Figure skating - Ice Challenge 2015
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The forty-second edition of & rsquo; Ice Challenge, the seventh leg of the ISU Challenger Series hosted by "Liebenauer Eishalle" Graz & rdquo ;, & egrave; It was characterized by the domination of the US athletes.
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The success of Scimeca / Knierim matured Friday & Igrave; afternoon, were added victories Thomas / Eaton dance and Mirai Nagasu field femminile.Nel complex, athletes with stars and stripes were imposed in seven of the eight programs of race. The budget & egrave; It was also positive for the Italian colors because in addition to the third place obtained by Della Monica / Guarise between pairs of artistic & egrave; arrived the place d & rsquo; honor won in dance from Komatsubara / Fabbri.
SECTOR MALE - free program
The American Jason Brown, leader of the competition after the short program, & egrave; He was forced to raise the white flag in the face of Russian Artur Dmitriev, author of two tests without snagging while he was not imposed in any of the segments of the race. The twenty-three in St. Petersburg has crumbled in Graz each of personal records, marking the third performance of the season behind Aaron and One. In the free program, the & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin has well completed a quadruple toe loop, a double axel and eight triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz, seasoning everything with quality spinners & agrave ;.
Brown & egrave; It was, however, affected by the apparent difficulty & agrave; on quadruple toe loop and triple axel, which have affected the result in the free program. The US has, in fact, landed on two feet quadruple toe loop and the first triple axel, both judged under rotated, and & egrave; then she fell on the second triple axel attempt, downgraded to a double. Thanks to best-ever ratings on program components, the favorite of the eve & egrave; He managed to save the second place by the overpowering attack Russian Mikhail Kolyada, author of the best performance in the segment pi & ugrave; long race. The twenty year old from St. Petersburg has well performed a quadruple toe loop, two double axel sequence and seven triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz. In particular, he impressed the & rsquo; height highlighted on the jumps, without forgetting the quality & agrave; of tops, including the ability & agrave; getting into position Biellmann.
Should be highlighted also the & rsquo; good test of the twenty-three Belgian Jorik Hendrickx, who snatched the national leader Kevin Van Der Perren, performing in the free program with eight triple jumps and a double axel.
Italian home, the best & egrave; Bannister was the sixteen year old Adrien, who finished in eleventh place managing to land the triple axel in the segment more & ugrave; long race. In & rsquo; opportunity, & egrave; also got the official personal best. The seventeen year old Alessandro Fadini & egrave ;, instead, placed fourteenth.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) RUS - Artur DMITRIEV247.57 (2 | 2) primacy personale2) USA - Jason BROWN240.65 (1 | 4) 3) USA - Mikhail KOLYADA239.77 (3 | 1) primacy personale4) BEL - Jorik HENDRICKX233.47 ( 4 | 3) primacy personale5) RUS - Anton SHULEPOV215.01 (5 | 5) primacy personale6) GBR - Phillip HARRIS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 183.33 (6 | 6) 7) USA - Jordan MOELLER178.21 (7 | 9) 8) ON - Stephane WALKER175.44 (8 | 8) 9) CZE - Jiri BELOHRADSKY167.55 (9 | 10) primacy personale10) GER - Anton Kempf & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 163.69 (12 | 7) primacy personale11) ITA - Adrien BANNISTER153.42 (10 | 11) primacy personale12) AUT - Mario-Rafael IONIAN137.12 (14 | 12) primacy personale13) FIN - Viktor ZUBIK134.54 (13 | 13) 14) ITA - Alessandro FADINI131.10 (11 | 14) 15) AUT - Manuel KOLL & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 113.09 (15 | 15) 16) AUT - Simon-Gabriel IONIAN95.71 (16 | 16) personal best
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DANCE - free dance
Danielle Thomas / Daniel Eaton filed the first success of his career being able to win the competition in both segments of the competition. The new US couple, accompanied by Massimo Scali in Graz, & egrave; He succeeded in improving the primacy personnel crossing for the first time the threshold of centrotrenta points. The keystone & egrave; It was represented by the best-ever ratings on program components.
In second place stood Italians Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri, who have reconfirmed the positive levels of recent Denkova / Staviski Cup, confirming rulo third pair of blue. Moreover, on the technical front, the boys coached by Barbara Fusar Poli and Stefano Caruso at the 'Agor & agrave; Milan have kept pace with the winners revealing a quality & agrave; twizzle on top.
With the best technical response in the free dance Finns stationed in the United States Olesia Karmi / Max Lindholm I managed to get the better of hosts Barbora Silna / Juri Kurakin conquering the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium.
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FINAL STANDINGS
1) USA - Danielle THOMAS / Daniel EATON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 132.44 (1 | 1) 2) ENG - Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 126.66 (2 | 3) 3) FIN - Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM124.26 (4 | 2) primacy personale4) AUT - Barbora Silna / Juri KURAKIN123.60 (3 | 4) 5) KOR - Yura MIN / Alexander GAMELIN107 .76 (6 | 5) primacy personale6) ARM - Tina Garabedian / Simon PROULX-SENECAL102.54 (7 | 6) primacy personale7) ITA Jasmine TESSARI / Francesco FIORETTI97.16 (5 | 7) personal best
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SECTOR FEMALE - free program
The American Mirai Nagasu, thanks to the best free program, & egrave; He managed to win the first success in his career in the circuit Isu Challenger Series. The twenty-two coached by Tom Zakrajšek & egrave; took to the track with the & rsquo; s going to run two double axel and seven triple jumps, abandoning for now l & rsquo; groped idea of ​​the triple axel. The end result & egrave; discrete state because, despite four triples have been judged under rotated, Nagasu scored the most technical feedback & ugrave; high, supported by spinners of quality & agrave ;, especially the upside.
In second place, it & egrave; attested Russian Maria Artemieva beaten for only two and a half points mainly resulting from the repeated steps to empty on attempts to double axel. In the segment pi & ugrave; long race, the twenty-two St. Petersburg got the most feedback & ugrave; high on the components of the program, & egrave; It was the best of the lot on the combined steps and spins, but compared to Nagasu performed fewer triple jumps, while completing two good triple lutz.
The American Tyler Pierce, head at the end of the short program, won the third position with a new personal best. The ambitions of victory of seventeen California fell short because of a double dip on attempts to triple flip and triple lutz second. For the rest, the & rsquo; student Kori Ade & egrave; well managed to complete two double axel and four triple jumps.
L & rsquo; wait fifteen Russian Serafima Sakhanovich, appeared rather strengthened than in the past, you & egrave; had to settle for fourth place confirming the time of tarnish on the elements of jump emerged in previous appearances seasonal. The vice-champion Junior World Championships & egrave; again fell on an attempted triple lutz and & egrave; He was a victim of the same fate in coincidence with the second double axel. In general, the jumps presented were never landed cleanly, although on balance Sakhanovich have limited the damage in terms of GOE.
The seventeen year old Sara Blue Box, filed a miserable short program, & egrave; lifts from the nineteenth to twelfth place. For the & rsquo; pupil Edoardo De Bernardis and Claudia Mason, & egrave; It was very positive the first part of the free they were well executed triple lutz, triple Rittberger, triple toe loop combination and double axel / double toe loop. & Nbsp; Sara Falotico, second Italian in the race, finished the race in twentieth position.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) USA - Mirai NAGASU169.38 (2 | 1) 2) RUS - Maria ARTEMIEVA166.81 (3 | 2) 3) USA - Tyler PIERCE162.69 (1 | 3) primacy personale4) RUS - Serafima SAKHANOVICH157.73 (5 | 4) 5) HUN - Ivett TOTH150.15 (4 | 5) 6) CZE - Anna DUSKOVA142.23 (6 | 9) 7) AUS - Kailani CRAINE141.59 (8 | 6) 8) GER - Lutricia BOCK141.07 (7 | 7) 9) SLO - Dasa GRM134.35 (12 | 8) 10) GER - Nathalie WEINZIERL128.49 (9 | 11) 11) ISR - Aimee BUCHANAN122.83 (11 | 13) primacy personale12) ITA - Sara BOX & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 120.75 (19 | 10) 13) CZE - Elizaveta UKOLOVA118.65 (13 | 15) 14) HUN - Fruzsina MEDGYESI118.47 (10 | 17) primacy personale15) FIN - Emilia TOIKKANEN115.15 (16 | 16) primacy personale16 ) NOR - Camilla GJERSEM & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 114.71 (21 | 12) 17) LTU - Inga JANULEVICIUTE112.55 (22 | 14) 18) EST - Gerli LIINAM & AUML; E109.17 (17 | 18) 19) ON - Matilde GIANOCCA106.02 (20 | 19) 20 ) ITA - Sara FALOTICO104.72 (15 | 20) 21) FIN - Nelma HEDE103.65 (14 | 21) primacy personale22) AUT - Nina Larissa WOLFSLAST & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 92.42 (23 | 22) 23) AUT - Christina GRILL85.43 (24 | 23) primacy personale24) AUT - Ines WOHLMUTH76.62 (25 | 24) primacy personale25) BIH & nbsp; Arijana TIRAK45.47 (26 | 25) WD) BEL - Loena HENDRICKX (18 | -)
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