BEIJING – Japan´s Yuma Kagiyama and Mai Mihara have won the men’s and women’s singles titles at the Asia Open Figure Skating event.
The 18-year-old world silver medallist Kagiyama scored 179.98 in the free skate for a 277.78 total in the 2022 Beijing Olympics test event.
Kagiyama maintained his lead, while Mihara overtook compatriot Kaori Sakamoto in the women´s competitions.
Kagiyama said that despite the victory, his programme was far from perfect.
“If you look at it comprehensively, there were a lot of issues,” he told Kyodo news agency according to AP.
“I´ve added a new quad loop to my free program from this season, and I want to improve to the point that even if I mess up the quad loop, I´ll still do a good job on my other quad jumps,” Kagiyama added.
In a programme with few mistakes, Mihara scored 135.75 points at Capital Indoor Stadium for a total of 203.58.
“I wasn´t as nervous as I was the day before,” Mihara said. “From start to finish I skated without losing my concentration, although I want to improve my accuracy on each jump.”
Strict COVID-19 measures were in effect, with all participants required to stay in a competition bubble.
In late September, the IOC and Beijing Games officials said there would be a 21-day quarantine for non-fully vaccinated athletes, officials and workers at the Feb. 4-20 event, They also said there would be daily testing for vaccinated people and that no tickets would be sold to anyone living outside China.
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