Figure skating - Four Continents, 2014, Taipei City
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The third day of the Four Continents Championships, reached its sixteenth edition, has ended with the men's free program.
Friday 24 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
On the ice of the "Taipei Arena" in Taipei City, the undisputed protagonists have proved the Japanese Takahito Mura and Takahiko Kozuka, which partially straightened out a season before today's extremely disappointing.
The title was won by Walls, previously never on the podium in an ISU Championship. The twenty-four stationed at Okayama City has built its success by virtue of higher technical quality than the competition and, after having imposed in the short program, he closed the place of honor'' the longest segment of the race by completing a quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps, including two axel.
Japan has thus closed the sixth win in the Four Continents, reaching the top of the charts in Canada all-time, while Wall was removed between the high soddsfazione the things to improve the personal record of eight puntti.
'' The place of honor went to Takahiko Kozuka, best of the lot in the free program, thanks, in particular, the highest rating on each of the components of the program. The student'' Nobuo Sato, Leaving the shoulders of quadruple toe loop attempt the usual not crowned with a happy ending, he completed six triple jumps, including two axel, and especially to express that quality is back on top of elements from time to failed in previous releases.
On the lowest rung of the podium, it has accommodated the Chinese Nan Song, certainly pleased to have enhanced the personal record of eight lengths, but at the same time sorry to have a completely open Rittberger, which probably cost him success. The ventitrenne stationed in Beijing still has well-executed a quadruple toe loop and six triple jumps, including two axel conqustando the first medal in his career in an ISU Championship.
Kazakhstan's Denis Ten, pre-race favorite, had to settle for fourth place, penalized in the free program by a double crash on triple axel and triple flip. The vice-world champion gave the feeling of not being yet'' s pinnacle of athletic condition and, after performing a quadruple toe loop as the first element of the free program, has gradually lost, in addition to storing two falls, landing several hard-earned the elements of the jump.
Afterwards, he placed the American Joshua Farris, today'' s betrayed once again by the quadruple toe loop, but between an error and the other'' able to complete two valuable triple axel in the second half of the music. The expected countrymen Richard Dornbush and Adam Rippon are not, however, went beyond the seventh and eighth position'', preceded by China's Jinlin Guan. '' In the occasion, both have paid duty on the elements of jump.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) (JPN) - Takahito MURA 242.56 (1 | 2) 02) (JPN) - Takahiko Kozuka 236.38 (4 | 1) 03) (CHN) - Nan SONG 236.09 (3 | 3) 04) (KAZ) - Denis TEN 226.37 (5 | 4) 05) (USA) - Richard Dornbush 224.44 (2 | 7) 06) (USA) - Joshua FARRIS 221.00 (7 | 5) 07) (CHN) - Jinlin GUAN 214.26 (9 | 6) 08) (USA) - Adam RIPPON 213.20 (8 | 8) 09) (CAN) - Jeremy TEN 208.51 (6 | 11) 10) (CAN) - Nam NGUYEN 204.69 (10 | 10) 11) (CAN) - Elladj BALDE 201.45 (13 | 9) 12) (PHI) - Christopher CALUZA 191.21 (11 | 13) 13) (UZB) - Misha GE 188.41 (12 | 14) 14) (KOR) - June Hyoung LEE 184.14 (19 | 12 ) 15) (KAZ) - Abzal RAKIMGALIEV 184.13 (15 | 15) 16) (CHN) - Yi WANG 179.52 (17 | 16 ) 17) (JPN) - Keiji TANAKA 178.91 (14 | 17) 18) (TPE) - Chih-I TSAO 166.73 (22 | 18) 19) (KOR) - Dong Won LEE 166.73 (16 | 19) 20) (AUS) - Brendan KERRY 163.37 ( 18 | 20) 21) (AUS) - David Kranjec 156.50 (20 | 21) 22) (TPE) - Jordan JU 152.46 ( 21 | 22) 23) (MAS) - Julian Zhi Jie YEE 137.56 (23 | 24) 24) (PHI) - Maverick EguÃa 136.99 , (24 | 23)
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