Figure SkatingFigure skating - Volvo Cup 2014
Between today and tomorrow, the Volvo Ice Rink in Riga (LAT) will host & agrave; the twenty-fifth edition of the Volvo Cup, the seventh round of the circuit & ldquo; ISU Challenger Series & rdquo ;.
Wednesday 5 November 2014 7 minutes reading time
Unless a last minute withdrawals, seventy-four skaters representing twenty-two countries and four 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.
They are, in fact, match the time of the sixteen Latvia Courmayeur Guia Tagliapietra and Sarah Box, veterans of the commitments in the Grand Prix and the podium in the national race in Cortina won by the Italian junior champion, the pair of artistic School Forum Alessandra Cernuschi / Philip Ambrosini and finally the couple dancing stationed in Assam consists of Federica Bernardi and Saverio Giacomelli quarters in & rsquo; Ice Star of Minsk and second in the recent national competition in Milan.
Accomplice to coincide with the third leg of the Grand Prix, the average level of the competition will not be & agrave; comparable to that of the previous appointments of the new circuit Isu Challenger Series.
In the women, the outstanding presence of twenty-one Russian Maria Artemieva, enrolled in two stages in a Grand Prix, but so far in the shade in the previous season appearances, and fifteen Finnish Jenni Saarinen, back from fifth place in Finlandia Trophy. They will follow with attention the eighteen year old Russian-flagged Swiss Anna Ovcharova, the fifteen-year German Lutricia Bock, in the fourth stage of the Junior Grand Prix in Dresden, the eighteen-year US passport Brazilian Isadora Williams, who qualified for the Olympic Games in Sochi, the sixteen year old Israeli Net Schreiber, coached by the staff of Brian Orser, and promising hostess Angelina Kuchvalska, fifteen he stole a pi & ugrave; shooting the & rsquo; s eye in the Junior Grand Prix circuit.
The competition with the technical rate pi & ugrave; should be higher than male-focused comparison of four ambitious Russian skaters based in St. Petersburg. The twenty-one student Evgeni Rukavitsin Gordei Gorshkov, fresh from success in the third stage of the Cup of Russia, will have & agrave; to deal with three bishops quoted Alexei Mishin school. I go for the underdogs & ograve; divided between fifteen Alexander Petrov, who won in the recent Coupe de Nice and finalist of Junior Grand Prix, and the twenty-two Artur Dmitriev, son d & rsquo; art returned to St. Petersburg from Moscow in the spring after a period of a few years. There will be & agrave; also almost seventeen Andrei Lazukin, only skater to not have reached the final of the Junior Grand Prix despite having won a stage of qualification. As for the rest of the members, the & rsquo; athlete & more ugrave; interesting is the twenty-three German Frenz Streubel, in the fifteenth & rsquo; s latest edition of the European Championships.
In the dance, spotlight is on Danish Laurence Fournier-Beaudry / Nikolaj Soerensen pair coached by Dubreuil / Lauzon on the podium in qualified Autumn Classic Barrie, and the Slovak stationed in Italy Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley, third in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy Bratislava and seventh at Skate America. The role of the third force in the field could reach the Korean Russian school Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov, asked the Rostelecom Cup and the Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard.
The race for the pairs of art, by virtue & ugrave; of only four members, it will assign & agrave; points for the World Standing and for the circuit ISU Challenger Series, but the results obtained may have valence of best season and may be taken into account in case of technical minimum reached. As a highlight of the race, & egrave; announced the match between the Russians Kristina Astakova / Alexei Rogonov couple coached by Artur Dmitriev dominating the first leg of the Cup of Russia, and the young fellow Mary Vigalova / Egor Zakroev, association Perm third place in the last qualifier for the World Junior Championships and final Junior Grand Prix with two easy achievements in Tallinn and Zagreb.
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RACE SCHEDULE (Italian time)
WEDNESDAY & Igrave; 5
11:10 & ndash; women's short program 17:25 & ndash; men's short program 20:15 & ndash; Short-dance 21:30 & ndash; pairs short program
 THURSDAY & Igrave; 16
8:45 & ndash; Women's Free Program 16:15 - free program maschile19: 45 & ndash; dance libera21: 10 & ndash; free program pairs
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