Figure skating - European Championships 2015
Flavio Valle
The first title that will be & agrave; assigned in the European Championships in Stockholm sar & agrave; that of dance.
Tuesday 13 January 2015 7 minutes reading time
Currently, thirty pairs representing twenty-three & eacute; countries are entered in competition with an increase of one & rsquo; unit & agrave; compared to & rsquo; past year. The colors will be defended by the Italian defending champions Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, by Charl & egrave; it Guignard / Marco Fabbri and debutantes Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri.
Absent the Russians Bobrova / Soloviev, because of the after-effects of an injury, the underdogs are divided among young French Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume CIZERON, couple revelation of the first part of the season, and the Blues Cappellini / Lanotte, recently winners national championships after having defected to the second round of Grand Prix racing to change in the competition programs.
The role of third wheel should be up to rookies in pair Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin, fresh winners of the Russian title and advanced race after race in the course of & rsquo; autumn.
A placing in the top five is the & rsquo; objective of the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, Russians Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin and Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, German Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi and Italian Guignard / Fabbri. In this sense, do not start beaten the Spaniards Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz, determined to improve the historic tenth of & rsquo; past year.
Regarding Komatsubara / Fabbri, the target well within reach, & egrave; to wrest the qualification for the free dance, which will see & agrave; at the starting twenty pairs.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
01) & nbsp; (AUT) & nbsp; Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin (third)
02) & nbsp; (BLR) & nbsp; Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV (second appearance)
03) & nbsp; (BEL) & nbsp; Cecile POSTIAUX / Richard POSTIAUX (rookies)
04) & nbsp; (CZE) & nbsp; Cortney MANSOUR / Michal CESKA (rookies)
05) & nbsp; (DEN) & nbsp; Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN (second appearance)
06) & nbsp; (EST) & nbsp; Irina SHTORK / Taavi Rand (fifth appearance)
07) & nbsp; (FIN) & nbsp; Olesia KARMI / Max LINDHOLM (second appearance)
08) & nbsp; (FRA) & nbsp; Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON (second appearance)
09) & nbsp; (GEO) & nbsp; Tatiana KOZMAVA / Aleksandr Zolotarev (rookies)
10) & nbsp; (GER) & nbsp; Jennifer URBAN / Sevan LERCHE (rookies)
11) & nbsp; (GER) & nbsp; Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (sixth form)
12) & nbsp; (GBR) & nbsp; Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (sixth form)
13) & nbsp; (GBR) & nbsp; Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND (rookies)
14) & nbsp; (HUN) & nbsp; Carolina Moscheni / Adam LUKACS (rookies)
15) & nbsp; (ISR) & nbsp; Allison REED / Vasily Rogov (second appearance)
16) & nbsp; (ITA) & nbsp; Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (eighth race)
17) & nbsp; (ITA) & nbsp; Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco Fabbri (fourth appearance)
18) & nbsp; (ITA) & nbsp; Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri (rookies)
19) & nbsp; (LAT) & nbsp; Olga JAKUSHINA / Andrey NEVSKIY (rookies)
20) & nbsp; (LTU) & nbsp; Taylor TRAN / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS (rookies)
21) & nbsp; (POL) & nbsp; Natalia KALISZEK / Maksim SPODIREV (rookies)
22) & nbsp; (RUS) & nbsp; Elena ILINYKH / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN (rookies)
23) & nbsp; (RUS) & nbsp; Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN (rookies)
24) & nbsp; (RUS) & nbsp; Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan Bukin (rookies)
25) & nbsp; (SVK) & nbsp; Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY (third)
26) & nbsp; (ESP) & nbsp; Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (fifth appearance)
27) & nbsp; (ESP) & nbsp; Celia ROBLEDO / Luis FENERO (rookies)
28) & nbsp; (SUI) & nbsp; Katarina PAICE / Yuri Eremenko (rookies)
29) & nbsp; (TUR) & nbsp; Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR (fourth appearance)
30) & nbsp; (UKR) & nbsp; Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim NIKITIN & ugrave; (rookies)
CALENDAR OF RACE
SHORT-DANCE - Wednesday & Igrave; 28, 17:45
FREE DANCE - Thursday, & Igrave; 29, 18:30
FINAL NOTES
Among couples in the race, the only defending champions Cappellini / Lanotte managed to step onto pi & ugrave; top of the podium. The British Coomes / Buckland have, instead, a third place, obtained twelve months ago.
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