Figure skating - Ice Challenge 2015
Flavio Valle
Take & agrave; off tomorrow the forty-second edition dell''Ice Challenge (formerly Leo Scheu Ged & auml; chtnislaufen), the seventh leg of the ISU Challenger Series hosted dall''Eishalle Graz Liebenau.
Wednesday 28 October 2015 9 minutes reading time
Unless last minute withdrawals, will be at the starting seventy skaters representing twenty-one countries and four continents. Also, it has already & agrave; opened the part of the event the reserved for youth categories, which kept the & rsquo; ancient name Leo Scheu. & nbsp;
In the men, the & rsquo; man to beat will & agrave; the twenty year old American Jason Brown, fresh from step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium at Skate America. The national standard stars and stripes trover & agrave; as the main opponents the Russians Mikhail Kolyada, author of a brilliant start to the season, and Artur Dmitriev, & nbsp; not forgetting the Belgian Jorik Hendrickx. The blue colors will be defended by the teen-ager Adrien Bannister and Alessandro Fadini, both recently involved in Junior Grand Prix circuit.
In the women, & egrave; He announced the presence of fifteen Russian Serafima Sakhanovich, protagonist of a troubled season opening words culminated in the change of technical staff. The vice-champion junior world championship will have & agrave; to deal with the new partner training Artemieva Maria, on the podium both in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy in Mordovian Ornament, & nbsp; as well as & eacute; with American Mirai Nagasu, fifth in the Nebelhorn Trophy with two faces, and Tyler Pierce, partner traning Brown recently fourth in & rsquo; Autumn Classic Barrie. Also present will be the Italian Sara Falotico and Sara Casella, he appeared on the ball in & rsquo; last stage of qualification of Junior Grand Prix circuit.
The competition will be reserved for couples of artistic & agrave; ennobled by the presence of the Americans Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, fresh second place at Skate America. Overall, the average high is announced because & eacute; will match the Germans Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert, winners of the Coupe de Nice, Italians Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise, the season debut, and the Americans Jessica Calalang / Zach Sidhu, returning after a long break due to injury. Moreover, for the three ambition couples the & rsquo; & Ice Challenge will represent agrave; a sort of dress rehearsal before their respective commitments in the Grand Prix. On the sidelines, c & rsquo; & egrave; curiosity & agrave; for the presence of North Korean Tae Ok Ryom / Ju Sik Kim and the debut of the new association formed by flying the Spanish and Polish Lech Marcelina from & rsquo; Iberian Artiz Maestu.
In the dance, & egrave; announced the participation of Russian Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, who & ograve; are there today in the free dance of the third stage of the Cup of Russia. It remains perci & ograve; to understand if indeed there will be willingness & agrave; and time required to compete Friday & Igrave; and Saturday in Graz. In & rsquo; eventual default of medalists of & rsquo; last edition of the Europeans, & egrave; difficult to indicate the couple favored. On paper, Italians Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri, in recent quarters Denkova / Staviski Cup, the Americans Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton, torque school Zoueva newly formed, and the Austrians Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin, students of Barbara Fusar Poli, should have a competitive edge. However, even the Finns Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm, recently moved to Canton, will try to join the fight for the podium. In Austria, there will be & agrave; the international debut of the new Korean couple composed Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin and should also be present Italians Jasmine Tessari / Francesco Fioretti.
In crowded junior competitions, will be closely followed as the Russians in St. Petersburg Stanislava Konstantinova, fifteen coached by Valentina Chebotareva, and Petr Gumennik, thirteen year old student of the team led by Evgeni Mishin. Both have dominated the first segment of the race played yesterday immediately putting a mortgage on the already very clear & agrave; foregone victory.
As for the & rsquo; Italy, in the women's short program, dominated by Konstantinova (63.66), it should be noted the sixth place from sixteen Giulia Foresti (43.98), able to complete in opening a valuable combination triple salchow / double toe loop. Greta Lupatelli finished in twenty second position (30.71) and Francesca Capomolla in the twenty-seventh (28.13)
In the men, Daniel Grassl (50.65) finished in fourth place, running a good triple flip preceded by step, but losing serious points because of a shift to empty the double axel. Behind you Gumennik & egrave; certificate German Catalin Dimitrescu (59.54), which preceded the & rsquo; Swiss Lukas Britschgi (51.09). Jari Kessler (39.19), the second Italian in the race, finished in tenth place.
CALENDAR OF RACE
THURSDAY & Igrave; 2918: 30 & ndash; 19:45 pairs short program & ndash; programa short male
FRIDAY & Igrave; 3011: 00 & ndash; 13:00 Short Dance & ndash; 18:00 women's short program & ndash; 19:15 pairs free program & ndash; Men's Free program Saturday 3110: 00 & ndash; dance libera11: 30 & ndash; free program femminile18: 30 & ndash; Ice Gala
As happened in previous stages of & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series, will & agrave; guaranteed the live streaming of & rsquo; event.
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