Two-time world champion Stephane Lambiel won the men's title, adjusting his Flamenco program after a pair of faulty jumps to edge Japan's Daisuke Takahashi.

Among the women, only silver medalist Mao Asada of Japan and bronze winner Carolina Kostner of Italy skated without falls, both capturing season-best scores.

Rising American Caroline Zhang, who was second coming into the final free skate, fell on a triple lutz and finished fourth in her first major international competition, while U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner fell three times and ended up last in sixth place.

Kim used big jumps to hold onto the lead she had after the short program, skating fast into her opening triple flip-triple toe, only to fall on her next element, a triple loop. But she made the rest of her jumps, including a difficult double-axel, triple toe combination, and earned mostly top ratings for her spins and spirals. Her winning score was 196.83 points. Asada earned 191.59 and Kostner, the home crowd's favorite, had 178.93.

Lambiel's victory — he scored 239.10 points to beat Takahashi by 0.16 — marks a comeback for the Swiss skater who claimed Olympic silver on the same ice nearly two years ago but then dropped to third in the 2007 worlds.

"I don't do only a program, I do a show. That makes the difference I think," Lambiel said. "When I'm on the ice I want to feel the crowd getting into the program, getting into the motion. I think that, for me, makes a real figure skater."

As in the short program, American men Evan Lysacek and Johnny Weir committed errors — both falling in the free skate — to finish third and fourth respectively.

Lambiel, the eight-time Swiss champion, had a shaky start on the jumps — losing points on his opening triple axel and quad toe. But he made up for the lost quad-combination points with several improvised combinations late in the program, including a triple-triple-double.

And his Flamenco routine drew gasps from the crowd with dazzling spins — the best in the field — that were tight and fast with continually changing arm and body positions.

Takahashi, the world silver medalist, was the better jumper, completing a flawless quadruple and a strong triple axel. But none of the more expressive elements, the spins and jumps, were deemed to be at the top level, hurting the second performance mark.

"The steps were not good," Takahashi conceded. "But I can still get this result, and this is good for me."

U.S. champion Lysacek came out strong with a quad toe-triple toe combination, but lost momentum with an under-rotated triple axel and then sprawled on a triple salchow for an automatic one-point deduction. As he went on, Lysacek made small adjustments in his program, downgrading a combination to a triple-double and a three-jump combination to two. He won bronze with 229.78 points.

Lysacek said he worked really hard to hold his elements.

"It wasn't easy, it wasn't easy to do all the tricks," Lysacek said. "Tonight I was maybe a little nervous or excited about doing the quad right off the bat."

Weir delivered two triple axels at the head of the program as if to vindicate himself for falling on the jump in Saturday's short program. But he seemed to run out of steam midway through the program, doubling a loop and then falling on a triple flip. Weir's disappointment showed as he waited for the scores — 216.16.

"I was tired even as I started skating," Weir said.

Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, skating furiously as witch and demon to Waltz Masquerade, won the ice dancing title ahead of Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, who skated to a selection from Chopin.

France's Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder took the bronze, dancing to music from "The Piano," Jane Campion's 1993 movie about a deaf woman. The pair incorporated sign language into their free dance.

Belbin and Agosto's opening serpentine lift failed to earn the top marks for difficulty, lowering their base score in the free dance. They finished with 164.14 points, just three-quarters of a point behind.

"It's refreshing to see where we lost points," Tanith said, "so we can go home and say 'we're not going to let that happen again.'"

European pairs champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany dominated the free skate with powerful throws and jumps to win the pairs title with 199.21 points, their season-high.

The Chinese pairs both made some errors, with Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao taking silver with 191.20 and Pang Qing and Tong Jian getting bronze with 185.13.