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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2023 0:21:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2023 4:40:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2023 4:53:04 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2023 13:59:44 GMT
[Beijing = Hiroyuki Okada] The figure skating Grand Prix (GP) final was held in Beijing on the 9th for the men's and women's free skates. In the women's competition, Kaori Sakamoto (Sysmex) took first place in the short program (SP) on the 8th with a score of 148.35. He took first place in points and achieved his first victory with a total of 225.70 points. SP 4th place Hana Yoshida (Kinoshita Academy) came in 3rd place with a total of 203.16 points. Rion Sumiyoshi (Oriental Bio), who came in 5th place at SP, came in 6th place with a total of 180.39 points.
For the men, Shoma Uno (Toyota Motors), who came in 2nd place in the SP, took 2nd place in the free skate with a total of 297.34 points. Yuma Kagiyama (Oriental Bio) placed third with a total of 288.65 points, and Yoshio Miura (same) placed fifth with a total of 261.53 points. Ilya Malinin (USA) placed first in the SP and also in the free skate, winning with a total of 314.66 points.
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2023 14:05:00 GMT
Kaori Sakamoto, who set the world's highest score of 77.35 points in the short program (SP) this season, scored 148.35 points in the women's free program and won her first GP Finals with a total of 225.70 points. With this, she has won gold medals at three major competitions sponsored by the International Skating Union (ISU), including the Four Continents Championships and the World Championships, making her the second Japanese woman to achieve this feat, following Mao Asada. ``I want to say, ``Well done!'' I praised myself.
It was her third time competing in the free skate and her long-cherished desire to reach the top. After performing a majestic double axel (two and a half rotations) at the beginning, he showed off his highly accomplished work to Chinese fans. In the second half, the triple flip landed erratically and could not be completed as a sequence, but she recovered by adding a double toe loop to the final triple loop.
Last season, although he started at the top of the SP, he finished last in the free skate, but he achieved revenge. "I really want to beat myself, and my rival is my past self. I was really happy that I was able to beat myself." He extended his winning streak from the GP series to ``3'' and achieved his professed ``Ichi, Ichi, Ichi (1st, 1st, 1st)'' goal.
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