Figure Skating - Four Continents Championships 2016
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The eighteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Taipei Arena in Taipei City, closed its doors with the Men's Free program, which has spared no high-profile performance.
Sunday 21 February 2016 10 minutes reading time
The 'last descent group on the ice & egrave; It was again characterized by performance gi & agrave; revenue of law in the history of the discipline and constant upheavals of ranking.
In the end, thanks to a test of stupefying beauty without any deburring, 'won the day the Canadian Patrick Chan, who cos & igrave; filed the third success of nell''evento career. The 'running the free program choreographed by David Wilson on the notes of a selection of music by Chopin & egrave; It was simply an anthology. The twenty-five of Toronto showed that he had been behind the rust because dell''anno and abundant means of absence from racing and, for the first time in his career, & egrave; He was able to perform two quadruple toe loop and two triple axel. Each element is perfectly placed in choreography, & egrave; It was made very well and the 'single level three obtained & egrave; was the result of a correct call of the technical panel as the top angel with flying change he is not & egrave; It was built with the 'goal of bringing home the most & ugrave level; high available. To find free programs with higher scores reached to 203.99 today, & egrave; need to bother the world record holder Yuzuru Hanyu, who twice between late November and early December & egrave; He was able to bring the two hundred and twenty points. The keystone to success, remain in any case the feedback obtained on the components of the program, definitely the most & ugrave; high of the race, but the real victory for Patrick Chan & egrave; represented dall''avere optimally completed two quadruple toeoloop seasoned with seven triple jumps.
Chinese Jin Boyang, the competition leader after the short program, it sold dearly and at the end & egrave; He was defeated for only thirty-eight hundredths of a point. The growth of eighteen Harbin is continuing with no continuity solution & agrave; and all''onnipotenza on jump elements is gradually adding more quality & agrave; skating, the result of safety and awareness of their own means. The pi & ugrave; great quadruplista history has crumbled to the 'nth time the Chinese national record by becoming the first man to complete four quadruple jumps in a program of an ISU Championship. Boyang Jin has registered a stellar technical score of 110.66, second only to the findings reached by the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, and, so as not to contradict himself & egrave; He was able to perform four quadruples, including lutz, and six triple jumps, including two axel.
The bronze medal, complete with a new personal best, & egrave; deservedly finished the neck of another Chinese athlete. The third & egrave; He was, in fact, won by Han Yan, author of a masterful interpretation of "Romeo + Juliet" by Craig Armstrong. The nineteen year old Beijing reconfirmed the result obtained in the last season for raising memorize options the dell''asticella level. In this regard, it has not gone unnoticed the two quadruple toe loop and seven triples, including two sumptuous axel, well completed.
For the second consecutive year, Japan, thanks to the 'absence of the leader Yuzuru Hanyu, you & egrave; had to settle for placings at the foot of the podium. Shoma Uno missed the medal by less than two points, was negatively day on the quadruple toe loop. The first attempt, in fact, & egrave; It was completed with the 'help of a step-out, while the second is & egrave; It concluded with a kind of landing in a slip in widely missing rotation. The world champion junior champion in office & egrave; It was to memorize options impeccable on all the other elements presented revealing great quality & agrave; of steps, spins and triple Axel, now a strength. Takahito Mura, however, ended in fifth place, but the satisfaction & egrave; was huge as the personal best & egrave; It has been improved by almost fourteen points with a remarkable growth on the evaluation of the program components. Also the son of 'art of Okayama City has unveiled two quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps, committing the' single barb worthy of note on the first triple axel, completed with the 'help of a step-out.
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FINAL STANDINGS
01) CAN - Patrick CHAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 290.21 (5 | 1) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 02) CHN - Boyang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 289.83 (1 | 2) NR03) CHN - Han YAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 271.55 (3 | 3) PB & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 04) JPN - Shoma A & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 269.81 (2 | 5) 05) JPN - Takahito WALLS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 268.43 (4 | 4) PB06) JPN - Keiji TANAKA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 222.70 (7 | 7) 07) USA - Max AARON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 220.94 (8 | 6) 08) USA - Grant Hochstein & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 216.34 (6 | 10) 09) PHI - Michael Christian MARTINEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 211.59 (9 | 9) 10) KOR - Jin Seo KIM201.43 (12 | 11) 11) CAN - Kevin REYNOLDS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.87 (20 | 8) 12) CHN - Nan SONG194.81 (11 | 15) 13) CAN Liam Firus & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 194.02 (14 | 13) 14) USA - Ross MINER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 191.12 (17 | 12) 15) MAS - Julian Zhi Jie YEE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 190.32 (15 | 14) 16) KOR - June Hyoung LEE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 180.92 (10 | 19) 17) ARG - Denis MARGALIK & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 177.65 (18 | 16) 18) KOR - If Jong BYUN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 176.15 (16 | 17) PB19) AUS - Brendan KERRY & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 172.26 (19 | 18) 20) AUS - Andrew DODDS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 161.47 (13 | 21) PB21) TPE - Chih-I TSAO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 159.13 (22 | 20) 22) HKG - Leslie IP & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 152.29 (21 | 22) PB23) HKG - Harry Hau Yin Lee & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 110.95 (23 | 23)
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