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Many surprises have characterized the stage of World Cup aerials which took place over the weekend in Lake Placid. & Nbsp;
Wednesday 4 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
In the night between Friday Italian & Igrave; and Saturday were held individual competitions, while twenty four hours after the athletes took part in the second race in team history after the one that was held last December 21 in Beijing in the opening stage of this season's World Cup.
As for the individual competition, in the women's eighteen Belarusian Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya got his first win in his career in the world circuit of maximum discipline thanks to a score of 80.62. Second place for the twenty-two Russian Veronika Korsunova, medal 'silver at the World Championships in 2013, with a score of 78.88, while the third place & egrave; went to the twenty-four Canadian Melissa Corbo with 74.82 points. Note how all three of these athletes are in their first World Cup podium of his career.
Fourth the neo-world champion Laura Peel, eighth Kiley McKinnon, Danielle Scott eleventh, twelfth and Ashley Caldwell only sixteenth Mengtao Xu. The Chinese, at the top of specialty & agrave; Before this stage, has found strong wind during their jump qualification and not & egrave; managed to enter the final.
In the men the nineteen US Mac Bohonnon & egrave; managed to win his first victory in the World Cup in his career after his third place in the race and second in Beijing to Deer Valley last January 8, redeeming cos & Igrave; the disappointing fourteenth place in the opening race of the World Championships in Kreischberg two weeks ago. The young athlete home & egrave; was the 'last to jump and has resisted the pressure by clocking a score of 126.24 that allowed him to bypass the three Chinese athletes squadron who were commanding the race so far.
The twenty Zhou Hang it & egrave; cos & Igrave; ranked second with 125.34 points, while the 'other Chinese Qi Guangpu & egrave; reached the third step of the podium after winning the first World Cup races of the season pi & ugrave; the world title in Kreischberg.
The next day & egrave; was the turn of the team competition, and on this occasion, as gi & agrave; happened in Beijing, the results obtained by the athletes in qualifying are served to determine the individual rankings of the day.
In the women the wind continued to affect the performance of McKinnon, Xu and Scott who are classified respectively in sixteenth, nineteenth and twenty-first position. Also in this case the win & egrave; went to un''atleta that had never climb on the podium of the World Cup, the twenty-three Australian Renee McElduff, that with a score of 84.42 preceded Korsunova, still second with 83.47 points, and the Belarusian Húskova Hanna, who with this third place he got his first career podium in the maximum world circuit of aerials thanks to a score of 82.84. Fourth place went to the winner of the race the previous day, remained at a distance of only 31 basis points from compatriot Húskova.
In the men the Chinese Zhou Hang improved second place the day before and & egrave; went on to win his first race of the World Cup in career becoming cos & Igrave; the fourth different winner in these four individual events in Lake Placid.
The second place & egrave; went to compatriot Qi Guangpu, now subscribed to the podium, to which no & egrave; enough for his score of 121.27 to best of 126.70 points to Zhou. Third place for the twenty-three Russian Ilya Burov, who cos & Igrave; could equal the result obtained in Beijing with its 120.81 points. Fifth place for Bohonnon.
Team competition success & egrave; went to China, gi & agrave; winner in Beijing, thanks to Shen Xiaoxue in the women and of course Hang Zhou and Qi Guangpu in the men. Second place went to Belarus, formed by Hanna Húskova, Stanislau Hladchenko and Denis Osipau, while the third place & egrave; went to Russia, composed Veronika Korsunova, Pavel Krotov and Ilya Burov.
In the overall standings of the World Cup men's Qi Guangpu, with 88 points, two points ahead of the ruler of the moguls Mikael Kingsbury, while in the ranking dedicated to aerials, the Chinese, with its 440 points, the largest margin of 323 points Zhou and 311 of Bohonnon when there are only two tests at the end of the season.
Among women the McKinnon & egrave; flow rate at the top of specialty & agrave; with 267 points, ahead of the Chinese Xu of 18 lengths.
The next round of the World Cup aerials sar & agrave; Saturday, February 21 in Moscow, Russia. & Nbsp;
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