Kim reigns supreme at worlds
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March 18, 2013, Monday
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REIGNING Olympic champion Kim Yu-na set herself up as a contender to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals with a runaway women's victory on Saturday at the World Figure Skating Championships in London, Ontario.
The South Korean superstar left the field in her wake as she delivered a second picture-perfect performance in her return to International Skating Union competition after a two-year hiatus.
"It has been a while since I competed in a big competition like worlds," Kim said through a translator. "I was really nervous in the warm-up but I skated last and I had time to calm myself down."
Kim scored 148.34 points for her masterful Les Miserables free skate, which opened with a flawless triple lutz-triple toe loop jump combination and brought the cheering crowd to its feet 10 seconds before she wound down her final spin.
Kim amassed a total of 218.31 points to take the world crown ahead of 2012 titleholder Carolina Kostner of Italy, who finished her 11th worlds with 197.80 to stand second.
Kostner scored 131.03 points for the free skate routine and finished 1.33 points ahead of Japan's Mao Asada, who climbed from sixth place after the short program into third overall.
Earlier, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the world ice dance title, defeating Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the reigning Olympic and 2012 world champions.
Russians Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev finished third.
The South Korean superstar left the field in her wake as she delivered a second picture-perfect performance in her return to International Skating Union competition after a two-year hiatus.
"It has been a while since I competed in a big competition like worlds," Kim said through a translator. "I was really nervous in the warm-up but I skated last and I had time to calm myself down."
Kim scored 148.34 points for her masterful Les Miserables free skate, which opened with a flawless triple lutz-triple toe loop jump combination and brought the cheering crowd to its feet 10 seconds before she wound down her final spin.
Kim amassed a total of 218.31 points to take the world crown ahead of 2012 titleholder Carolina Kostner of Italy, who finished her 11th worlds with 197.80 to stand second.
Kostner scored 131.03 points for the free skate routine and finished 1.33 points ahead of Japan's Mao Asada, who climbed from sixth place after the short program into third overall.
Earlier, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the world ice dance title, defeating Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the reigning Olympic and 2012 world champions.
Russians Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev finished third.
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