Teenagers Satoko Miyahara and Kaori Sakamoto completed a 1-2 finish for Japanese women Sunday at Skate America.

Miyahara, who sat out the latter half of last season due to a stress fracture in her left hip, earned 71.08 points for her free skating program at Herb Brooks Arena for a total of 214.03 points en route to her second career Grand Prix title.

While 19-year-old Miyahara, the 2015 world silver medalist, picked up her first victory since the NHK Trophy in November 2015, 17-year-old Sakamoto clinched silver with 210.59 points in her Grand Prix debut. American Bradie Tennell won bronze with 204.10 points.

With the conclusion of Skate America, the last of the six-leg ISU Grand Prix series, all qualifiers for the Dec. 7-9 Grand Prix Final were determined, with Japan's Wakaba Higuchi making the women's list for the first time.

The top six skaters in each discipline will compete in the event in Nagoya, central Japan. Miyahara is the first substitute, placing seventh in the Grand Prix standings. It is the 17th-straight season in which a Japanese woman has secured a spot in the Grand Prix Final.

In her second competition back from injury, Miyahara skated to "Madame Butterfly" and came within 0.38 point of her personal best free skate score recorded at the Grand Prix Final in France last December when she took silver.

"I didn't expect to win," said Miyahara, who cleanly landed all seven jumps, including five types of triple jump.

"This is a surprising result and I'm really happy. It makes overcoming difficult times worth it," the Olympic favorite said.


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Meanwhile, Sakamoto, a bronze medalist at the 2016 Junior Grand Prix Final, said it was her first "perfect performance" in the short program and free skating, finishing with personal best scores in both.

It was also the first time she surpassed the 200-point mark at a major international competition.

Elsewhere for Japan, Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed placed seventh in ice dance, a discipline won by the American sister-brother duo of Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani.