Yuzuru Hanyu returned to the site of a scary warm-up collision and five-fall performance from November and skated much stronger Friday, topping the World Championships short program in Shanghai. He scored 95.20 points, leading top rivals Spain’s Javier Fernandez by 2.46 and Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten by 9.31. Jason Brown was the top American in sixth (full results here). Hanyu, the 20-year-old Olympic and World champion, can become the first Japanese skater to repeat as World champion in the free skate Saturday. In the short program, he stumbled out of a quadruple toe loop, but judges still put him above the two-time World bronze medalist Fernandez, who cleanly landed all of his jumps, including a quadruple Salchow. “I made an error on the quad toe loop, but my physical condition is nothing to worry about,” Hanyu, who missed weeks in the winter following bladder surgery, said, according to The Associated Press. “For the free skate, I’d like to put out everything that I have.” At least 10 kids on skates spent minutes cleaning the ice following Hanyu’s short program Friday, after the crowd littered it with gifts and toys, mostly stuffed bears. Fernandez will skate after Hanyu in the free skate Saturday. “I’m going to skate around [the bears] and try not to kill myself,” Fernandez said, according to the AP.