Figure skating - Four Continents, 2014, Taipei City
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The second day of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the "Taipei Arena" of Taipei City, was concluded with the women's short program.
Thursday 23 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
As expected, the highlight of the event was'' confirmed'' announced the contest between the Japanese and the Chinese Kanako Murakami Zijun Li, protagonists of the upcoming Olympic Games.
The partial success has gone to the most experienced of Japan, took to the track on the song "Violin Muse", which is why the new short program presented for the first time at the National Championships. '' The student of Machiko Yamada has performed in an opening triple toe loop combination / triple toe loop, placing in the second half of the disc preceded by a triple flip and a double axel step of order. On balance, while being underpaid by the judges scored the best rating on each of the components of the program took off and the satisfaction of reaching the highest level available on steps and spins.
Zijun Li, regained full physical integrity after the numerous problems faced between summer and fall, the combination of well-executed triple flip / triple toe loop, habitual trademark, then made a triple lutz, but taken from a clear inner wire , and closed elements with a double axel jump in quality. The seventeen year old trained by Li Mingzhu clocked the best technical score of the day, but especially the Chinese became the first skater to break down the wall of the sixty points in the segment of the race.
The provisional podium is completed by advanced Japanese Haruka Imai, who, aided by a more ambitious program on the elements of jump than in the past, has crumbled previous personal best. The twenty year old from Tokyo, filed without worries the double axel, has a well-executed combination triple salchow / triple toe loop and a triple Rittberger preceded by the step in the second half of the music, touching for the first time in his career 28 points on the share components of the program .
Next, they placed the fifteen Japanese Satoko Miyahara, over sixty points despite the problems of rotation on the second jump of the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, and the sixteen year old Korean Hae Jin Kim, authentic revelation of the race.
The first of the non-Asian was the American Samantha Cesario, which was placed in sixth position in front of compatriot Courtney Hicks. L'' Mirai Nagasu is not expected, however, went beyond the non-place, preceded by'' interesting Korean So Youn Park, able to save the combination triple salchow / triple toe loop landed with both hands on the ice and as a result able to complete a good triple lutz preceded by the step.
The program it for free, which will be held Sunday, announcing in any case quite uncertain as the first and the twelfth in the standings, when the Chinese Zhang Kexin, are separated by just over ten points.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT
01) (JPN) - Kanako MURAKAMI64.73 (35.64 | 29.09) 02) (CHN) - Zijun LI62.84 (35.81 | 27.03) 03) (JPN) - Haruka IMAI62, 72 , (34.69 | 28.03) 04) (JPN) - Satoko MIYAHARA60.27 (34.07 | 26.20) 05) (KOR) - Hae Jin KIM57.48 (32.34 | 25.14 ) 06) (USA) - Samantha CESARIO57.40 (30.87 | 26.53) 07) (USA) - Courtney HICKS56.36 (29.54 | 26.82) 08) (KOR) - So Youn PARK , 55.91 (31.82 | 24.09) 09) (USA) - Mirai NAGASU55.39 (28.44 | 27.90) -1.0010) (CAN) - Amelie LACOSTE55.19 , (28.96 | 26.23) 11) (CAN) - Veronik MALLET 55.08 (30.63 | 24.45) 12) Kexin ZHANG 54.49 , (31.14 | 23:35) 13) (CHN) - Ziquan ZHAO 53.82 (31.31 | 22:51) 14) (AUS) - Brookle HAN52.55 (28.18 | 24.37) 15) (CAN) - Alaine Chartrand 52.14 (28.30 | 23.84) 16) (PHI) - Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO 47.81 (27.06 | 20.75) 17) (IND) - Ami Parekh 41.10 (23:41 | 17.69) 18 ) (KOR) - Tae Kyung KIM 38.91 (24.14 | 17.77) -3.0019) (TPE) - Crystal Kiang 36.30 (18.96 | 17:34) 20) (RSA) - MARAIS Lejeanne 32.62 (17:19 | 16.43) -1.00 21) (MEX) - Reyna Hamui , 32.49 (14.61 | 18.88) -1.00
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