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SHANGHAI, Oct. 4-- Chinese Peng Cheng and Jin Yang won the pairs figure skating gold medal at 2019 Shanghai Trophy here on Friday. Skating to the music of Cloud Atlas, Peng/Jin delivered a nearly perfect performance in the free dance, setting a new season-best of 132.73 points. The runners-up of last season's ISU Grand Prix Final collected 209.85 points in total to top the podium. "We really want to raise our national flag and play the national anthem in front of the home fans," said Peng, who finished all the spins and sequences elegantly on Friday. "We improved a lot since last year. We will go back to analyze the problems and do better in the training," noted Jin. Russian duo Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitrii Kozlovskii ranked second with a total score of 203.16, while another Chinese pair Tang Feiyao/Yang Yongchao took the bronze with 172.28. The ladies singles competition witnessed the victory from Evgeniia Medvedeva, who led in the short program on Thursday. The Russian Olympic silver medalist scored 119.62 in the free dance despite a minor error during the skating, and totalled 191.78 points for the gold. "The city of Shanghai is so busy and beautiful. I really love the atmosphere in the stadium," said the 19-year-old Medvedeva, who skated in China for the first time. "My warmup wasn't great. I think I did a good job tonight." The highest score in the ladies free dance came from South Korea's Lim Eun-soo as she finished her performance smoothly for 121.77, which secured her a bronze with a total score of 184.64, two points less than Elizabet Tursynbayeva of Kazakhstan who got the silver. | 
