Figure skating - Japan Sectionals
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In Japan, the first week of November for years now coincides with the'' unmissable appointment with the Sectional Championships, last hurdle to gain the qualification to the National leagues, both junior and senior.
Friday 1 November 2013 11 minutes reading time
As per tradition, will be exempt from this round the top three finishers in the last edition of the National and athletes unable to compete due to coincide with international events.
In the women are already admitted to'' Final Act, to be held in Saitama between 21 and 24 December, Mao Asada, Kanako Murakami and Satoko Miyahara, female athletes get on the podium in the last national as well as Haruka Imai, committed this week in the Cup of China, and Akiko Suzuki, in place of honor'' in the second stage of Grand Prix held at the end of last week.
In the men, as well as Yuzuru Hanyu, Daisuke Takahashi and Takahito Mura, top three winners in previous editions, are already admitted to the final also Takahiko Kozuka, at the start of the Cup of China, and Nobunari Oda, writing to the NHK Trophy Tokyo scheduled in the next week.
With regard to the junior sector, the seats will be up for grabs for the final act'' to be held in Aichi between 22 November 24. Moreover, the best of the festival will be admitted to the national junior national championships senior class. In this regard, we should not forget that last season Satoko Miyahara conquered the podium in the senior event'' after tax in the Japanese Junior Championships.
EASTERN SECTIONAL
The attention of the experts have focused primarily on'' Eastern Sectional Championships, to be held in Gumna'' in the prefecture of the same name. Clearly, the source of interest is represented by Miki Ando, ​​returned from a performance not too convincing in the Kanto Regional Championship in mid-October. The qualification to Nationals in December does not seem in danger for the twice world champion, author of the best score in the regionals among the athletes who will compete in Gunma, but call to a significant performance increase. In fact, a result below 160 points, besides being considered disappointing, might be a bad business card in view of the crucial competition Saitama, where you will put the three places up for grabs for the Olympic Games. In particular, the twenty-five of Nagoya must successfully smuorvere the position of strict Japanese judges that in the first round were assigned rating rather low on the components of the program.
QUALIFIED ATHLETES FOR THE EASTERN SECTIONAL''
01) 147.30 - Miki Ando (Kanto, 1) 02) 134.22 - Nana Matsushima (Tokyo, 1) 03) 128.55 - Hikaru Nasuno (Kanto, 2nd) 04) 127.20 - Mayu Yamamoto (Tohoku Hokkaido, 1) 05) 124.79 - Kawanishi Honoka (Kanto, 3rd) 06) 123.01 - Mari Suzuki (Tohoku Hokkaido, 2nd) 07) 122.76 - Saeko Kura (Tokyo, 2nd) 08) 122.25 - Sakura Kawahira (Tohoku Hokkaido, 3rd) 09) 120.85 - Shoko Ishikawa (Tokyo, 3rd) 10) 117.74 - Lina Karita (Tokyo, 4th) 11) 117,15 - Miho Sasaki (Tokyo, 5th) 12) 115.96 - Shior Tanikawa (Tohoku Hokkaido, 4th) 13) 115.56 - Fumie Suguri (Tokyo, 6th) 14) 115.13 - Kanade Hasegawa (Tokyo, 7th) 15) 114.04 - Sari Hamaya (Tokyo, 8th) 16) 113.30 - Takano Ito (Hokkaido Tohoku, 5th) 17) 112.37 - Uruha Takahashi (Tohoku Hokkaido, 6th) 18) 108,50 - My Suzuki (Kanto, 4th) 19) 104.48 - Kanari Yamaguchi (Tokyo, 9th) 20) 102.08 - Kotoha Asami (Tokyo, 10 °) 21) 101.67 - Sawako Kanbe (Tokyo, 11 °) 22) 101.59 - Nanoha Sato (Tokyo, 12 °) 23) 101.46 - Mayu Kushida (Tokyo, 13 °) 24) 101.21 - Ayaka Ishii (Tokyo, 14th) 25) 097,34 - Yuka Touyama (Kanto, 5th) In addition to the girls who have qualified through the Regional Champioships will compete even Yuki Nishino and Risa Shoji, exempted from taking part in the first round because of conflict with other international competitions. Considering the absence of'' Haruka Imai, engaged in the Cup of China,'' in Eastern Sectional Championship will be awarded only five seats for the national championships. Notably, the presence of nearly thirty-three Fumie Suguri, but it seems to have no chance of passing the turn.
In the senior men's race, the underdogs for Daisuke Murakami, ruler of the Tokyo Regionals, which will have to deal with Kento Nakamura and Akio Sasaki, esentatati from the first round because they respectively engaged in Finland and in'' Ondrej Nepela Trophy Trophy.
WESTERN SECTIONAL
The level, as d'' habit, promises much higher in the Western Sectional Championship will be held in Kyoto. As for the female sector, will be up for grabs for the final eleven places.
In the light of what has emerged in the Regionals, the favorite appears Miyu Nakashio, author of a huge leap forward compared to last season and be able to present a short in combination with two triples, not to mention a free program with two double axel and seven triple jumps.
QUALIFIED ATHLETES FOR THE WESTERN SECTIONAL 01) 163.32 - Miyu Nakashio (Chu-Shikoku Kyushu-1) 02) 140.87 - Saya Suzuki (Kinki, 1) 03) 135.87 - Ayaka Hosoda (Kinki, 2nd ) 04) 135.85 - Kako Tomotaki (Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu, 2nd) 05) 133.93 - Ibuki Mori (Chubu, 1) 06) 133,11 - Kana Muramoto (Kinki, 3rd) 07) 132 , 85 - Saya Ueno (Kinki, 4th) 08) 132.37 - Rina Kondo (Chubu, 2nd) 09) 132.29 - Ayana Yasuhara (Kinki, 5th) 10) 130,35 - Mayuko Okamoto (Chu- Shikoku-Kyushu, 3rd) 11) 125.26 - Yukiko Fujisawa (Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu, 4th) 12) 124.97 - Miyuki Takei (Kinki, 6th) 13) 124.95 - Sakura Yamada (Kinki, 7th) 14) 123.45 - Shion Kokubun (Kinki, 8th) 15) 122.25 - Mao Watanabe (Chubu, 3rd) 16) 119.63 - Kaho Komai (Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu, 5 °) 17 ) 119,00 - Yui Takagi (Kinki, 9th) 18) 118.87 - Ayano Kitamura (Kinki, 10 °) 19) 116.98 - Mayu Okamoto (Kinki, 11 °) 20) 116.36 - Shiho Seto ( Kinki, 12 °) 21) 115.02 - Kanako Suda (Chubu, 4th) 22) 114.95 - Saki Naruta (Chubu, 5th) 23) 113.57 - Yuka Kouno (Chubu, 6th) 24) 112 , 06 - Miu Sato (Chubu, 7th) 25) 109.54 - Kona Tsuuchi (Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu, 6th) 26) 108.18 - Reina Nishimura (Kinki, 13 °) 27) 107.53 - Lisa Sawai (Kinki, 14 °) 28) 105.86 - Yoshito Tsubota (Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu, 7th)
In fact, the highest score ever in the first round was carried out by Satoko Miyahara (174,49), but the fifteen Kyoto has effectively competed off the charts in the Kinki Regional in what has already been admitted to the final.
In addition, to qualify through the Regionals, should also be in the race Miyabi Oba, on the podium in the stage of Tallinn Junior Grand Prix.
In the men, unless exceptions are last minute, will also be present Tatsuki Machida, winner for dispersion of Skate America, complete with the fifth highest score ever. The closest rival for the ventitrenne Osaka should be the'' interesting Yoji Tsuboi.
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