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Article: SKATE: Liu finishes seventh at world championships
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- March 22, 2002
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SKATE: Liu finishes seventh at world championships
MELBOURNE, March 22 AAP - Anthony Liu has finished seventh at the
world figure skating
championships, the best ever result by an Australian.
The two-time Olympian improved four places overnight after a superb
long program in
Nagano, Japan, where he successfully landed both his quad jump and
triple axel.
No Australian had ever previously finished higher than tenth at
a world championships
or Olympic Games.
Liu was tenth at last month's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
"Anthony showed he had the ability to match it with the elite of
the ...