Figure skating - European Championships, 2013, Zagreb
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'' The last title to be assigned in the European Championships in Zagreb will be, as usual, the female.
Tuesday 22 January 2013 5 minutes reading time
At the time, have been recorded thirty-six athletes representing twenty-nine countries, five fewer than the previous edition. The skaters will race in Italian Carolina Kostner, Valentina Marchei and novice Roberta Rodeghiero.
Absent due to injury the vice-champion continental Kiira Korpi, the underdogs are all for Carolina Kostner, fresh from success in convincing Golden Spin of Zagreb and in the National Championships in Milan. Moreover, even on the ice of the Dom Sportova "in Zagreb skater conquered South Tyrol in 2008 the second of his four European titles.
On paper, the most fearsome opponents should be the sixteen Russian Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA, recently triumphed in the Russian National Championships, and Adelina Sotnikova. They podium ambitions also the Georgian Elena Gedevanishvili, Sweden's Viktoria Helghesson and l'' l'' Italian Valentina Marchei, all ready to take advantage of any missteps of the two rookies coaster. Among the outsiders will be carefully followed France's Mae Berenice MEITE, l'' Elena Glebova of Estonia, the Russian Nicole Gosviani.
Korpi understood, will be absent five athletes ranked among the top ten of last season. Miss, in fact, the Russian Leonova, Makarova and Korobeynikova, excluding them from the federation after a disappointing result in the National leagues of Sochi, and the French Yretha Silete, injured.
LIST OF REGISTERED (with order of descent on the ice)
01 - (BLR) Kristina ZAKHARANKA (novice) 02 - (BUL) Anna AFONKINA (novice) 03 - (GRE) Isabella SCHUSTER-VELISSARIOU (novice) 04 - (ROU) Sabina Mariuta (third visit) 05 - (FIN) Alisa MIKONSAARI (novice) 06 - (CRO) Mirna LIBRIC (fifth appearance) 07 - (GER) Nathalie Weinzierl (depending on participation) 08 - (DEN) Anita MADSEN (novice) 09 - (NOR) Anne Line GJERSEM (depending on participation) 10 - ( TUR) Sila Saygi (novice) 11 - (LUX) Fleur Maxwell (sixth form) 12 - (RUS) Nikol GOSVIANI (novice) 13 - (BEL) Kaat Van Daele (depending on participation) 14 - (NED) Michelle Couwenberg ( novice) 15 - (LTU) Inga JANULEVICIUTE (novice) 16 - (CZE) Eliska Březinová (depending on participation) 17 - (SUI) Tina Stuerzinger (novice) 18 - (LAT) Alina Fjodorova (depending on participation) 19 - (ESP) Sonia LAFUENTE (sixth form) 20 - (ITA) Roberta RODEGHIERO (novice) 21 - (FRA) Lenaelle Gilleron-GORRY (novice) 22 - (FIN) Juulia TURKKILA (third visit) 23 - (AUT ) Kerstin FRANK (third visit) 24 - (SLO) Patricia GLESCIC (depending on participation) 25 - (ITA) Carolina Kostner (eleventh participation) 26 - (EST) Elena Glebova (seventh form) 27 - (RUS) Adelina Sotnikova (novice) 28 - (GEO) Elene GEDEVANISHVILI (eighth race) 29 - (GBR) Jenna McCorkell (tenth participation) 30 - (RUS) Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (novice) 31 - (FRA) Mae Berenice MEITE (third visit) 32 - (SWE) Joshi Helgesson (depending on participation) 33 - (SWE) Viktoria Helgesson (sixth form) 34 - (ITA) Valentina Marchei (ninth participation) 35 - (UKR) Natalia POPOVA (third visit) 36 - (SVK) Monika SIMANCIKOVA ( depending on participation)
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