Figure Skating - World Championships 2014 Saitama
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The third day of the World Championships in figure skating, ospitatati from "Super Arena" in Saitama, opened with the short-dance, characterized by the absence of couples get on the podium at the World Championships last season.
Friday 28 March 2014 7 minutes reading time
In fact, the absence of announced from time defending champions Davis / White and Virtue / Moir, was added a few minutes before the start of the competition'' that the Russians Bobrova / Soloviev forced to withdraw because of an injury to Dimtri Soloviev .
The leitmotif of the segment of the race has sadly revealed the inaccuracy'', which characterized the evidence of most of the pairs of the summit, were affected by errors of varying severity. Moreover, by analyzing in detail what happened, including several second-tier partnerships have not experienced the best day of his career.
The partial victory went to the Italian pair Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, who had the merit to minimize burrs and get the best career assessments on the front of the program components.
In second place, with a detachment of fifty cents, totaled Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje exceeded
The provisional podium is completed by French veteran Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, delayed due to a mistake on the twizzle Bourzat.
The palm of the major disappointed the day it is up to the eve of favorites Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov, came to the probable last appearance racing side by side. The Russian pair, thanks to an unfortunate entry into the twizzle of Katsalapov that you went to crash into Ilinykh in the second set, lost the value of the element'' and had to settle for fifth place while remaining still in the running for the victory by virtue of detachment from the head of little superire to four points.
The second pair of Italian made up of Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri, closed the evidence in seventeenth position, now suffers from,
Among those excluded by surprise by the free dance program in the future, also include the Italian-German Kolbe / Caruso, ventunesimi and the first eliminated, as well as the Italian-Slovak Head / Csolley.
SHORT DANCE CLASS
01) ITA - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE69.70 (33.77 | 35.90)
02) CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 69.20 (33.50 | 35.70)
03) FRA - Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT 68.20 (31.85 | 36.35)
04) USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES67.71 (34.79 | 32.92)
05) RUS - Elena Ilinykh / Nikita KATSALAPOV 65.67 (29.22 | 36.40)
06) USA - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 63.55 (32.00 | 31.50)
07) GER - Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi 62.27 (32.43 | 29.84)
08) RUS - Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN 62.11 (32.93 | 29.18)
09) GBR - Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND 61.21 (30.49 | 30.72)
10) CAN - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER59.42 (29.71 | 29.70)
11) CAN - Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM 57.68 (29.57 | 28.11)
12) AZE - Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov 57.01 (28.57 | 28.44)
13) LTU - Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS 55.37 (27.92 | 27.45)
14) JPN - Cathy REED / Chris REED 55.18 (28.50 | 26.68)
15) FRA - Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON 55.11 (27.78 | 27.33)
16) ESP - Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ 55.06 (28.42 | 26.64)
17) ITA - Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI 53.98 (26.00 | 27.98)
18) USA - Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON53.34 (26.78 | 26.56)
19) TUR - Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR53.07 (28.87 | 24.20)
20) EST - Irina SHTORK / Taavi Rand 53.03 (29.64 | 23:39)
21) GER - Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO 52.08 (27.65 | 24.43)
22) POL - Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Peter GERBER 51.99 (28.71 | 23:28)
23) SVK - Federica TESTA / Lukas CSOLLEY 51.56 (27.00 | 24.56)
24) AUS - Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN 51.06 (27.58 | 23:48)
25) ON - Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST 50.64 (28.14 | 22:50) personal record
26) FIN - Henna LINDHOLM / Ossi KANERVO 50.61 (28.58 | 23:03) -1.00 personal record
27) CZE - Gabriela Kubová / Matej NOVAK 50.43 (27.86 | 22:57) personal record
28) HUN - Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR 48.49 (26.79 | 21.70) personal record
29) DEN - Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN 48.46 (24.96 | 23:50)
30) ISR - Allison REED / Vasili Rogov 46.05 (23.79 | 22:26)
31) GEO - Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze 42.85 (22:50 | 20:35)
32) BLR - Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV 41.08 (20.65 | 20:43)
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