Japan bagged its sixth Worldwide Skating Union World Junior Determine Skating Championships title after Kao Miura, 17, gained gold in Canada over the weekend.
Miura completed the boys’s junior determine skating championship in Calgary on Saturday with a last rating of 179.63 within the free skate self-discipline and a complete rating of 264.74
📺 Kao MIURA (JPN) shines shiny as soon as once more! 🤩🔥 He takes the lead after the Males‘s Quick Program at #WorldJFigure #FigureSkating pic.twitter.com/00V74yplKw
— ISU Determine Skating (@ISU_Figure) March 3, 2023
“I made errors however managed to drag issues collectively. It’s nice to be ‘Champion Miura’ once more,” the Tokyo-born skater stated, alluding to his 4 Continents win in February, Kyodo Information reported. “This isn’t my purpose. I hope to boost my degree of efficiency and hold working from subsequent season onward.”
Dancing to “Magnificence and the Beast,” Miura pulled off a number of feats, together with a quad toe, quad toe-triple toe and quad Salchow, named after the Danish-born Swedish determine skater Ulrich Salchow.
Miura additionally managed to land two triple Axels, thought of to be probably the most tough maneuvers to drag off, on the world championship. Talking to reporters, Miura stated he gave himself about “a 70% rating” for his efficiency, “particularly within the second half of this system.”
“I used to be in a position to land the quad-triple mixture within the second half,” Miura stated, in accordance with Golden Skate. “I feel that mixture was really extra stunning than my triple-triple mixture within the brief [program].”
Miura’s win on Saturday marked Japan’s sixth junior males’s world title, the primary medal the nation has gained since 2018 Winter Olympics silver-medalist Shoma Uno bagged the title in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2015.
Different previous Japanese title holders embody Daisuke Takahashi in 2002, Nobunari Oda in 2005, Takahiko Kozuka in 2006 and Yuzuru Hanyu, often known as Japan’s “Ice Prince,” in 2010. In the meantime, the primary Japanese junior determine skater to win a medal within the males’s division was Takashi Mura, who took residence the silver medal at the inaugural World Junior Determine Skating Championships in Megève, France, in 1976.
In addition to Miura, feminine junior determine skater Mao Shimada, 14, additionally gained gold at Saturday’s occasion. The final time Japan swept the gold medals on the World Junior Determine Skating Championships was through the 2010 competitors at The Hague, Netherlands, when Hanyu and Kanako Murakami every gained a gold medal.
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