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Japan's Asada wins third world figure skating title
Saitama Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 03 - 2014

Mao Asada of Japan clinched the women's figure skating title for the third time with victory at the World Figure
Skating Championships before home fans in Saitama Saturday.
Asada, 23, held off Russian team Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya
and Italian Carolina Kostner in the free skate to become the first
Japanese three-time champion, according to dpa.
Asada, who held a narrow 1.42-point lead from the short programme,
finished with 216.69 points, 9.19 ahead of Lipnitskaya and 12.89 up
on Kostner.
The victory added to Asada's world singles titles from the world
championships in Gothenburg in 2008 and Turin in 2010.
She had finished sixth at the Sochi Olympics when gold went to
Russia's Adelina Sotnikova.
-- SPA
19:03 LOCAL TIME 16:03 GMT
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