Figure Skating - Four Continents Championships in 2015
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Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford were easily imposed in the seventeenth edition of the Four Continents Championships repeating the success achieved two years ago.
Saturday 14 February 2015 8 minutes reading time
The supremacy clearly evident from the Canadian couple on the ice "Mokdong Ice Rink" goes to Seoul & ograve; well beyond the victory in both segments of the race and & egrave; well photographed, eighteen points margin on competition aside, dall''evidente dominance on the technical side than the Chinese couples, three decades-the-art in the field. The final of the Grand Prix's Last rulers have perci & ograve; easily maintained 'imbattibilit & agrave; season, which, however, is not just about the races, but also each individual program faced.
In today's free, Duhamel / Radford confirmed to master without any difficulties & agrave; the quadruple salchow launched and, except for a smear of both sull''ambizioso triple lutz in parallel, they completed without any problem items scheduled, among which a valuable reverse frame, the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double toe loop and triple lutz launched, executed after three minutes.
The highlight of the competition & egrave; for & ograve; revealed the comparison between Chinese associations with grabs second place. In the end, thanks un''ingenuit & agrave; youth Wenjing Sui / Cong Han on top in pairs, the 'have popped Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang, previously ever podium in an ISU championship. For the 'occasion, students Hongbo Zhao have been able to break for the first time in his career the threshold of two hundred points, confirming its strengths and weaknesses. Peng / Zhang have, in fact, presented a quadruple twist anthology with lots of lifts and throw jumps to stun beauty, but, because of the atavistic problems Peng on the jumps in parallel, have left on the plate at least five points.
The falling Qing Pang / Jian Tong, accompanied kiss & amp; cry from the choreographer Nikolai Morozov, have taken their satisfaction of closing on the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium of the race season debut by getting the second score in the free thanks to better evaluation in absolute compoenenti on the program. Veterans Chinese, the ninth appearance on the podium in the Four Continents, had the merit of being able to react to a bad day on the jumps in parallel. In any case, apart from the errors of Pang on the first axel of the sequence of double axel and the toe loop, instead of completed double & egrave; three times, the program to the tune of "I'll Sar & ograve;" & Egrave; spun off smoothly and has enhanced the best out of interpreters always been among the strengths of the couple.
Sui / Han, on paper the pi & ugrave; accredited in the Asian team, had to settle a bitter fourth place, penalized by a landing on two feet of Sui on triple salchow in parallel, but especially from the points lost on top in couple, who did not get even the minimum level panel technical. For the rest, the winners of last year stood out in parallel on the jumps and performed one of the best combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double toe loop in his career, while showing a speed & agrave; lower than on other occasions.
In Seoul, the hands of Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, fifths classified, & egrave; dropped the US national record, which belonged to Castles / Shnapir. Students of Dalilah Sappenfield have shown on the field to deserve the status of a pair of tip motion stars and stripes and, for the first time in an international competition, presented the quadruple twist. Impeccable of lifting and triple launched, the association based in Colorado Springs showed the usual worries about salchow in parallel, run double by Knierim, but the 'whole program has certainly convinced all skeptics.
After that, you are placed novices Canadian Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, who swept the challenge with fellow Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch, also preceded by Americans Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier and Tarah Kayne / Daniel O''Shea, couples that are expressed well below the potential.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / RADFORD Eric & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 219.48 (1 | 1) 02) CHN - PENG Cheng / Hao ZHANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 201.45 (2 | 3) PB03) CHN - Qing Pang / Jian TONG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 199.99 (4 | 2) 04) CHN - Wenjing ON / HAN Cong & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.88 (3 | 4) 05) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 187.98 (5 | 5) NR06) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan Moscovitch & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 173.50 (6 | 6) PB07) USA - Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 167.57 (9 | 7) 08) USA - Tarah KAYNE / Daniel O SHEA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 166.67 (8 | 8) 09) CAN - Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 160.70 (7 | 9) PB10) JPN - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi KIHARA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 132.84 (10 | 10)
Legend
NR - national record - record nazionalePB - personal best - personal best
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