World Team Trophy update…

The final competition of the figure skating season, World Team Trophy, is underway in Tokyo, Japan. Here’s the news round-up so far. The Women’s event has just finished with the final group of skaters in the Free Skate putting on great performances for an appreciative audience.

Haein Lee / 이해인 of South Korea put in two Personal Best performances to take the win. She definitely solidified her place on the Senior figure skating circuit with her wonderful World Team Trophy performances.

She was followed by current World Champion, Kaori Sakamoto / 坂本花織, in 2nd. Mistakes on the jump combos in both the Short and the Free skate likely cost Sakamoto the win. But, as always, she was powerfully entertaining.

Up-and-coming US figure skater, Isabeau Levito, took 3rd with two beautiful skating performances. We can’t wait to see how her skating evolves next season!

The final scores and standings for the Women’s event were:

Place	Name	Nationality	Short Program	Free Skate	Total
1.	Haein Lee	South Korea	PB 76.90	PB 148.57	PB 225.47
2.	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	72.69	145.75	218.44
3.	Isabeau Levito	South Korea	71.22	142.65	213.87
4.	Yelim Kim	USA	62.65	PB 143.59	206.24
5.	Mai Mihara	Japan	66.85	131.21	198.06
6.	Amber Glenn	USA	66.55	128.46	195.01
7.	Madeline Schizas	Canada	PB 69.76	115.12	184.88
8.	Lea Serna	France	60.18	PB 117.54	PB 177.72
9.	Lorine Schild	France	55.72	114.28	170.00
10	Lara Naki Gutmann	Italy	51.12	116.83	167.95
11	Anna Pezzetta	Italy	56.13	106.30	162.43
12.	Sara-Maude Dupuis	Canada	PB 54.31	94.44	148.75

It was also great to see Yelim Kim / 김예림 (KOR) find her form again to finish in 4th, and hopefully that will set her up nicely for next season.

The Men’s and Pairs Free Skate takes place tomorrow.

We’ll post all about the final results then!

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Here’s a link from our earlier video covering some of the first day of World Team Trophy:

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