Figure Skating - World Championships 2013 London
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The phase of the World Championships in figure skating short program dediicata ended with the short dance.
Friday 15 March 2013 7 minutes reading time
The segment of the race has left stunned the large crowd rushed to the "Budweiser Gardens" in London to support the local idols Virtue / Moir.
The reigning Olympic champions were, in fact, defeated for the umpteenth time by historians'' training mates Davis / White, but, unlike the recent occasions, have accumulated a detachment that appears unbridgeable. The U.S. couple, so far undefeated during the season, he touched the world record by record both the best technical and artistic performance. On the technical front, the'' element that can make the difference turned out to be the sequence of steps no touch, which earned a rare level four on the artistic, speak, however, the ratings of each component of the program.
Virtue / Moir may regret for a mistake on the set of twizzles cost them between baseline and capable of running at least two points, but probably would still be left behind Davis / White.
The main surprise of the day to the third position. The Russians Bobrova / Soloviev preceded the most popular French Pechalat / Bourzat managing to get the better of both the technical evaluation on the program's components.
The blues Cappellini / Lanotte, authors of the new Italian record, are in fifth position with a gap of a couple of points from the lowest rung of the podium. It should be noted, however, that behind the couples North American summit viga of the equilibrium, as evidenced by the presence of seven partnerships in the space of just four points. The fight for the bronze medal also involves Canadians Weaver / Poje, couples Choch U.S. / Bates and Shibutani / Shibutani and the Russians Ilinykh / Katsalapov, now penalized by the lack of brilliance on the sequences of yankee-polka.
In key Italian, sixteenth good place for novices Guignard / Fabbri, able to retouch their staff.
In light of today's result, the United States, Canada and Russia have three seats available for the Olympic Games. France, Italy and Great Britain may, however, deploy two couples. A place should be, finally, to Germany, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Lithuania.
RANKING-SHORT DANCE
01) 77.12 - (USA) Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE (world record)
02) 73.87 - (CAN) Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR
03) 70.05 - (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (national record)
04) 69.65 - (FRA) Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
05) 67.93 - (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (national record)
06) 67.54 - (CAN) Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje (personal record)
07) 66.74 - (USA) Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (personal record)
08) 66.14 - (USA) Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
09) 66.07 - (RUS) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
10) 63.66 - (GBR) Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (personal record)
11) 60.59 - (GER) Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (personal record)
12) 60.58 - (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES (personal record)
13) 59.52 - (RUS) Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO
14) 59.20 - (UKR) Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN (national record)
15) 58.61 - (CAN) Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER
16) 57.89 - (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (personal record)
17) 57.80 - (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov
18) 57.39 - (LTU) Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS
19) 53.95 - (JPN) Cathy REED / Chris REED
20) 53.12 - (ESP) Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (national record)
21) 51.82 - (CZE) Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN (national record)
22) 48.06 - (FIN) Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM (national record)
23) 46.63 - (ISR) Allison REED / Vasili Rogov (national record)
24) 45.60 - (HUN) Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate Fejes
25) 45.29 - (EST) Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND
26) 44.73 - (SVK) Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY
27) 44.00 - (POL) Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Peter GERBER (personal record)
28) 43.98 - (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR
29) 32.50 - (BLR) Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV
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