Figure skating - Tallinn Trophy 2015
Aljona Savchenko & Bruno Masso
The Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, home of & rsquo; last edition of the World Junior Championships, will host & agrave; starting today, the fifth edition of Tallinn Trophy, eighth round of the Challenger Series circuit ISU.
Wednesday 18 November 2015 8 minutes reading time
Eighty-nine athletes from twenty-four countries and three continents are enrolled & Outdoors; event, including Italians Maurizio Zandron, the third exit racing season after Autumn Classic and Merano Cup, & nbsp; the couple dance consists of Victoria Manni and Saverio Giacomelli, winner the national test held in Assam, and the new partnership of art formed by the American Alexandra Iovanna Ambrosini and Filippo, the first international career.
The level of the event the promises on average high by the standards of the Challenger Series circuit, which riaprir & agrave; its doors after a couple of weeks off.
The highlight of the competition & egrave; represented by the international debut of the couple formed by the highly decorated flying the flag of Germany Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, recently & ldquo; & rdquo released; by the French federation. The students of Alexander K & ouml; nig, returning from experiences with other partners, riassaggeranno climate of competition after more than a year and a half with the & rsquo; aim to archive immediately the minimum technical requirements to take part in the World Championships. Given that the benchmark is verr & agrave; achieved without any problem whatsoever, c & rsquo; & egrave; great curiosity & agrave; about l & rsquo; & agrave current level of competitiveness; a partnership formed with the unconcealed aim to be embedded in the fight for the top positions. The main opponents in Estonia will be the compatriots Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert, big sweep in the recent Cup of China, and the US Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage, left the post earlier in the season because of physical problems.
In the dance, announces sparks confrontation between Israelis Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko, gi & agrave; capable of storing two places d & rsquo; honor in the Finlandia Trophy and Mordovian Ornament, and the British Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland, fourth in the short dance of recent Troph & egrave; and Eric Bomaprd and invited yesterday at the NHK Trophy in Nagano, the last stage of qualification Grand Prix. The listed pairs coached by Igor Shpilband will face competition from advanced US Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, the Ukrainians Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin and Italian Federica Testa Slovak / Lukas Csolley, newly engaged couples in the Grand Prix. Will follow with attention the emerging Finnish Cecilia Torn / Jussiville Partanen, students Maurizio Margaglio, yesterday quarantunenne.
In the women, the underdogs are up to fifteen Russian Maria Sotskova, the international debut at the senior level and unbeaten in races during the season. The finalist of Junior Grand Prix will have & agrave; contend with peers Elizabet Turzynbaeva, Kazakh coached by the staff directed by Brian Orser, and Da Bin Choi unanimente considered at this time the Korean skater pi & ugrave; competitive with stand as a candidate & agrave; senior. One step more & ugrave; below, are placed at the seventeen American Tyler Pierce, recently third in & rsquo; Ice Challenge in Graz, & nbsp; the sixteen year old Latvian Angelina Kuchvalska, fresh from melancholy Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard, and the sixteen year old Finnish Jenni Saarinen, the season debut.
In the men, the American Max Aaron, winner of Skate America but appeared in trouble & agrave; in the short program of Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard, trover & agrave; as the main opponent the promising sixteen year old Russian Dmitri Aliev, finalist of Junior Grand Prix. The role of third force in the field, it is the sixteen year old Latvian Deniss Vasiljevs, a talented pupil of Olympic champion Alexei Urmanov. Over & Outdoors; blue Maurizio Zandron, deserve mention young people on the launching pad Kevin Aymoz, eighteen transalpine, Ivan Pavlov, seventeen Ukrainian gi & agrave; on the podium in the Junior Grand Prix circuit, and & nbsp; Artem Lezheev, nineteen year old Russian qualifier in recent days for the National Championships of Ekaterinburg.
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Sar & agrave; You can follow the 'entire competition using the live streaming made available by the organizing committee.
CALENDAR OF RACE
WEDNESDAY & Igrave; 10:00 November 18 & ndash; 24:55 Men's short program & ndash; 15:50 Short Dance & ndash; pairs short program of artistic 17:50 & ndash; women's short program
THURSDAY & Igrave; Nov. 19 8:00 & ndash; free dance 11:15 & ndash; program free pairs of artistic 13:30 & ndash; 16:50 Men's Free program & ndash; Women's Free Program
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