Japan's Miura Kao has become the youngest skater to win the men's singles title at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.

Miura was leading the pack after the short program of the competition, held in the US state of Colorado.

In free skating on Saturday, he performed without any major mistakes and won the title with his personal best of 281.53 points.

Miura is 17 years and 8 months old. He broke the previous record held by Beijing Olympics gold medalist Nathan Chen by about one month.

Japanese skater Sato Shun finished third.

In pair skating, Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi became the first Japanese performers to win in this category of the competition.

The pair impressed the audience and judges in their free skating with their skillful lifts and spins, although some of the jumps were judged as under-rotated.

Miura and Kihara won the title with 208.24 points.