Takahashi takes gold in Taipei

Olympic bronze medallist Daisuke Takahashi was uncatchable in Taipei City with a 7 point lead after the short programme and a seasons best 160 points in the free skate. His total score of of 244.00 has been beaten by only Patrick Chan (259.75 at the Grand Prix Final) and Takahiko Kozuka (248.07 at Trophee Bompard) this season.

Chan chose to forego 4 Continents in order to get ready for Worlds. Silver went to Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan and bronze to Jeremy Abbott who so very narrowly missed out on the US world team. Kozuka was second in the free skate but couldn't make up for his disappointing 6th place short programme and finished 4th overall. Look had he not botched his combination jump there, the japanese men would have easily swept the podium in Taipei.

Pl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Daisuke TAKAHASHI	JPN	244.00	1	1
2	Yuzuru HANYU	JPN	228.01	3	3
3	Jeremy ABBOTT	USA	225.71	2	4
4	Takahiko KOZUKA	JPN	223.52	6	2
5	Adam RIPPON	USA	210.01	4	5
6	Jinlin GUAN	CHN	201.98	9	6
7	Armin MAHBANOOZADEH	USA	200.67	5	9
8	Jialiang WU	CHN	199.78	10	7
9	Nan SONG	CHN	195.13	12	8
10	Shawn SAWYER	CAN	192.94	7	10
11	Kevin REYNOLDS	CAN	191.55	8	11
12	Misha GE	UZB	182.06	13	12
13	Abzal RAKIMGALIEV	KAZ	180.75	11	13
14	Joey RUSSELL	CAN	171.18	14	15
15	Min-Seok KIM	KOR	168.59	15	14
16	Mark WEBSTER	AUS	143.54	16	16
17	Jordan JU	TPE	134.33	18	17
18	Brendan KERRY	AUS	125.64	17	19
19	Wun-Chang SHIH	TPE	120.96	19	18
20	Stephen Li-Chung KUO	TPE	117.96	20	20