Figure skating - Warsav Cup 2014
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Take & agrave; off tomorrow Warsav Cup, the ninth leg of the ISU Challenger Series hosted by Torwar Ice Rink in Warsaw, seat of the European Championship in 2007.
Thursday 20 November 2014 9 minutes reading time
Unless a last minute withdrawals, eighty skaters representing twenty-four countries and three continents will take part in all & rsquo; event. Specifically, they will be the main players of the game & rsquo; Eastern Europe, but there will be & agrave; also a large Italian patrol.
In the men, the & rsquo; man to beat, as long as its presence is confirmed, it will be & agrave; the fifteen Russian Alexander Petrov, fresh from an easy success in the stage of Riga and engaged in the seventh race of the season. The young student of Alexei Mishin presenter & agrave; at the starting line with the & rsquo; s goal of reaching 218.27 points those that would enable it to jump at the top of the circuit.
Among the contenders for the podium should be reported eighteen-year old Filipino Michael Christian Martinez, who will try & agrave; to break down the wall of the two hundred points for the first time in his career, and the promising sixteen year old Ukrainian Yaroslav Paniot, a student of Viacheslav Zagorodniuk possess a valuable combination of triple flip / triple Rittberger. In the number of members, is also on sixteen blue Matteo Rizzo, in chasing points for the World Quality and the new personal officer, well within reach.
In the women, & egrave ;, for now, announced the race seventeen year old Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, gi & agrave; qualified for the final of the Grand Prix and made gi & agrave; ISU won the Challenger Series circuit. As Comrade Petrov training, competition in Warsaw would be the week to two months for the seasonal record holder, who has yet shown any & rsquo; s enviable consistency of performance. & Nbsp; Among the girls to follow with an eye, an indication l & rsquo; s emerging Angelina Kuchvalska, fifteen Latvian winner of the Volvo Cup in Riga, the advanced Isabelle Olsson, ventuenne Swedish second in the recent Ice Challenge in Graz, and the & rsquo; s interesting Liubov Efimenko, fifteen-Finnish & nbsp; at the foot of the podium in the stage house. Sar & agrave; also participate in the seventeen year old Italian Micol Cristini, who will try & agrave; to reach the minimum for the World Championships and consolidate second place in the national ranking.
In the dance, the underdogs go to the Slovak-Italian Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley in great form in the Volvo Cup where no particular worries. Students of Robert Pelizzola will have to deal with the Russians Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin and with the Turks Alisa Agafonova / Alper Ucar, who have had a first seasonal undertone in & rsquo; Ice Challenge in Graz. In Warsaw, there will be & agrave; debut in the senior class of the school Zhulin Ukrainians Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin, one of the major disappointments of the & rsquo; s latest edition of the Junior Grand Prix. I left for Poland, the Chinese Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu, desperate to find the minimum technical for the World Cup. The colors will be defended by the athletes of the Italian Forum of Assago Federica Bernardi / Saverio Giacomelli and Sofia Sforza / Leo Luca Sforza.
The competition ugrave & more; waiting ever will & agrave; for & ograve; one reserved for couples of art because, in & rsquo; occasion & egrave; provided the international debut of Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, couple flagged Canadian born in the spring, and Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek, new Italian partnership. The Canadian duo has already & agrave; got to break the ice competing in a few local competitions in which showed a moderate potential. In particular, compared with the previous partnerhsip Moore-Towers & egrave; Moscovitch grown to the rate of technical information submitted with the important novelties & agrave; represented by triple lutz launched and reverse period. On the Italian front, however, there & rsquo; & egrave; curiosity & agrave; for the triple lutz in parallel, that element between the pairs currently in activities & agrave; is executed only by the Canadians Duhamel / Radford.
In Poland, the couple will fly by & agrave; formed by the Russian Lina Fedorova and Maxim Miroshkin, winners of the & rsquo; Ice Challenge in Graz and qualifiers without major worries for the final of the Junior Grand Prix. The field of participants will come & agrave; completed by the Turks Olga Bestandigova / Ilhan Mansiz, in search of the technical limitations to take part in the European Championships in Stockholm, and the Russians Arina Cherniavskaia / Anthony Souza-Kordyeru called to a genuine tour de force considering that, on the one hand, competed in the last two weeks and that, from & rsquo; s more, they are all members & rsquo; s final stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix, to be held in Osaka in just over & ugrave; seven days.
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RACE SCHEDULE (Italian time)
FRIDAY & Igrave; 21
24:00 & ndash; Short-dance 13:30 & ndash; men's short program 17:00 & ndash; pairs short program
Saturday 22
10:15 & ndash; women's short program 14:15 - free program maschile18: 25 & ndash; free dance
Sunday 23
9:30 & ndash; free program coppie10: 30 - free program femminile15: 30 - prizes
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