Figure skating - European Championships 2015
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The European Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the & ldquo; Ericson Globe & rdquo; Stockholm, closed & nbsp; with free map of pairs of art.
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As was the case twelve months ago, the podium & egrave; was monopolized by Russia, which has cos & Igrave; ended the continental event with two titles and nine medals overall on the twelve available.
However, the prediction of the eve & egrave; completion jumped as the favorites Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov are lost in the free program, leaving the field open to veterans longtime Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, gi & agrave; winners back in 2010.
The vice-Olympic champions, appeared pi & ugrave; contracts compared to the habits, have opened the trial with a triple lutz launched complete with a step-out and performed the reverse frame with huge worries. However, l & rsquo; & pi error ugrave; relevant & egrave; arrived in the last seconds, when a trivial fall of Klimov did s & Igrave; that could not be run triple salchow launched, closing element of the program.
Kavaguti / Smirnov, the last to get on the ice, you have missed the wonderful opportunity and, despite dropping dramatically in the final, featuring un''esecuzione babbling sollevamente group of three, have unlined performance & Outdoors; height of the situation succeeding in well also complete a quadruple salchow launched.
Students of & rsquo; eternal Tamara Moskvina have cos & Igrave; removed the satisfaction of getting the best technical score and assessment pi & ugrave; high in the sum of the components of the program. Stolbova / Klimov, for their part, have filed l & rsquo; another place d & rsquo; honor, confirming the result of twelve months ago.
The podium & egrave; completed by debutantes Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, who, cos & Igrave; as the winners of the title, took a ride on vacuum lifting group three, but for the rest, in spite of a problem in his right knee for Tarasova, have made the best jumps in parallel and launched by executing a sumptuous triple twist.
Next, with a gap of just eight points from the third position, were placed Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek, authors, to debut in a couple ISU Championship, a benefit over the pi & ugrave; expectations. Ever, stands the remarkable performance of the triple lutz in parallel, but also throw jumps and lifts were all & rsquo; height of the situation. L & rsquo; unique deburring, in any case irrelevant, & egrave; occurred on salchow in parallel, completed by double Marchei, but it is an error passed almost unnoticed.
Good news for Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise, who have filed a major sixth place getting the best career result at the level of the European Championships. The couple stationed at the Forum of Assago clocked the fifth overall score in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, making the most of the elements of torque, lifting and in particular, limiting the burrs on the elements of jump.
Good performance also for young Alessandra Cernuschi and Filippo Ambrosini, able to go from thirteenth to tenth place. complete with best technical score of the season. Just regret some point too lost on the throw jumps, both fallen, but also the satisfaction of having done the best jumps in parallel, including the & rsquo; tough triple toe loop, and have helped to give away all & rsquo; Italy a historic achievement in because it had never happened that three pairs of artistic azure piazzassero you in the top ten in a continental event.
In the next edition of the European Championships, Russia and Italy will field three pairs, while Austria, France, Germany and Britain will have two seats.
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Yuko KAVAGUTI/Alexander SMIRNOV - European Championships 2015, Stockholm - free program
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Ksenia STOLBOVA/Fedor KLIMOV - European Championships 2015, Stockholm - free program
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