Wakaba Higuchi lands triple axel and dominates, Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda leads men’s event at Cup of Austria

This week, Austria is hosting the International Skating Union (ISU) Challenger Series competition Cup of Austria. Following the short program performances in the women’s and men’s events, Japanese figure skaters found themselves at the top of the standings in each discipline.

Women

Wakaba Higuchi:

Yeonjeong Park:

Niin Petrokina:

Eva-Lotta Kiibus:

Results after short program:

1. Wakaba HIGUCHI (JPN) – 79.73
2. Yeonjeong PARK (KOR) – 57.84
3. Niina PETROKINA (EST) – 57.39
4. Emily BAUSBACK (CAN) – 55.06
5. Audrey SHIN (USA) – 54.58
6. Tomoe KAWABATA (JPN) – 54.34
7. Starr ANDREWS (USA) – 53.78
8. Gerli LIINAMAE (EST) – 53.27
9. Eva-Lotta KIIBUS (EST) – 52.24
10. Kristina ISAEV (GER) – 51.85
11. Oona OUNASVUORI (FIN) – 50.79
12. Ginevra Lavinia NEGRELLO (ITA) – 50.61
13. Emilea ZINGAS (CYP) – 50.02
14. Linnea Sophie Kolstad KILSAND (NOR) – 48.54
15. Sophia SCHALLER (AUT) – 48.46
16. Nina POVEY (GBR) – 46.89
17. Alison SCHUMACHER (CAN) – 46.68
18. Milana RAMASHOVA (BLR) – 46.53
19. Aya HATAKAWA (GER) – 46.11
20. Frida Turiddotter BERGE (NOR) – 45.89
21. Nikola RYCHTARIKOVA (CZE) – 45.79
22. Stefanie PESENDORFER (AUT) – 45.78
23. Linnea CEDER (FIN) – 45.64
24. Kristen SPOURS (GBR) – 45.56
25. Natasha MCKAY (GBR) – 45.46
26. Tara PRASAD (IND) – 44.44
27. Roberta RODEGHIERO (ITA) – 42.54
28. Alexandra Michaela FILCOVA (SVK) – 42.23
29. Sinem PEKDER (TUR) – 39.99
30. Hana CVIJANOVIC (CRO) – 37.01
31. Yasemin ZEKI (TUR) – 36.82
32. Emelie LING (SWE) – 33.34
33. Maral-Erdene GANSUKH (MGL) – 25.90
34. Marian MILLARES (ESP) – 26.44

Judges’ Scores

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Men

Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda:

Mihhail Selevko:

Results after short program:

1. Lucas Tsuyoshi HONDA (JPN) – 83.95
2. Mihhail SELEVKO (EST) – 82.61
3. Maurizio ZANDRON (AUT) – 79.06
4. Nikita STAROSTIN (GER) – 75.78
5. Arlet LEVANDI (EST) – 75.10
6. Beres CLEMENTS (CAN) – 71.45
7. Nicola TODESCHINI (SUI) – 71.09
8. Luc MAIERHOFER (AUT) – 70.60
9. Sena MIYAKE (JPN) – 70.57
10. Landry LE MAY (FRA) – 70.53
11. Jari KESSLER (CRO) – 69.54
12. Nika EGADZE (GEO) – 68.02
13. Ilia MALININ (USA) – 67.58
14. Corey CIRCELLI (CAN) – 67.41
15. Adrien TESSON (FRA) – 66.44
16. Daniel SAMOHIN (ISR) – 66.33
17. Raffaele Francesco ZICH (ITA) – 64.69
18. Matyas BELOHRADSKY (CZE) – 64.20
19. Burak DEMIRBOGA (TUR) – 63.10
20. Alexander LEBEDEV (BLR) – 62.53
21. Kai JAGODA (GER) – 60.20
22. Makar SUNTSEV (FIN) – 58.40
23. Thomas STOLL (GER) – 58.31
24. Basar OKTAR (TUR) – 57.84
25. Michael Christian MARTINEZ (PHI) – 57.50
26. Pablo GARCIA (ESP) – 55.43
27. Charles Henry KATANOVIC (CRO) – 53.20
28. Adonis Wai Chung WONG (HKG) – 44.38

Judges’ Scores