Figure skating - Japanese Sectional Championships 2015
Between Thursday & Igrave; October 29 and Tuesday & Igrave; November 3, went on stage the expected Japanese Sectional Championships, last hurdle to gain the & rsquo; access & Outdoors; Final Act of the junior and senior national championships.
Wednesday 4 November 2015 22 minutes reading time
The competitions have proved very interesting as it took to the track almost all the big guns of the panorama junior Japanese, as well as & eacute; athletes who will soon be involved in the Grand Prix.
In virt & ugrave; the presence of a greater number of couples dancing and artistic than in the past, & egrave; It was thought out an experiment to reduce expenses. All tests were carried out to dance & rsquo; s internal & rsquo; Eastern Sectional Championship, involving couples who were to compete in the Western Sectional, while for the & rsquo; artistic & egrave; occurred l & rsquo; opposite. It & rsquo; was perci & ograve; You can compare all the current partnerships in business & agrave ;, judged by the same panel but placed in different classifications based on category and geographical origin.
EASTERN SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The qualification test that involves the prefectures of the northern part of the country you & egrave; took place at the "Sports Complex" Gunma, located in & rsquo; homonym prefecture.
The highlight of & rsquo; & egrave event; was the junior women's race, which saw opposing Wakaba Higuchi (171.94) and Yuna Aoki (163.95), protagonists with all the distinctions of the case of a starting seasonal short of high expectations. & Nbsp; At the end of a trial with two faces, l & rsquo; he trimmed his fourteen Tokyo, which confirmed the discomfort on the short program, gi & agrave; It emerged in previous competitive commitments.
The thirteen Aoki dominated the first segment of the race by running or almost as in a & eacute; impeccable spins and jumps, among them being the combination of opening triple lutz / triple Rittberger. Higuchi, grappling with a complex theme of mambo, has accumulated over nine lengths of posting does not go beyond the combination double lutz / double toe loop and seeing the thread call wrong input on the triple flip, not to mention a location for missing the top combined.
In the free program they have to & ograve; flipped sides and & egrave; Higuchi touched to pull over seventeen points Aoki. The national junior champion in office performed two double axel and six triple jumps, including two lutz, taking the lead abysmal to the opponent on each item of the program components. L & rsquo; unique deburring concerned the initial combination opened by a triple lutz, but closed by a simple instead Rittberger & eacute; triple. Aoki & egrave ;, however, managed to complete two double axel and five triple jumps, paying tribute to a single lutz at the beginning, where it was planned combination triple lutz / triple Rittberger. The good & egrave; It was represented by the perfect combination of performance double axel / triple toe loop / double toe loop, something which in the past had given problems.
The final podium & egrave; It was completed by Akari Matsubara (156.96) climb to the headlines back in 2011 when he won the national title by beating Novice B Higuchi and Honda. The fourteen Nishitokyo & egrave; It was l & rsquo; only to realize two double axel and seven triple jumps in the free program, placing in the second half & agrave; music two double axel, triple toe loop two and two triple salchow.
In the senior class, you & egrave; easily sets the & rsquo; elegant ventiduenne Yuki Nishino (154.49), which has had much the better of opponents in both segments of the race, despite the problems highlighted on the two triple lutz in the free program. Next, you & egrave; Uruha placed Takahashi (140.06), ahead Ami Dobashi (136.30). On the list of disappointed as well & eacute; eliminated, stand the nineteen Risa Shoji, fifteenth, and twenty Yukiko Fujisawa, eighteenth, in the past both finalists of the Junior Grand Prix.
In the men's race senior & egrave; It was won by Eiki Hattori (179.57), best of the lot on the components of the program and holding a & rsquo; excellent command of triple lutz and triple Rittberger. Thanks to a remarkable comeback in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, the place d & rsquo; & egrave honor; It was won by the twenty-Sendai, but resident in Sapporo, Jun Suzuki (173.77), & nbsp; that, unlike the winner, has tried with mixed results, the triple axel. Next, you & egrave; He placed the nineteen Morioka Hiroaki Sato (170.18), only to complete two triple axels.
In the junior category, the eighteen year old Tokyo Hidetsugu Kamata (191.61), has created a vacuum in both segments of the race using a mastery of the triple lutz superior to the competition. Behind the favorite of the eve, you & egrave; placed the nineteen Daichi Miyata (168.21), author of two tests undertone and only athlete in the race to groped a quadruple toe loop, concluded for & ograve; with a fall rolling missing. In third position, you & egrave; attested the sixteen Tsunehito Karakawa (159.60).
Evidence Dance & egrave; It was characterized by the challenge to the distance between the new tandem of Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed (132.84) and gi & agrave; navigated Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion (131.66). Students Marina Zoueva, winners in & rsquo; Eastern Sectional Championship, outperformed rivals in the free dance for the internal leadership, but in the short-dance were the winners of the Western Sectional Championships to have largely prevailed. On the technical front, the game & egrave; finished with a substantial equality & agrave ;, while the components of the program were Muramoto / Reed to win.
In the junior category, Rikako Fukase / Aru Tateno (122.74) proved to be the only & Outdoors; height of the situation taking the lead abysmal competition.
On balance, they took to the track four pairs senior and four junior signal of how something is finally moving in the specialty & agrave ;.
WESTERN SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Competitions involving athletes from the central and southern prefectures of the country were hosted by the Nippon Gaishi Sports Plaza in Nagoya, at the prefecture of Aichi.
How d & rsquo; habit, the overall level & egrave; It was higher than all & rsquo; Eastern Sectional Championship, and, for a change, the test with the main points of interest & egrave; She was the female juniors, which saw the starting line three athletes qualified for the & rsquo; imminent final Junior Grand Prix in Barcelona. Among the big movement, he has not participated & Outdoors; the only event Kaori Sakamoto, gi & agrave; admitted to the junior national championships in virt & ugrave; the second-place finish last season.
A big surprise, success & egrave; was conquered by the owner Yuhana Yukoi (172.89), you & egrave; deprived of the satisfaction of the regular qualifying competition in both segments of the competition. Fifteen-coached by the staff is directed by Hiroshi Nakagakubo & egrave; narrow tax measure in the short program and then triumph in free with the best technical score and assessment more & ugrave; high on the program components. Impeccable on tops, Yokoi has performed in the segment pi & ugrave; long race two double axel and seven triples, including two excellent flip and lutz taken by a thread not external. Deserves, in particular, mention the combination double axel / triple toe loop / double toe loop placed around the third minute of the program.
L & rsquo; still thirteen Yuna Shiraiwa (169.54), unbeaten so far this season, & egrave; was forced to raise the white flag, penalized by a landing with step-out of the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop in the short program and then by not being able to perform the combination triple salchow / triple Rittberger in the free program (after a landing problematic than triple salchow, attacked in some way a double Rittberger landed on two feet and degraded single). However, the & rsquo; student Mie Hamada showed tremendous lucidity & agrave; in managing the plan jumps segment pi & ugrave; long race and, after three minutes, has created from nothing a combination triple lutz / triple toe loop / double Rittberger, which enabled it to complete two double axel and seven triple jumps and win the place d & rsquo; honor.
Shiraiwa preceded by a & rsquo; gluing the sixteen Never Mihara (169.27), penalized by a smear on combining double axel / triple toe loop in the free program, judged under rotated the second jump. For the rest, the remaining six triple jumps and combination double axel / double toe loop / double Rittberger were followed impeccably, cos & Igrave; as mistakes were made noteworthy in the short program.
In confirmation of the progress made manifest in the Kinki Regional in early October, Kokoro Iwamoto (163.73) has filed an excellent fourth place taking head on the technical side for most athletes & ugrave; listed and most experienced international. The sixteen Osaka has performed in the free program two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two lutz.
L & rsquo; waiting Marin Honda (153.84), considered one of the favorites of the day before, you & egrave; He had to settle for fifth place falling after the combination triple Rittberger / triple toe loop in the short program and mulling more & ugrave; shooting in the segment more & ugrave; long race. In fact, a fall in the opening of an attempted triple lutz not gone beyond the two rotations, were added to a double axel from & rsquo; landing complex that did not allow to carry out the combination with the triple toe loop planned, a flip double instead & eacute; triple and a top combined with a location missing.
The ranks of the disappointed stands out the name of eighteen Rin Nitaya (148.92), third after the short program, enriched in & rsquo; at the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, but then plummeted to sixth to get caught in the segment pi & ugrave; long race a miserable day on the triple lutz.
In the senior class, success & egrave; He went to seventeen Yura Matsuda (166.88), another athlete native of Nagoya. L & rsquo; student of Machiko Yamada, despite some jumps under rotated too, overturned the results of the short program ahead by a wide margin the eighteen Kyoto Mariko Kihara (159.37). In particular, Matsuda has performed a & rsquo; excellent combination triple Rittberger / triple Rittberger combination in the short program and a triple flip / triple toe loop segment pi & ugrave; long race. Kihara, in the lead after the short program, he & egrave ;, however, lost in the free mulling over lutz and flip and missing the & rsquo; appointment with the first double axel.
The tight battle for the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium awarded the eighteen Hinano Isobe (156.89), which preceded the advanced Mina Taniguchi (153.78), author of the best technical score in the free program.
The main disappointment of the race was Riona Kato (144.66), not gone beyond the sixth, and Miyabi Oba (140.78), ninth.
The junior men's competition & egrave; It was won by the favorite Sota Yamamoto (203.59), which took advantage of & rsquo; opportunity to conduct your experiments. Fifteen landlord & egrave; He took to the track with the & rsquo; s going to perform in the free program two quadruple toe loop and two triple axels. However, archived a sumptuous combination triple axel / triple toe loop, & egrave; He got a double dip on attempts to quadruple and a step-load on & rsquo; axel, completed single. No problem, instead, on the other elements including five triple jumps, placed in the second half & agrave; of music. It goes to & ograve; remarked as the & rsquo; student of Hiroshi Nagakubo has failed l & rsquo; appointment with even triple axel in the short program.
The podium & egrave; It was completed by the astonishing fifteen Taichiro Yamakuma (182,50), who avoided triple axel and quadruple jumps by running a free program without great flaws, and by seventeen Kazuki Tomono, (182.42), able to land in some way a quadruple salchow & nbsp ; and two triple axels in the segment pi & ugrave; long race.
The expected training partners Koshiro Shimada (171.83) and Sena Miyake (170,57) were respectively placed in fifth and seventh place, the first affected by a disastrous short program, the second one by a free program with a pair of triples in less than planned and a disastrous fall on the second attempt of triple lutz.
In the senior class, the twenty year old Keiji Tanaka (219.08) won the & rsquo; usual challenge with the historic rival Ryuju Hino (203.47). For both, the race was a simple exercise in preparation for upcoming appointments. It should be noted as they are unsuccessful attempts quadruple jumps as Hino & egrave; fell trying quadruple toe loop, while Tanaka, willing to submit the quadruple salchow in both segments of the race, he completed three rotations in the short and two in the free. The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; It was occupied by Daisuke Isozaki (175.61).
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