Figure Skating - World Championships 2016
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L & rsquo; last title that will be & agrave; assigned during the World Championships in Boston sar & agrave; the female.
Friday 25 March 2016 11 minutes reading time
On the ice of the & ldquo; TD Garden & rdquo; They will compete thirty-eight athletes representing twenty-eight countries and four continents. Nell & rsquo; occasion, will be at eleven starting line debutantes. Moreover, compared to & rsquo; edition of & rsquo; past year, were recorded two skaters in pi & ugrave ;.
The underdogs belong to the Russian sixteen sixteen Russian Evgenia Medvedeva, back from convincing successes in the finals of Grand Prix and European Championships. L & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze will have & agrave; watch their backs from seventeen compatriot Elena Radionova, only able to defeat the opponent during the season and the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, medal d & rsquo; silver twelve months ago and exceedingly progressed in recent months. & nbsp; The ambitions are prominent for the twentysomething American Gracie Gold, actually born in Massachusetts, and for twenty-five Japanese Mao Asada, skater pi & ugrave; titrated in the race. For both, the & rsquo; upcoming World Championships will be & agrave; l & rsquo; last chance to redeem a convincingly season started, but then continued with obvious difficulty & agrave; and striking passages empty.
Even the American Ashley Wagner, the Russian Anna Pogorilaya and Japan's Rika Hongo will try to join the race for the podium hoping for some step-load of female athletes on the pi & ugrave paper; qualified. It remains, however, one unknown the condition of the third American Mirai Nagasu, just back from the splendor of the Four Continents Championships, but only selected in the last few days to replace the & rsquo; injured Polina Edmunds.
A placing in the top ten looks l & rsquo; aim for Canadian Gabrielle Daleman and Alaine Chartrand, the Chinese Li Zijun, the Korean So-Youn Park and rookie Kazakh Elizabet Tursynbaeva.
The blue colors will be defended by Roberta Rodeghiero, until now the author of the best season of his career. The minimum target & egrave; to improve the twentieth place last year, but the hope & egrave; be able to get a placing among the top fifteen.
ABSENCES
For technical choice, the game will not be the Russian Adelina Sotnikova, Olympic champion, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, defending champion and Julia Lipnitskaia. Due to injury, & egrave; He was also forced to renounce the US Polina Edmunds. Nell & rsquo; list of non-selected by their respective federations include Japan's Kanako Murakami and the Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
01) ARM - Anastasia Galustyan & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 29 (2 & deg; participation)
02) AUS - Kailani Craine & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 49 (novice)
03) AUT - Kerstin FRANK & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 55 (6 & deg; participation)
04) CAN - Alaine CHARTRAND & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 24 (2 & deg; participation)
05) CAN - Gabrielle DALEMAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 20 (3 & deg; participation)
06) CHN - Zijun LI & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 33 (4 & deg; participation)
07) CHN - Ziquan ZHAO & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 134 (novice)
08) TPE - Amy LIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 86 (novice)
09) CZE - Eliska Březinova & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 51 (4 & deg; participation)
10) FIN - Viveca LINDFORS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 42 (novice)
11) FRA - Laurine LECAVELIERWS 36 (novice)
12) FRA - Mae Berenice MEITEWS 35 (5 & deg; participation)
13) GER - Nathalie WEINZIERLWS 41 (3 & deg; participation)
14) GBR - Kristen SPOURSnon classified (novice)
15) HUN - Ivett TOTH WS 34 (2 & deg; participation)
16) ITA - Roberta RODEGHIEROWS 15 (3 & deg; participation)
17) JPN - Mao ASADA WS 14 (9 & deg; participation)
18) JPN - Rika HONGO WS 4 (2 & deg; participation)
19) JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA WS 1 (2 & deg; participation)
20) KAZ - Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA WS 21 (novice)
21) LAT - Angelina KUCHVALSKAWS 12 (2 & deg; participation)
22) LTU - Aleksandra Golovkina WS 53 (2 & deg; participation)
23) NED - Niki WORIES WS 97 (2 & deg; participation)
24) NOR - Anne Line GJERSEM WS 62 (4 & deg; participation)
25) KOR - From Bin CHOI WS 37 (novice)
26) KOR - So Youn PARK WS 26 (3 & deg; participation)
27) RUS - Evgenia Medvedeva WS 7 (novice)
28) RUS - Anna Pogorilaya WS 6 (3 & deg; participation)
29) RUS - elena radionova WS 3 (2 & deg; participation)
30) SVK - Nicole RAJICOVA WS 23 (3 & deg; participation)
31) SLO - Dasa GRM WS 56 (4 & deg; participation)
32) ESP - Sonia LAFUENTE WS 89 (8 & deg; participation)
33) SWE - Joshi Helgesson WS 25 (3 & deg; participation)
34) ON - Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA WS 164 (novice)
35) UKR - Anna KHNYCHENKOVA WS127 (novice)
36) USA - Mirai Nagasu WS 11 (2 & deg; participation)
37) USA - Gracie GOLD WS 5 (3 & deg; participation)
38) USA - Ashley WAGNER WS 8 (6 & deg; participation)
ATHLETES VALUE
***** (In alphabetical order) Asada, Gold, Medvedeva, Miyahara, Radionova
**** (In alphabetical order) Hongo, Nagasu, Pogorilaya, Wagner
*** (In alphabetical order) Chartrand, Daleman, Li, Park, Tursynbaeva
** (In alphabetical order) Choi, Helgesson, Kuchvalska, Meite, Rajicova, Rodeghiero
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Thursday & igrave; March 31, at 12:15 (18:15 in Italy) & ndash; program cortoSabato April 2, 19:00 (01:00 in Italy) & ndash; free program
FINAL NOTES
* Eleven of the thirty-eight members will take part in the World Championships for the first time in his career.
* L & rsquo; pi & ugrave athlete; young in the race & egrave; l & rsquo; even fifteen British Kristen Spours, while the pi & ugrave; elderly & egrave; almost twenty-six Italian Roberta Rodeghiero.
* Japan's Mao Asada & egrave; figure skater recognized that boasts the highest number of appearances in the World Championships.
* Japan's Mao Asada, who won in 2008, in 2010 and in 2014, & egrave; l & rsquo; only this skater to have won world titles.
* They climb on the podium in previous editions, the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, second in 2015, and the Russian Elena Radionova, third in 2015.
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