Figure skating - Japanese Junior National Championships 2014
The & ldquo; Asahi Axel Arena & rdquo; Niigata has hosted the weekend the Japanese junior national championships, for many athletes last test before the final of the Grand Prix in Barcelona. In principle, the odds have been met, but l & rsquo; trend of men's competition has left some perplexity & agrave;. & Nbsp;
Monday 24 November 2014 8 minutes reading time
A-level female, you & egrave; sets the favored Eve Wakaba Higuchi (187.95), who won the first junior title of his career, after having dominated the national festival novice last season. The thirteen year old Tokyo has been right of qualified competition in both segments of the race, clocking & nbsp; & pi ugrave assessments; high on each item of the program components.
Higuchi & egrave; been or almost as & eacute; impeccable elements jump, completing double axel in the short program, combination triple flip / triple toe loop and triple lutz preceded by the step in the second half & agrave; of music. In the segment pi & ugrave; long race & egrave ;, however, managed to run two double axel and triple seven, including two lutz, the second of which in the final part of the program. In essence, the young Japanese has confirmed to be in possession of one of the best triple lutz circuit, but has also lost some level of the tops too, especially the upside.
In second place, separated by almost twenty points, you & egrave; placed Kaori Sakamoto (168.82), able to finally give some signals of life after an early season extremely disappointing. & nbsp; The fourteen Kobe performed two programs substantially clean, except for the input wire of the lutz as usual not external, predendo soil compared with Higuchi mainly on the components of the program. The good & egrave; was, in any case, l & rsquo; have completed two double axel and seven triple jumps in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, with lots of combinations triple flip / triple toe loop and double axel / triple toe loop / double toe loop.
Sakamoto preceded eight cents almost sixteen Tokyo Yuka Nagai (168.74), initially remained in the wake Higuchi, thanks to a short program without snagging, but then penalized by a free where paid duty because of some rotation to the limit and for a salchow open in flight and completed only single.
Expectations novice Marin Honda (167.92) and Yuna Aoki (163.68) are due respectively to settle for fourth and fifth place. The thirteen coached by Mie Hamada, left lingering in the short program, has stood up to Higuchi segment pi & ugrave; long race by completing the best two doubles and six triple axel, which should be added a combination triple flip / double Rittberger, flip open a short rotation. & nbsp; The opposite, however, for the twelve Kanagawa, national champion novice, up abode between jumps in the free program at the limit with the rotation and landings scrubby. However, you can not & ograve; forget that Aoki closed the short program in third place, perfectly executing a combination triple salchow / triple Rittberger and clocking the best technical score.
In the men, after having filed in the past three podium finishes, & egrave; finally arrived the success of seventeen Nagoya Shoma Uno (210.72), author & ograve; a worrying race with two faces. & nbsp; L & rsquo; pupil of Machiko Yamada & egrave; was flawless in the short-program closed with a resounding 82.72, son of the best triple axel of career and spins and steps to level four, without forgetting the combination triple flip / triple toe loop, performed well in the second half & agrave; of music.
The program is free & egrave ;, however, suddenly turned off the light, thanks to the choice of wanting to present the technical content jump pi & ugrave; qualified and ambitious career. Shoma Uno & egrave; scesco track with l & rsquo; elements as to perform two quadruple toe loop, a double axel and seven triple jumps, including two axel, but has racked up four fall over managing to complete the most of a double axel and four triples, including a discrete axel.
The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; went in accordance with the prediction to fourteen Sota Yamamoto (202.50), winner of the free program despite the atavistic problems with the triple axel, element on which the & rsquo; student of Hiroshi Nagakubo & egrave; fell in both segments of the race. No problem, however, with regard to the elements of spinning top and the rest of the jumps, despite the thread of lutz has not convinced until the end the panel, which, as occasionally happened in the stages of the Junior Grand Prix, l & rsquo; has cataloged with an exclamation point.
The podium & egrave; was completed by eighteen Shu Nakamura (184.02).
In the race to dance with only two couples entered, won Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno (85.94), which preceded Ayumi Takanabe / Daiki Shimazaki (51,30).
Higuchi, Nagai, One and Yamamoto, plus Miyu Nakashio, absent in the national junior event, will take part in the final of the Junior Grand Prix to be held in Barcelona in early December.
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