Rika Kihira toenailed a quad salchow in her cost-free skate to get over an effective obstacle from Kaori Sakamoto as well as catch her 2nd straight ladies’s crown at Japan’s nationwide number skating champions onSunday
The 18-year-old Kihira opened up with the salchow as well as travelled past her only genuine obstacle, an under-rotated three-way axel that adhered to, to rack up 154.90 factors for the cost-free skate for a winning 234.24 total amount.
Sakamoto, that went into the cost-free skate in 2nd area, shook the target market at Nagano’s Big Hat field with unparalleled rate as well as skyrocketing dives, racking up 150.31 for a 222.17 total amount to toss down the onslaught for Kihira to adhere to.
The protecting champ, nonetheless, depended on the obstacle, toenailing that large dive for the very first time in her job, as well as implementing the initial quad by a female at the nationals considering that Miki Ando did it in 2003 at the very same location.
Afterward, Kihira thanked her instructors as well as followers for choosing her up when she was down.
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