Figure Skating - NHK Trophy 2013
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The first day of the NHK Trophy, the fourth stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix hosted by the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, ended with the short program femmnile.
Friday 8 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
In the great joy of the home crowd, the first two positions in the standings were occupied by Japanese skaters.
The success in the segment of the race went to the favorite of the eve Mao Asada, able to overcome the challenging'' threshold of seventy points for the second consecutive race, as well as to retouch the world record on the components of the program that already belonged to her. Mistress'' s latest edition of Skate America he again triple axel at the opening of the disc, failing to complete the element'' albeit with a landing at the limit, then performed a triple flip preceded by passes and, in the second half of the disc, has proposed a combination triple Rittberger / double Rittberger, with the second jump missing rotation. L'' student of Nobuo Sato was again overwhelming the sequence of steps and has easily reached level four in each top.
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In second place, it has placed a positive Akiko Suzuki, able to straighten a test is not inziata on the right foot. The twenty-eight stationed in Nagoya, after completing a combination triple toe loop / double toe loop, instead of triple / triple, and a triple flip preceded by the step from landing strip'' uncertain, not doing anything wrong in the best way each of the remaining elements. In addition, for the first time in his career, has gone beyond the threshold of thirty-three points in the program components, until now Once you've crossed only by Asada (record 34.37), Cohen (record 33.96) Kostner (record 33, 85), Kim (record 33.80) and Wagner (33,05). The milestone has been a source of satisfaction for Massimo Scali, choreographer of the short'' s student of Hiroshi Nagakubo skated on the song "Hymne a l'' Amour".
In third place are paired with regret Radionova Elena and Gracie Gold, although at the time, under the best technical score the lowest rung of the podium it would be for all'' youngest athlete in the race. The fourteen year old Russian
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT FEMALE
1) (JPN) - Mao ASADA 71.26 (36.89 | 34.37) 2) (JPN) - Akiko SUZUKI 66.03 (32.68 | 33.35 primacy stagionale3) (RUS) - Elena RADIONOVA 62.83 (34.12 | 28.71) 4) (USA) - 62.83 Gracie GOLD ( 32.55 | 30.28) 5) (ITA) - Valentina Marchei (video) 61.90 (31.70 | 30.20) primacy personale6) (JPN). Satoko MIYAHARA 58.39 (32.08 | 26.31) primacy personale7) (RUS) - Alena Leonova 55.86 (28.26 | 28.60) - 1.008) (USA) - Mirai Nagasu 51.01 (23.61 | 27.40) 9) (GEO) - Elene GEDEVANISHVILI45.14 (19.20 | 25.94)
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