Amber Glenn has soared to the highest of worldwide determine skating and proved she belonged there Saturday with an historic victory within the Grand Prix ultimate.
Glenn grew to become the primary American to win the ladies’s Grand Prix ultimate competitors since Alissa Czisny 14 years in the past as three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto needed to accept third place.
That continues a shocking breakout season on the age of 25 for the Texas-born skater, who’s unbeaten in 2024-25, and caps a 12 months which started along with her first US nationwide title in January. Glenn admitted it’s laborious to get used to being on the highest step of the rostrum.
“I’m exhausted,” she stated. “It has been a whirlwind of a season and I’ve form of struggled with this imposter syndrome. Simply: ‘Oh, no, no, I’m not profitable. That’s not me.’ And I’m simply glad my laborious work is lastly displaying, and it is a nice occasion, and I’m honored to even be right here.”
Skating final within the six-woman discipline in opposition to 5 Japanese skaters, there was little signal of the ache which had bothered Glenn in Thursday’s brief program.
Glenn began with an emphatic triple axel and overcame a slight wobble part-way by way of her free skate – doubling a deliberate triple salchow and barely under-rotating a triple flip – to complete strongly and rating a complete 212.07 for the win.
Mone Chiba, a silver medalist at each her Grand Prix occasions this season, was second once more on 208.85. World champion Sakamoto had been out of shape within the brief program however recovered with a robust free skate to the musical Chicago for bronze on 201.13.
The US may win two extra titles later Saturday. Ilia Malinin leads the boys’s occasion forward of the free skate and Madison Chock and Evan Bates lead the ice dance.
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