Aiko Uemura(上村愛子) won the women's mogul event at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Inawashiro (2009年FISフリースタイルスキー世界選手権猪苗代大会), Japan today. She scored 24.71 points which were top in turn, air, and speed. Canada's Jennifer Heil, who was the 2006 Torino Olympics Champion, was second with 22.88 points. Nikola Sudova of the Czech Republic became third with 21.76 points. Tae Satoya(里谷多英), who won the gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, finished ninth.
Not only for Uemura but also for Japanese skier this was the first gold medal at the World Championships in this event.
By getting the gold medal, she became the first person in all the events to get the ticket to participate in the Vancouver Olympics (五輪代表内定第1号：gorin daihyo naitei dai ichi go) next year. Accordingly she will participate in four Olympics in a row. When she attended Nagano Olympic in 1998 for the first time, she was a high school student.
In Salt Lake City Sayuri Yoshi(吉井小百合) became second marking the New Japan Record of 1 minute 14 seconds 05 for Women's 1000 meter speed skating at the ISU World cup.
Congratulations!
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