Figure Skating - World Championships 2014 Saitama
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Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy have closed their long career in beauty side by side on the ice by storing the "Super Arena" Saitama fifth world title, a company previously failed only to the Soviets Rodnina / Zaitsev arrived at level six (ten counting Rodnina titles won together with Alexei Ulanov).
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The pair of German Art, founded in 2003 at the behest of coach Ingo Steuer, has dominated the length and breadth of the competition, winning both the short program and in the free program.
Success in the longer segment of the race was overwhelming because at the end of a trial tainted by the choice of making a single instead of double axel, Savchenko / Szolkowy have scored the best technical score also getting the highest rating of each of the five components of the program. In particular, unlike what happened in the race in Sochi, should be highlighted the remarkable sequence of execution of the triple toe loop and the choice to forgo the final triple axel launched favoring a more secure triple salchow.
The place of honor'', confirming the results obtained in the European Championships and the Olympic Games behind the compatriots Volosozhar / Trankov, went to the fellowship Russian Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov. The pair revelation of the season, to debut in the World Championships, had the merit to skate two programs without paying big smudge duty in relation to the winners on the degree of realization of elements and components of the program.
Despite the score in the fourth free today, the podium was completed by the Canadians Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford, who, as happened last year in'' edition of London, preceded compatriots Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch, authors of a remarkable comeback from sixth place in the short program.
Chinese couples, however, have not been reconfirmed on the levels of yesterday, accomplices steps to skip empty elements in parallel. Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, affected by a fall on the triple toe loop in parallel, they have limited the damage by keeping the fifth position, while Wenjing Sui and Cong Han rushed in sixth place.
The peak torque of the blue movement, composed by Stefania Berton and Ondrej Hotarek, recovered a closed position relative to the short program in ninth place, the best result ever in the emerging specialty for'' Italian school. The performance was convincing in the free
Nicole Della Monica and Matthew Guarise you are due, however, to settle for sixteenth place.
Overall, the race proved to be of a high standard as for the first time in the history of the top ten ranked pairs have gone beyond the 180 lengths, without forgetting that the 205,52 points obtained in Saitama Canadians Moore-Towers / Moscovitch would be enough to get on the podium in any World Cup played so far.
At the next edition to be held in Shanghai, Russia, Canada and China will have three places, Germany, Italy, France and the United States will deploy two couples, while other nations will have to settle for a place.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) GER - SAVCHENKO Aliona / Robin SZOLKOWY224.88 (1 | 1)
02) RUS - Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor KLIMOV215.92 (3 | 2)
03) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD210.84 (2 | 4) European record
04) CAN - Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH205.52 (6 | 3)
05) CHN - PENG Cheng / Hao ZHANG194.83 (5 | 5)
06) CHN - Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN192.10 (4 | 9)
07) RUS - Vera Bazarova / Yuri LARIONOV189.44 (7 | 6)
08) RUS - Julia Antipova / Nodari MAISURADZE186.22 (8 | 10) personal record
09) ITA - Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK184.28 (10 | 7)
10) FRA - Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES183.90 (9 | 8)
11) USA - Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR170.90 (11 | 11)
12) CAN - Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi SWIEGERS168.88 (12 | 12) personal record
13) GER - Maylin WENDE / Daniel WENDE159.42 (13 | 13)
14) USA - Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY151.78 (14 | 14)
15) FRA - Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT142.00 (15 | 15)
16) ITA - Nicole OF MONICA / Matthew GUARISE139.30 (16 | 16)
17) JPN - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi KIHARA18) GBR - Amani FANCY / Christopher BOYADJI19) EST - Natalja ZABIJAKO / Alexandr ZABOEV20) BLR - Mary PALIAKOVA / Nikita BOCHKOV21) UKR - Julia LAVRENTIEVA / Yuri RUDYK22) AUT - Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER23) BUL - Elizaveta MAKAROVA / Leri KENCHADZE
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