Figure skating - Japan Sectionals 2013
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In the early morning Italian, were completed very qualitative Western Sectional Championships, played in Kyoto.
Monday 4 November 2013 9 minutes reading time
In the women's competition, despite not being able to reconfirm the levels of the Regionals, triumphed in accordance with the prediction of the vigil, Miyu Nakashio (156.79) The ruler of the Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu Regional Block is still easily in both sets the competition programs by completing a double axel in the free and seven triple jumps, including a lutz from wire entry more than suspect and two flip, not to mention the combination double axel / triple toe loop. The main deburring covered the double axel in sequence with the triple flip, only run single.
In second place, it has placed the eighteen year old Aichi Miyabi Oba (143.34), fall at the end of combination double axel / triple toe loop early, but now capable of reacting with a combination triple salchow / triple toe loop. In'' occasion, has also managed to complete the triple lutz, done for her quite unique, and, on balance, has put together a double axel and five triples, are you considering the fall on the triple toe loop.
The podium was completed by eighteen Okayama Kako Tomotaki (143,17), which preceded Ibuki Mori (139.78) author of the third free. Have qualified for the National Championships to be held in Saitama between 21 and 24 December Kaho also Komaki (134.86), Saya Ueno (134.40), Kana Muramoto (130.66), Ayaka Hosoda (130.08), Sakura Yamada (128.72), Saya Suzuki (126.81), Yukiko Fujisawa (125.22), Shion Kokubun (125.09), Ayana Yasuhara (122.71) and Mayuko Okamoto (122.35). The real surprise of the race was represented by'' elimination of seventeen Nagoya Miu Sato, a student of Machiko Yamada, ranked fifth in the National in 2011, but today it went beyond the sixteenth position.
The test male, which ended yesterday, saw the'' easy and obvious success of Tatsuki Machida (241.37), but fell three times in the free program after the glories of the first part of the race in which he had again broken the barrier of the ninety points with a nearly perfect performance enhanced by a'' huge combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop. L'' student of Anthony Liu in fact engaged in a simple test before the Rostelecom Cup, found a bad day on the quadruple toe loop, falling on the first attempt and then giving up on the second. In positive, ranging remarkability the two triple axel, the first of which in combination with a triple toe loop, while in other negative two falls on a triple flip from the input wire suspicion and at the end of the combination of three jumps open from triple salchow. No trace, however, of the quadruple lutz that, according to some well-informed, it could become the'' secret weapon for the rest of the season.
The second place went to Yoji Tsuboi (174.00), it'' s up to expectations and almost defeated by less quoted Daisuke Isozaki (173.25). They gained access to the final'' l also Koshin Yamada (161.94), Kohei Yoshino (150.93), Takumi Yamamoto (134.07), Takaya Hashizume (129.10), Masaki Kondo (126.82), Kota Tadano (121.89), Yuya Tamada (112.06) , Ryoichi Eguchi (105.77) and Kento Suginaka (104.33).
In fact, the real highlight of the Western Sectional Championships was represented by junior competitions. In the men, at the end of a tight head-to-head got the better comeback Ryuju Hino (202.38), already qualified for the final of the Grand Prix class, who ruled narrowly the youngest Shoma One (200.71). It did not take part in the competition Keiji Tanaka, winner of two stages in the season of junior Grand Prix, but, like Hino and One, already admitted in law'' s final act of the Japanese National Championships category by virtue of the podium '' obtained in the last edition.
Among the girls, he sets the thirteen Kaori Sakamato (164.15). The novice national champion of the past season has unsheathed a free program of high profile completing two double axel and seven triple jumps, complete with a combination triple salchow / triple toe loop in the second half of the disc. In second place, but with the best free day, she finished the fifteen Yura Matsuda (163,76). L'' student of Hiroshi Nagakubo, stored atavistic anxieties on the rotation of the jumps, you are afforded the luxury to have seven triple jumps, including two flip and two Rittberger. The sixteen year old Mariko Kihara (163.07), leader of the race at the end of the short-program, has, however, threw away the victory fell on the triple lutz and had to settle for the lowest step of the podium, although it has then recovery to the large completing six triples, four of which in the second part of the program.
The waiting Riona Kato (153.55) and Rika Hongo (156.52), top two teams in the last edition of the Japanese Junior Championships, respectively, did not go beyond the sixth and fourth place, but have been able to deal with the'' event without the'' anxiety of qualifying for the National as already admitted of law.
'' The Final Act of the National Junior Championships will be held in Aichi between 22 and 24 November.
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