Figure skating - European Championships 2016
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The European Championships in Bratislava will be opened with the short program of women, who will see & agrave; two athletes at the starting line in less than last year
Monday 11 January 2016 9 minutes reading time
Two weeks from & rsquo; start of the continental event, thirty-six skaters representing twenty nations are entered in the competition. As for the & rsquo; Italy, the twenty-five space Roberta Rodeghiero, eighth twelve months ago, and at eighteen Jade Russo, recently won the second national title of his career.
Despite the & rsquo; absence of Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova and the winner of the last European Championships Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, you do not see who can only think of challenging the dominance Russian.
The favorite of the eve & egrave; the sixteen year old Evgenia Medvedeva, dominated the final of the Grand Prix. The role of the main alternative is up to seventeen elena radionova, only to have defeated Medvedeva in a class race the last two seasons. The third force in the field & egrave ;, instead, almost eighteen Anna Pogorilaya, on the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium in the last edition. Moreover, even in Bratislava at the beginning of October, Medvedeva won the first success of his career in senior class ahead Pogorilaya.
The fight for fourth place promises to open many scenarios and not & egrave; easy to identify those who may start with competitive advantage. The main contenders for the medal of wood should be the twenty-two Swedish Joshi Helgesson, at the foot of the podium in 2015, the seventeen year old Latvian Angelina Kuchvalska, the twenty year old Slovak school American Nicole Rajicova, the twenty-one French Ma & egrave; Berenice Meite, much overshadowed in recent Torun Cup, and l & rsquo; Italian Roberta Rodeghiero. However, there are other athletes can aspire with credentials to the top ten. It & rsquo; the case of nineteen transalpine Laurine Lecavalier, the sixteen year old Armenian stationed in Russia Anastasia Galustyan and sixteen Finnish Viveca Lindfors, but, depending on the performance of the case, other skaters could fit into contention.
Giada Russian, dreams & egrave; represented by a placement among the top ten, but gi & agrave; finish the test in the first fifteen positions would be a good result.
In any case, the & rsquo; minimum target for skaters blue & egrave; to reconfirm two seats for the next edition to be held & agrave; in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.
LIST OF REGISTERED
01) & nbsp; ARM - Anastasia Galustyan (second appearance)
02) & nbsp; AUT - Kerstin FRANK (sixth form)
03) & nbsp; BLR - Janina MAKEENKA (third)
04) & nbsp; BEL - Charlotte VANDERSARREN (debut)
05) & nbsp; BUL - Daniela Stoeva (second appearance)
06) & nbsp; CZE - Eliska Březinová (fifth appearance)
07) & nbsp; DEN - Pernille Sorensen (second appearance)
08) & nbsp; EST - H & Helery AUML; Lvin (second appearance)
09) & nbsp; FIN - Viveca LINDFORS (debut)
10) & nbsp; FRA - Laurine LECAVELIER (third)
11) & nbsp; FRA - Mae Berenice MEITE (sixth form)
12) & nbsp; GER - Lutricia BOCK (debut)
13) & nbsp; GER - Nathalie WEINZIERL (fifth appearance)
14) & nbsp; GBR - Danielle HARRISON (debut)
15) & nbsp; HUN - Ivett TOTH (second appearance)
16) & nbsp; ISR - Aimee BUCHANAN (debut)
17) & nbsp; ITA - Roberta RODEGHIERO (fourth appearance)
18) & nbsp; ITA - Jade RUSSO (second appearance)
19) & nbsp; LAT - Angelina KUCHVALSKA (second appearance)
20) & nbsp; LTU - Aleksandra Golovkina (second appearance)
21) & nbsp; LUX - Fleur Maxwell (ninth participation)
22) & nbsp; NED - Niki WORIES (second appearance)
23) & nbsp; NOR - Anne Line GJERSEM (fourth appearance)
24) & nbsp; ROU - Julia SAUTER (second appearance)
25) & nbsp; RUS - Evgenia Medvedeva (debut)
26) & nbsp; RUS - Anna POGORILAYA (second appearance)
27) & nbsp; RUS - elena radionova (second appearance)
28) & nbsp; SVK - Nicole RAJICOVA (third)
29) & nbsp; SLO - Dasa GRM (fourth appearance)
30) & nbsp; ESP - Sonia LAFUENTE (ninth participation)
31) & nbsp; SWE - Matilda Algotsson (debut)
32) & nbsp; SWE - Joshi Helgesson (fifth appearance)
33) & nbsp; SWE - Isabelle Olsson (second appearance)
34) & nbsp; SUI - Tanja ODERMATT (second appearance)
35) & nbsp; TUR - Birce Atabey (fifth appearance)
36) & nbsp; UKR - Anna KHNYCHENKOVA (debut)
CALENDAR OF RACE PROGRAM SHORT - Wednesday & Igrave; Jan. 27, 09:30
FREE MAP & ndash; Friday & Igrave; Jan. 29, 18:00
FINAL NOTES
* Eight skaters among the thirty-six members will take part in the first edition of the European Championship career.
* L & rsquo; pi & ugrave athlete; young race will & agrave; the Russian Evegnia Medvedeva, who turned sixteen on November 19. The palm of pi & ugrave; it is up to the twenty-seven year old Luxembourg Fleux Maxwell, who & egrave; even the skater to boast more & ugrave; Attendance in the European Championships.
* No party has ever won a European title.
* Among the members, the only Russian Elena and Anna Radionova Pogorilaya, respectively second and third in the last edition, managed to get on the podium.
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