Figure Skating - World Championships 2014 Saitama
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The World Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the "Super Arena" in Saitama, opened with the pairs short program reserved for art.
Wednesday 26 March 2014 5 minutes reading time
The segment of the race,'' despite the absence of defending champions Volosozhar / Trankov, was characterized by high technical content to the point that, as has happened in the recent Olympic Games, eleven couples were pushed over the threshold of the ambitious'' sixty points.
In accordance with the prediction of the vigil, the partial success has gone to the Germans Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy, hunting the fifth statement in the World Championships. The students of Ingo Steuer, now come'' s last race in a couple of a long and illustrious career, had the merit of a skating program without smudging opened with a solid triple flip launched. For the rest, the winners of the'' last final of the Grand Prix have collected the highest level available on each of the required elements, except for the triple twist, but mostly showed the highest rating of the day on each of the five components of the program.
In second place, with a lot of U.S. primacy crumbled, were placed Megan Duhamel / Eric Radford, driven by the best technical score of the day. The Canadian couple, able to contain in the order of the two lengths'' detachment from the head of the race, he is a well-executed triple lutz in parallel with a triple lutz launched picking up on the rest of the elements the same levels of Savchenko / Szolkowy.
The provisional podium, with just under three lengths of delay and the new personal record, was completed by the Russians Ksenia Stolbov / Fedor Klimov, perfectly in line with the Olympic glories. The students of Nina Mozer, filed without worries triple twist, less solid element of their technical knowledge, performed a test almost free of smudges, leaving only the street level on a death spiral back inside. In particular, deserves a mention the quality of execution of the triple flip launched, stun element of beauty.
Afterwards, stood the two Chinese couples. '' In the occasion, the young Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, only to get level four on the triple twist preceded by a'' gluing Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, however, pleased with the new personal record for the third consecutive race over the seventy points.
The sixth place was occupied by the Canadian couple Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch, who had the better of the Russians Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, as usual penalized by the difficulty in jumping in parallel, and Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze, authors of the best day of triple twist and soon to debut on the piece in an ISU Championship.
Italians Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek, thanks to a landing on two feet of triple Rittberger launched a triple twist and not all'' height of the pairs of the summit, they had to settle for tenth position preceded by the French Vanessa James / Morgan Cypres,
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