2013 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships

[1] The competition was open to skaters from a non-European member nation of the International Skating Union who reached the age of 15 before July 1, 2012.Entries were required to achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the Four Continents Championships.On February 4, American Adam Rippon withdrew from the men's event and the U.S. called up Richard Dornbush to take his place.Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim of the United States withdrew from the pairs' event a day before the start of the competition and were not replaced.[6] Official training sessions occurred at the Osaka Pool and the main venue from February 6 throughout the competition period.The competition began with the short dance with Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir winning the segment with a score of 75.12 with a 0.44 point advantage over training partners from the United States Meryl Davis / Charlie White.Canadian champions Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford successfully executed a side-by-side triple lutz and throw triple lutz in their La Bohème routine to take first place with 70.44, 4.11 points ahead of fellow skaters and Canadian silver medalists Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch.Moore-Towers was also very pleased with their program but said the pair wished to clean up some small errors before the 2013 World Championships in London, Ontario.Hometown favourite Yuzuru Hanyu won the short program, successfully executing a quadruple toe loop and a triple axel but singling his triple lutz in combination to earn 87.65 for his Parisian Walkways routine, 2.57 points in front of China's Yan Han who skated a technically flawless program.The ladies' short program saw Japan's Mao Asada perfectly execute her triple axel, which has been absent since the previous Olympic season.The technical and artistic strength she displayed in her routine to the "I've got rhythm" variations by Gershwin propelled her into the lead with 74.49, 8.84 points clear of Akiko Suzuki, who scored 65.65.I didn't have 100% confidence in the triple-triple but my coach and I went through practices to make me strong mentally", the Grand Prix Final bronze medalist commented.The Japanese ladies clean swept the short program with Kanako Murakami earning 64.04 and a third-place finish.Recently, I was able to do two strong performances at our national championships, so that gave me a lot of confidence, but being able to win this competition surpassed everything I could have expected."Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu was unable to hold onto the lead, doubling a planned quadruple salchow, receiving an incorrect edge call on a triple flip and singling a triple lutz in his "Notre Dame de Paris" program to place third in the free skating with 158.73 points and finish second overall with 246.38.At the press conference, Hanyu talked about his disappointment for not winning as expected and his optimism to peak at the World Championships.Kazakhstan's Denis Ten slipped from seventh to twelfth with a total of 197.26 after finishing seventeenth in the free skating.Canada's Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford earned a seasons' best score of 128.74 to take their first international title with 199.18, however, errors on both side by side elements meant that fellow skaters Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch finished higher in the free skating.Duhamel / Radford became the first Canadians to claim the pairs title since Jamie Sale and David Pelletier in 2002.Lessons I learned from this competition are that I can push my level higher as long as I practice hard", she went on.Fellow skater Akiko Suzuki consolidated her second placement in the short with a mostly error free skating.China's Li Zijun jumped from tenth to fifth earning 115.91 to finish fourth in the free skating and fifth overall all.Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond was the highest of the Canadian ladies earning 103.16 points for a total of 159.38 and a seventh-place finish.Skating to "Notre Dame de Paris", the new champions told of the work required to reclaim the Four Continents Championships Ice dancing title which they lost to Virtue and Moir in Colorado Springs.Despite the incident, it was the downgrades in both the step sequences and not the interruption that cost Virtue / Moir points, dropping from the gold position with a second place score of 109.20 with a total of 184.32.In the free dance, we were able to execute a lot of the elements that we've been struggling with in practice and a little bit at the National Championships.
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