The finals of the World Figure Skating Grand Prix concluded with Marinen and Kaori Sakamoto winning the championship strongly – Sports – China Engineering Network

Original title: The World Figure Skating Grand Prix finals concluded with Marinin and Kaori Sakamoto winning the championship.

China News Service, Beijing, December 9 (Reporter Xing Chong) The 2023-2024 season ISU World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals will conclude in Beijing on the 9th. In the singles skating event that attracts the most attention, American teenager Marinen is called the “dark horse” and won the men’s singles championship for the first time with a high score of over 300. Two-time World Championship champion and Japanese player Kaori Sakamoto also won the finals with an absolute advantage. Won the women’s singles gold medal.

The 19-year-old Marinen made a splash in this tournament. He temporarily replaced the first move in the short program with an Axel quadruple jump (4A), becoming the first player to successfully complete this move in the short program and won the The high score of 106.90 ranked first.

In the free skate competition, Marinen performed 6 quadruple jumps, and 3 consecutive jumps were completed in the second half of the program. He only made a mistake in the first quadruple jump, but still got a high score of 207.76. In the end, he won the championship with 314.66 points. The Beijing Winter Olympics men’s singles medalists, Japanese players Shoma Uno and Yuma Kagiyama, won the silver and bronze medals with 297.34 points and 288.65 points respectively.

Marinen said after the game that he was surprised to win the championship. The original plan was just to show his training level in the game, but after coming to Beijing, his condition got better and better, and he also gained a lot of confidence.

Kaori Sakamoto is the women’s singles bronze medalist at the Beijing Winter Olympics and subsequently won two consecutive world championships. Her form remains stable this season. In the short program competition of the finals on the 8th, she ranked first with 77.35 points.

In the free skating competition on the 9th, although Sakamoto Kaori had a flaw when she landed on the ice, the rest of her performance was perfect. She ranked first in the free skating with 148.35 points, and won the championship with a total score of 225.70 points, ahead of the second-place Belgian skater. Lorena Hendricks scored 22.34 points.

This season, Kaori Sakamoto has won the Finnish Grand Prix and the French Grand Prix, and now she has won the finals. Kaori Sakamoto said after the game that winning three Grand Prix championships has achieved her set goal. Next, she will prepare for the Japan Championships and strive to achieve three consecutive championships.

In the adult ice dance competition, the American team Jock/Bates won the championship with a total score of 221.61 points with 89.15 points in rhythm dance and 132.46 points in free dance.

The youth group conducted three competitions that day. Japanese youngster Rishi Nakata had previously performed poorly in the men’s singles short program, but he achieved a comeback with his wonderful performance in the free skate and won the youth men’s singles championship with a total score of 227.77 points.

The American pair Nesset/Markolov won the youth ice dance championship, and the youth pair skating gold medal was won by the Georgian pair Metelkina/Berulava.

At this point, all events in this Grand Prix Finals have ended.

The World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals is one of the top events in figure skating. This competition is the first time that this event has been held in Beijing after 13 years. It is also the first top ISU world figure skating event that Beijing has successfully applied for in the post-Winter Olympics era.