The International Skating Union reset the figure skating record book at the beginning of the 2018-19 season due to a change in the scoring system, and skaters erased three short-lived short program records Friday at the high-scoring NHK Trophy in Tokyo.
Russia’s Alena Kostornaia, the Chinese pair of Sui Wenjeng and Han Cong, and the dominant ice dance duo of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron all set records on the competition’s first day. Only Papadakis and Cizeron had previously held the record. Kostornaia and Sui/Han leap-frogged the previous record holders.