Figure skating - World Championships 2015
Flavio Valle
The centocinquesima edition of the World Figure Skating Championships, hosted by & rsquo; Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, you & egrave; open in the night with the Italian short-dance.
Wednesday 25 March 2015 9 minutes reading time
The segment of the race has spared no surprises and, despite some step-load striking, the average level is & egrave; revealed higher than expected, although to access the free dance, aided by the forced withdrawal of the Germans Zhiganshina / Gazsi, are needed 51.12 points, reflected lower compared to the last two editions of the World Championships. It should be noted as well thirteen couples have pushed beyond the sixty lengths, did ever before in top-level competitions.
The role of absolute protagonists & egrave; touched the Americans Madison Chock / Evan Bates, who filed a plebisicito level four crumbling the personal record and marking a technical score well over fifty-eight points, having crossed in the past only by Davis / White and Virtue / Moir. Students of Igor Shpilband have, in particular, guadangato ground than the competition thanks to the combined sequences paso doble and midline in parallel.
Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, favorites of the day before, they had to settle for second coin accumulating a margin of less than two points, the son of two unannounced lost levels on mandatory sequence of paso doble. The vice-world champions have still got the best technical score of his career, but, as to think ahead of the free dance, were almost matched by US rivals in the sum of the components of the program. On the sidelines, goes to & ograve; noted that Weaver / Poje, authors of the new personal best, have recovered in recent Four Continents over two lengths lags behind Chock / Bates.
The provisional podium & egrave; was completed by the Italians Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte, finally able to cross the threshold of the seventy points in the segment of the race and to touch up the national record. Holders of the world title have finally shown that speed & agrave; Failure in previous releases and have been responsible for running the best twizzle competition. The difference compared to the North American couples who lead the standings & egrave; emerged from the ground lost on the sequence of steps in parallel, that & egrave ;, in each case, a fine worth three level.
Following were placed, the young French Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume CIZERON, who paid duty than the concorreza because of lost levels on sequences paso doble, but they managed to limit the damage thanks to the assessments pi & ugrave; elevated the race of each component of the program.
On balance, the first four pairs in the standings, all capable of improving the personal best, they closed the short-dance enclosed in little more & ugrave; two and a half points, leaving open any discussion related to the podium and win.
In fifth place, came the Russians Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin, who ruled for a few cents Americans Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani winning the sprint to get on track nell''ultimo merit group in the free dance.
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STANDINGS SHORT DANCE
01) USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES74.47 (38.52 | 35.95) PB02) CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE72.68 (36.70 | 35.98) PB03) ITA - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE72.39 (37.03 | 35.36) NR04) Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON71.94 (35.28 | 36.66) PB05) RUS - Elena ILINYKH / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN69.46 (34.95 | 34.51) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 06) USA - Maia Shibutani / Alex SHIBUTANI69.32 (35.26 | 34.06) 07) CAN - Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER65.90 (34.64 | 31.26) PB08) CAN - Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM64.38 (33.47 | 30.91) PB09) DEN - Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 62.40 (34.21 | 28.19) NR10) RUS - Ksenia MONKO / Kirill KHALIAVIN62.36 (32.22 | 30.14) 11) USA - Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE61.43 (30.21 | 31.22) 12) ITA - Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI61. 02 (30.86 | 31.16) - 1.0013) SVK - Federica HEAD / Lukas CSOLLEY & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 60.07 (31.13 | 28.94) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 14) RUS - Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN59.62 (29.22 | 31.40) - 1.0015) ESP - Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ59.52 (29.90 | 29.62) 16) TUR - Alisa Agafonova / UCAR Alper & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 56.07 (30.80 | 25.27) Nr17) UKR - Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim NIKITIN55.08 (28.43 | 26.65) 18) CHN - Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU54.38 (29.21 | 25.17) NR19) HUN - Carolina Moscheni / Adam LUKACS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 53.05 (27.65 | 25.40) 20) JPN - Allison REED / Vasili ROGOV51.12 (26.75 | 24.37) NR21) AUT - Barbora Silna / Juri KURAKIN49.57 (27.63 | 21.94) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 22) JPN - Cathy REED / Chris REED48.32 (25.02 | 24.30) - 1.0023) EST - Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND48.04 (24.97 | 23:07) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 24) POL - Natalia KALISZEK / Maksim SPODIREV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 45.46 (22:55 | 23.91) -1.0025) FIN - Cecilia T & Öland; RN / Jussiville Partanen & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 45.11 (23.97 | 21:14) PB26) KOR - Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV45,09 (23:37 | 27.72) - 1.0027) GBR - Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND44.32 (22:38 | 22.94) -1.00 & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 28) BLR - Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 43.21 (24.90 | 20:31) -2.0029) LAT - & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; Olga JAKUSHINA / Andrey NEVSKIY & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 42.37 (22:08 | 20:29) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; WD) GER - Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander Gazsi
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PB - Personal best - primacy personaleNR - National records - national record
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