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Mia Manganello decided to go against the grain.

Her race strategy in Friday's women's 3,000-meter final of the U.S. Speedskating Championships ran counter to what she's traditionally done in her career.

"Typically, you start out faster, wait for the pain and then die," she said. "Today, I tried to keep a steady race and was able to execute that quite well."

Manganello tied an American women's record (4:01.98) in her winning race Friday at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns. The Crestview, Fla., native tied a national record set by Catherine Raney in December 2005, also at the Olympic Oval.

"I think what really works with Mia is we see what she needs to work on and improve, she focuses on that, and it improves," said U.S. all-around team coach Tom Cushman. "It's easy to set a strategy for her and then to follow through on that strategy."

Manganello wasn't the only one to have a great Friday.

ISU World Cup leader Heather Bergsma, a two-time Olympian, won both women's 500-meter races, including a season-best 37.62 in the second race. Fellow 2014 Olympian Sugar Todd finished second in both 500s.

Mitch Whitmore, owner of the fastest 500-meter American skate, won both 500-meter male races, including a season-best 34.51. Four-time Olympic medalist Shani Davis won the men's 5,000-meter race in 6:29.90.

"We have a long time between now and World Singles [Championships] and we don't have any World Cups in-between there because we are kind of mirror our Olympic year," Whitmore said. "This is a good opportunity to get the body going like an actual race at a World Cup or World Championships."

The U.S. short-track championships continued Friday evening with qualifying and quarterfinal rounds in the 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 1,500-meter events. Long-track races resume Saturday at 9 a.m., with short-track races scheduled to start at 3:40 p.m.

Women's skeleton • In Altenberg, Germany, Jacqueline Loelling extended her lead in the standings with her first skeleton World Cup win. The German was quickest in both runs for a combined time of 1 minute, 57.17 seconds, beating teammate and world champion Tina Hermann by 0.44 seconds.

Janine Flock of Austria was third, 0.54 back.

Former world champion Katie Uhlaender of the United States finished 12th in her World Cup comeback after a three-year break.

Men's luge • In Koenigssee, Germany, Semen Pavlichenko broke German domination of a luge World Cup to take his first victory of the season and the European title on Friday. The Russian was fastest on both runs for a combined time of 1 minute, 38.363 seconds, beating Germany's Ralf Palik by 0.248 seconds and Austria's third-place Wolfgang Kindl by 0.460.