2009 December | Kiira-Korpi.net

Holiday greetings

By Timo, on December 24th, 2009%

Happy holidays to all our readers! Today MTV3 aired a short interview after the sports news about Kiira’s christmas plans.

Official nominations for Europeans 2010

By Timo, on December 22nd, 2009%

The Finnish Figure Skating Association has officially nominated the team for the European figure skating championships. There were no surprises as the women’s team consists of Kiira Korpi, Laura Lepistö and Susanna Pöykiö. For men the single place went to Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari and for ice dancing Oksana Klimova / Sasha Palomäki.

The Europeans 2010 are held in Tallinn, Estonia on 18th – 24th of January 2010. For Finnish fans it is worth to mention that the competition is going to be brodcasted live in high definition in Yle HD channel for free.

Nationals 2010: Silver!

By Timo, on December 20th, 2009%

Kiira was first today at the free skating with a score of 106,35. Laura did also a good free skate with almost the same score of 106,24 and because of yesterday Kiira finished second.

Final results:

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Laura LEPISTÖ	ESJT	167.79	1	2
2	Kiira KORPI	TAPPA	159.28	2	1
3	Susanna PÖYKIÖ	OLK	147.85	3	3
4	Alisa MIKONSAARI	LL	133.70	4	4
5	Minna PARVIAINEN	ETK	121.27	5	5
6	Henriikka HIETANIEMI	HL	114.54	6	6

Free skating results:

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +	PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	StN.
1	Kiira KORPI	TAPPA	106.35	47.60	58.75	7.61	6.71	7.46	7.57	7.36	#6
2	Laura LEPISTÖ	ESJT	106.24	44.99	61.25	7.82	7.21	7.68	8.00	7.57	#5
3	Susanna PÖYKIÖ	OLK	99.00	44.08	54.92	7.18	6.29	7.04	7.00	6.82	#4
4	Alisa MIKONSAARI	LL	86.48	44.82	41.66	5.50	4.79	5.46	5.29	5.00	#3
5	Minna PARVIAINEN	ETK	77.55	35.95	41.60	5.50	4.75	5.29	5.25	5.21	#2
6	Henriikka HIETANIEMI	HL	74.60	33.41	41.19	5.32	5.00	5.04	5.32	5.07	#1

Judges Score (pdf)

Short Program
Free Skating

Media coverage:

Helsingin Sanomat (translation)

http://www.figureskatingresults.fi/results/0910/SM2010%20Jkl/SM-senioritnaiset_SP_Scores.pdf

Nationals 2010: Short Program

By Timo, on December 19th, 2009%

Kiira skated her Short Program after Laura and Susanna, and got 52.93 points which leaves her at second place at this point. Laura got 61.55 points and is leading now, and Susanna is third with 48.85 points. Kiira fell one jump and had couple of deductions.

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP
1	Laura LEPISTÖ	ESJT	61.55	1
2	Kiira KORPI	TAPPA	52.93	2
3	Susanna PÖYKIÖ	OLK	48.85	3
4	Alisa MIKONSAARI	LL	47.22	4
5	Minna PARVIAINEN	ETK	43.72	5
6	Henriikka HIETANIEMI	HL	39.94	6

Interview after the SP (with translation, thanks Roikale95!):

Finnish Nationals tomorrow

By Timo, on December 18th, 2009%

Anna, one of our regulars, reported yesterday that the Finnish Figure Skating Association will show the nationals in internet LIVE in this address:

Live video feed: https://stll-fi.directo.fi/media/taitoluistelutv/

Time schedule: (check clock at upper left corner on this page)

Ladies’ Short Program on Saturday at 15:24 – 16:07 Finnish time
Ladies’ Free Skating on Sunday at 16:35 – 17:28 Finnish time.

Official web page of the Nationals.

Official results will be posted here.

Kiira voted as best athlete from Tampere

By Timo, on December 16th, 2009%

Kiira was voted as the best athlete from Tampere today by the association of sport reporters of Tampere. This was the 50th time this poll was conducted. Long jumper Tommi Evilä got the second most votes and gymnast Annika Orvikko the thirst most. Kiira was awarded a challenge cup designed by Kalle Kaihari.

Campaigning for swine flu vaccination

By Timo, on December 16th, 2009%

Kiira is appearing in a video to support swine flu vaccinations made for the Finnish national institute for health and welfare.

Interview before the Nationals

By Timo, on December 16th, 2009%

The Finnish Nationals are being held next weekend in Jyväskylä. There is no strict requirements for points, since the two places for the Olympics are given based on success in the Europeans next January in Tallinn, Estonia.

Kiira attended Valio‘s press conference in Valio Ice Cream Bar in Kamppi shopping center in Helsinki. Here is a short interview from Nelonen sport news which was aired 10th of December 2009. Remember to turn on English subtitles.