Figure skating - World Championships 2015
Flavio Valle
The long run of Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford to the coveted world title & egrave; was crowned by happy ending. The Canadian couple & egrave ;, in fact, output triumphant dall''Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai successfully defending the 'imbattibilit & agrave; seasonal in each segment of the race.
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Students of Richard Gauthier have cos & Igrave; reported in North America a title that was missing for fourteen long years and the 'have done with the look of pi & ugrave; strong competition wonder big sweep, which has ennobled even more & ugrave; the 'announced success.
Strengthened by a superpower technical emerged pi & ugrave; filming the Canadian veterans have also granted some minor snagging in the free program for demonstrating & ograve; once more & ugrave; to be in possession of a complete package, which goes far beyond the possibilities & agrave; running the triple lutz in parallel and quadruple salchow launched.
Moreover, in addition to the third consecutive medal in the World Championships, & egrave; came the icing on the cake represented by new personal best, repeatedly touched up during the season, especially when the stakes was important.
Duhamel / Radford ruled the 'fierce Chinese patrol, which has nothing left unturned to get on the podium in his home race. Today's result has, in particular, set out a handover between veterans longtime Pang Qing / Tong Jian, at thirty-five played yet in a position to fight for a world championship medal, and emerging Wenjing Sui / Han Cong, now capable to stand up to Duhamel / Radford on the technical front. The place of 'honor & egrave; was conquered by the couple own the copyright pi & ugrave; young, driven by triple launched, triple and quadruple twist in parallel, & egrave; managed to get the better of the veterans of the long course. Pang / Tong have, however, won the sixth medal of a glorious career missing the 'silver due to an error of Pang on what was supposed to be a sequence of two double axel, but you & egrave; ended with a single axel.
Afterwards, complete with a new personal best, were placed Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang, finally able to limit the damage on the jumps in parallel and, consequently, increases the value of pi & ugrave; the 'great quality & agrave; on quadruple twist and lifting.
The Russian movement, free for different reasons couples rush Volosozhar / Trankov and Stolbova / Klimov you & egrave ;, however, had to settle for fifth and sixth position, occupied by the eternal Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, today pi & ugrave; Fouled than usual, & nbsp; and the emerging Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov, authors of the new personal best result of two programs priivi burrs.
In seventh position amounted Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, now in effect undisputed leaders of the movement to the stars and stripes, which preceded with margin Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, vice-world champion junior players of a debut with a bang in the major category.
Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek missed because of an accident on the way the 'eighth coming preceded also by the French Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres and the Russians Astakhova / Rogonov. The couple blue headed toward the new personal best and a hundred and twenty points in the segment of race & egrave; had to settle dell''undicesimo place due to the lifting axel lasso, not & egrave; rose to duty in the final part of the program. However, somewhere in pi & ugrave; or less in the standings does not affect with what has been achieved in a period of apprenticeship, characterized by significant progress. Even ogg, in fact, can not go unnoticed triple lutz in parallel and the quality & agrave; launched on the jumps, while there will be & agrave; time and opportunity to intervene in the twist.
Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise have, however, equaled the result of 2013 and concluded in fourteenth place. However, in the free program today, c '' & egrave; was a clear step back from the previous appearances and too many steps were empty of throw jumps and in parallel, which have overshadowed the positive highlighted on twist and lifting.
In virt & ugrave; the results today, China, Canada and Russia will deploy three couples in the next World Championships, while Italy, the United States and France will have two seats
FINAL STANDINGS
1) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / RADFORD Eric & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 221.53 (1 | 1) PB2) CHN - Wenjing ON / HAN Cong & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 214.12 (3 | 2) PB3) CHN - Qing Pang / Jian TONG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 212.77 (2 | 3) 4) CHN - PENG Cheng / Hao ZHANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 206.63 (5 | 4) PB5) RUS - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.91 (4 | 6) 6) RUS - Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir MOROZOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.46 (6 | 5) PB7) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 185.81 (7 | 7) 8) CAN - Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 178.03 (10 | 10) PB9) FRA - Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 177.34 (12 | 8) 10) RUS - Kristina Astakhova / Alexei ROGONOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 173.58 (13 | 9) 11) ITA - Valentina marchei / Ondrej Hotarek & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 172.55 (9 | 11) 12) USA - & nbsp; Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 172.51 (8 | 12) 13) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan Moscovitch & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 169.91 (11 | 13) 14) ITA - Nicole OF MONICA / Matthew GUARISE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 151.77 (14 | 15) 15) GER - Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 147.84 (15 | 14) 16) GBR - Amani FANCY / Christopher BOYADJI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 130.22 (16 | 16)
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