Figure skating - Mordovian Ornament 2015
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Between Friday & Igrave; and Sunday, l & rsquo; Ice Palace in Saransk will host & agrave; the first edition of & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Mordovian Ornament fifth round of the Challenger Series circuit ISU.
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Unless withdrawals last minute, fifty-eight skaters representing fourteen countries and two continents are enrolled before the draw. One of the participants, stand numerous prominent figures of the Russian landscape, as well as several of the big & rsquo; ambitious Israeli team.
Shortly before Christmas Eve, they were dispelled doubts about the presence of the Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova, absent from competition from traditional end of October 2014, when he took part in Sochi to the third stage of the Cup of Russia. In the run-up to the National Championships in late December, will represent the Mordovian Open & agrave; the second of the three steps so far planned. The nineteen year old Muscovite has in fact already & agrave; He took part in the Japan Open in early October and in the second half & agrave; November should compete in the Rostelecom Cup.
L & rsquo; student of Elena Buianova trover & agrave; such as the main opposing countrymen Pogorilaya and Anna Maria Artemieva, both veterans of the podium in & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy Brastislava won by Evgenia Medvedeva. Among others, will follow with attention the emerging athletes junior Anastasia Galustyan, sixteen year old Armenian, and Alexandra Golovkina, seventeen Lithuanian.
The highlight of the men's competition promises to be the challenge to the sound of quad between seventeen Israeli Samohin Daniel, who won the US International Figure Skating Classic and Junior Grand Prix finalist, and the twenty year old Russian Maxim Kovtun, at the first of the season after problems Physical & egrave; was forced to desert the & ldquo; & rdquo test skates; Sochi.
The fight for the podium should also involve the sixteen year old Latvian Deniss Vasiljevs, talented student of Alexei Urmanov, and the seventeen year old Russian Alexander Samarin, fresh from brilliant success in & rsquo; last stage of qualification of Junior Grand Prix circuit. Worth a mention also the twenties Russian school Tutberidze Moris Kvitelashvili, another quadruplista of excellence. Due to an injury to his wrist, which terr & agrave; away from the ice for over a month, will not be & agrave; This Russian Artur Gachinski. However, it may also be at risk participation in the Rostelecom Cup.
In the race for the pairs of art, will not be the game Vera Bazarova and Andrei Deputat, left the post due to an injury of Bazarova. In Saransk, home of the Russian national championships in 2010 and 2011, there will be & agrave; the seasonal debut of Russian veterans Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, defending champions Continental, and the first ever appearance of the new couple formed by Natalia Mozer school Zabijako and Alexander Enbert.
It remains difficult to identify the third force in the field, but, in the course of the Lombardy Trophy in September, not sorry the young Lithuanians Enjoy Butkute ​​/ Nikita Ermolaev.
In the dance, will go & agrave; staged the first match in the history of Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev and Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin. The stakes will be & agrave; represented by & rsquo; important leadership of the Russian movement. The ambitions of the pairs of the house will be weighed by the Israelis Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko, brilliant second in the Finlandia Trophy of the past week. The Poles Natalia Kaliszek / Maksim Spodirev and Turks Alisa Agafanova / Alper Ucar should be the best equipped to point to the fourth coin.
CALENDAR OF RACE FRIDAY & Igrave; 13:30 16 & ndash; 15:45 Men's short program & ndash; pairs short program of artistic 17:00 & ndash; Short-dance Saturday 17 13:30 & ndash; 15:15 women's short program & ndash; 17:00 Men's Free program & ndash; free dance Sunday 18 24:30 & ndash; program free pairs of artistic 14:30 & ndash; Women's Free Program
Sar & agrave; You can follow the 'event in real time by tuning on live streaming made available by the organizing committee.
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