TURIN: Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, skating to “Gladiator” surged from seventh place overnight to win the Turin Grand Prix on Saturday night. Mikhail Kolyada of Russia took second from fourth spot while Daniel Grassl delighted the home crowd with bronze, his first medal at this level. Kagiyama, the 2021 world silver medallist, was a lowly seventh after an error-strewn short program but hit back in style on Saturday. World champion Anna Shcherbakova of Russia claimed victory in the women’s event with a new personal best in the free skate. Compatriot Maiia Khromykh was second on her debut while overnight leader Loena Hendrickx earned bronze. Hendrickx, who led the short program on Friday, becomes the first Belgian woman to claim a medal at a figure skating grand prix. Shcherbakova set a personal best of 165.05 points in the free skate for a total of 236.78 points. In ice dance, France’s four-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron claimed gold. World silver medallists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States were second ahead of Russia’s Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin. Papadakis and Cizeron impressed the judges with their elegant performance to Faure’s “Elegie”. China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong skated to the pairs gold ahead of teammates Peng Cheng and Jin Yang with Russia’s Iuliia Artemeva and Mikhail Nazarychev settling for bronze. Two-time world champions Sui and Han skated to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and collected 144.48 points for the free program with a 224.55 points total overall.