[NHK Trophy] Kiira to Gala Exhibition

By takashi, on October 24th, 2010%

Finland's Kiira Korpi performs during an exhibition at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Nagoya, central Japan, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

The Nippon Gaishi Ice Arena

Here is the program of the show:

	name	Nation	place
1	Fanfare
2	Opening with Kids
3	Presentation of Participants
4	unknown
5	Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV	RUS	Pair 2nd
6	Rachael FLATT	USA	Lady 2nd
7	Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI	USA	Dance 3rd
8	Yuzuru HANYU	JPN	Men 4th
9	Caitlin YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN	USA	Pair 4th
10	Kanako MURAKAMI	JPN	Lady 3rd
11	Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE	CAN	Dance 2nd
12	Florent AMODIO	FRA	Men 3rd
13	Mao ASADA		JPN
	break
14	Cathy REED / Chris REED		JPN
15	Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN	JPN	Pair 3rd
16	Kiira KORPI	FIN	Lady 4th
17	Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV	RUS	Dance 4th
18	Jeremy ABBOTT	USA	Men 2nd
19	Qing PANG / Jian TONG	CHN	Pair 1st
20	Carolina KOSTNER	ITA	Lady 1st
21	Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE	USA	Dance 1st
22	Daisuke TAKAHASHI	JPN	Men 1st
23	Finale

Choreographer David Wilson

By Timo, on October 23rd, 2010%

World class choreographer David Wilson is responsible of creating Kiira’s new Evita -long program.

YLE Sport News made a story of Wilson and Korpi working together.

[NHK Trophy]Kiira’s got 4th place in final ranking

By Northeagle, on October 23rd, 2010%

Kiira ended the NHK Trophy 2010 in Nagoya with a final 4th place, and a good FS; fantastic Program Components, but once again with a Technical Elements score not good enough to ensure her top positions. She realized 148,44 score, and it’s been a pity, ’cause podium was far less than two points…
Anyway, important points for one of her season’s target: be in the first six positions of Grand Prix ranking, to take part to finals in China.
Well done Kiira, we all saw the famous Finnish “sisu”!

http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpjpn2010/CAT002RS.HTM

[NHK Trophy] Kiira’s 5th after SP

By Northeagle, on October 22nd, 2010%

Kiira’s got a 52,60 score after her SP: she’s 5th in the ranking at the moment, quite close to first, Carolina Kostner.

Here is the results:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpjpn2010/SEG003.HTM

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +	PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded. -	StN.
1	Carolina KOSTNER	ITA	57.27	27.52	29.75	7.50	7.11	7.46	7.54	7.57	0.00	#11
2	Kanako MURAKAMI	JPN	56.10	29.81	26.29	6.61	6.18	6.79	6.61	6.68	0.00	#6
3	Rachael FLATT	USA	53.69	28.29	25.40	6.50	6.07	6.36	6.39	6.43	0.00	#9
4	Ashley WAGNER	USA	52.93	27.34	25.59	6.50	6.14	6.43	6.43	6.50	0.00	#5
5	Kiira KORPI	FIN	52.60	23.89	28.71	7.18	6.86	7.29	7.18	7.39	0.00	#10
6	Caroline ZHANG	USA	50.71	25.93	24.78	6.36	6.04	6.18	6.29	6.11	0.00	#8
7	Jenna MCCORKELL	GBR	49.07	26.36	22.71	5.96	5.25	5.82	5.64	5.71	0.00	#4
8	Mao ASADA	JPN	47.95	20.00	28.95	7.57	6.96	7.07	7.32	7.25	1.00	#12
9	Elene GEDEVANISHVILI	GEO	44.51	18.65	25.86	6.61	6.00	6.54	6.54	6.64	0.00	#7
10	Viktoria HELGESSON	SWE	43.66	21.49	23.17	5.89	5.54	5.86	5.79	5.89	1.00	#3
11	Lena MARROCCO	FRA	41.67	22.99	19.68	5.18	4.64	5.00	4.96	4.82	1.00	#1
12	Diane SZMIETT	CAN	31.90	14.04	18.86	5.14	4.50	4.61	4.79	4.54	1.00	#2

Not a perfect performance, she’s been punished by Technical Elements: and she’s not new to this, unfortunately.

And here is the starting order for FS:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpjpn2010/SEG004.HTM
Kiira will skate 2nd in the 2nd Group.

Waiting for tomorrow, come on Kiira!

NHK Trophy 2010-2011

By Timo, on October 22nd, 2010%

NHK Trophy 2010-2011
Nagoya, Japan. 21.10.2010 – 24.10.2010.
Nihon Gaishi Arena

NHK Trophy is this weekend! Kiira will start her competition on Friday the 22nd with the Short Program and on Saturday is time for the Free Skating.

Schedule:

Times are local time in Japan (GMT+9). Finnish time is -6 hours.

Date	Time	Category	Segment
22.10.2010
	15:00:00	Ice Dance	Short Dance
	17:03:00	Pairs	Short Program
	19:00:00	Ladies	Short Program
23.10.2010
	12:20:00	Men	Short Program
	14:30:00	Ice Dance	Free Dance
	16:35:00	Pairs	Free Skating
	18:47:00	Ladies	Free Skating
24.10.2010
	12:00:00	Men	Free Skating

In SP Kiira is skating as the 4th skater in the second group, so she will be competing at around ~20:20 (14:20 Finnish time).

TV schedule in Finland (local time):

Saturday, Short Program:
TV2 at 14:45-16:30
TV2 at 18:00-18:50 (recap of SP highlights)

Saturday, Free Skating:
TV2 at 13:55-15:10

Sunday, Exhibition Gala show:
TV2 at 15:05-16:35

New official site of Kiira Korpi

By Timo, on October 19th, 2010%

At the same day as we unveiled our new site, the new official site at www.kiirakorpi.fi has been published today.

Kiira Korpi's new official site - www.kiirakorpi.fi

It features a Twitter feed, new photo and video gallery and a events calendar. There is also a mood meter which Kiira says she update with her phone during competitions and upload photos!

We hope everyone likes the both new sites, these are a great way to cheer Kiira for the new season! Everything is renewed now!

We have a new site!

By Timo, on October 19th, 2010%

Welcome to a brand new Kiira-Korpi.net site!

We have moved our site to Finland, which should provide much faster browsing experience for most of our visitors. Also the login and commenting problems should be a thing from the past now! If you have still problems, contact as at kiirakorpinet@gmail.com.

You can now find all articles from all of the different versions of this site from the archives! That is 435 blog posts from as far as February 2006! Happy reading and nostalgic feelings! There are some unreadable text in the articles because of Japanese characters, but you can just skip that text.

- Your admins.

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-11

By takashi, on October 11th, 2010%

Finlandia Trophy 2010: Kiira finished second only 2½ points behind Akiko Suzuki of Japan. Final results: http://bit.ly/a92q4U #

Personal best for Kiira at Finlandia Trophy 2010

By Northeagle, on October 10th, 2010%

Second place for Kiira in Vantaa 2010.
Here’s the final ranking:

Finlandia Trophy 2010
FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Akiko SUZUKI	JPN	166.57	2	1
2	Kiira KORPI	FIN	164.02	1	2
3	Alena LEONOVA	RUS	134.77	3	6
4	Ksenia MAKAROVA	RUS	132.13	5	3
5	Amanda DOBBS	USA	131.36	6	4
6	Elena GLEBOVA	EST	127.83	4	7
7	Sofia BIRYUKOVA	RUS	124.32	9	5
8	Linnea MELLGREN	SWE	116.47	7	9
9	Cecilia TÖRN	FIN	116.31	8	8
10	Alisa MIKONSAARI	FIN	98.16	10	10

A global good performance, but too many mistakes in triple jumps.
Anyway… well done Kiira, Akiko Suzuki is a very, very good skater, and this is another step towards the target of entering one of six places in top world ranking.

Twitter Updates for 2010-10-10

By takashi, on October 10th, 2010%

Finlandia Trophy 2010: Kiira is first after short program with 60.42 points! Second: Suzuki, third: Leonova. Results: http://bit.ly/9gfKgk #

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