American figure skater Ilia Malinin posted the best score in the short program at the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix stage in Everett, United States, infohub.kz reports.
The three-time world champion landed a clean quadruple flip and triple Axel but made an error on a quadruple Lutz-double toe loop combination. Malinin finished with 96.74 points to take the provisional lead.
Japan's Sota Yamamoto placed second in the short program with 91.29, while Mexico's Donovan Carrillo was third with 86.49.
In the pairs short program, reigning world champions Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin of the United States took first place with 72.71. Americans Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov were second with 71.85, and Switzerland's Oxana Vouillamoz and Tom Bouvard placed third with 70.63.
Sofia Samodelkina will represent Kazakhstan at the competition in the United States. The women's short programs begin on November 15 at 04:40 Astana time, and the free skates start on November 16 at 02:05.