Chen won both segments of the competition at SAP Center and ended with an overall score of 315.23 points. He landed a total of five quadruple jumps, including two in combination.
Ross Miner (SC of Boston) secured the silver medal, finishing with the second-best free skate of the night and 274.51 points overall. Miner is a four-time U.S. medalist, his last – a silver – coming in 2013.
Vincent Zhou (SC of San Francisco), the silver medalist in 2017, grabbed the bronze medal with 273.83 points, while Adam Rippon (SC of New York) placed fourth with a score of 268.34.
The men's nominations to the 2018 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team will be announced Sunday, January 7, at 8:15 a.m. PST.
Competition began Saturday with the pairs free skate, where Alexa Scimeca-Knierim (DuPage FSC) and Christopher Knierim (Broadmoor SC) earned their second U.S. pairs title (2015). They won the free skate en route to an overall score of 206.60 points.
Tarah Kayne and Danny O’Shea (Southwest Florida FSC), the 2016 U.S. champions, earned the silver medal with 200.80 points. They finished second in both segments of the event. Kayne and O’Shea missed most of the season leading up to the U.S. Championships as Kayne recovered from knee surgery that she underwent early in 2017.
The second-year team of Deanna Stellato and Nathan Bartolomay (Southwest Florida FSC) secured the bronze medal with 197.65 points. They garnered the pewter medal in 2017.
Ashley Cain (SC of New York) and Timothy LeDuc (Los Angeles FSC) collected the pewter medal with 187.14 points.
The pairs nomination to the 2018 U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team will be announced Sunday, January 6, at 9:45 a.m. PST.
