Figure skating - European Championships 2013, Zagabria
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The European Championships in Zagreb will open on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 23 with the short dance.
Tuesday 22 January 2013 7 minutes reading time
At the time, are entered in the dance competition pairs representing twenty-six of twenty-one countries, five fewer than the previous edition. The colors will be defended by Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte and Marco Fabbri / Charlene Gugnard.
Absent the winners of the last two editions Pechalat / Bourzat, it is difficult to indicate the favorites as well three pairs can be placed on the same plane. Twelve months ago,'' the place of honor went to the Russians Bobrova / Soloviev, fresh winners of the third national title in a row, while the podium was completed by the second Russian pair Ilinykh / Katsalapov who preceded Cappellini / Lanotte for only three cents point. However, this season hierarchies seem to have changed, as evidenced by the outcome of the recent final of the Grand Prix, in which students of Paola Mezzadri and Igor Shpilband have managed to get the better of Russian pairs. Obviously, the goal of'' peak torque blue can only be to get on the podium of the continental event, emulating Fusar Poli / Margaglio and Faiella / Scali.Il role of outsider touches to the Russians Riazanova / Tkachenko, which rose by shots in the Throughout the season, but points to the hand, still far from the three pairs of vertex.
Guignard / Fabbri, coached by Barbara Fusar-Poli, aim, however, with the credentials to win placement in the top ten for an escaped'' gluing in the last edition.
'' The Italian also will be featured on the front "training" as the competing couples coached by our own technicians will be numerous. Roberto Pelizzola will be present with the combination of Italian-Slovak Head / Csolley, Maurizio Margaglio with the Finns Karmi / Lindholm, Paola Mezzadri with Cappellini / Lanotte and Barbara Fusar Poli Fabbri / Guignard and the Italo-German Kolbe / Caruso. ;
MEMBER DIRECTORY (with order down on the ice of the short-dance)
01 - (SUI) Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST (fourth appearance) 02 - (HUN) Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate Fejes (third visit) 03 - (BUL) Sarah COWARD / Georgi KENCHADZE (rookies) 04 - (BLR) Lesia VALADZENKAVA / Vitali VAKUNOV (fourth appearance) 05 - (SVK) Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY (first appearance) 06 - (ISR) Allison REED / Vasili Rogov (rookies) 07 - (AUT) Kira GEIL / Tobias EISENBAUER (depending on participation) 08 - (FIN ) Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM (rookies) 09 - (GEO) Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze (rookies) 10 - (CZE) Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN (depending on participation) 11 - (POL) Alexandra ZVORIGINA / Maciej BERNADOWSKI (depending on participation) 12 - (GBR) Charlotte AIKEN / Josh Whidborne (rookies) 13 - (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR (depending on participation) 14 - (UKR) Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN (depending on participation) 15 - ( GER) Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO (depending on participation) 16 - (ESP) Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (third visit) 17 - (GBR) Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (fourth appearance) 18 - (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES ( fourth appearance) 19 - (RUS) Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO (third appearance) 20 - (RUS) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (third appearance) 21 - (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (fourth appearance) 22 - (EST) Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND (third visit) 23 - (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov (depending on participation) 24 - (GER) Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (fourth appearance) 25 - (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (sixth participation ) 26 - (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (depending on participation)
The Lithuanians Tobias / Stagniunas withdrew Wednesday, January 16 due to physical problems, while the flat of the French Pechalat / Bourzat arrived on Thursday 17.
DAYS AND HOURS NOTICE
WEDNESDAY, January 23 - 11:45 am - Short-dance
FRIDAY 25 - January - 18:30 - Free Dance
FINAL NOTES
No couple in the race has ever won European titles. They have, however, two places of honor'' the Russians Bobrova / Soloviev (2011-2012), while the countrymen Ilinykh / Katsalapov have closed in the last edition on the lowest step of the podium.
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