Kim Yu-na posts season's best to seal return

Korean Olympic champion Kim Yu-na performs during her comeback at the Figure Skating NRW Trophy in Dortmund, Germany, on Sunday.

DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Olympic champion Kim Yu-na completed her triumphant return to figure skating competition on Sunday by winning the NRW Trophy with the season's best total score.

Kim overcame one blemish in an otherwise sublime free skate routine to end her 19-month sabbatical with 201.61 points, including the 72.27 she was awarded for the season's best short program on Saturday.

The 22-year-old Kim was competing in the second-tier competition to secure a place at next year's world championships.

Xenia Makarova of Russia was second with 159.01 points, while Sweden's Viktoria Helgesson finished third on 158.93.

Mao Asada of Japan reached the season's previous best of 196.80 when she won the Grand Prix Final in Sochi, Russia on Saturday.

Kim hadn't competed since the world championships in Moscow in April 2011.

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