Figure skating - European Championships, 2013, Zagreb
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The ice of the "Dom Sportova" in Zagreb, the scene of the European Championships in figure skating, continues to be prodigal of satisfaction for the Italian''.
Friday 25 January 2013 8 minutes reading time
After the historic bronze medal won by the pair of artistic Berton / Hotarek, was given to Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte get on the lowest step of the podium in dance.
Students of Paola Mezzadri and Igor Shpilband, absent due to coincide with the U.S. National Championships, have thus become the third association of blue dance to get at least one medal in the continental event. Previously, they had crowned the'' ambitious goal Fusar Poli / Margaglio and Faiella / Scali, but had never reached a third place.
Moreover, in the free dance today, the Italian couple took off the satisfaction of getting the best technical score, confirming the findings in the first part of the season when on this side were second only to Davis / White and Virtue / Moir.
The success at the end of a fight on the edge of hundredths of a point, went to the Russians Bobrova / Soloviev who, after having imposed in the short-dance, they have managed to resist the return of the bully younger countrymen Ilinykh / Katsalapov. Students to Nikolai Morozov, ever winner of the European dance nor as an athlete nor as a coach, it was not enough precede rivals on both the technical score that component of the program of the longest segment of the race. In particular, although in the free dance the judges have clearly given their preference for Ilinykh / Katsalapov, was the panel to make a difference in how the technical score of the basis of the title winners was higher by two points at the net degree of execution. In the end, proved to be decisive for the quality of the top where the new vice European champions had to settle Level Two.
In any case, both, couples, accomplice'' forced absence of defending champions Pechalat / Bourzat, have improved by one position, the result of last season.
The triumph for the Russian school was completed by the fourth place Riazanova / Tkachenko, far removed from the podium not only in terms of points.
The second pair consists of azzura Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri, thanks to an input on the set of problematic twizzles cost a couple of levels, was passed over for six basis points from the Italian-German Kolbe / Caruso. It remains, however, the satisfaction of having spent only a couple of issues to get in the top ten. Budget, of course, also positive for Barbara Fusar Poli, who, in the role of trainer, led the couple'' s eighth German and Italian in the position to follow.
With regard to other associations coached by former glories homegrown, shall be recorded and the small comeback of Italian-Slovak Head / Csolley that the Finns Karmi / Lindholm. The students of Roberto Pelizzola have recovered from the nineteenth to seventeenth place, while the couple followed by Maurizio Margaglio has recovered a closing position in nineteenth place.
On the sidelines, we should remark that nineteen of the twenty pairs qualified for the free dance have been able to improve the personal best in the sum of the scores of the two programs. '' The only exception to the rule was represented by the French Carron / Jones, however tenths at the end of the race.
In light of today's results, Italy and Russia will deploy three couples in the next continental event to be held in Budapest in Hungary. They will instead have two places Britain, France, Germany and Azerbaijan.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) 169,25 (69,42 | 99,83) (RUS) Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (PB)
02) 169,14 (68,98 | 100,16) (RUS) Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (PB)
03) 165,80 (66,53 | 99,27) (ITA) Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (PB)
04) 157.77 (64.52 | 93.25) (RUS) Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO (PB)
05) 152,95 (60,59 | 92,36) (GBR) Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (PB)
06) 147,28 (60,08 | 87,20) (GER) Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (PB)
07) 144,83 (60,93 | 83,90) (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov (PB)
08) 142,54 (56,54 | 86,00) GER) Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO (PB)
09) 142,48 (57,63 | 84,85) (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI (PB)
10) 140,00 (55,85 | 84,15) (FRA) Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES
11) 132,90 (50,51 | 82,39) (EST) Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND (PB)
12) 129,36 (53,58 | 75,78) (UKR) Siobhan Heekin-Canedy / Dmitri DUN (PB)
13) 127,59 (50,79 | 76,80) (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR (PB)
14) 124,62 (50,52 | 74,10) (CZE) Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN (PB)
15) 124.26 (49.32 | 74.94) - (ESP) Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (PB)
16) 117,60 (48,08 | 69,12) (HUN) Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate Fejes (PB)
17) 114,62 (44,83 | 69,79) (SVK) Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY (PB)
18) 113,29 (45,09 | 68,20) (SUI) Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST (PB)
19) 110,92 (44,29 | 66,63) (FIN) Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM (PB)
20) 107,26 (44,94 | 62,32) (GEO) Angelina Telegina / Otar Japaridze (PB)
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