Figure skating - Four Continents, 2013, Osaka
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The Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, closed with the free dance.
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The victory went to Americans Meryl Davis / Charlie White, who have filed so the third statement in career equaling his countrymen Belbin / August and candesi Bourne / Kraatz. The rulers of the'' last final of Grand Prix'' have also maintained the unbeaten season, after losing Friday that the individual race program.
Students of Marina Zueva have built the victory in the free dance, where they recorded the highest score of his career, and more generally of the four Olympic course. Each element runs, except for the sequence of steps in a circle, has achieved the highest level available and has been awarded to more positive evaluations of the degree of execution. Davis / White have also been the best day on the sum of the components of the program, thus legitimating success.
In second place were placed Canadians Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir, leader after the short-dance, but stalled in the longer segment of the race as a problem, it is assumed physical, which has forced them to interromperere all'' sudden their performance. After a few minutes of break, the reigning Olympic champions have started to skate, but in fact waving the white flag in front of the historic opponents. At the moment, it is not yet known what really happened, but the'' inconvenience involved Tessa Virtue. It remains, however, difficult to determine who would win under normal conditions.
The podium was completed by the Americans Choch / Bates, able to withstand the overwhelming return of compatriots Shibutani / Shibutani and amazing Canadian Gilles / Poirier, authors of the third free program with the same basic technical score of the winners. Moreover, students of Carol Lane have become the fourth pair during this season to break the wall of the fifty points in the technical evaluation (previously in addition to Davis / White and Virtue / Moir c'' had managed the only Italian Cappellini / Lanotte ).
As evidence of'' absolute dominance in North America, it should be emphasized also the sixth place of young Canadians Orford / Williams, who had the better of the Japanese American school Reed / Reed, penalized by a disastrous fall of Cathy Reed on the diagonal.
FINAL STANDINGS 01) 187,36 (74,68 | 112,68) (USA) Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE
02) 184.32 (75.12 | 109.20) (CAN) Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR
03) 160,42 (65,44 | 94,98) (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
04) 159,97 (63,96 | 96,71) (USA) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
05) 157,83 (60,20 | 97,63) (CAN) Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER
06) 139,10 (53,70 | 85,40) (CAN) Nicole ORFORD / Thomas WILLIAMS
07) 131,04 (53,97 | 77,07) (JPN) Cathy REED / Chris REED
08) 122,68 (48,81 | 75,07) (AUS) Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN (PB)
09) 108,82 (43,17 | 65,65) (CHN) Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG
10) 107,02 (43,32 | 63,70) (UZB) Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor Kovalenko
11) 105,56 (44,72 | 60,84) (JPN) Emi HIRAI / Marien DE LA ASUNCION (PB)
12) 89,80 (33,90 | 55,90) (JPN) Bryna OI / Taiyo MIZUTANI (PB)
13) 85,02 (33,37 | 51,65) (MEX) Pilar MAEKAWA MORENO / Leonardo MAEKAWA MORENO
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