Figure skating - Four Continents, 2013, Osaka
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Archived short-dance, the first day of the fifteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, continued with the short program of the pairs of art.
Friday 8 February 2013 4 minutes reading time
The segment of the race was dominated by Canadian couple Megan Duhamel / Eric Radford, who inflicted a detachment than four lengths countrymen Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch.
Gl students of the esteemed Richard Gauthier skated an almost perfect record by completing the most of the'' difficult triple lutz in parallel and ottenedo four out of the top level, lifting, walking, especially on the complicated spriale death outside back. Duhamel / Radford set a new Canadian record breaking down the wall of the seventy points and for the first time in his career have been able to overcome the 30 points (plus or minus 7.5 on average) on the components of the program as well as the 40 points on the the technical front. In this regard, it should be noted that during the four-year Olympic course the only Chinese Pang / Tong and the Germans Savchenko / Szolkowy have been pushed beyond the 40 points of technician.
For their part Moore-Towers/Moscovitch, preceded measurement also on the sum of the components of the program, you are taken to improve the satisfaction of their staff leaving on the plate a few tenths'' landing on the triple toe loop in parallel, the only element that is not presented gained a degree of execution marcamente positive.
Difficult day for the other five couples in the race, penalized by too many mistakes on the jump in parallel or launched (for the last labeled Lawrence / Swigers of both elements).
In third place, with over thirteen lengths of detachment from the place of honor'', are the U.S. National Championships Castles / Shnapir in difficulty on the top in parallel and on the triple Salchow launched ended with a disastrous fall.
By virtue of the gaps content, the struggle for the lowest rung of the podium, however, involves pairs placed between the third and seventh place.
A few hours before the start of the race'' withdrew the U.S. Scimeca / Knierim because of an injury Alexa Scimeca.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT
01) 70.44 (CAN) Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD
02) 66.33 (CAN) Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan Moscovitch
03) 53.06 (USA) Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR
04) 52.98 (USA) Felicia ZHANG / Nathan Bartholomay
05) 52.46 (CHN) Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao
06) 51.26 (CHN) WANG Wenting / ZHANG Yan
07) 48.76 (CAN) Paige Lawrence / Rudi SWIEGERS
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