Figure skating: Japan's Mao Asada wins third world title
PUBLISHED ONMarch 29, 2014 1:42 PM
SAITAMA - Japan's Mao Asada won her third women's world championship title Saturday, putting her disappointing Olympic result behind her.
Russia's 15-year-old European champion Julia Lipnitskaia finished second and Italian veteran and Olympic bronze medallist Carolina Kostner third at the world championships in Saitama near Tokyo.
Asada finished sixth at last month's Sochi Olympics, battling back from a disastrous 16th spot in the short programme.