Figure skating - World Team Trophy 2015
The fourth edition of the World Team Trophy team competition hosted as usual by the Yoyogi National Gymnasiun Tokyo, you & egrave; ended with the women's free program, which sealed a hard-fought victory for the United States.
Saturday 18 April 2015 7 minutes reading time
The main protagonist of & rsquo; last segment of the race & egrave; for & ograve; was the Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, now able to complete a triple axel worthy of the best interpreters of the male sector. The dominator of the season & egrave; sets with competitive edge, making a difference thanks to the assessments absolute pi & ugrave; high on the components of the program. In essence, in the recent past, the eighteen year old student of Alexei Mishin replaced a triple lutz with a triple axel and, on balance, has executed two double axel and six triple jumps, including a triple toe loop combination / triple toe loop placed in the second half & agrave; of music. L & rsquo; single pass vacuum covered the Rittberger, open in flight and only run single.
Tuktamysheva preceded compatriot Elena Radionova, dropped significantly shots in & rsquo; last minute, but still able to put together two double axel and seven triple jumps. In third position, you & egrave; placed the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, author of the new personal thanks to the best technical score of the day. The vice champion rainbow has redeemed the 'lackluster performance of the short-program by completing two double axel and seven triple jumps, including a flip correctly judged short rotation.
The American Ashley Wagner, penalized for too many landings by the rotation pi & ugrave; who suspects, finished in fourth position ahead of compatriot Gracie Gold, winner of the short program Thursday on Igrave ;, but now in obvious difficulty & agrave; about lutz and flip. L & rsquo; pupil of Frank Carroll perci & ograve; confirmed the & rsquo; now atavistic inability & agrave; to present two consecutive clean programs.
To follow, but with significant detachment from the best five, you & egrave; placed Kanako Murakami, who has had the better of the Chinese Zijun Li, caused by too many jumps under-rotated.
The United States has won the third victory in World Team Trophy in four editions held. In second place, with a gap of one point & egrave; placed Russia, never on the podium before. Third place went to Japan, and Canada, in the past always a medal, you & egrave; had to settle for fourth place with a large gap compared to the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium. Afterwards, you & egrave; attested China, while France, in line with the predictions of the vigil, has sadly closed in last place.
For l & rsquo; affirmation US determinant & egrave; revealed l & rsquo; outcome of the free program reserved for couples of art, which saw Scimeca / Knierim overcome surprise Kavaguti / Smirnov.
It should be stressed that individual countries & egrave; imposed in at least one segment of the race (2 Canada, Japan 2, one US, one Russian, one China, France 1)
RANKING PROGRAM FREE FEMALE
1) RUS - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA134.21 (65.74 | 68.47) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
2) RUS - Elena RADIONOVA129.73 (65.20 | 64.53)
3) JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA129.12 (66.93 | 62.19) PB
4) USA - Ashley WAGNER126,96 (60.50 | 66.46)
5) USA - Gracie GOLD124.29 (58.67 | 66.62) - 1:00
6) JPN - Kanako MURAKAMI113.32 (50.73 | 62.59)
7) CHN - Zijun LI03.67 (51.24 | 53.43) - 1:00
8) CAN - Gabrielle DALEMAN98.78 (48.28 | 51.59) - 1:00
9) FRA - Laurine LECAVELIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 95.43 (48.71 | 47.72) - 1:00
10) FRA - Mae Berenice MEITE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 90.77 (43.59 | 47.18) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
11) CAN - Alaine Chartrand & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 81.90 (38.01 | 47.89) - 4.00 & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
12) CHN - Ziquan ZHAO & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 75.97 (35.86 | 41.11) - 1:00
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FINAL WORLD TEAM TROPHY
1) 110 - UNITED STATES 2) 109 - RUSSIA 3) 103 - Japan4) 82 - CANADA 5) 77 - CHINA 6) 59 - FRANCE
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