Figure skating - Golden Spin 2014
Kristina Astakhova and Alexei Rogonov (184.24) have confirmed the couple's artistic revelation of the first part of the season by winning dispersing the forty seventh Golden Spin, the last leg of the & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series hosted by the & ldquo; Dom Sportova Arena & rdquo; Zagreb.
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The partnership Russian, born in late spring, has cos & Igrave; repeated l & rsquo; affirmation conquered in Volvo Cup Riga, but, despite having obtained the sum of the scores of race pi & ugrave; higher among those who took part in the circuit, not closed the final success, as the result of non-stop Latvian & egrave; was considered to be valid for the general classification due to the presence of only four pairs.
In Croatia, the pupils of Artur Dmitriev skated a flawless free program highlighting quality & agrave; and safety of each of the elements presented. Impeccable on triple jumps in parallel and launched on, have proved at ease even on the lifts, they had created a headache at the Rostelecom Cup, closed on the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium. Astakhova / Rogonov can now point with credentials in third place in the upcoming national championships in Russia, which would open the doors of the European Championships in Stockholm, goal certainly not contemplated all & rsquo; start of the season.
In second place were placed Italians Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek (167.18), significantly advanced than the previous output of Warsaw. In particular, the technical content of the segment pi & ugrave; long race & egrave; was enriched with the triple lutz in parallel, you & egrave; added to the triple flip launched, the combination triple salchow / double toe loop and triple salchow launched, element performed extremely well in Zagreb. The Italian couple, overall gi & agrave; at ease on lifting, pu & ograve; however recriminare for a couple of level lost on & rsquo; axel period, but at the l & agrave; nuances, has been shown to have gi & agrave; reached a good level of competitiveness & agrave ;.
The podium & egrave; was completed by the Americans Tarah Kayne / Daniel O & rsquo; Shea (161.72), appeared on the piece despite having started to train recently pi & ugrave; a month, after remaining stationary for a long time because of surgery to & rsquo; where hip & egrave; Kayne underwent in the summer. The result & egrave; was welcomed by the couple stars and stripes, which, in & rsquo; waiting to find the best condition, has well-executed as planned, including salchow parallel presented twice by choice.
The young Italian Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini (134.16) finished the race in fifth place, preceded by just two cents by the British Caitlin Yankowskas / Hamish Gaman (134.18). Nell & rsquo; occasion, the deputy national champions juniors have improved personal best in the free program, confirming the progress seen in the first segment of the competition. & Nbsp; For students Tiziana Pagani and Cristina will become Mauri & agrave; now essential to work on the quality & agrave; execution of the elements, focusing specifically l & rsquo; attention to throw jumps and in parallel, which are the key to make another major step forward.
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Not & egrave; missed the show in the men's free program, which eventually smiled at both Denis Ten (249.94) and Michal Brezina (239.62). The Kazakh & egrave ;, in fact, won the victory, while the Czech, author of the best performance in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, collected the points needed to establish itself in & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series unseating from the summit the young Russian Petrov.
Both, despite some step-load on the elements of jump, showed flashes of class, which bodes well in the lead pi & ugrave; important of the season. Ten, cos & Igrave; as happened in the recent Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard, opened the proceedings with a sumptuous combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, but then missed the & rsquo; appointment with the second four times and had a fight with the triple axel. Brezina, however, has completed one of the two quadruple salchow planned, performed two triple axels, but in the end he left on the plate serious points because of a single instead of Rittberger & eacute; triple.
On the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; accommodated the thirty-one Russian Konstantin Menshov (229.51), which, thanks to the two quadruple toe loop run in the free program, & egrave; managed to resist without worries to bully back the surprising US Grant Hochstein (219.82), author of the best technical score of the day thanks to a quadruple toe loop and eight triple jumps performed, six of them in the second half & agrave; of music.
The twenty-four coached by Peter Oppegard preceded the Russian Moris Kvitelashvili (207.77), the Philippine Michael Christian Martinez (204.45), for the second consecutive race over two hundred points, and l & rsquo; blue Ivan Righini (200.80) , that changed the race plan, giving up to four times the toe loop, but & egrave; again fell on the triple axel, however under rotated.
A note of credit goes to Carlo Vittorio Palermo (166.96), thirteenth with an important improvement of the personal best. The 'pupil of Lorenzo Magri, today impeccable on spins, has completed two double axel and six triple jumps tainting a capital trial with a fall on the double Rittberger, last element jumping planned. Moreover, in virt & ugrave; the result of Zagreb, the eighteen year stationed in Neumarkt consolidated third place in the ranking partial Italian, led by Ivan Righini front of Matteo Rizzo.
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In the women's short program, accomplices errors of different weights of female athletes pi & ugrave; expectations, reigned l & rsquo; balance. The partial success & egrave; went to Maria Artemieva (59,59), fall on the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop opening, but then flawless on the rest of the elements, among which the triple lutz preceded by step and valuable spins. The twenty-one Russian, author of the new personal best, set the same age Swedish Isabelle Olsson (58.73), grew by nearly five lengths compared to the best performance of the past in virt & ugrave; a test without smudging enhanced by a combination triple lutz / double toe loop and steps and spins that have earned the level pi & ugrave; high available. & nbsp; Not & egrave; was less the eighteen year old German Nicole Schott (56.46), the only athlete in the race in the best position to complete a combination of two triple jumps. L & rsquo; pupil of Michael Huth, fresh from recent success in NRW Trophy in Dortmund, has smashed the previous personal best, with the second technical score of the day. L & rsquo; waiting Finnish Kiira Korpi (56.22) is & egrave ;, however, had to settle for fourth place, penalized by a fall on a triple flip under rotated and dall & rsquo; have landed on two feet double toe loop-closing of the combination with a triple Rittberger. The twenty-six of Tampere for & ograve; held in the wake of the best thanks to the assessments pi & ugrave; high on the components of the program, not to mention steps and spins well executed. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
In any case, the free tomorrow annucia is very unpredictable because the gap between the first and l & rsquo; & egrave eleventh; remained in & rsquo; order of nine points. Behind Korpi were runners Russian Diana Pervushkina (53,57), the Slovak Nicole Rajicova (53.27), the amazing Slovenian Dasa Grm (52.81), the US Mariah Bell (51.08), the Lithuanian Aleksandra Golovkina (50,98), the Norwegian Anne Line Gjersem (50,62) and l & rsquo; Austrian Kerstin Frank (50,41). Moreover, except for Mariah Bell, the first eleven ranking have gone beyond the technical limit for taking part in the World Cup.
L & rsquo; Italian Roberta Rodeghiero (42,98) non & egrave; gone beyond the eighteenth position paying duty for a bad day on the elements of jump. In particular, have proved fatal a fall on a triple flip and a suspected by the rotation axel opened in flight and completed only single.
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