Figure Skating - World Championships 2013 London
Getty Images
'' The last day of the World Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the "Budweiser Gardens" in London, was opened by the'' final act of the dance contest, which confirmed the overwhelming technical superiority and artistic aspects of North American couples .
Saturday 16 March 2013 8 minutes reading time
The victory went to Meryl Davis / Charlie White, imbattutti so far in the season. The couple dancing the U.S. has conquered the second world title of his career today is a leader not only in each segment of the race, but also in each item of the score. As expected, students of Marina Zueva, already masters of the short-dance, have improved the world record overall bringing the'' rod close to the 190 points. Beyond the technical soundness, as evidenced by four levels obtained on each item except for the circle and diagonal impresses the fact that slowly Davis / White are approaching to perfection on the components of the program, as the gap compared to the ten highest rating available, is gradually shrinking.
Defending champions Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir had to settle for the place of honor'', but in the free dance they managed to hold the wake of workout buddies containing the gap'' in the order of the point and a few tenths. Carefully analyzing the pre-Olympic season, emerges as the Canadian couple pay a small deficit of a technical nature which must necessarily be bridged to try to defend the Olympic title. However, at least during the day today, the levels of the elements presented proved to be the same of the historical rivals.
The bronze medal went to Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, able to recur on the same floor of the recent European Championships in Zagreb from which they emerged victorious. The Russian school after four years, so managed to get back on the podium and much of the credit must be given to Alexander Zhulin, tencico that within a few months was able to give an identity to a pair considered by many "icy". Final Standings aside, the result is still considerable room for improvement and not coincidentally the gap on the technical side to the leaders of the international movement remains signficativo.
Satisfaction in Italy for the result of Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, who have the highest place in his career and finished the race in fourth place with a lot of best performance of the season. '' In the occasion, fell the national leader and above all for the first time in his career was down the wall of one hundred points in the free dance, ended in third place. It must also be emphasized that the value of the technical basis of the program is the same pairs of North American summit since each of the elements, with the exception of the sequence of steps in diagonal and circle, got the'' field level four.
Following were placed Canadians Weaver / Poje, already competitive after a long break due to injury, and the French Pechalat / Bourzat, penalized by a precarious physical condition, daughter'' s injury suffered by Fabian Bourzat shortly before the European Championships in Zagreb.
Entrants blue Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri have, however, broke the ice with a convincing seventeenth position, enhanced by top placings in the individual segments of the race. Students of Barbara Fusar Poli have, however, confirmed the usual technical soundness missing the fourteenth final position for less than a point.
In light of today's result, the United States, Canada and Russia have three places available for the Olympic Games. France, Italy and Germany will be able, however, to deploy two couples. A place will, finally, Great Britain, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Lithuania.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) 189.56 (77.12 | 112.44) (USA) Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE (Precedence worldwide)
02) 185,04 (73,87 | 111,17) (CAN) Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (national record)
03) 169,19 (70,05 | 99,14) (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
04) 168.04 (67.93 | 100.11) (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (national record)
05) 166,20 (67,54 | 98,66) (CAN) Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje
06) 165,60 (69,65 | 95,95) (FRA) Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
07) 163,93 (66,74 | 97,19) (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
08) 157,71 (66,14 | 91,57) (USA) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
09) 157,52 (66,07 | 91,45) (RUS) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
10) 154,27 (60,59 | 93,68) (GER) Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (national record)
11) 149,78 (59,52 | 90,26) (RUS) Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO
12) 145,98 (60,58 | 85,40) (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES (personal record)
13) 145.71 (63.66 | 82.05) (GBR) Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND
14) 141,88 (59,20 | 82,68) (UKR) Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN (national record)
15) 141,64 (57,39 | 84,24) (LTU) Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS (national record)
16) 141,44 (57,80 | 83,64) (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov
17) 140,95 (57,89 | 83,06) (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI
18) 140,02 (58,61 | 81,41) (CAN) Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER
19) 131.28 (53.12 | 78.16) (ESP) Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (national record)
20) 129,94 (53,95 | 75,99) (JPN) Cathy REED / Chris REED
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
L'Italia dello skiroll saluta Madona e un Mondiale da 4 medaglie, l'ultima è di Boccardi nella Mass Start
La roveretana è di bronzo nella partenza in linea a skating, firmata dalla solita Ragnhild Aarenkol, con la gara maschile vinta dal padrone di casa Vigants (amaro 4° Dellagiacoma). Titoli juniores alla norvegese Lia e allo svedese Blomberg Gerle.
2