Figure skating - Japan Nationals 2013
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Yuzuru Hanyu has clearly imposed in the men's competition of the Japanese National Championships automatically qualify for the Olympic Games.
Monday 23 December 2013 8 minutes reading time
In fact, despite missing the'' official, the presence in Sochi'' s student of Brian Orser, present in the kiss & cry, was not in doubt because of compelling statement in the final of the Grand Prix.
The nineteen year old Sendai successfully defended the title won twelve months ago with imposing margin in both segments of competition, hosted by the "Super Arena" in Saitama. In the short program, performed without the slightest smear, it is afforded the luxury of breaking the barrier of one hundred points (in the past've crossed only by Patrick Chan during the Canadian National Exhibition) in presenting an opening quadruple toe loop preceded by the step of Stun beauty. Moreover, without equally striking in a direct confrontation, had the better of the most experienced Daisuke Takahashi in the sum of the components of the program. In the free, instead, filed a fall on the quadruple salchow and a quadruple toe loop not comparable in quality to that of the first part of the race, he put together the usual eight triple jumps past the hundred points of TES (technical element score).
In second place, finished the increasingly solid twenty-three Tatsuki Machida, who, to leave no stone unturned, he managed to complete both programs without any significant shift to empty. In the end, he performed in the two-day race three quadruple toe loop and secure as many triple axel, legitimizing behind the placement of'' Hanyu currently unreachable.
The third place went to Takahiko Kozuka,'' in occasion returned to levels of competitiveness that had not approached during the season. The twenty-four coached by Nobuo Sato, despite having always preceded Machida on the components of the program, it was clearly outclassed on the technical side, accomplices in a lower overall quality of the quad and too many difficulties on the triple lutz landed with a bit of too much with disastrous short program and the free fall.
Penalized by low precentuali on the quadruple toe loop, the'' expected Nobunari Oda, fresh from the podium in the final of the Grand Prix, has not gone beyond the fourth. To contend for the podium in Machida and Kozuka, was not a sufficient free with a quadruple and eight triples to deal with the Misadventures in short, generated by the attempt to quadruple toe loop completed only three times. The first error then also affected the combination that Oda, in'' very polished occasion, had to do a double toe loop attacking the triple lutz in order not to lose the value of the element''.
 Daisuke Takahashi, five-time Japanese champion, had to settle for fifth coin, overly penalized by physical problems that did not allow him to reconfirm the levels of excellence in the NHK Trophy in Tokyo last race before the national exhibition. In particular, the twenty-seven student of Nikolai Morozov came out with broken bones from the battle against four times, never failing to complete the fourth rotation. In addition, he also highlighted difficulties falling on the triple axel in the short program, landing with hand on the ground the second attempt carried out in the free. As a result, they earned compared to the competition (tenths of Hanyu, dozens of points on the other) on the PCS (program components score), was negated by a non-technical content'' s height of a competition of the highest profile.
Afterwards, he finished Takahito Mura, very far from the performance of last season, ahead of a few tenths of sixteen Shoma Uno, Hanyu aside, best among the junior boys entered the race.
A testament to the quality of the'' event, it should be noted as eleven athletes have received more than two hundred points, not to mention the numerous attempts made to quadruple.
In light of the results of the National Championships, what happened in the first part of the season and the criteria set by the Fed to determine who will take part in the Olympic Games, the only Hanyu is sure to be the game of Sochi.
The second place is available in runoff between Machida and Kozuka,'' with the pupil of Anthony Liu almost sure to be the chosen one.
As for the third and last place, are in the running Kozuka and Takahashi with veteran favored by virtue of the scores obtained in the course of the season.
In any case, on Monday afternoon, you will know the names of the athletes who will participate in Four Continents, the Olympics and the World Cup.
STANDINGS FINALE01) 297,80 (1 | 1) - Yuzuru Hanyu 02) 277.04 (2 | 2) - Tatsuki MACHIDA 03) 264.81 (3 | 4) - Takahiko KOZUKA04 ) 256.47 (5 | 3) - Nobunari ODA05) 252.81 (4 | 5) - Daisuke TAKAHASHI 06) 216.72 (8 | 6) - Takahito MURA , 07) 216.49 (6 | 7) - Shoma A 08) 211.52 (7 | 10) - Keiji TANAKA 09 ) 208.58 (10 | 8) - Yoji Tsuboi 10) 205.86 (13 | 9) - Daisuke MURAKAMI 11) 205.49 (9 | 11) - Kento NAKAMURA 12) 191.20 (14 | 12) - HINO Ryujyu 13) 188.38 (12 | 13) - Akio SASAKI , 14) 170.62 (11 | 19) - Sota YAMAMOTO 15) 170.47 (15 | 15) - Taichi HONDA
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