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Student athlete 2009 award ceremony

Taskinen — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:24:30 +0000

Kiira was awarded the student athlete of the year 2009 award last February, as we reported earlier. But since she couldn’t attend the award ceremony earlier, the award was given separately on Wednesday the 12th of May 2010.

In the ceremony at the University of Tampere there were representatives from the Finnish Student Sports Federation and [...]

Kiira and Puma continuing their co-operation

Taskinen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:08:53 +0000

Puma will continue as Kiira’s sponsor, and Kiira will be the cover of Puma’s new “PUMA Complete Running” -collection as stated in a press release by Puma.

In the press release Kiira praises Puma’s gear and says that they have proved to work well during exercise. She also says that the [...]

[Worlds 2010] Kiira Korpi’s Short Program

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:50:26 +0000

Kiira fell the first jump and got 51.72 points from her Short Program and placed on 8th place. Before the last group of 6 skaters she is 11th.

Video:

Interview:

Results: FPl.NameNationPoints 1Mirai NAGASUUSA70.40 2Mao ASADAJPN68.08 3Laura LEPISTOFIN64.30 4Carolina KOSTNERITA62.20 5Ksenia MAKAROVARUS62.06 6Rachael FLATTUSA60.88 7Yu-Na KIMKOR60.30 8Cynthia PHANEUFCAN59.50 9Viktoria HELGESSONSWE56.32 10Julia SEBESTYENHUN56.10 11Miki ANDOJPN55.78 12Elene GEDEVANISHVILIGEO55.26 13Sarah HECKENGER55.20 14Alena LEONOVARUS54.36 15Jenna MCCORKELLGBR52.12 16Kiira KORPIFIN51.72 17Cheltzie LEEAUS51.36 18Yan LIUCHN49.96 19Anastasia GIMAZETDINOVAUZB49.10 20Akiko SUZUKIJPN48.36

[Vancouver 2010] Kiira Korpi was 11th overall

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:19:18 +0000

Kiira skated well in the Free Skating and got her all time best score of 108.61 and finished 11th in final standings.

In an interview afterwards, she also said (again) that she is going to continue to at least the next Olympics at Sochi, Russia in 2014.

Kiira in the kiss and cry of Vancouver 2010 [...]

[Vancouver 2010] Kiira Korpi got 52.96 pt for SP

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:47:36 +0000

Kiira Korpi skates her SP, Vancouver 2010 / photo:AP

Kiira Korpi fell the first element, triple lutz combo and got 52.96 points for her short program. After 20 skaters, Kiira is now 7th place. Kiira is 17th place after SP. See here for further results:

Media Coverage:

Aamulehti

Helsingin Sanomat

YLE

PlaceNameCountryPoints 1Yu-Na KimKOR78.5 2Mao AsadaJPN73.78 3Joannie RochetteCAN71.36 4Miki AndoJPN64.76 5Rachael FlattUSA64.64 6Mirai NagasuUSA63.76 7Carolina KostnerITA63.02 8Alena LeonovaRUS64.14 10Laura [...]

Interview of Kiira and Laura in Vancouver

Taskinen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:29:02 +0000

The Finnish broadcasting company made an interview of Kiira and Laura when they were preparing for the competitions in Vancouver Olympic village.

Kiira presents figure skating in Yle olympic television

Taskinen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:59:17 +0000

The Finnish broadcasting company is presenting different winter Olympic sports in their television coverage of Vancouver 2010 with the help of Finnish Olympic athletes and a young television host. Figure skating was featured last week, and the athlete presenting it was Kiira. The video has been recorded before Olympics in Hakametsä ice hall in Tampere [...]

New interview 20/02/2010

Roikale95 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:24:18 +0000

Here’s a new interview of Kiira in Vancouver, made yesterday (Saturday, February 20th). She seems to be in very good spirits and says that her practice skates have gone well. Not really new info there, but nice to see her feeling so confident and expecting the competition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMUqKR-Pg8g

Kiira in February 2010 issue of “Gloria”

Roikale95 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:58:28 +0000

I already uploaded these to the Forum, but in order to have the files stored also in this site, here they are again. There is an altogether 6-page article of her in this Finnish women’s/fashion magazine (+ cover). The article is mostly about Kiira’s presence in media, peoples’ perception of her, her image – also [...]

Euros 2010 Kiira is 2nd after SP

takashi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:51:22 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMj4EfO6ec

Kiira Korpi is in 2nd after SP with her personal best score 64.26 at the European Championships 2010 in Tallin.

Media Coverages:

Aamulehti hs YLE MTV3 Iltalehti FPl.NameNationPointsSPFS 1Carolina KOSTNERITA65.801 2Kiira KORPIFIN64.262 3Laura LEPISTÖFIN62.963 4Elene GEDEVANISHVILIGEO60.824 5Alena LEONOVARUS58.265 6Julia SEBESTYENHUN57.446 7Valentina MARCHEIITA55.347 8Sarah MEIERSUI54.868 9Ksenia MAKAROVARUS54.069 10Tugba KARADEMIRTUR53.8810 11Jenna MCCORKELLGBR53.8011 12Viktoria HELGESSONSWE50.8612 13Elena GLEBOVAEST50.1013 14Oksana GOZEVARUS47.2614 15Ivana REITMAYEROVASVK47.0615 16Sarah HECKENGER46.3416 17Sonia LAFUENTEESP45.2617 18Susanna PÖYKIÖFIN44.6818 19Teodora POSTICSLO44.4619 20Natalia POPOVAUKR44.3020