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[Vancouver 2010] Kiira Korpi was 11th overall

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] FS Starting Order for Kiira Korpi

Kiira Korpi / Photo:YLE

The starting order of Free Skating was announced.
Kiira Korpi will skate as the 8th skater.
Ladies free skating starts Feb. 25, 17:00 in Vancouver time.

Go to catch up, Kiira!

[Vancouver 2010] Kiira Korpi got 52.96 pt for SP

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 [...]

Kiira in February 2010 issue of “Gloria”

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 was 4th overall

Ladies free skating of Euros 2010 was over.
Kiira Korpi fell and had couple of other mistakes. Got 99.42 points for FS and fell down to fourth in final standings. Only 0.86 points from third.

Kiira will go to Vancouver with her Finnish team mate Laura Lepistö.

Congrats, Kiira and Laura!

Video of Free Skate (HD):

Interview with translation [...]

Euros 2010 Kiira is 2nd after SP

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

Kiira voted as best athlete from Tampere

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.

Finlandia Trophy 2009 Kiira Got Bronze!

Finally, Kiira Korpi got the Bronze medal at Finlandia Trophy 2009!

Congrats, Kiira!
News Coverage:

MTV3 18:10
Yle News 18:11
Yle News 2 (video interview)
Ilta-Sanomat 18:13
Aamulehti 18:16
Helsingin Sanomat 18:18

(to be continued…)

Final Results:

FPl.NameNationPointsSPFS

1Alena LEONOVARUS162.1711

2Laura LEPISTÖFIN154.3362

3Kiira KORPIFIN152.8423

4Myriane SAMSONCAN146.5554

5Jenna MCCORKELLGBR138.8795

6Katarina GERBOLDTRUS137.187

7Fumie SUGURIJPN136.9148

8Valentina MARCHEIITA136.55106

9Viktoria HELGESSONSWE135.1579

10Susanna PÖYKIÖFIN128.55310

11Aki SAWADAJPN120.181111

12Becky BERESWILLUSA117.111213

13Nana TAKEDAJPN113.531314

14Joshi HELGESSONSWE112.231512

15Molly OBERSTARUSA109.891415

16Olga IKONNIKOVAEST91.561616

Finlandia Trophy 2009 SP results

Kiira is second after Short Program!

Kiira got 54,71 points from the short program although she fell the first jump, and is second after Russia’s Alena Leonova. Susanna Pöykiö is third and Laura Lepistö is sixth.

See here official results and detailed scores of the SP.

News coverage:

Yle news (translation)
Yle news 2 (includes video interview) (translation)
Iltasanomat (translation)
Iltasanomat [...]

Updates on the official site

There is a new Finnish blog entry (still waiting the previous entry in English, in the meantime here is a machine translation) on the official site at www.kiirakorpi.fi regarding the outcome of the Nebelhorn Trophy and four five new pictures from the Nebelhorn Trophy.