Figure skating - European Championships, 2013, Zagreb
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The European Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the "Dom Sportova" in Zagreb, opened with the short dance.
Wednesday 23 January 2013 8 minutes reading time
In compliance with the provisions of the vigil, the leti-motif of the competition proved to be the'' balance between the three pairs of accredited underdogs. In any case, compared to previous international competitions, the average level segment of the race was up shots, as evidenced by the improvement of twenty-one personal records.
In this regard, however, is only right to point out that many couples, especially those newly formed, had never passed the hurdle of the qualification program in a competition "major" and were therefore devoid of a personal record.
'' And then, most important to emphasize that nine of the twenty-five couples fell on the ice have crossed the minimum technical score (29 points) to go to the World Cup.
The Yankee Polka-today awarded the vice-champions Bobrova / Soloviev, best of the day on the technical side and in three voices (choreography, transitions, interpretation) of the components of the program. The defending champions have adjusted running a close Russian compatriots Ilinykh / Katsalapov, second day on the technical front that the sum of the components of the program, but judged the best correttamenti the items skating skills and performance.
Bobrova / Soloviev made the difference thanks to the two sequences yankee-polka, where, for the first time this season, have filed the highest level available (level four), by thus left on the street level on twizzles .
The expected Italian Cappellini / Lanotte have had to settle for third place with the new Italian record. Students of Paola Mezzadri and Igor Shpilband, absent because committed in the United States National Championships, they paid duty because of a level too lost in the sequences of Yankee-Polka. In the present case, it is likely that some thread has not been considered accurate. However, what most worries in chive run to the title is definitely the distance to the Russian couples on each of the components of the program. The race is still wide open, and in line with what happened in the recent final of the Grand Prix, we can not exclude a priori the possibility of recovering three points in the free dance.
In fourth position, a little more than two points behind the podium, is the third Russian couple Riazanova / Tkachenko, unique, in addition to leading the race, with a dual level four on the sequence of yankee-polka.
Guignard / Fabbri, Italian second pair in the race, got a convincing eighth place, despite a smear on lifting rotating in which Charlene Guignard has failed to keep the blade close to the head. That said, the students of Barbara Fusar Poli reaffirmed that technical soundness emerged powerfully in only one appearance in the Grand Prix season and preceded by a narrow margin training mates Kolbe / Caruso, couple flying the German flag, but often stationed in Milan .
Finally, it is important to remember that all the pairs in the race somehow related'' s Italy managed to qualify for the free dance Friday night. In fact, the Italian-Slovak Head / Csolley, Roberto Pelizzola students, closed in nineteenth position ahead of the Finns Karmi / Lindholm, coached by Maurizio Margaglio.
RANKING-SHORT DANCE
01) 69.42 - (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (PB) 02) 68.98 - (RUS) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (PB) 03) 66.53 - (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (PB )
04) 64.52 - (RUS) Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO (PB) 05) 60.93 - (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov (PB) 06) 60.59 - (GBR) Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (PB ) 07) 60.08 - (GER) Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (PB) 08) 57.63 - (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (PB) 09) 56.54 - (GER) Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO ( PB) 10) 55.85 - (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES11) 53.58 - (UKR) Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN (PB) 12) 50.79 - (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR (PB ) 13) 50.52 - (CZE) Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN (PB) 14) 50.51 - (EST) Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND15) 49.32 - (ESP) Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ16) 48.08 - (HUN) Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate Fejes (PB) 17) 45.09 - (SUI) Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST 18) 44.94 - (GEO) Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze (PB) 19) 44.83 - ( SVK) Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY (PB) 20) 44.29 - (FIN) Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM (PB) 21) 44.25 - (POL) Alexandra ZVORIGINA / Maciej BERNADOWSKI (PB) 22) 41.83 - (GBR) Charlotte AIKEN / Josh Whidborne (PB) 23) 40.88 - (AUT) Kira GEIL / Tobias EISENBAUER (PB) 24) 36.60 - (BLR) Lesia VALADZENKAVA / Vitali VAKUNOV (PB) 25) 34, 16 - (BUL) Sarah COWARD / Georgi KENCHADZE (PB) WD - (ISR) Allison REED / Vasili Rogov
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