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Choi leads Asiad short program
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CHOI Da-bin won the women’s short program in figure skating at the Asian Winter Games yesterday.
The South Korean, fifth at last week’s Four Continents, opened with a triple lutz-triple toeloop combination and added a triple flip and double axel for 61.30 points. Rika Hongo of Japan was second with 60.98 points, followed by Zhao Ziquan of China with 58.90.
Choi was a last-minute replacement for Park So-youn, who withdrew with an ankle injury. Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, the junior national champion, pulled out because of the flu.
In ice dance, Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu of China led after the short dance with 66.02 points. Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed of Japan were second with 64.74, followed by Chen Hong and Zhao Yen of China with 59.02.
The women’s short program in Sapporo featured entries from non-traditional figure skating countries, including Zahra Lari from the United Arab Emirates and Tasya Putri from Indonesia.
In other events, Miho Takagi of Japan took her third gold medal in speed skating by winning the women’s mass start.
Takagi, who also won gold in the 3,000-meter and 1,500 races and silver in the 1,000, maintained an early lead and won in 8 minutes, 21.81 seconds.
Teammate Ayano Sato finished 0.07 seconds back for silver. Kim Bo-reum of South Korea took third, crossing in 8:47.46.
In the men’s mass start, Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea won in 8:12.72, edging Shane Williamson of Japan, who was second in 8:13.25. Kim Min-seok of South Korea won the bronze in 8:13.69.
Kim also won gold in the 1,500 in 1:46.26. Takuro Oda of Japan was second in 1:46.76 and Taro Kondo, also of Japan, took the bronze in 1:47.88.
Yuki Kobayashi of Japan won her second cross-country skiing gold medal, winning the women’s 5-kilometer classical.
Kobayashi added to the 10K free title she won on Tuesday, finishing in 14:56.1. Yelena Kolomina of Kazakhstan took the silver in 15:02.8 and Li Hongxue of China settled for the bronze in 15:18.6.
Akira Lenting of Japan won in the men’s 10K classical.
Lenting, whose mother is Japanese and father is from New Zealand, won in 25:15.6 to finish more than 16 seconds ahead of Magnus Kim of South Korea. Kim timed 25:32.5 to take the silver, with the bronze going to Kohei Shimizu of Japan, who timed 25:39.0.
In the men’s biathlon 10K sprint, Yan Savitskiy led Kazakhstan to a 1-2 finish. Savitskiy clocked 26:59.2 while Vassiliy Podkorytov was second in 27:14.2. Mikito Tachizaki of Japan won the bronze medal in 27:19.4.
Galina Vishneskaya of Kazakhstan won the women’s biathlon in 20:32.6. Zhang Yan of China took silver in 20:56.8 and Alina Raikova of Kazakhstan won bronze in 21:23.2.
In the women’s giant slalom, Emi Hasegawa of Japan won the title. Japanese skiers took the top three spots, but competition regulations meant third-place Mio Arai was denied the bronze.
Hasegawa topped both runs to win the gold in a total time of 2:21.58. Asa Ando took the silver in 2:23.45 and Arai clocked 2:25.49.
The bronze, however, went to Korean Kang Young-seo, who was fourth.
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