Figure skating - European Championships 2014
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Thirteen years after the success achieved by Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio in Bratislava, a pair of dancing blue rose again on the top step of the podium in the top continental event.
Thursday 16 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte were, in fact, graduates imposing European Championships competition in both segments of the competition held at the "Syma Hall" in Budapest.
The students of the ever-green Paola Mezzadri and Igor Shpiland, after the victory of narrow extent in the short-dance, were reconfirmed in the free dance by completing a clear round fruit of a clear technical superiority over their rivals. '' In the occasion, the association has blue retouched by more than three lengths crossing the Italian record for the first time in his career the threshold of 170 points, up to now within the reach of only five other couples.
For the Italian dance is the seventh medal in the European Championships, the second for Cappellini / Lanotte.
The beat of the day, despite the best ratings ever on each component of the program, named after Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov, now forced to say goodbye to success due to an unfortunate set of twizzles, faced off sync from the very ' 'start because of the problems of Katsalapov and ended with a disastrous fall of Elena Ilinykh. Beyond'' s error, the students of Nikolai Morozov have paid duty in relation to arch-rivals on the diagonal, not gone beyond the second level also because of the shock'' s mishap occurred a few seconds before. Disappointment at the lack of success aside, Ilinykh / Katsalapov filed the third podium in the last three seasons.
The bronze medal was deservedly went to ventiquattrenni British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, who dimostato to be the third force in the field at every juncture of the race. Students of the award-Olympic champion Evgeni Platov, climbed to the headlines because of the'' open-heart surgery undergone by Buckland few months ago, have taken their satisfaction of exempting the national record for the unforgettable brothers Kerr, the last British dancers are able to get on the podium in the European Championships (Bern 2011).
In fourth place, have placed the emerging Russian Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, which, in the challenge for a prize inside the place for the Olympic Games in the house, they had much the better of the most experienced Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilya Tkachenko.
The triumph for the'' Italian'' was completed by eighth-place finish by Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri, able to improve on last season with a lot of personal limit retouched.
The third pair in the blue race, composed by Lorenza Alessandrini and Simone Vaturi, reaffirmed the position occupied at the end of short-dance, closing nineteenth.
In light of the results of Budapest, the'' Italian will field three couples dancing in the next continental event to be held in Stockholm in Sweden.
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