Figure skating - Japanese Regional Championships 2015
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At the end of last week, & egrave; continued qualifying to earn a spot for the Japanese National Championships in late December.
Tuesday 6 October 2015 8 minutes reading time
It & egrave; competed at the "Ice Arena" Misawa (Aomori), home to the Tohoku / Hokkaido Championship, normally less competitvo between six Regionals, and Okayawa where Kokusai Skate Rink & egrave; It was the scene of the Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu Regional Championship.
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TOHOKU / HOKKAIDO REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
In the women, the headlights were on the twenty-Haruka Imai (154.23), who moved recently from Tokyo to Niigata. However, despite un''agevole victory, the performance is not & egrave; He was convincing and has in fact confirmed the ancestral problems which affected the career of the skater. In the short program, Imai & egrave; fell on trying to triple flip and & egrave; gone short rotation on both jumps combination of triple salchow / triple toe loop. In the segment pi & ugrave; long race, & egrave; took to the track with the 'intention to run two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two flip, managing somehow to land as planned, but sottruotando four jumps and seeing degrade double-triple toe loop combination that ended with a a double axel placed in the second half & agrave; of music. On balance, the facts on the two days of competition, the jumps short rotation were the beauty of eight (six sottoruotati and two degraded).
In second place, it & egrave; attested Yuki Kudo (135.65), able to build discrete programs having only quiver in triple toe loop, triple salchow and double axel. The podium & egrave; was completed by Ami Dobashi (133.52), only athlete in the race to successfully complete a triple lutz.
In the men's race, with just four athletes entered, & egrave; staged the duel between Jun Suzuki (174.70) and the listed nineteen Morioka Hiroaki Sato (173.90), skaters should have no problems in reaching the 'Final Act of the end of December. Eventually 'it won the day to measure the native of Sapporo, able to turn the tables in the free program granzie to a better mastery of the triple axel and a higher technical content. Determinant & egrave; however, it revealed an error of Sato who, in the segment more & ugrave; long race, performed two spinners combined with change foot missing the 'entry in the second jump and seeing, therefore, cancel the' element. The situation & egrave; proved somewhat unique because Sato & egrave; historically considered a specialist spinners. Third place & egrave; He went to Masato Kimura (135.16).
In the modest evidence juniors victory among boys for Kakeru Saito (128.51) before Kazuki Hasegawa (128.07) and Ryoto Midorikawa (116.87). In terms of women, you & egrave; Yuna Miyohsi sets (125.22), ahead Rare Hayashi (119.31) and Hinata Oosawa (119.06).
CHU-SHIHOKU-KYUSHU REGIONAL
The main protagonist & egrave; was Keiji Tanaka (223.30), which galvanized the place of 'honor obtained in the US Figure Skating Classic a few weeks ago, dominated the men's qualifying competition. The twenty year old Kurashiki, despite two bad days with the quadruple salchow (double in short, ended with a fall in the free program), won with margin both segments of the competition. In particular, in the free program she has completed seven triple jumps, including a superb axel and two lutz. The 'only regret, fall on the quadruple salchow apart, & egrave; It represented the second attempt axel open in flight and completed instead of single & egrave; triple. The place of 'honor & egrave; andatoa Naoki Oda (173.53), able to land somehow seven triples in the free program, which ruled the most & ugrave; You quoted nineteen Kawahara (169.42), penalized, in particular, falls on attempts to triple axel.
In the women's, with a performance by the two faces, you & egrave; Miyu Nakashio sets (152.93). Almost nineteen Hiroshima, back from third place finish in the recent Lombardy Trophy & egrave; was flawless short program that has well-executed combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, triple flip and a double axel placed in the second half & agrave; of music. They are not, however, missed the problems in the free program open to a double flip and lutz taken from a wire outside and not characterized by a passage of an axel load, instead of single & egrave; double, and by a Rittberger landed on two feet and short rotation. On the positive side, there is the combination double axel / triple toe loop / double toe loop made in the second part of the program. In second place, it & egrave; Kaho placed Komaki (128.55), while the third & egrave; Kona was Tsuuchi (126.51). Between light and shadow, both have completed a good triple lutz in the free program.
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