Figure skating - Japan Novice National Championships
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'' It jumped the counter in the women's race of the Japanese National Championships, hosted by the "Super Arena" in Saitama, home of the upcoming World Championships.
Monday 23 December 2013 6 minutes reading time
The favorite on the eve of Mao Asada, leader of the competition after the short program, had to settle for the lowest step of the podium clearly outclassed by Akiko Suzuki and Kanako Murakami,'' occasion in absolutely impeccable.
Beyond winning and won, the level of competition was high as evidenced by the scores assigned technicians in the short program, which saw eleven athletes, including juniors, go over quota thirty. In addition, during the two days of competition, we have seen all sorts of triples and combinations with two triple jumps of different assortment.
Suzuki, at the age of twenty-eight years, won the first national title, skating the best free program of career, characterized by a double axel and seven triple jumps performed beautifully. To tell the truth, the yield in the short-program opened with a solid combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, was not far behind. '' The student of Hiroshi Nagakubo has so torn the ticket to Sochi, where you can play the role of outsider luxury of a strong performance in the national as well free of 144.99 points.
The nineteen year old Murakami, athlete still eligible for junior competitions, there was less to the point of being able to confirm the place of honor'' got last season. '' For the occasion, he presented a new short program to the tune of "The Violin Muse" distorting the building over what is displayed in the Grand Prix. In particular, the choice has paid dividends to make the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop'' in the opening words of the music and not in the second half. On the front of the free, open again by a combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, has completed seven triples, including a lutz taken from an internal thread markedly, but, in particular, showed fewer problems than usual rotations, routine heel'' Achilles.
Asada, as often happened in his career, he tied the joys and pains triple axel, performed well in the short program, but due to huge problems in the free program. The winner of the Grand Prix Final, in fact, having somehow landed the first of two planned attempts, then run a single axel.
At the foot of the podium, she placed the fifteen convincing Satoko Miyahara, author of the best technical score in the short program, opened by a combination triple lutz / triple toe loop.
Fifth place went to Haruka Imai best ever, able to run two programs free from burrs and, in particular, a free two doubles and six Sother triple axel.
The'' waiting Miki Ando, ​​fifth at the end of the first half of the race in close contact with the enemy for the Olympic qualification, it is lost in the free, started in the best way with a combination triple lutz / double Rittberger, but then marked by Clearance to empty some of the jumps too. On balance, having completed only four triples in a context so qualified as today's turned out to be decisive in the negative'' he relegated to seventh place behind even the national junior champion Rika Hongo. The tears in the kiss & cry twice world champion could, however, represent the'' last memory of a competitive race.
In the light of the outcome resulted in Saitama and the qualifying criteria set out in the summer by the Japanese federation, it seems certain that preossochè Suzuki Murakami and Asada will participate in the Olympic Games.
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