Figure skating - Denkova-Staviski Cup 2015
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The & ldquo; Winter Sports Palace & rdquo; Sofia will & agrave; Theatre between Thursday & Igrave; and Friday & Igrave; competitions senior Denkova-Staviski Cup, sixth place of the circuit Challenger Series.
Wednesday 21 October 2015 8 minutes reading time
A few hours before the draw, just under forty athletes from twenty countries and four continents are enrolled in the fourth edition of & rsquo; event. The great novelty & agrave; than in the past & egrave; represented by the presence of the dance contest, but, cos & Igrave; as happened in the Finlandia Trophy in early October, not disputer & agrave; the competiziobe reserved for couples of art. In Bulgaria, will & agrave ;, however, involved a large delegation of Italian athletes.
In the men headlights trained on Misha Ge, who, after many adventures, & egrave; He managed to get a visa to take part & Outdoors; event, initially scheduled for early December. The twenty-four Uzbek, forced to give up due to bureaucratic problems to Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard Bordeaux, & nbsp; you & egrave; gi & agrave; imposed in Sofia in the first two editions of & rsquo; event and, in the light of the camp participants, it appears the main favorite for success. Filed forfeit last minute the Russian Mikhail Kolyada, the main alternative to the & rsquo; eccentric Asia should be represented by twenty-three French Romain Ponsart, recently winner of the Master & rsquo; s D & rsquo; Orleans and rose to the headlines for & nbsp; have chosen Brian Joubert as coach. Fresh dell''affermazione the national race of Asiago, will & agrave; the game also the seventeen year old Italian Matteo Rizzo, winner of & rsquo; Denkova-Staviski last edition of the Cup. Among others, will go & agrave; closely followed the & nbsp; Malaysian Julian Zhi Jie Yee, serious contender for the podium and able to precede Rizzo in the stage of the Junior Grand Prix of Logro & ntilde; or. Among the ten athletes entered the competition, is also on twenty-four former rotellista successful Dario Betti, second Italian race.
In the dance, aided by the withdrawal of Russian Stepanova / Bukin statement earlier this week, it appears to indicate a complex pair favored. At least on paper, the Turks Alisa Agafonova / Alper Ucar and Belarusian Viktoria Kavialova / Yurii Bieliaiev, protagonists of a tight head-to-head in the Mordovian Ornament of last week, the couples should be to beat. For the role of third inconveniences, Italian-Japanese Misato Komatsubata / Andrei Fabbri could have something more & ugrave; compared to the Austrians as well as & eacute; fellow training Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin and Russian second tier Ludmila Sosnitskaia / Pavel Golovishnokov.
In the women, the twenty-five Italian Roberta Rodeghiero, gi & agrave; winner of the Lombardy Trophy & agrave met; in September, and the sixteen year old Latvian Angelina Kuchvalska appear & nbsp; the athletes more & ugrave; equipped. Moreover, in & rsquo; only direct match of the season, took place a couple in early October in Bratislava had most of the bearer of the new society & agrave; ICE-LAB. The twenty-year old Australian Brookle Han, author of the new national record in the recent Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, the twenty-two Isabelle Olsson, recently selected to participate in Skate Canada, as well as & egrave; Korea's Hyun Suh Kyu and Son Eun Kim will try to fit in the speech for the podium.
Sofia between tomorrow and Sunday, will host & agrave; also races for the youth categories, junior, novice and advanced basic novice. Among the athletes to watch here stand the Russian Alisa Mishin area child's bed (J) and Elizaveta Nugumanova (AN), the German Lea Johanna Dastich (J) and the pair of Russian dance Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov (J).
The large Italian contingent should include the following athletes: CATEGORY JUNIOR Marco Bozzutto, winner last season, Gabriele Frangipani, Guido Offsas, Matilde Battagin, Rebecca Ghilardi, winner last season, Chiara Paganin, Valeria Parma, Damiana Alessandra Celi.
CATEGORY ADVANCED NOVICEFilippo Clerici, Philip Donghi, Emanuele Indelicato, Binaschi Camilla, Valentina Indelicato, Alessia Malerba, Greta Milanese,
CATEGORY BASIC NOVICE Nayri Dovina, Heloise Figerod, Michel Dellius, Jade Miriello
CALENDAR OF RACE (Italian time)
THURSDAY & iacute; 10:00 22 & ndash; 11:30 junior short program & ndash; 24:30 Junior Short Dance & ndash; Short Dance Senior 13:30 & ndash; senior women's short program 15:50 & ndash; senior men's short program 17:20 & ndash; female junior short program
FRIDAY & iacute; 23 9:30 & ndash; 11:10 Men's Free program Junior & ndash; free dance junior 12:10 & ndash; Senior free dance 13:10 & ndash; senior women's free program 15:50 & ndash; senior men's free program 17:40 & ndash; free program female junior
Saturday 24 15:30 & ndash; advanced novice men's short program 16:00 & ndash; advanced novice women's short program
Sunday 25 10:00 & ndash; Race basic novice B female 11:30 & ndash; advanced novice men's free program 24:10 & ndash; free program advanced novice female 15:00 & ndash; A basic race novice female 15:30 & ndash; Race basic novice A male
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