Figure skating - Four Continents, 2014, Taipei City
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The sixteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships, hosted by the "Arena Taipei" Taipei City, was opened with a short-dance.
Wednesday 22 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The competition has reserved a surprise outcome partly because the U.S. Madson Hubbell / Zachary Donohue, encouraged the vigil, were preceded by the Canadians Piper Gilles / Paul Porier, however, considered the'' only alternative.
'' In the occasion, proved to be decisive sets twizzles, supplemented with various smearing by the students of Pasquale Camarlengo, impeccable, however, on the two-step sequences finn rewarded by the highest level available. In light of the nearly equal to components of the program, the three points on the plate on the left abundant twizzles relegated Hubbell / Dononoue instead of'' honor. Overall leaders for their part have registered a positive grade of execution of each of the five elements provided for, being able to compensate in some way to the level obtained in the two tricky finn-second sequence of steps.
It should, however, remarked on how both pairs of North American raw excluded from the Olympic Games for their respective countries, have edited the personal best in the segment of the race.
The fight for the third place was dominated by the margin of U.S. school Camerlengo Alexandra / Aldridge Daniel Eaton, left in the wake of the training partners Hubbell / Donohue on the technical side, but, as expected, outclassed on each item of the program componeti . The junior championship medalists have had the merit to accumulate a margin to four lengths on the next couple Canadians Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill and Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams, remained lingered because of minor technical caliber highlighted.
Regarding the Asian couple, the palm of the day is touched by the young Chinese Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu, who ruled narrowly Koreans school Shpilband Yura Min / Timothy Koleto.
On the sidelines, it is important to note that only couples currently on the podium have gone beyond the minimum technical score to capture the'' eligibility in the World Championships, which, however, will not participate unless injury or waivers of others.
SHORT DANCE CLASS
01) (CAN) - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER 62.38 (32.92 | 29.46) 02) (USA) - Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE 61.05 (31.57 | 29.48) 03) (USA) - Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON 57.65 (31.36 | 26.29) 04) (CAN)) - Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL 53.97 (26.21 | 27.76) 05) (CAN) - Nicole ORFORD / Thomas WILLIAMS , 53.73 (27.22 | 26.51) 06) (USA) - Lynn KRIENGKRAIRUT / Logan GIULIETTI-SCHMITT 49.55 (25.57 | 23.98 ) 07) (CHN) - Shiyue WANG / LIU Xinyu 46.81 (26.30 | 20:51) 08) (KOR) - Yura MIN / Timothy KOLETO45.12 (26.42 | 18.70) 09) (CHN) - Zhang Yiyi / WU Nan 44.60 (25.35 | 19:25) 10) (AUS) - Danielle OBRIEN / Gregory MERRIMAN 44.16 (21.71 | 23:45) - 1.0011) (JPN) - Emi HIRAI / Marien DE LA ASUNCION 44.11 (24.07 | 20:04) 12) (MEX) - Pilar Maekawa MORENO / Leonardo Maekawa MORENO43.22 ( 25.85 | 17:37) 13) (CHN) - ZHAO Yue / 41.45 LIU Chang (23:22 | 19:23) - 1:00 14) (KAZ) - Ksenia Korobkova / Daryn ZHUNUSSOV 39.80 (22:42 | 17:38) 15) (UZB) - Elizaveta Tretyakov / Viktor Kovalenko 35.68 (18:07 | 17.61)
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