Figure skating - Four Continents, 2013, Osaka
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The first day of the fifteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the "Municipal Central Gymnasium in Osaka", ended with the men's short program.
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The overall level segment of the race turned out to be high, despite the expected Daisuke Takahashi and Yuzuru Hanyu not been immune to errors of different scales. Twelve athletes have scored an overall score of 70 points, while at the European Championships in twelfth place was obtained with less than 64 points.
The first position is occupied by the provisional world record holder Yuzuru Hanyu. The young Japanese was the best out of each of the components of the program, but after running in fluency quadruple toe loop and triple axel, completed only the single lutz, which opened the combination with a triple toe loop.
In place of'' honor, is the sixteen year old Chinese Han Yan, capable of improving the Chinese leadership in the segment of the race, established the first forty minutes from Nan Song, fifth after the short program. The junior world champion in office, making his debut in the senior category, showed the best performance of the day by performing technique in an exemplary manner triple axel, quadruple toe loop combination and triple lutz / triple toe loop in the second half of the disc.
Surprisingly, the third place went to Richard Dornbush, clearly first among the Americans. '' The student Tammy Gambill, called'' s'' s last moment to replace injured Adam Rippon, has drawn his best career performance at a senior level with a margin ahead of the most popular countrymen Ross Miner, the ninth because of a salchow twice instead of four times, and Max Aaron, tenth due to a fall on the triple axel.
Daisuke Takahashi, penalized by a landing problematic on the quadruple toe loop and especially from a fall at the end of a triple axel now completed, it had to settle for fourth place, but managed to hold the lead from the top in order'' of the five points. The winner of the last final of the'' Grand Prix'' opportunity presented in a new short program, choreographed by Nikolai Morozov music by Ludwig Van Beetovhen (Moonlight Sonata).
Also worthy of note, the Canadian Kevin Reynolds, currently sixth, who had the courage to present two quads (salchow and toe loop), sottoruotando though both elements of jump.
In optical podium, they are not cut off the Kazakh Denis Ten, seventh, and the Japanese Takahito Mura, eighth.
STANDINGS MEN SHORT
01) 87.65 (JPN) Yuzuru Hanyu 02) 85.08 (CHN) YAN Han 03) 83.01 (USA) Richard Dornbush 04) 82.62 (JPN) Daisuke TAKAHASHI 05) 81.16 (CHN) Nan SONG 06) 78.34 (CAN) Kevin REYNOLDS 07) 78.05 (KAZ) Denis TEN 08) 78.03 (JPN) Takahito MURA 09) 74.01 (USA) Ross MINER 10) 72.46 (USA) Max AARON 11) 70.58 (CAN) Andrei ROGOZINE 12) 70.26 (UZB) Misha GE 13) 68.24 (CHN) WANG Yi 14) 64.62 (PHI) Michael Christian MARTINEZ 15) 60.83 (KAZ) Abzal RAKIMGALIEV 16) 58.53 (PHI) Christopher CALUZA 17) 58.04 (KOR) Seo Jin KIM 18) 55.63 (KOR) June Hyoung LEE 19) 53.37 (AUS) Brendan KERRY 20) 51.91 (CAN) Elladj BALDE 21) 51.43 (KOR) Min-Seok KIM 22) 42.78 (TPE) Jordan JU 23) 40.51 (AUS) David Kranjec
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