The world championship of figure skating started in Sweden on the 24th, and Rika Kihira finished second in the short program of the first half of the women's singles.
The World Figure Skating Championships began in Stockholm, Sweden on the 24th with no spectators, and a short program for the first half of the women's singles was held.
At the beginning of the performance, Kihira landed a unique triple accelerator, but it was judged that the rotation was insufficient.
In addition, the second jump became insufficient in the continuous jump of 3 rotations.
After this, he showed a cartwheel with one hand and got the highest rated level four in three spins and steps, and finished second with a score of 79.08.
Russian Anna Shelvakova put together an almost perfect performance and took the lead at 81.00.
In third place was Elizaveta Tuktamisheva, who won the world championship six years ago with the same Russians, scoring 78.86.
Among the Japanese, Kaori Sakamoto was 6th with 70.38 and Satoko Miyahara was 16th with 59.99.
This tournament has a quota for next year's Beijing Olympics.
The second half of the women's singles will be free on the 26th.
Kihira "Aiming for better acting"
Kihira said, "I'm glad I was able to make all three jumps for the time being, but I want to aim for even better performance. I learned how to spend time until the performance, such as tension and way of thinking, so I want to make use of it in the second half of the free time." Did.
On top of that, "Free is a program that makes your physical strength difficult and if you make one mistake, you will make a series of mistakes, so I want to tighten my mind. I want to adjust with practice and aim for a no-miss performance in the best condition in the actual performance." I talked about my enthusiasm for free.