao Shimada captured her fourth consecutive junior women's title.
In a fiercely contested pairs free skate, two-time world champions Miura and Kihara, skating on home ice, made some small errors but relied on their short-program lead and overall stability to triumph with a total of 225.21 points, returning to the top step of the Grand Prix Final podium for the first time in three years.
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