Figure Skating - Grand Prix Final 2013
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Mao Asada finished in first place in the women's short program at the Grand Prix final, hosted by the "Marine Messe" Fukuoka.
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The defending champion, unbeaten so far in the season, thus the'' mortgage on the fourth place in career success'' in the final act of the circuit, crowned by the company so far only Russian Irina Slutskaja.
The Japanese champion has built his partial success stabliendo a new world record in the sum of the components of the program and touching, first in history, the threshold of thirty points. On the technical side, has, however, paid duty regarding the triple axel, clearly sottoruotato, but has well executed the remaining elements of jump and, in particular, has been overwhelming on the sequence of steps.
Separated by less than four points, Adelina Sotnikova about dealing with the second position. The seventeen year old Muscovite, who wrote in'' at the new personal, skated a test without snagging opened by a remarkable combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, which has taken the place of the usual'' triple lutz / triple Rittberger. '' The student of Elena Buianova has, however, taken the satisfaction of getting the highest technical score of the day driven by excellent feedback on the degree of implementation of each element. The main regret on the score remains tied to the components of the program, increased compared to the best appearances of the past, but still far from excellence''.
In third place, in close contact with Sotnikova, is the American Ashley Wagner, author of a test impeccable as well as the young Russian Julia and Elena Lipnitskia Radionova, who follow in the rankings.
The first five on the list skated programs devoid of steps to empty, as evidenced by the 64.38 achieved by the fifth in the standings. In the past, only during the Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010,'' the fifth athlete had achieved a higher rating, but then there was a technical elmento more (sequence of Angels). Among other, things every athlete has presented three triple jumps in the respective test and, Asada excluded, all of them have completed a combination with two triple jumps.
In the final position, is the fourth race in the Russian Anna Pogorilaya, today is not penalized by a new step-load on the double axel that, on balance, the cost is four points. It should be noted, however, remained as before Radionova, albeit slightly, in the components of the program, that says a lot about the improvements made in the last period''.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT FEMALE
1) (JPN) - Mao ASADA 72.36 (37.45 | 34.91) 2) (RUS) - Adelina Sotnikova 68.38 , (37.53 | 30.85) personal record 3) (USA) - Ashley Wagner 68.14 (36.39 | 31.75) 4) (RUS) - Julia LIPNITSKAIA 66.62 (36.84 | 29.78) 5) (RUS) - Elena RADIONOVA , 64.38 (36.60 | 27.78) 6) (RUS) - Anna POGORILAYA 59.81 (31.95 | 27.86)
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Adelina SOTNIKOVA (RUS) - Grand Prix Final, 2013 - short program
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