Figure skating - Four Continents, 2014, Taipei City
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The sixteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Taipei Arena in Taipei City, was concluded with the women's free program.
Saturday 25 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
The role of undisputed protagonist is touched to the Japanese Kanako Murakamki that, after a short program skated rare uninviting, was repeated in the longer segment of the race by touching the seventy lengths technical score, so far've crossed the threshold by a few elected .
The Free nineteen year old student of Machiko Yamada, characterized by very few flaws, was embellished by spins and steps four level, not to mention the seven triple jumps well completed in addition to the double axel.
Murakami gave Japan the ninth victory in the Four Continents and in the'' opportunity has significantly improved their personal record by becoming the athlete'' eleventh all-time in the ranking that takes into account the scores achieved in top-level competitions.
'' The place of honor is deservedly went to the rookie Japanese Satoko Miyahara, who has launched an important message to the athletes who will address the Russian and North American in March in the Junior World Championships in Sofia. Fifteen of Kyoto, fourth at the end of the first part of the race, he completanto two double axel in the free program and seven triple jumps, including two lutz, getting feedback technical in line with that of the winner.
On the lowest rung of the podium, however, is accommodated Zijun Li, the first Chinese single skater to win a medal in the Four Continents. Moreover, to find another podium at a Chinese major ISU Championship is necessary to go back to back in 1996 when Lu Chen was second in the World Championships in Edmonton. '' The student of Li Mingzhu, now able to break for the second time in his career the wall of the 180 points in the race, has presented two double axel and six triple jumps, leaving strangely flat on some level the elements of the spinning top. Than planned, it is also a failure to triple toe loop in combination with the initial triple flip, but today's performance, however, has left more than positive signals ahead of the Olympic Games.
In fourth place, with lots of new personal record, she placed the Japanese Haruka Imai that error on the first double axel in part, has remained lingering compared to female athletes get on the podium because of the technical elements of the lower jump. Accordingly, the twenty year old Tokyo has very Sother completed five triples, including a triple flip very good opening.
The best of North American was Courtney Hicks, able to precede the end of a free characterized by ups and downs, the'' interesting Korean Hae Jin Kim, athlete selected to take part in the Olympic Games.
Finally, it should be reported to the bully comeback Alaine Chartrand, slope, under the fifth free program, from fifteenth to seventh position. The seventeen year old Canadian, holding a high-quality lutz, double axel has completed two and six triple jumps, which would be seven if he had not sottoruotato triple toe loop combination and a double axel done in the second half of the disc.
The medal of the sixteenth edition of the Four Continents was won by Japan that preceded the U.S., China and Canada.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) (JPN) - Kanako MURAKAMI 196.91 (1 | 1) 02) (JPN) - Satoko MIYAHARA 186.53 (4 | 2) 03) (CHN) - Zijun LI 181.56 (2 | 3) 04) (JPN) - Haruka IMAI 175.40 (3 | 6) 05) (USA) - Courtney HICKS 169.99 (7 ​​| 4) 06) (KOR) - Hae Jin KIM 166.84 (5 | 7 ) 07) (CAN) - Alaine Chartrand 165.19 (15 | 5) 08) (USA) - Samantha CESARIO 164.87 (6 | 8 ) 09) (KOR) - So Youn PARK 162.71 (8 | 9) 10) (USA) - Mirai NAGASU 159.78 (9 | 10) 11) (CHN) - Zhang Kexin 157.57 (12 | 11) 12) (CAN) - Amelie LACOSTE 156.17 (10 | 12) 13) (CAN) - Veronik MALLET 154.03 (11 | 13) 14) (AUS) - Brooklee HAN 150.17 (14 | 14) 15) (CHN) - Ziquan ZHAO 142.32 (13 | 16) 16) (KOR) - Tae Kyung KIM 132.84 (18 | 15) 17) (PHI) - Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO 114.95 (16 | 19) 18) (IND) - Ami Parekh 110.66 ( 17 | 18) 19) (MEX) - Reyna Hamui 110.26 (21 | 17) 20) (TPE) - Crystal Kiang 103.26 ( 19 | 20) 21) (RSA) - MARAIS Lejeanne 98.93 (20 | 21)
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