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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2016 0:54:17 GMT
Anastasia Gubanova was confirmed to be the best in the free program with 129.14 points, which led to a total of 194.57 points. A great comeback, however, for the Japanese Yuna Shiraiwa. From the sixth position of the short, she ends with the second place and 176.66 points, thus bypassing the South Korean Lim Eun-Soo (173.21 points). Chiara Calderone got the eleventh score of the day with 85.19 points, a new personal best, while the total of 130.80 points. placing her in fourteenth place.
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2016 2:00:22 GMT
Korea's Eunsoo Lim, 13, was the only non-Russian/Japanese lady to medal on the JGP this season. She claimed bronze in Dresden today.
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Post by Admin on Oct 11, 2016 1:22:20 GMT
Like Cha, Russian Anastasia Gubanova ran away with it. Her lead in the short program wasn’t much, thanks to a stumble in her triple lutz-triple toe and a late finish. But her free skate was spectacular. There she combined that with a triple lutz-triple toe-double toe, a flawless technical execution, and a level of artistry that wasn’t far off spellbinding. Her winning margin was close to twenty points. Like Cha, she was the only one competing here to qualify for the JGP Finale. There had been five skaters, going in, who theoretically could have, but Korean Eunsoo Lim and the both Japanese skaters would’ve had to win. Gubanova’s countrywoman Stanislava Konstantinova could’ve qualified with silver, but she would’ve needed a total a dozen points higher than the one she got in Russia.
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2016 1:26:20 GMT
Ultimately, Konstantinova didn’t even medal. Her troubles started in the short program, where she landed her triple lutz-triple toe, only to completely lose her loop. Artistry not far off Gubanova’s left her narrowly in third, four and a half points behind Lim, who had skated very well, with the same triple-triple combination. She again landed the triple lutz-triple in an excellent first half of her free, which allowed its creativity to shine better than it had in Russia. But then she fell on an axel and an underrotated flip as the fatigue got to her a little. Lim, in contrast, struggled in the first half of her program, singling out the toe after her lutz and falling on her loop. But she pulled herself together for the second half, and did just enough there to stay a point ahead of Konstantinova, for what would ultimately be bronze. Konstaninova and Lim were both beaten in the free skate by Japanese skater Yuna Aoki, although she beat the Russian by only seven hundredths of a point. She started by rotating a triple lutz-triple loop, though she also fell on it. For the most part after that she skated clean, though she failed to do one of her combinations, and finished behind the music. She’d taken fifth after a short where she’d had her own single toe after a triple lutz, and ended up staying there. Silver instead when to her countrywoman Yuna Shiriawa. In the short she fell on her lutz and so had no combination at all, taking her down to sixth. But in the free, she not only landed that triple lutz-triple toe, she also did everything else clean to get herself past Konstantinova, who had so controversially beaten her back in Russia. JGP Finale Lineup Anastasia Gubanova (RUS), 1st in the Czech Republic & Germany Polina Tsurskaya (RUS), 1st in Russia and Estonia Rika Kihara (JPN), 2nd in the Czech Republic, 1st in Slovenia Kaori Sakamoto (JPN), 2nd in France, 1st in Japan Alina Zagiova (RUS), 1st in France, 3rd in Slovenia Marin Honda (JPN), 2nd in Japan and Slovenia
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2016 1:11:03 GMT
A 13-year-old named Eunsoo Lim won the bronze medal in the 7th round competition for the 2016-2017 ISU Junior Grand Prix of figure skating. Eunsoo Lim earned a total of 109.38 points in the women's single free skating with a deduction of 1 point. With her previous ranking of 4th place and this ranking of 3rd, Lim placed 11th out of the 153 figure skaters who competed this season. Unfortunately, Lim will not be competing in the Junior Grand Prix Final because only the top 6 are allowed to advance and complete. However, this accomplishment is still significant since it is the highest score in a short program from a Korean skater since the skating legend, Yuna Kim. Many people see her as the future of Korean figure skating.
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