Figure Skating - World Championships 2013 London
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The first day of the World Figure Skating Championships ended with a bang as, in the most absolute riot of the large audience of the "Budweiser Gardens" in London, Patrick Chan has put a mortgage on the'' conquest of the third world title a row.
Thursday 14 March 2013 9 minutes reading time
The landlord, a native of the nearby Toronto, has dominated the men's short program going to reclaim the world record that had been taken by the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu at the start of the current season. The provision of Patrick Chan was masterful and free from imperfections on the elements of jump, among which the combination of opening quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop. The real news, go unnoticed, however, is represented by the spinning tops which, for the first time since time immemorial, were judged as the highest level (level four). The title holder has granted the luxury of getting the best technical score of the day and especially the highest rating on each component of the program, breaking through the wall of the 45 points so far taboo.
In a race in which they were completed ten quadruple jumps, second place went to surprise the Kazakh Denis Ten, athlete accustomed to a performance increase to coincide with the month of March. L'' student of Frank Carroll was the author of a program of rare strength technique that allowed him to touch the personal record of thirteen points. The result is clearly historical in Kazakhstan as it has never happened that a skater came to fight for the chance to win world championship medals. Moreover, the nineteen year old native of Almaty has had the satisfaction of becoming the fourth athlete after Chan, Hanyu and Takahashi to cross the threshold of 91 points in segmeno shorter race.
The podium is currently completed by Canadian Kevin Reyndolds, in turn author of a significant primacy. The native of North Vancouver became the first athlete in history to complete two quadruple jumps in a short program of the World Championships, crumbling in'' at the personal record.
The fourth place went to Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, penalized by a landing on two feet of the quad toe loop, however, missing rotation. Next, they placed the veteran French Brian Joubert and Czech Michal Brezina, best European day.
The list includes disappointed Spaniard Javier Fernandez, seventh because of a shift to empty on'' axel, completed only single, the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu, ninth with disastrous fall on the quadruple toe loop combination and with the missing, the Frenchman Florent Amodio, tenth because of an'' abnormal'' slipped in the entrance of the top combined with change of foot, and Russian Maxim Kovtun, sadly diciannovessimo for not having achieved the planned quadruple toe loop.
The best of the Italians was Paolo Bacchini, twenty-seventh and third eliminated from the free program. The twenty-seven of Cavalese, excluding the second part of the race for a little over one and a half, has paid duty in part to the decision to renounce the difficult triple axel'' and'' especially for the execution of the flying sit, judged only Level Two.
It should however be pointed out that with the more than sixty points achieved in the competition today, Bacchini would have qualified for the race so far free of any disputed, evidence of a clear increase in the average overall.
The national champion Paul Bonifacio Parkinson has, however, had to settle for 33th and penultimate position, the result, in particular, of an element of jump (combination) came completely not.
In the light of the outcome of today's short, Canada and Japan would have three seats available for the Olympic Games. Kazakhstan, France, Czech Republic, Spain, the United States could, however, field two athletes. A place should be, finally, China, Germany, Uzbekistan, Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Austria and Denmark.
The contest will end on Friday with the free program.
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) 98.37 - (CAN) Patrick CHAN (world record) 02) 91.56 - (KAZ) Denis TEN (national record) 03) 85.16 - (CAN) Kevin REYNOLDS (personal record) 04) 84.67 - (JPN) Daisuke TAKAHASHI 05) 84.17 - (FRA) Brian JOUBERT 06) 83.09 - (CZE) Michal BREZINA 07) 80.76 - (ESP) Javier FERNANDEZ 08) 78.20 - (USA) Max AARON (defined staff) 09) 75.94 - (JPN) Yuzuru Hanyu 10) 75.73 - (FRA) Florent AMODIO 11) 73.46 - (JPN) Takahito MURA 12) 73.03 - (CHN) Nan SONG 13) 71, 20 - (GER) Peter LIEBERS (national record) 14) 70.24 - (USA) Ross MINER 15) 68.45 - (UZB) - Misha GE 16) 68.32 - (SWE) Alexander Majorov 17) 68.05 - (CZE) Tomas VERNER 18) 67.35 - (CAN) Andrei ROGOZINE 19) 65.85 - (RUS) Maxim Kovtun 20) 65.33 - (EST) Viktor ROMANENKOV (national record) 21) 64.10 - ( AUT) Viktor PFEIFER 22) 63.25 - (DEN) Justus STRID (national record) 23) 62.04 - (BEL) Jorik HENDRICKX 24) 61.88 - (UKR) Yakov GODOROZHA (personal record)
25) 60.96 - (POL) Maciej Cieplucha (national record) 26) 60.75 - (KOR) Seo Jin KIM (national record) 27) 60.31 - (ITA) Paul BACCHINI 28) 59.14 - (KAZ ) Abzal RAKIMGALIEV 29) 58.24 - (ROU) Zoltan KELEMEN 30) 57.94 - (HKG) Ronald LAM (national record) 31) 57.53 - (ISR) Alexei Bychenko (personal record) 32) 57.35 - (MON) Kim LUCINE 33) 51.54 - (ITA) Paul Bonifacio Parkinson (personal record) 34) 49.15 - (PHI) Christopher CALUZA WDR - (BLR) Pavel Ignatenko
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