VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The home ice, the home fans -- and perhaps some home judging -- was good to Patrick Chan.

Chan, 18, of Toronto, the leader after the short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, held onto first, winning with 249.19 points. In second was America's Evan Lysacek, who laid down perhaps his strongest free skate of the season and finished with 237.15.

Chan's win came in spite of a flubbed combination midway through his program: He turned a planned triple axel/double toeloop into a double-something/double toe loop, but recovered to skate cleanly through the rest of a routine with seven triple jumps, including a spectacular opening triple axel.

Chan was the only top skater in the competition's final group not to attempt an opening quad jump. Lysacek opened with the same quad toeloop/triple toeloop combination he has used to launch his free skate, set to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," all season.

Except this time, he landed it, setting him on course for a smooth, energetic program with few bobbles.

Lysacek said it was the first time the jump had gone his way in performance all season.

"It was starting to be a little bit of a monkey on my back," he said.

Finishing third was Takahiko Kozuka of Japan, who sought to make up ground after his third-place short-program finish by launching his free skate with a quad toeloop. He wound up on his backside, but recovered to skate an otherwise-clean program that's loaded with four triple jumps near its end -- a big bonus in the point system, which grants higher values to late-program jumps. Kozuka finished with 221.76 points.

It was a rough Saturday for America's Colorado Springs contingent. Brandon Mroz put hand down on his own attempted opening quad toeloop, fell out of the landing of a subsequent triple axel, and never really recovered, looking bedraggled at the end of his routine and leaving with a score of 196.78, for eighth place. U.S. champion Jeremy Abbott's opening quad toeloop turned into a double, and he wound up dropping from fourth place after the short program to fifth overall, with 212.81 points.

Lysacek, 23, said his showing here provided some personal vindication after a disappointing third-place finish at the recent U.S. championships.

"I was really prepared for the Nationals, but it didn't go well," he said. "I definitely didn't want to leave it at that. And, not to be rude, but I wanted to beat those other guys that were ahead of me. I wanted to prove that all the old guys aren't going out."

The Four Continents was a test event for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin a year from Thursday.