Kaori Sakamoto, who is aiming to participate in the Olympic Games for the second consecutive tournament in the women's singles of figure skating, took the lead in the short program in the first half of the tournament held in Kyoto with no major mistakes.
21-year-old Sakamoto participated in the Kinki Championship held in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture, as the third race of the season following last week's Japan Open, and faced the short program in the first half of the 9th.
After deciding the double axel at the beginning of the performance, the following three-turn Lutz also landed on the ice, but in the three-turn continuous jump, "the tummy and the calf of the left foot got stuck in the first spin" and the rotation was insufficient.
Even so, I slipped through without major mistakes until the end, and took the lead at 72.02.
Sakamoto said that one of the purposes of participating in this tournament was to develop his intuition for the opening round of the Grand Prix series in the United States, which will be held later this month. I wanted to find an issue through the match because the connection part is dense, so I'm glad I got out because I found a correction point in the detailed expression part. "