Figure Skating - Four Continents Championships in 2015
Flavio Valle
The eighteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by "Mokdong Ice Rink" in Seoul, you & egrave; open during the night with the Italian short-dance.
Thursday 12 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
The competition has spared no surprises, as evidenced by the ranking that has not complied with the predictions of the vigil.
The segment of the race smiled couples US, outputs winning the match against Canadian rivals. The first place Provisional & egrave; was occupied by Madison Chock / Evan Bates, able for the first time in his career to break down the door of the seventy points, enterprise previously topped only by seven couples. The partial success of the national champions in stars and stripes & egrave; emerged for & ograve; in a particular way because they do not & egrave; was generated n & egrave; the best technical score, n & egrave; the evaluation pi & ugrave; high on the components of the program. Students of Igor Shpilband filed the level pi & ugrave; high available on twizzle and lifting straight, stopping a step pi & ugrave; under the various sequences of steps. In particular, they were the best of the lot on the sequence of creative paso-doble and the lift, but, above all, for the first time this season have outclassed Weaver / Poje in the short-dance.
In second place, with a gap of around seven-tenths of a point, stood the deputy US national champions Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani, autotri a proof of great solidity & agrave; technique, that & egrave; earned them the new personal best. The brothers of Asian origin were the only ones to get the level four on mandatory sequence of paso-doble and presented the sequence of steps in parallel and twizzle best of the competition. & Nbsp;
Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, unanimously considered the main contenders for victory, had to settle for third place, winning a disadvantage compared to the performance of the final Grand Prix of the amount lost on twizzle sequence and creative paso doble. Students of the team led by Pasquale Camerlengo still managed to contain the detachment from head nell''ordine colon, aided by the assessment pi & ugrave; High on each component of the program. On the sidelines, it should be noted as Weaver / Poje were not preceded by Shibutani in a race program from the distant 2011 (free dance NHK Trophy, Sapporo).
& Nbsp; After that, well away from the fight for the podium, but the strong new personal best, you are placed pairs Canadians Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier and Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, separated by two lengths.
The challenge between Asian couple, a prize of the seventh currency behind the US Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker & egrave; was won by the Chinese Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu, who prevailed by a narrow margin on advanced Japanese Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion and the disappointing Korean Kim Rebeka / Kiril Minov.
STANDINGS SHORT DANCE
01) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES70.38 (34.96 | 35.42) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; PB02) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; USA - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 69.65 (35.85 | 33.80) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; PB03) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 68.31 (32.12 | 36.19) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 04) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CAN - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 63.45 (32.13 | 31.32) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; PB05) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CAN - Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 61.34 (31.71 | 29.63) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; PB06) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; USA - Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 58.31 (28.68 | 29.63) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 07) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CHN - Shiyue WANG / LIU Xinyu & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 48.71 (26.62 | 23:09) - 1.0008) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; JPN - Emi HIRAI / Marien DE LA ASUNCION & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 47.80 (26.63 | 22:17) - 1.0009) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; KOR - Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV46.54 (23:53 | 23:01) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 10) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CHN - ZHAO Yue / ZHENG Xun & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 43.59 (21:39 | 22:20) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; PB11) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; CHN - Yiyi ZHANG / WU Nan & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 42.54 (20:56 | 22.98) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; -1.0012) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; MEX - Pilar Maekawa / Leonardo Maekawa & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 40.86 (22:16 | 18.70) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 13) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; KAZ - Karina UZUROVA / Ilias ALI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 39.84 (19.77 | 20:07) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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