Fumie Suguri clinched a spot for the Winter Olympic Games in Turin after coming from behind to win her fifth title and first in three years at the figure skating national championships Sunday, edging teenage sensation Mao Asada with a solid free skate.
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| Fumie Suguri poses to finish her free program performance en route to winning the national figure skating title at Yoyogi Arena. Suguri captured an Olympic berth for the 2006 Turin Winter Games. |
Suguri earned the highest mark in the free skate on her way to a winning total of 194.16 points at Yoyogi National Gymnasium and later made the list of skaters bound for Turin along with former world champion Shizuka Arakawa and popular teenager Miki Ando.
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