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GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - JANUARY 25: Nathan Chen skates in the Men's Short Program during the 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Greensboro Coliseum on January 25, 2020 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - JANUARY 25: Nathan Chen skates in the Men's Short Program during the 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Greensboro Coliseum on January 25, 2020 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

US Figure Skating Championships 2020: Sunday Results for Men's Free Skate

Timothy RappJan 26, 2020

Nobody got close to Nathan Chen on Sunday.Ā Ā 

After blowing away the field with his epic short program on Saturday, Chen didn't give any of his competitors a chance to catch him, posting aĀ 216.04 score in his free skate, easily the top mark of the day. That gave him a total score ofĀ 330.17, putting him well beyond Jason Brown (292.88) andĀ Tomoki Hiwatashi (278.08) for first place.

VincentĀ ZhouĀ (275.23) andĀ AndrewĀ TorgashevĀ (260.64) rounded out the top five.Ā 

Chen put his name in the record books with his performance. As NBC's OlympicTalk noted, he "became the first man to win four straight U.S. figure skating titles since Brian Boitano in 1988, landing six quadruple jumps between two programs."

On Sunday, he landed a quad flip plus tripleĀ toe loop, a quad SalchowĀ and a quadĀ toe loop plus single Euler plus tripleĀ Salchow. If Chen was feeling any fatigue due to his demanding routine, he sure didn't show it.

"I was, again, pretty worried about my stamina coming into this competition, but the audience really helped me get through it," he said during theĀ NBC broadcast.

It was the kind of showing that will put Chen among the favorites at the World Figure Skating ChampionshipsĀ in March and theĀ Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. He has yet to lose a competition since finishing fifth at theĀ PyeongChangĀ Olympics in 2018.

That dominance was on full display Sunday, and it makes him a strong candidate to be the first United States Olympic figure skating gold medalist sinceĀ EvanĀ LysacekĀ in 2010.