Team USA Earns Two Medals at Internationaux de France

Brown, Knierim and Frazier earn bronze medals in Grenoble

 

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Nov. 20, 2021) - Team USA collected two medals to at Internationaux de France in Grenoble this weekend, with Jason Brown earning bronze in the men’s competition and Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier capturing bronze in pairs. The event was the fifth stop on the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series.

Brown finished third overall with

264.20 points. The 2014 Olympic bronze medalist opened his Schindler’s List free skate with a quadruple Salchow and went on to land five triple jumps in his 174.81-point program. Brown also notched the highest program components with 92.72 points. This is his second Grand Prix medal this season, also earning silver at Skate Canada International.

Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato collected the gold (286.41) and silver (264.99) medals, respectively.

Knierim and Frazier rallied from a fourth-place short program to finish third in the free skate and earn the bronze medal in the pairs competition with a total score of 201.69. Their 131.54-point free skate included a strong throw triple loop and three Level 4 lifts.

Russian teams took the top two spots with Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii winning gold (216.96), and Iuliia Artemeva and Mikhail Nazarychev grabbing silver (205.15).

Karen Chen and Mariah Bell finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the women’s competition. Chen’s free skate to “Butterfly Lover Concerto" by Takako Nishizaki earned 129.33 points and included five triple jumps and three Level 4 spins. The 2018 Olympian placed fifth with a total score of 194.00.

Bell rebounded from a 10th-place short program to finish fourth in the free skate and jump to sixth place overall with 190.79 points. Her “Hallelujah” free skate earned 129.98 points and was highlighted by a triple flip-double toe loop-double loop combination.

Starr Andrews withdrew from the competition during the short program due to injury.

Russia's Anna Shcherbakova won gold (229.69) while Alena Kostornaia earned silver (221.85). Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi grabbed the bronze medal with 204.91.

Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko placed fifth overall in the ice dance event with a total score of 175.91. Their performance to "Wicked Game" by Daisy Gray and Yola Recoba earned 105.17 points and included a Level 4 straight-line lift-rotational lift combination.

France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron captured gold (221.25), Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier earned silver (203.16), and Russia’s Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin grabbed bronze (200.29).

Fans can watch the full competition on-demand on Peacock Premium. NBC will also broadcast a recap of the event on Sunday, Nov. 21 from 4-6 p.m. ET. For full results and event information, visit the Grand Prix Series Competition Central page.