Figure skating - Four Continents, 2013, Osaka
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The first title awarded in the fifteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships was one of the men's field.
Saturday 9 February 2013 6 minutes reading time
The final segment of the race was not stingy with surprises, and if we want setbacks, the public high attendance at the "Municipal Central Gymnasium in Osaka."
The success, against all odds, went to Canadian Kevin Reynolds, author of the program free of life in which he completed three quadruple jumps, including a toe loop in the second half of the disc and, rarely done for him, even a triple axel in combination with a triple toe loop. L'' student of Joanne Mcleod, among others in the past coach of the "crazy horse" Emanuel Sandhu, has put together a total of three quadruple and six triple jumps clocking by far the best technical score of the day.
The Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, leader of the competition at the end of the short-program, it is, however, had to settle for place of honor'', which was affected by an error on the salchow, completed only twice instead of four times, but above all by a fully lutz open in the final.
The Chinese Han Yan, to debut in the major category, won the lowest step of the podium by submitting a free with eight triples thanks to which it was able to remedy a bad fall on an attempted quadruple toe loop.
The wooden medal went to the U.S. national champion Max Aaron, author of the second free of the day behind Reynolds. '' The student Tom Zakrajšek presented six elements jump in the second half of the disc, after you open the program with two quadruple Salchow, one of which in combination with a triple toe loop.
The main disappointment turned out to be the'' expected Daisuke Takahashi, who, after having filed a short stuttering, has not gone up shots in the second segment of the race. The Japanese veteran, appeared far from the best physical condition, highlighted the enormous problems presented quadruple toe loop, but in general, revealed difficulties on most of the elements of collecting a'' jump unexpectedly fell on the second tenativo triple axel. By virtue of the many mistakes made, the favorite of the race had to settle for seventh place finish and just served to be the best in the sum of the components of the program.
FINAL STANDINGS MEN
01) 250.55 (78,34 | 172,21) (CAN) Kevin REYNOLDS02) 246.38 (87.65 | 158.73) (JPN) Yuzuru HANYU03) ​​235.22 (85.08 | 150.14) (CHN) Han YAN04) 234,65 (72,46 | 162,19) (USA) Max AARON05) 228,46 (81,16 | 147,30) (CHN) Nan SONG06) 234.04 (83.01 | 151.03) (USA) Richard DORNBUSH07) 222,77 (82,62 | 140,15) (JPN) Daisuke TAKAHASHI08) 218.08 (78,03 | 140,05) (JPN) Takahito MURA09) 214.36 ( 74.01 | 140.35) (USA) Ross MINER10) 201,99 (70,58 | 131,41) (CAN) Andrei ROGOZINE11) 201.71 (70.26 | 131.45) (UZB) Misha GE12) 197,26 (78,05 | 119,21) (KAZ) Denis TEN13) 195,01 (68,24 | 126,77) (CHN) Yi WANG14) 186,79 (58,53 | 128,26) (PHI ) Christopher CALUZA15) 185,81 (60,83 | 124,98) (KAZ) Abzal RAKIMGALIEV16) 178.08 (64.62 | 113.46) (PHI) Michael Christian MARTINEZ17) 176.39 (55.63 | 120 , 76) (KOR) June Hyoung lee18) 176,33 (51,91 | 124,42) (CAN) Elladj BALDE19) 171.01 (58.04 | 112.97) (KOR) Jin Seo KIM20) 137.63 (51,43 | 86,20) (KOR) Min-Seok KIM21) 134,26 (53,37 | 80,89) (AUS) Brendan KERRY 22) 121.11 (42.78 | 78 , 33) (TPE) Jordan JU23) 115,82 (40,51 | 75,31) (AUS) David Kranjec
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