Figure Skating - Ice Challenge 2014
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Skaters US have confirmed the feeling with events Isu Challenger Series winning two hits in forty-edition dell''Ice Challenge in Graz.
Sunday 16 November 2014 10 minutes reading time
In the dance, the brothers Shibutani (166.34) have repeated the win in Bratislava in October mortgaging success in the circuit. Students of Marina Zoueva, Austria accompanied by Massimo Scali, you are clearly imposed in both segments of the competition remodeling personal best. The directions & more ugrave; important came from the free dance, scollinata share over a hundred points, with a final evaluation of the program components on which stood an eloquent 52.50. Specifically, the pair of dance US scored the level pi & ugrave; the upper hand on twizzles, spinning and lifts, all masterfully executed, but it & egrave; stop two steps & more ugrave; in the step sequences in pairs.
In second place, we have placed the Danish Canadian school Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen (147.06), which ended the European campaign, will be back in North America with a personal best improved by fifteen lengths.
The fight for the step pi & ugrave; of the podium was dominated surprise the hosts Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin (129.58), third in both competition programs. Students Barbara Fusar Poli established the national record, but in the short-dance were not able to obtain the minimum technical score in the World Cup. & Nbsp; The Austrian couple preceded the Finns Henna Lindholm / Ossi Kanervo (127.30) and Italians Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri (127.14), who have lost the podium because of a fall on the midline, but, apart from accident have shown encouraging progress.
In the men's success, thanks to a recovery in the free program, & egrave; went to the twenty-six American Douglas Razzano (199.92), capable, despite worries with triple Axel and quad toe loop, & nbsp; climb over the sixteen year old Russian Alexander Samarin (196.92), consolatosi with a new personal best. Specifically, the & rsquo; student Elena Buianova has missed the boat for the win because of two single axel. Skaters US, except that surprises do not take part in the final of the Grand Prix, so they & igrave; filed the sixth win in eight stages of Isu Challenger Series, alternating on the step pi & ugrave; top of the podium six different athletes. Third place & egrave; the twenty-placed German Martin Rappe (180.66)
The Russian Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin (157,80), although performance is not glamorous, they are clearly set in the race for the pairs of artistic confirming its strengths and weaknesses. In fact, as was the case in the short program, showed some heartache too much on the jumps in parallel continue to provide a few points to the cause. For the rest, they were less accurate than usual on the triple salchow and launched on the back outside death spiral, but they have revealed great quality & agrave; of triple twist and lifts. Next, the Austrians were placed Severin Kiefer / Miriam Ziegler (142.56), capable of improving the national record by nearly seven points thanks to a growth lifts and evaluations of key program components to make up the steps to the vacuum jumps in parallel, usually the strong point. & nbsp; The podium & egrave; was completed by the Germans Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave (140.82), & nbsp; which numbers in hand, they lost the challenge from a distance with their compatriots Pr & ouml; l & szlig; / Blommaert, engaged simultaneously in the Rostelecom Cup. In this sense, apart from the conseuti worries on the triple salchow in parallel, Fatal & egrave; revealed a shift in the vacuum lifting of group three. & nbsp; Italians Alessandra Cernuschi / Philippe Ambrosini (123.70) finished the race in fifth position revealing, despite some trimming here and there & agrave ;, significant improvements over previous releases. In view of upcoming events, will & agrave; essential in order to make a step forward, the focus & rsquo; s attention on landings and on the quality of the cast & agrave; in & rsquo; execution of lifts.
In the short program in the women's race that will end & agrave; Sunday was the best, respecting the obvious prediction on the eve of the Russian Alena Leonova (56.75), able to "register" the spinners that had caused huge problems at Skate Canada, but suffers from not having carried out three times flip preceded by hand. L & rsquo; student Evgeni Rukavitsin, author of one & rsquo; s excellent combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop, preceded the & rsquo; Hungarian Ivett Toth (54,41), the protagonist of one of the undisputed evidence that the value of & egrave; Best Match worth the technical day. Fifteen of Budapest coached by Julia Sebestyen has performed at the beginning a remarkable combination triple flip / triple toe loop and then made a triple lutz well landed, despite a step & ldquo; very obvious & rdquo ;, proving to be holding an important skill on elements of jump.
Third place & egrave; placed Isabelle Olsson (53.73), which, by virtue & ugrave; a program free of burrs and characterized by good spins, improved personal best officer more than six points. L & rsquo; pending US Hannah Miller (46.82) is & egrave ;, however, had to settle for fourth place and suffers from a bad day on the elements of jumping, especially axel and flip preceded by the step we have not picked up a point because of the required rotation missing.
A stubborn Maria Guia Tagliapietra you & egrave; attested in fifth place (46.39), getting the minimum technical score to participate in the World Championships. The sixteen year old Courmayeur struggled landings of combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop and triple lutz preceded by the step being able to save items and, as usual, has revealed quality & agrave; on tops.
On the sidelines, it should be noted as the feedback on the components of the program are fairly stringent than the usual standard.
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