Hanyu breaks sets skating world record at home GP
- Published: 23 Nov 2012 at 18.47
- Online news: Asia
Hometown boy Yuzuru Hanyu broke his own short-programme world record to lead the figure skating Grand Prix in Japan at an arena that doubled as a mortuary after the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.
Yuzuru Hanyu performs the men's short program in the NHK Trophy in Rifu, northern Japan, on Friday. Hometown boy Hanyu broke his own short-programme world record to lead the figure skating Grand Prix in Japan at an arena that doubled as a mortuary after the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.
The 17-year-old landed a clean quadruple jump followed by a triple axel and a triple-triple combination to collect 95.32 points in the short programme at the NHK Trophy event, the sixth and last leg of the ISU Grand Prix series.
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