Figure Skating - Four Continents Championships 2016
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The 'last title that will come & agrave; assigned in the eighteenth edition of the Four Continents Championships will & agrave; the male.
Monday 1 February 2016 6 minutes reading time
Unless withdrawals dell''ultimo minute, twenty-five athletes representing twelve nations will descend on the ice of the & ldquo; & rdquo Taipei Arena; Taipei City. Sar & agrave; perci & ograve; a skater in the game less than last season.
Despite the & rsquo; absence of Yuzuru Hanyu, gi & agrave; concentrate on the World Cup Boston, the level of competition is announced very high and far higher than the recent European Championships.
However, indicate a clear favorite & egrave; tutt & rsquo; nothing but simple and the prediction is rather open. The pi & ugrave; credited for success are named after the Kazakh Denis Ten, defending champion, the Japanese Shoma Uno, third in & rsquo; last final of the Grand Prix, Canadian Patrick Chan, only to have defeated Hanyu in the current season, & nbsp; and the Chinese Jin Boyang, able to complete four quads and six triples in the recent Winter Games in Chinese.
However, they do not start beaten the Japanese Takahito Mura, the Chinese Han Yan, and the US Max Aaron and Adam Rippon.
Due to injury, no potr & agrave; be present l & rsquo; Uzbek Misha Ge.
MEMBERS LIST
01) & nbsp; ARG - Denis MARGALIK (2 & deg; participation) 02) & nbsp; AUS - Andrew DODDS (3 & deg; participation) 03) & nbsp; AUS - Brendan KERRY (6 & deg; participation) 04) & nbsp; CAN - Patrick CHAN (3 & deg; participation) 05) & nbsp; CAN - Liam Firus (2 & deg; participation) 06) & nbsp; CAN - Kevin REYNOLDS (5 & deg; participation) 07) & nbsp; CHN - Boyang JIN (novice) 08) & nbsp; CHN - Nan SONG (6 & deg; participation) 09) & nbsp; CHN - Han YAN (3 & deg; participation) 10) & nbsp; TPE - Chih-I TSAO (3 & deg; participation) 11) & nbsp; HKG - Leslie IP (novice) 12) & nbsp; HKG - Harry Hau Yin Lee (4 & deg; participation) 13) & nbsp; JPN - Takahito WALLS (5 & deg; participation) 14) & nbsp; JPN - Keiji TANAKA (2 & deg; participation) 15) & nbsp; JPN - Shoma A (2 & deg; participation) 16) & nbsp; KAZ - Abzal RAKIMGALIEV (9 & deg; participation) 17) & nbsp; KAZ - Denis TEN (7 & deg; participation) 18) & nbsp; MAS - Julian Zhi Jie YEE (3 & deg; participation) 19) & nbsp; PHI - Michael Christian Martinez (2 & deg; participation) 20) & nbsp; KOR - If Jong BYUN (2 & deg; participation) 21) & nbsp; KOR - Seo Jin KIM (3 & deg; participation) 22) & nbsp; KOR - June Hyoung LEE (4 & deg; participation) 23) & nbsp; USA - Max AARON (2 & deg; participation) 24) & nbsp; USA - Grant Hochstein (novice) 25) & nbsp; USA - Adam RIPPON (6 & deg; participation)
TIME OF RACE
Friday & Igrave; February 19 at 17:30 (10:30 in Italy) & ndash; short program
Sunday, February 21 at 12:00 (05:00 in Italy) & ndash; Free program
FINAL NOTES
* Entrants will be only three
* L & rsquo; pi & ugrave athlete; young race & egrave; the seventeen year old Korean Jong Byum So, while the pi & ugrave; senior & egrave; the twenty-six American Adam Rippon.
* The Kazakh Abzal Rakimgaliev & egrave; l & rsquo; athlete in writing that boasts more & ugrave; Holdings in the Four Continents Championships.
* No less than five of the twenty-five participants were imposed in at least one of the previous editions. Canadian Patrick Chan won in 2009 and 2012, compatriot Kevin Reynolds in 2013, the Japanese Takahito Mura in 2014 and Kazakh Denis Ten in 2015
* They conquered the podium the Chinese Nan Song, third in 2014, and Han Yan, third in 2013 and 2015
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