Teenage figure skating phenomenon Kim Yu-na won the short program in the women’s single event on the first day of the 2009 International Skating Union Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday with a personal best and a new world record score of 72.24 points.
She beat her own world record of 71.95 in the 2007 World Championship in Tokyo, Japan.
Her archrival Mao Asada of Japan finished a disappointing sixth, having doubled a planned triple lutz and under-rotated a triple loop in her opening triple flip-triple loop combination.
The women’s free program competition will be held on Saturday.
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