Figure skating - Four Continents 2013, Osaka
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Absent personal choice for the defending champion Ashley Wagner, the underdogs in the fifteenth edition of the women's race Four Continents are all for Japan's Mao Asada after the success in the final of the Grand Prix of Sochi and the Japanese National Championships in Sapporo. ;
Monday 4 February 2013 4 minutes reading time
On paper, the most fearsome opponents should be the American Gracie Gold, vice-world champion in the junior national office as well as the Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond, who won Skate Canada and dominating the recent national championships, and Japan's Kanako Murakami, and Akiko Suzuki .
They podium ambitions also the'' Li Zijun emerging Chinese and American Christina Gao and Agnes Zawadzki. Among the outsiders will be carefully followed the veteran Canadian Amelie Lacoste, the Chinese Zhang Kexin, in his debut season after a long break due to injury, and the Philippine Melissa Bulanhagui in the past finalist in the junior Grand Prix when he raced under U.S. flag.
In addition to Wagner, the game will not be Korea's Kim Yu-Na.
At the time, winds were enrolled athletes representing ten countries, ten less than the previous edition.
LIST OF REGISTERED
- (AUS) Brooklee HAN (novice) - (AUS) Chantelle KERRY (depending on participation) - (CAN) Amelie LACOSTE (sixth form) - (CAN) Kaetlyn OSMOND (novice) - (CAN) Julianne SEGUIN (novice) - (CHN ) Zijun LI (novice) - (CHN) Zhang Kexin (depending on participation) - (TPE) Crystal Kiang (sixth form) - (TPE) Melinda WANG (sixth form) - (IND) Love PAREKH (depending on participation) - (JPN ) Mao ASADA (sixth form) - (JPN) Kanako Murakami (depending on participation) - (JPN) Akiko SUZUKI (Qunta participation) - (MEX) Reyna Hamui (third appearance) - (PHI) Melissa BULANHAGUI (novice) - (KOR) Yeon Jun PARK (novice) - (RSA) Lejeanne MARAIS (sixth form) - (USA) Christina GAO (novice) - (USA) Gracie GOLD (novice) - (USA) Agnes Zawadzki (depending on participation)
TIME OF RACE
Saturday, February 9 - HOURS 5:40 - Short program
Sunday, February 10 - 07:30 - Free program
FINAL NOTES
Among the athletes in the race, the only Japanese Mao Asada enjoys statements in previous editions (2008, 2010). In addition to Akiko, second in 2010, no other skater in mind is never on the podium.
With a success Mao Asada would become the second athlete in history after compatriot Fumie Suguri also won in three editions.
'' The oldest athlete in the race is Akiko Suzuki, who turns 28 at the end of March. The youngest, however, is the Korean Yeon Jun Park, just sixteen.
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