Carolina Kostner has her sights set on a World Cup medal

Carolina Kostner also surprised the experts with the short program on Wednesday to the sounds of Celine Dion's “Ne me quitte pas”: her performance was not only artistically overwhelming as usual, but also technically flawless.

19 times the highest grade of 10 in the short program The 31-year-old from Val Gardena, who is competing at a World Cup for the 14th time, improved her short program record by two points on Wednesday and broke the “magic” 80-point barrier (80,27). What is particularly impressive is their new record for the program components (38,97 points). This rating is calculated from five grades each, which are awarded by a total of nine jurors. Carolina Kostner's performance received the highest grade of 19 an incredible 10 times. There wasn't a single 10 for the rivals. The top 3 will finish the free program from 22 p.m After the short program, Kostner is just in the lead over the 15-year-old Russian Olympic champion Alina Zagitova (79,51 points) and a little more clearly ahead of the Japanese Satoko Miyahara (74,36). In reverse order, Miyahara, Zagitova and Kostner will compete in the showdown on Friday evening from 22 p.m. The Canadians Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman as well as the Russian Maria Sotskowa also still have a chance of winning a medal, but are already a respectable gap to Kostner.

If Carolina Kostner, the 2012 world champion, manages to maintain a podium place, it would be her seventh World Cup medal: in addition to gold in Nice 2012, she won silver in 2008 in Gothenburg and 2013 in London as well as bronze in 2005 and 2011 Moscow and in Saitama in 2014. Seventh World Cup medal within reach With his seventh World Championship medal, Kostner would definitely earn a place of honor among the greatest in her sport. Only the Norwegian Sonja Henie with eleven medals between 1926 and 1936 and the American Michelle Kwan with nine medals between 1996 and 2004 won more World Cup precious metal. Other figure skating icons such as Katarina Witt, Irina Slutskaya, Herma Szabo and Yuna Kim have six World Championship medals - as is “Caro” Kostner at the moment.

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Carolina Kostner has her sights set on a World Cup medal

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