MOSCOW, April 30 (Reuters) - Japan's Miki Ando upset the favourites, compatriot Mao Asada and South Korea's Kim Yuna, to win her second world figure skating title on Saturday, four years after claiming her first.Ando, 23, who was crowned women's champion on her home ice
in Tokyo in 2007, trailed Olympic champion Kim by less than half a point after Friday's short programme, but earned 130.21 points for her free skate to clinch gold at Moscow's Khodynka arena.
Kim, who rewrote the record books when claiming the Olympic gold last year, made a few errors during her free routine and had to settle for silver. She received 128.59 points, some 22 points shy of her record score in Vancouver.
Italy's 2010 European champion Carolina Kostner, who was sixth going into the free skate, capitalised on her rivals' mistakes to snatch the bronze medal.
Asada, who beat Kim to win gold at last year's worlds in Turin, had a disappoiting championships and after a seventh-place finish on Friday, could only move up one spot to sixth.
in Tokyo in 2007, trailed Olympic champion Kim by less than half a point after Friday's short programme, but earned 130.21 points for her free skate to clinch gold at Moscow's Khodynka arena.
Kim, who rewrote the record books when claiming the Olympic gold last year, made a few errors during her free routine and had to settle for silver. She received 128.59 points, some 22 points shy of her record score in Vancouver.
Italy's 2010 European champion Carolina Kostner, who was sixth going into the free skate, capitalised on her rivals' mistakes to snatch the bronze medal.
Asada, who beat Kim to win gold at last year's worlds in Turin, had a disappoiting championships and after a seventh-place finish on Friday, could only move up one spot to sixth.
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