Figure skating - World Championships 2015
Flavio Valle
The World Figure Skating Championships, hosted by & rsquo; Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, will open with the short dance. The title of the dance sar & agrave; however, the second to be assigned.
Wednesday 11 March 2015 8 minutes reading time
Unless withdrawals of & rsquo; last minute, thirty-one pairs representing twenty-three & eacute; countries and three continents will be played l & rsquo; access to the final segment of the race, reserved for those who occupy the top twenty positions at the end of short-dance. In the last edition subscribers were thirty.
On the eve, the highlight of the race should be represented by the contest between the advanced French Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume CIZERON, rulers of the Europeans in Stockholm, and Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, only couple unbeaten in the current season. On paper, the role of third wheel should touch the US couple composed of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, seconds in the final Grand Prix of Barcelona and in the Four Continents Championships. In key podium, do not start beaten Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, defending champions, and the Americans Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani.
Canadians Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier and couples Russian Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin and Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin should not have big problems to remain in the top ten, also stated goal for the Spanish Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz, Americans Madison Hubbell / Zachary / Donohue, Italians Charl & egrave; it Guignard / Marco Fabbri, the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland and the Germans Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi, joints & Outdoors; last race of his career in pairs. & nbsp;
Key in Italy, the dream is to be able to gain three seats for the World Championships of 2016, that's never happened in history. In this sense, the sum of the placings of the pairs in the race will not have blue & agrave; be more than thirteen.
It should be noted that the presence Italian sar & agrave; large even on the track as Pasquale Camerlengo, Roberto Pelizzola, Paola Mezzadri, Maurizio Margaglio and Barbara Fusar Poli accompany a good part of the pairs entered in the competition.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
01) AUT - Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin (2 & deg; participation)
02) BLR - Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV (3 & deg; participation)
03) CAN - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER (3 & deg; participation)
04) CAN - Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM (2 & deg; participation)
05) CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje (7 & deg; participation)
06) CHN - Shiyue WANG / LIU Xinyu (rookies)
07) DEN - Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN (2 & deg; participation)
08) EST - Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND (4 & deg; participation)
09) FIN - Cecilia T & Öland; RN / Jussiville Partanen (rookies)
10) FRA - Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON (2 & deg; participation)
11) GER - Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi (7 & deg; participation)
12) GBR - Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND (5 & deg; participation)
13) GBR - Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND (rookies)
14) HUN - Carolina Moscheni / Adam LUKACS (rookies)
15) ISR - Allison REED / Vasily Rogov (3 & deg; participation)
16) ITA - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE (9 & deg; participation)
17) ITA - Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco Fabbri (4 & deg; participation)
18) JPN - Cathy REED / Chris REED (8 & deg; participation)
19) LAT - Olga JAKUSHINA / Andrey NEVSKIY (rookies)
20) POL - Natalia KALISZEK / Maksim SPODIREV (rookies)
21) KOR - Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV (rookies)
22) RUS - Elena ILINYKH / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN (rookies)
23) RUS - Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN (rookies)
24) RUS - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan Bukin (rookies)
25) SVK - Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY (4 & deg; participation)
26) ESP - Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ (5 & deg; participation)
27) TUR - Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR (4 & deg; participation)
28) UKR - Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim NIKITIN (rookies)
29) USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (3 & deg; participation)
30) USA - Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE (2 & deg; participation)
31) USA - Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (5 & deg; participation)
CALENDAR OF RACE
Wednesday & Igrave; 25, 09:30 (02:30 in Italy), short danceEUROSPORT, deferred from 11:00
Friday & Igrave; 27, 10:30 (03:30 in Italy), dance liberaEUROSPORT, deferred from 10:30
FINAL NOTES
Among the subscribers of the race, the only Cappellini / Lanotte, defending champions, and Weaver / Poje, in seconds & rsquo; last edition, boast appearances on the podium.
The couple pi & ugrave; elderly in the race, averaging dell''et & agrave; of the two components, & egrave; the German composed Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gazsi. The palm of pi & ugrave; young people have, instead, Aigli Italian-Hungarian Canadian Carolina Moscheni / Adam Lukacs, still teens.
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