Figure Skating - World Championships 2016
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The second title that will be & agrave; assigned in the upcoming World Championships in figure skating, hosted by the & ldquo; TD Garden & rdquo; Boston, sar & agrave; the male.
Friday 25 March 2016 14 minutes reading time
Unless withdrawals of & rsquo; last minute, thirty athletes representing twenty-three & egrave; countries and four continents will compete for the twenty-four places available for the final segment of the race.
L & rsquo; man to beat sar & agrave; twenty Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, who dominated the final of the Grand Prix, that can improve more & ugrave; Sometimes the world record during the season. The Olympic champion, to leave no stone unturned, decided not to take part in the Four Continents Championships and is located in North America gi & agrave; by time. At the moment, not & egrave; & nbsp; known whether the free program will come & agrave; also entered four times Rittberger, new weapon in the arsenal.
The main alternatives are named by Spain's Javier Fernandez, defending champion and winner in the recent European Championships, and Canadian Patrick Chan, appeared in great form in the free program of the Four Continents Championships. Both will have to memorize options hope for steps to empty the main favorite.
They hope to be able to enter in the race for medals also the Chinese and the Japanese Boyang Jin Shoma Uno, both debuting in a world senior, but gi & agrave; able to make their mark in the first full-time season in the top category. Will also closely followed China's Han Yan, on the podium in the recent Four Continents, and Kazakh Denis Ten, back from a subdued period characterized by some physical problems too.
For the home team, hopes are pinned to do well in the long-time veteran Adam Rippon and Max Aaron, both nothing more & ugrave; that luxury outsider cos & igrave; as the Russians Maxim Kovtun and Mikhail Kolyada.
The athletes' ranks who will leave for Boston with the & rsquo; aim of winning a placing in the top ten also includes the & rsquo; Uzbek Misha Ge, hampered by physical problems in recent months, l & rsquo; Israeli Alexei Bychenko, d & rsquo medal, silver in Bratislava Europeans , the Czech Michal Brezina, so far among the major disappointments of the season, and the Canadian Nam Nguyen, called to get out of an extremely dull period.
The level of the competition is announced, in any case, the star to the point that, on paper at least, should be more & ugrave; twenty skaters can go well beyond the qualifying threshold of two hundred points.
As for the & rsquo; Italy, sar & agrave; This the twenty-four Ivan Righini, which, by virtue & ugrave; progress highlighted by half & agrave; December onwards, hopes to join the fight for the top ten.
ABSENT
The main absences are those of Nathan Chen Americans, forced to give up the second part of the season because of surgery to & rsquo; hip, and Jason Brown. Among the names of weight will not be in the game even the & rsquo; Israeli Daniel Samohin, champion junior champion, Japan's Takahito Mura and Russian Sergei Voronov, not selected by the respective federations. Miss, finally, the German Peter Liebers, recently completed under the knife, and Swede Alexander Majorov, last to raise the white flag.
PARTICIPANTS
01) ARG - Denis MARGALIK & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 64 (novice)
02) ARM - Slavik Hayrapetyan & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 81 (novice)
03) AUS - Brendan KERRY & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 47 (2 & deg; participation)
04) BEL - Jorik HENDRICKX & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 44 (4 & deg; participation)
05) CAN - Patrick CHAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 8 (7 & deg; participation)
06) CAN - Nam Ngyuen & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 13 (3 & deg; participation)
07) CHN - Boyang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 17 (novice)
08) CHN - Han YAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 18 (3 & deg; participation)
09) CZE - Michal BREZINA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 11 (7 & deg; participation)
10) FRA - Chafik BESSEGHIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 38 (3 & deg; participation)
11) GER - Franz Streubel & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 45 (novice)
12) GBR - Phillip HARRIS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 58 (novice)
13) ISR - Alexei Bychenko & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 22 (5 & deg; participation)
14) ITA - Ivan RIGHINI & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 28 (3 & deg; participation)
15) JPN - Yuzuru Hanyu & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 1 (5 & deg; participation)
16) JPN - Shoma A & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; SW 7 (novice)
17) KAZ - Denis TEN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 3 (7 & deg; participation)
18) LAT - Deniss VASILJEVS & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 32 (novice)
19) MAS - Julian Zhi Jie YEE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 52 (novice)
20) PHI - Michael Christian MARTINEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 26 (2 & deg; participation)
21) KOR - June Hyoung LEE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 39 (2 & deg; participation)
22) RUS - Mikhail Kolyada & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 27 (novice)
23) RUS - Maxim Kovtun & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 5 (4 & deg; participation)
24) ESP - Javier FERNANDEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 2 (10 & deg; participation)
25) ESP - Javier RAYA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 84 (2 & deg; participation)
26) UKR - Ivan Pavlov & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 46 (novice)
27) USA - Max AARON & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 10 (3 & deg; participation)
28) USA - Grant Hochstein & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 38 (novice)
29) USA - Adam RIPPON & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 12 (4 & deg; participation)
30) UZB - Misha GE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; WS 16 (6 & deg; participation)
ATHLETES VALUE
***** (In alphabetical order) Chan, Fernandez, Hanyu
**** (In alphabetical order) Jin, Ten, One, Yan
*** (In alphabetical order) Aaron, Bychenko, Kolyada, Kovtun, Rippon
** (In alphabetical order) Besseghier, Brezina, Ge, Hendrickx, Hochstein, Nguyen, Righini
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Wednesday & igrave; March 30, at 18:00 (00:00 in Italy) & ndash; program cortoVenerd & igrave; April 1, 18:45 (00:45 hours in Italy) & ndash; free program
FINAL NOTES
* Entrants are eleven of thirty participants
* L & rsquo; pi & ugrave athlete; young in the race & egrave; the sixteen year old Latvian Deniss Vasiljevs, while the pi & ugrave; Elder & egrave; Israel's twenty-eight Alexei Buchenko.
* The Spaniard Javier Fernandez & egrave; l & rsquo; writing athlete boasting more & ugrave; holdings in the World Championships.
* Three of the thirty participants were imposed in at least one of the previous editions. Canadian Patrick Chan has continuously won between 2011 and 2013, the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu you & egrave; imposed in 2014, while the Spaniard Javier Fernandez prevailed in 2015.
* In the past & egrave; on the podium also the Kazakh Denis Ten, the second in 2013 and third in 2015.
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