Zhang earned a personal best ISU score of 169.25 with 110.68 in the free skate. She opened with a triple Lutz-double toe-double loop combination followed by a back spiral into a double Axel. After her triple flip – which she fell on at the 2007 State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships and finished second – she went on to land a triple loop, triple Lutz, triple flip-double toe and triple toe-double toe combination.

“I am really happy with the performance,” Zhang said. “Especially with the result – obviously. I learned from the nationals. I learned not to get distracted. I learned to concentrate on every element and not think ahead. And never think back to what you did. Just keep on going.”

Nagusu, the 2007 U.S. junior champion, scored 106.61 in the free skate and 163.84 overall in her first international competition. She completed all of her jumps, though some were shaky.

“I was really nervous at the beginning with this being my first international competition,” she said. “I was freaking out a little bit. I was in the warm-up area, and I was walking around and all these doubts come to me like ‘Am I going to do OK? Am I going to fall? What happens if I fall?’ When I got on the ice I was feeling a little bit better, and I just wanted to do what I did in practice a million times. My coach helped me push them (bad thoughts) away and was always putting reassuring thoughts in my head.”

Wanger completed the U.S. sweep with seven triple jumps – one more than Zhang and Nagasu – and a personal best of 157.15 points with 105.48 points in the free skate.

"I had the most fun out there I ever had in competition. It was great,” the U.S. junior bronze medalist said. “It is the junior worlds, so to have it be so great for me meant all my training and practice was worth it.”

Earlier in the week, Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker dominated the pairs competition, winning gold in their first season as a team, and Stephen Carriere rebounded from sixth after the short program to win the men’s competition.

In ice dancing, Americans Emily Samuelson & Evan Bates were in second place heading into the free dance, but were forced to withdraw after Samuelson suffered an injury. She fell 40 seconds into the free dance and Bates fell over her, stepping on her hand. She suffered a laceration of the middle finger tendon of her left hand. It was repaired by Professor Herman Krimmer in Ravensburg, Germany, at a center for hand surgery. Samuelson is in good spirits and attended the closing banquet with her U.S. Teammates.

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