Figure skating - World Championships 2015
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As usual, the women's competition of the World Championships will & agrave; one characterized by the highest number of registered skaters.
Wednesday 11 March 2015 8 minutes reading time
On the ice of the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai will compete thirty-six athletes representing twenty-seven countries and four continents. Nell & rsquo; occasion, aided by the generational change, in usual start of a new four-year Olympic, will be at the starting thirteen rookies. Moreover, compared to & rsquo; edition of & rsquo; last year, were recorded three skaters in pi & ugrave ;.
The underdogs incumbent upon eighteen Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, back from convincing success in the final of the Grand Prix and in the European Championships. However, l & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin, still undecided on & rsquo; & agrave opportunities; to present the triple axel in competition, will have & agrave; watch their backs from sixteen compatriot Elena Radionova, only one able to defeat it in the course of the season. The budget of the four direct clashes occurred so far & egrave ;, in fact, in absolute equality & agrave; as Tuktamysheva & egrave; was preceded by a rival at Skate America and the National Championships.
The American Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold, who always manages to find a condition technical / physical proper, as well as & eacute; Russia's Anna Pogorilaya appear the only able to join the fight for the podium and possibly to success by taking advantage of possible steps to empty the two athletes pi & ugrave; listed.
A step below are asking the hostess Zijun Li, see Gold, the US Polina Edmuns, surprise winner of the Four Continents of Seoul, and the debutantes Japanese Satoko and Rika Miyahara Hongo.
A placing in the top ten also appears l & rsquo; aim for the Japanese Kanako Murakami, Finland's Kiira Korpi, the Swedish Joshi Helgesson, the Korean So Youn Park, France's Mae Berenice Meite and Canadian Gabrielle Daleman and Alaine Chartrand.
The blue colors will be defended by Roberta Rodeghiero and rookie Jade Russo, who will try to qualify for the free program by closing the first half of the race among the top twenty. The twenty-four stationed in Sesto San Giovanni may also aspire to a placing in the top twenty.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
01) ARM - Anastasia Galustyan (novice) 02) AUS - Brooklee HAN (3 & deg; participation) 03) AUT - Kerstin FRANK (5 & deg; participation) 04) CAN - Alaine Chartrand (novice) 05) CAN - Gabrielle DALEMAN (2 & deg; participation ) 06) CHN - Zijun LI (3 & deg; participation) 07) CZE - Eliska Březinova (3 & deg; participation) 08) FIN - Kiira KORPI (6 & deg; participation) 09) FRA - Mae Berenice MEITE (4 & deg; participation) 10) GEO - Elene GEDEVANISHVILI (9 & deg; participation) 11) GER - Nicole SCHOTT (novice) 12) HUN - Ivett TOTH (novice) 13) ISR - Net SCHREIBER (2 & deg; participation) 14) ITA - Roberta RODEGHIERO (2 & deg; participation) 15) ITA - Jade RUSSO (novice) 16) JPN - Rika HONGO (novice) 17) JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA (novice) 18) JPN - Kanako Murakami (5 & deg; participation) 19) LAT - Angelina KUCHVALSKA (novice) 20) LTU - Aleksandra Golovkina (novice) 21) NED - Niki WORIES (novice) 22) NOR - Anne Line GJERSEM (3 & deg; participation) 23) PHI - Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO (novice) 24) KOR - Hae Jin KIM (2 & deg; participation) 25) KOR - So Youn PARK (2 & deg; participation) 26) RUS - Anna Pogorilaya (2 & deg; participation) 27) RUS - Elena Radionova (novice) 28) RUS - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (2 & deg; participation) 29) SVK - Nicole RAJICOVA (2 & deg; participation) 30) SLO - Dasa GRM (3 & deg; participation) 31) SWE - Joshi Helgesson (3 & deg; participation) 32) ON - Eveline BRUNNER (novice) 33) UKR - Natalia POPOVA (4 & deg; participation) 34) USA - Polina EDMUNDS (2 & deg; participation) 35) USA - Gracie GOLD (3 & deg; participation) 36) USA - Ashley WAGNER (5 & deg; participation)
CALENDAR OF RACE
Thursday on Igrave; 26, 10:30 (03:30 in Italy), program cortoEUROSPORT, deferred from 10:30
Saturday 28, 10:30 (03:30 in Italy), program liberoEUROSPORT, deferred from 11:00
FINAL NOTES
None of the athletes in the race & egrave; never climb on the podium in the World Championships. Pogorilaya, Murakami and Wagner have to & ograve; alternating in fourth place in the last three editions.
The skater pi & ugrave; young race sar & agrave; l & rsquo; Armenian Galustyan Anastasia, who compir & agrave; sixteen years old on May 25th. The palm of pi & ugrave; elderly is up, however, the Finnish Kiira Korpi, twenty-six.
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