figure skating - Jr.Grand Prix Final 2013
In the blaze of the large audience of "Marine Messe" Fukuoka, Japan's Keiji Tanaka closed head in the short program of the men's final of the Junior Grand Prix.
Thursday 5 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
The nearly nineteen stationed in Osaka, now'' s junior last season of his career, has built its success in part due to the quality on the jumps, triple axel at all. Winner of both the qualifying stages, Tanaka has performed without smearing each element, making CALENDAR the highest technical score, also the result of an unusual level four on the sequence of steps.
In second place, finished the fifteen Adian Pitkeev, author of a free program steps to empty embellished with a solid triple axel and a triple lutz combination / triple toe loop perfectly executed.
The fourteen-year U.S. Nathan Chen, widely regarded as the pre-race favorite, had to settle for the third coin accomplice a crash on the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, placed in the second half of the disc. '' The student Rafael Arutunian, as expected better in the sum of the components of the program, for the first time during the season presented the triple axel, managing to complete the'' element.
At the foot of the podium, but closely, there is a fourteen year old Russian Alexander Petrov, ahead of a couple of points'' s waited sixteen Chinese Boyang Jin, delayed due to levels not tops on all'' height of competition.
The first five on the list are enclosed in little more than five points and, in the light of the characteristics of each, are not excluded upheavals of the rankings in the longest segment of the race.
Sadly in the last position is the Japanese Ryuju Hino, on the lowest rung of the podium twelve months ago. For the eighteen year old student of Hiroshi Nagakubo, was the fatal step on the combination vacuum opened by a simple lutz and ended with a fall after the triple toe loop, however completed.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
1) (JPN) - Keiji TANAKA 73.63 (41.09 | 32.54) video 2) (RUS) - Adian PITKEEV 72.24 (40.95 | 31.29) video3) (USA) - Nathan CHEN 71.52 (39.25 | 33.27) video 4) (RUS) - Alexander Petrov 70.92 (39.92 | 31.00) video 5) (CHN) - Boyang JIN , 68.42 (37.70 | 30.72) video 6) (JPN) - Ryuju HINO 58.56 ( 30.42 | 28.14) video
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