Japan’s Keiji Tanaka, who stood in third after the short, finished fifth in the long and fourth overall. His near-perfect routine to music by Nino Rota included a quad Salchow, a quad toe, and six triple jumps. As with his short program, he scored a new personal best (169.63) for his free skate and overall total score (260.31).
More...“My first half of the program was not good enough today,” said the 23-year-old from Kurashiki. “I have never felt this kind of atmosphere and the crowd was so loud and cheering for me. I felt very thankful about going to the Olympics. This (competition) was different from nationals at home and was a big event I would like to connect this to the next performance at Olympics. I would like to skate much better at Olympics and not miss the things that I missed today.”