JGP #7 - Wuxi, CHN - Men's SP & FS

[victorskid]

Congratulations to David Bondar on placing 3rd in the FS!!!

Free skate results

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Rio NAKATA	JPN	151.98​	75.39​		76.59​	7.68​	7.50​	7.82​	0.00​	#17​
2​	Tonghe TIAN	CHN	138.62​	67.26​		71.36​	7.07​	7.29​	7.07​	0.00​	#14​
3​	David BONDAR	CAN	132.88​	67.68​		65.20​	6.54​	6.43​	6.61​	0.00​	#11​
4​	Patrick BLACKWELL	USA	132.23​	64.73​		68.50​	6.96​	6.68​	6.93​	1.00​	#12​
5​	Yanhao LI	NZL	130.35​	61.95​		70.40​	7.14​	6.79​	7.21​	2.00​	#16​
6​	Jaekeun LEE	KOR	127.37​	60.14​		67.23​	6.79​	6.54​	6.86​	0.00​	#15​
7​	Qihan ZHAO	CHN	125.93​	63.25​		62.68​	6.14​	6.36​	6.32​	0.00​	#7​
8​	Jiarui LI	HKG	118.64​	56.53​		62.11​	6.11​	6.04​	6.50​	0.00​	#13​
9​	John KIM	CAN	115.10​	51.69​		63.41​	6.29​	6.18​	6.57​	0.00​	#8​
10​	Artur SMAGULOV	KAZ	110.91​	51.97​		59.94​	6.00​	5.89​	6.11​	1.00​	#10​
11​	Ruiyang ZHANG	CHN	99.79​	51.57​		49.22​	4.89​	4.75​	5.14​	1.00​	#5​
12​	Hyunseo PARK	KOR	98.34​	39.40​		59.94​	6.00​	5.82​	6.18​	1.00​	#9​
13​	Konstantin SUPATASHVILI	GEO	92.22​	43.88​		49.34​	5.04​	4.71​	5.07​	1.00​	#6​
14​	Vinceman CHONG	AUS	81.79​	39.67​		46.12​	4.64​	4.32​	4.89​	4.00​	#4​
15​	Konstantin SMIRNOV	ARM	77.52​	35.93​		42.59​	4.18​	4.07​	4.54​	1.00​	#3​
16​	Betrand Zeusef ZURIEL	INA	59.26​	24.65​		34.61​	3.39​	3.50​	3.50​	0.00​	#1​
17​	Jayden Ye Hung TIN	MAS	52.90​	22.83​		30.07​	3.00​	2.96​	3.07​	0.00​	#2​

 

[victorskid]

Overall results

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FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Rio NAKATA	JPN	233.53	1	1
2	Tonghe TIAN	CHN	207.95	4	2
3	Yanhao LI	NZL	206.45	2	5
4	Jaekeun LEE	KOR	201.45	3	6
5	David BONDAR	CAN	196.86	7	3
6	Patrick BLACKWELL	USA	196.47	6	4
7	Jiarui LI	HKG	182.99	5	8
8	Qihan ZHAO	CHN	182.56	11	7
9	John KIM	CAN	175.56	10	9
10	Artur SMAGULOV	KAZ	173.32	8	10
11	Hyunseo PARK	KOR	160.28	9	12
12	Ruiyang ZHANG	CHN	153.44	13	11
13	Konstantin SUPATASHVILI	GEO	148.62	12	13
14	Vinceman CHONG	AUS	133.44	14	14
15	Konstantin SMIRNOV	ARM	123.71	15	15
16	Betrand Zeusef ZURIEL	INA	86.50	17	16
17	Jayden Ye Hung TIN	MAS	80.61	16	17
WD	Jedidiah LINCOLN	GBR

Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...OR----FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[Kateri]

Cute medal ceremony shenanigans:

• Tonghe forgetting to congratulate Yanhao until he was already on the podium, then them both awkwardly trying to do it across the gold medal step, obviously feeling they shoud do this without touching the sacred 1st position.
• Rio coming out wearing an entirely different pirate costume to the one he just skated in???
• total failure to co-ordinate a group shape-hearts

 

[kwanfan1818]

Was it his dad’s costume? Whoever gave the intro said it was important to him to skate to POTC because his dad did.

I’m still fixated on the rose that looks like it’s going to eat Li’s head.

 

[Karen-W]

Was it his dad’s costume? Whoever gave the intro said it was important to him to skate to POTC because his dad did.

I’m still fixated on the rose that looks like it’s going to eat Li’s head.

Wait... How old is Rio's dad? And I had no idea his dad was also a figure skater. That being said - the first POTC movie came out 21 years ago, so I suppose it's possible that his dad skated to the soundtrack and then retired within a season or two, got married & had Rio...

 

[kwanfan1818]

Neither of those guys in KnC looked old enough to have a teenager.

 

[Kateri]

Was it his dad’s costume? Whoever gave the intro said it was important to him to skate to POTC because his dad did.

Ohh, that would make sense, yes! It was very big on him!

 

[Sylvia]

Rio Nakata's FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-p-k_2At9g
Tonghe Tian's FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWEGH7LsNY

FS playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuiPiC1Hk8eJvPeoSy2MJNAyhWRTeUuK-

 

[victorskid]

Rio's father skating to POTC (as posted on X)

 

[Sylvia]

Rio Nakata told Ted Barton that he secretly brought his father's POTC costume with him to Wuxi because he wanted to surprise him by wearing it on the podium : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2N1F4ygRes

 

[YukiNieve]

Rio Nakata's father, Makoto Nakata, was a figure skater who was the bronze medalist at the 2001 All Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships (Daisuke won the junior title). He also competed in the 2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Beijing, China (Mikhail Magerovski of Russia won the title). Makoto also became a show skater for Prince Ice World (PIW).

Makoto is currently an assistant head coach at the MF Figure Skating Academy in Chiba, Japan, where Kensuke Nakaniwa is the head coach. Absolute Skating did a nice interview with Kensuke, who talks about the MF Academy in January this year.

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Makoto's profile on the Academy's website: https://mf-ice.com/academy/coache/makoto_nakata/

There are a number of talented young skaters who train at the MF Academy: Rio Nakata, Rinka Watanabe, Yuna Aoki, Ami Nakai, Yo Takagi, Tsudoi Sudo, just to name a few. This is impressive since the MF Academy started in 2021, just 3 years ago.

Taira Shinohara visited the MF Academy and had a short session (5 days) when he was in Japan this summer.

[ICE TIME] Taira Shinohara Benefits from Training with Yuma Kagiyama | SportsLook

After practicing with Kagiyama for seven days, American Taira Shinohara said

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"What I thought was interesting about the MK Academy skaters was that they have this clear on-and-off switch between just having fun and then going into serious training mode," Shinohara said. "I think that 'switch' allows them to keep their motivation up for continuing to train while having fun with the process."

(I noticed the quote above incorrectly spelled the name of the Academy - it is MF (Mitsui Fudosan), not MK).