TURIN, Italy -- The pair of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara etched their names into Japanese figure skating history on Friday when they became the nation's first-ever winners of the pairs title at the ISU Grand Prix Finals, taking the gold in their first appearance at the season-ending event.
Miura and Kihara, the leaders after the short program, also had the top score in the free skate, giving them a total of 214.58 points and a razor-thin 1.30-point win over the world champion pair of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of the United States.
