Queen Kim wins S Korea's first figure skating gold at Winter Games
15:47, 26 February 2010
VANCOUVER. February 26. KAZINFORM Teenage diva Kim Yu-Na set an unprecedable bar for successors here on Thursday, winning South Korea's first figure skating gold medal with record scores at the Vancouver Winter Games.
Skating flawlessly and infectiously to George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, the 19-year-old prodigy earned 150.06 points for free skating, breaking the previous world record of her own for more than 16 points.
The long program score, adding to her sublime short program on Tuesday, gave Kim a combined score of 228.56, a full 18.53 points more than her previous world best.
Trailing by 4.72 points after short program, the Japanese sensation Mao Asada, also 19 years old, sustained the second place on podium with 28 points down from the leader, Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.
See www.xinhuanet.com