Yu-Na Kim of Korea concluded Skate America by winning the ladies competition. Her win kept Team USA from winning at least one gold medal at its own event for the first time since 1998. It’s the third time (1993 was the other) since the event began in 1979 that the U.S. failed to win a gold.

American skaters finished with three silvers and a bronze.
Defending world junior champ Rachel Flatt, 16, came closest to medaling for the U.S. in the ladies competition Sunday, finishing fourth. Americans Mirai Nagasu and Kimmie Meissner, both of whom fell twice, finished fifth and eighth respectively.

Nagusu, the top American after the short program, aggravated a nagging ankle injury during warm-ups.

She blames too many jumps in practice for her irritating the injury. However, she says she’s glad she didn’t skip the competition even though she’d hoped to contend with the Japanese and Korean skaters for the win.

“Coming here is not a decision I regret,” Nagasu said. “I learned how much work I have to do.”

Japan’s Yukari Nakano and Miki Ando took silver and bronze.