Summary Elizaveta Tuktamysheva won Grand Prix Final after extending her lead with a personal best free skate
BARCELONA, Spain: (AP) - Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia won the Grand Prix Final after extending her lead with a personal best free skate on Saturday.
The 17-year-old, who broke her foot in March, cruised through her program to finish with 136.06 points for a winning total of 203.58.
"When I was injured I understood I could not give up skating," Tuktamysheva said through a translator. "I have this fighting spirit."
Fifteen-year-old countrywoman Elena Radionova finished second with 198.74.
American Ashley Wagner rebounded from her shaky short program with a score of 129.26
0.26 from her personal best free skate
to repeat her third-place finish from last year s final with 189.50 points.
"Today was huge for me," Wagner said. "To come from last place and get on the podium is a great accomplishment, especially against the best girls in the world."
European champion and Olympic team gold medalist Julia Lipnitskaia of Russia continued to struggle, falling twice to finish fifth of the six finalists.
In pairs, Canada s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford followed up their leading short programs with their own personal best free skate score of 146.22 points for a winning total of 220.72.
"Our goal coming here was to stand on the podium, so to win is a bonus," Duhamel said.
Olympic and world silver medalists Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were second with 213.72, followed by Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China with 194.31.
The men s and ice dance free programs were later at the temporary rink inside Barcelona s International Convention Center.
