Figure skating - European Championships 2016
Flavio Valle
The second day of the European Figure Skating Championships, hosted dall''Ondrej Nepala Ice Arena in Bratislava, you & egrave; opened with the short-dance, race segment that has given important results to the Italian movement
Thursday 28 January 2016 10 minutes reading time
Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte have, in fact, had the best season in the first direct confrontation with the French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume CIZERON, back on the international scene after a long absence caused by a concussion suffered by Papadakis in late summer.
The pair of Italian dance, took to the track to the tune of "The Merry Widow", & egrave; managed to complete some sort of clear round ahead of the competition on the basis of the value performed, the degree of execution and on each item of the program components. The keys to the success proved the 'excellent execution of twizzles, distinguished by speed & agrave; and unison, and accuracy on the partial sequence, which received the 'one level four of the race
The Juniors Paola Mezzadri, nell''occasione who have made an 'agreement Guidici and technical panel, have not gone away from the primacy of the season, set in the final of the Grand Prix from Canadians Weaver / Poje, setting the stage to become the first pair Dance blue capable of winning two European titles.
Papadakis / CIZERON, winners of the last edition, proved immediately all''altezza the best of the situation by running the two sequences of patterns and finishing the race with a spectacular and orignal lifting rotating. Compared to the best version of last season, & egrave; It lacked a bit '' to speed & agrave; on some steps, problem passer & agrave; versosimilmente archives with the passage of weeks.
Behind the couples on the eve favorite, & egrave; He staged a confrontation definitely pulled and torn between the Russian associations in the race. While measuring, the 'they have popped navigated Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, who, thanks to a significant growth on the program components, preceded by a narrow margin Viktoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov. The national champions in office have left on the plate a heavy spot on twizzle, while students of Marina Zoueva can complain to a key-point failure on the second sequence ravensburger waltz.
In fifth position, you & egrave; attested the third Russian pair made up of Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin, who ruled for almost two points Italians Charl & egrave; it Guignard and Marco Fabbri, authors of a trial free of smudges where & egrave; missed the icing on the cake represented by level four on the partial sequence, attributed on the first call, but then turned into a still competitive level three. Behind the students to Barabra Fusar Poli they were placed closely couples School Shpilband Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko, israeliania debut, and Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, leader of the British. In any case, the fight for positions between the fifth and tenth promises to be one of the highlights of the second part of the race as six pairs are enclosed in little more & ugrave; four lengths.
The 'only sour note for the' Italy is & egrave; revealed the 'unexpected exclusion from the free dance of Misato Komatsubara and Andrea Fabbri, who missed the' purpose of the vigil for a few tenths of finishing the race in twenty-first position. Fatal, in addition to a lower position on the ice unfavorable, have proved small smudge on twizzle and second sequence ravensburger waltz. Ci & ograve; Accordingly, for the first time in the history of the European Championships, it took fifty points for access to the second segment of the race, not to mention that never in the past had served more & ugrave; sixty-two points to reach the tenth position.
The free dance will be held & agrave; Saturday from 14:30.
RANKING SHORT DANCE
01) ITA - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 72.31 (36.03 | 36.28) 02) FRA - Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON70.74 (35.27 | 35.47) 03) RUS - Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri SOLOVIEV68.71 (33.68 | 35.03) 04) RUS - Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV68. 33 (33.91 | 34.42) PB05) RUS - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN66.65 (33.50 | 33.15) PB06) ITA - Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI64.87 (32.92 | 31.95) 07) ISR - Isabella TOBIAS / Ilia TKACHENKO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 64.46 (32.81 | 31.65) 08) GBR - Penny Coomes / Nicholas BUCKLAND & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 64.26 (32.01 | 32.25) 09) SVK - Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY62.24 (32.20 | 30.04) 10) DEN - Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 62.19 (32.94 | 29.25) 11) POL - Natalia KALISZEK / Maksim SPODIREV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 59.57 (31.15 | 28.42) NR12) TUR - Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR56.33 (29.24 | 27.09) 13) GER - Kavita LORENZ / Panagiotis POLIZOAKIS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 55.06 (29.88 | 25.18) PB14) Cortney MANSOUR / Michal CESKA54.97 (29.85 | 25.12) Nr15) Barbora Silna / Juri KURAKIN54.56 (29.87 | 24.69) 16) FRA - Lorenza Alessandrini / Pierre Souquet & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 54.37 (29.77 | 24.60) 17) BLR - Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV52.25 (26.30 | 25.95) 18) FIN - Cecilia T & Öland; RN / Jussiville Partanen & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 51.14 (25.17 | 25.97) 19) ESP & nbsp; - Celia ROBLEDO / Luis FENERO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 50.19 (27.08 | 23:11) 20) ARM - Tina Garabedian / Simon PROULX-SENECAL & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 50.17 (27.72 | 22:45) NR21) ITA - Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 49.56 (27.26 | 22:30) 22) LAT - Olga JAKUSHINA / Andrey nevskiy & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 49.49 (27.75 | 22.74) - 1:00 NR23) GER - Katharina M & uuml; LLER / Tim DIECK48.75 (25.89 | 22.86) 24) FRA - Peroline OJARDIAS / Michael BRAMANTE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 48.36 (27.24.21.12) PB25) HUN - Taylor TRAN / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS45.09 (8/23 | 1/22) 26) UKR - Valeria GAISTRUK / Alexei OLEJNIK & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 44.44 (21.69 | 22.75) 27) HUN - Carolina Moscheni / Balazs MAJOR & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 42.87 (21.76 | 21:11) 28) ON Katarina PAICE / Yuri EREMENKO36.23 (18.97 | 17:26) PB
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