Figure skating - Warsav Cup 2015
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Between Friday & Igrave; and Sunday, the & ldquo; & rdquo Torwar Ice Rink; Warsaw, seat of the European Championships in 2007, will house & agrave; the Warsaw Cup, the penultimate leg of the ISU Challenger Series.
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Unless last minute withdrawals, seventy skaters representing twenty nations and two continents will take part & Outdoors; event. Specifically, the game will be mostly of athletes & rsquo; Eastern Europe, but there will be & agrave; also a large patrol Italian. Curiously, the & rsquo; & event will agrave; defected from North American skaters.
In the men, not & egrave; easy to identify a clear favorite, but, during the season, several athletes who will compete in Warsaw have been shown to have in the hands of over two hundred points. The pi & ugrave; accredited should be nineteen Filipino Michael Christian Martinez, brilliant sixth in the Cup of China, and Russians Anton Shulepov, nineteen year old student Evgeni Rukavitsin rose shots in & rsquo; last period, and Alexander Samarin, seventeen school CSKA stage winner of the Junior Grand Prix Zagreb.
A step below pose the twenty-four Italian national champion Ivan Righini, the twenty-two Russian Zhan Bush, so far overshadowed in domestic competitions played, and the seventeen year old Ukrainian Yaroslav Paniot,
As for the blue team, will & agrave; interesting to compare Righini and the & rsquo; emerging seventeen Matthew Rizzo, second in the absolute last season and on the podium in Denkova-Staviski Cup a few weeks ago. & nbsp; The third Italian in the race will be & agrave; the seventeen year old Marco Zandron Bolzano.
In the women's spotlight is on eighteen Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, winner of the last edition. For the & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin, the & rsquo; & opportunity will agrave; propitious to try to fix those automatism that so far have not worked in the new short program.
World champion aside, the main candidates the podium should be the twenty Slovak Nicole Rajicova, author of two convincing evidence in the Grand Prix, and the fifteen Russian Serafima Sakhanovich, distant in recent months by its former glory in the junior category.
In the dance, the table seems set for Italians Marco Fabbri / Charl & egrave; it Guignard, veterans from fourth place in the Rostelecom Cup. The main opponents to the students of Barbara Fusar Poli will be the emerging Finnish Cecilia T & ouml; rn / Jussiville Partanen, couple coached by Maurizio Margaglio, the padoni home Natalia Kaliszek / Maksim Spodirev and Belarusian Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev.
Between pairs of artistic, Germans Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot will conduct the second test racing, after the brilliant debut took place in Tallinn Cup of last week. Moreover, students of Alexander K & ouml; nig seem quietly screened to victory in the circuit. The role of second force in the field it Italians Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise, authors of a short program of high-profile Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard Bordeaux and appeared decidedly advanced in two appearances seasonal. In Warsaw they will also compete the young representatives of Ice Lab White Manacorda and Niccol & ograve; Macii, which, after undertaking different roads in the spring, returned to skate in couple of weeks.
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CALENDAR OF RACE FRIDAY & Igrave; 2712: 30 & ndash; Short-dance 14:00 & ndash; pairs short program of artistic 16:15 & ndash; men's short program
Saturday, 2810: 20 & ndash; 13:15 women's short program & ndash; 16:45 Men's Free program & ndash; program free pairs of art
Sunday, 2910: 00 & ndash; free dance 11:30 & ndash; Women's Free Program
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