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We ended today's senior competitions of the Volvo Cup, the seventh leg of the ISU Challeger Series hosted by the "Volvo Ice Rink" in Riga.
Thursday 6 November 2014 11 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; Latvian event, now in its twenty-fifth edition, has given satisfaction to audiences at home, galvanized by the success of the women's race & rsquo; s emerging Angelina Kuchvalska.
The result, for the truth & agrave ;, & more ugrave not surprising; of such professionals as the Latvian federation has developed with humility & agrave; patience and a project started from a distance, which is bearing fruit and that important in the years to enable & agrave; to have more stable & ugrave; athletes in the top ten in terms of continental championships.
Kuchvalska (146.08), fifteen of Riga gi & agrave; Messas light in the Junior Grand Prix circuit, & egrave; was sensational in the first half & agrave; the free program during which he put together five triple jumps, including two triple lutz and a combination salchow / triple toe loop / double Rittberger. A drop in the end did not, however, spotted a performance far superior to the competition from the technical point of view, which enabled it to overturn the result of the short program and adjust the fifteen German Lutricia Bock (143.21), an interesting statement can as much mastering triple lutz, triple flip and triple Rittberger, suffers today from a few jumps under rotated too.
Fifteen Finnish Jenni Saarinen, one of the favorites of the day before, you & egrave; had to settle for step & more ugrave; of the podium because of the usual test marked by ups and downs, which has prevented the success in the short program. On the positive side, we remember the first triple Rittberger and l & rsquo; s excellent combination double axel / triple toe loop, which was offset by a bad fall on the triple lutz and many landings stuttering.
After that, complete with a new personal best and lowest technicians to participate in the World Cup exceeded, the & egrave; placed twenty year-old Camilla Gjersem (139.35), which preceded the sixteen year old Lithuanian Aleksandra Golovkina, author of the new national record (130.77).
In the men you & egrave; easily imposed on the young Russian Alexander Petrov (218.78), always on the podium in six races this season and recent winner of the Coupe de Nice. L & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin has confirmed the consistency of performance that has so far characterized the quasi-totality & agrave; his dominating performance in both segments of the competition. In the free program, the fifteen-year St. Petersburg has made two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz, making a & rsquo; only smear on the flip opening combination with Rittberger simple and triple salchow, completed double instead of & eacute; triple.
The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; ventuenne went to compatriot Gordei Gorshov (205.08), able to confirm the levels of & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy Bratislava finished in third place, but without the gear change.
The podium, in full swing Russian flag, & egrave; was closed by Artur Dmitriev disappointing twenty-two (189.28), capable of defeating the comeback & rsquo; Israel Daniel Samohin (183.47), sixteen year old who is slowly starting to find the right feeling with the quadruple toe loop.
Among the pairs of artistic novices Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov (107.34) have achieved success with margin ahead of the young compatriots Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev (162.68), defeated in both competition programs.
New students of two-time Olympic champion Artur Dmitriev been able to make a difference and a better mastery of the triple jumps in parallel and launched paying for & ograve; duty in relation to rivals on most of the elements of torque, and triple twist lifts in the first place. In third place were placed Belarusians Mary Paliakova / Nikita Bochkov (126,70).
In the dance, despite a & rsquo; naivete & agrave; on top of the free program cost the loss dell''elemento, success & egrave; went to the persuasive Italian-Slovak Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley (140.84), which in & rsquo; s time have improved the national record imposing in both segments of the competition. Students of Robert and Paula Pelizzola Sharecroppers, absent because & egrave; in China in the wake of Cappellini / Lanotte, had much the better of the striking Belarusian Viktoria Kavaliova / Yurii Bieliaiev (135.10) and the Korean Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov (132,86), able to jump in the free dance the disappointing Danish Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen (129.36), penalized by a & rsquo; unexpected fall that deprived them of the value of twizzles and therefore a likely place d & rsquo; s honor.
On the Italian front, the Volvo Cup has left a lot & rsquo; bitter taste in the mouth, not so much as regards the placings as for individual performance. Cernuschi Alessandra Ambrosini and Filippo (112.00), fourth out of four participants in the race for the pairs of artistic, confirmed the difficulties & agrave; highlighted in the national race in Cortina putting together five drops in two days. In particular, concern the continuous steps to empty on jumps and launched in parallel.
In the women's race, Sarah Box (114.82) is & egrave; placed in eleventh place by completing two discrete triple lutz at the beginning of the program for free, but falling gradually to the testimony of a state of the form is not yet optimal. Guia Tagliapietra (111,31) is & egrave ;, however, had to settle for the fourteenth place and, compared to other times & egrave; appeared decidedly off and submissive. The sixteen of Courmayeur stood out positively for the good elements presented top, but in Riga have not found the quadrature of the circle on the vast majority of the elements of the jump, landed with some heartache too.
Finally, Federica Bernardi and Saverio Giacomelli (114.28), filed a discrete short-dance, free dance struggled in a losing position in the standings and finishing seventh. The new couple School Forum has revealed today Quality & agrave; on twizzles and rotational lift, but it paid duty on & rsquo; s performance Sequencers cost them too many points than the competition.
With today's results Head / Csolley and Petrov climbed into second place in the rankings of HDI Challenger Series of their respective disciplines behind the tedescji Zhiganshina / Gazsi and the American Ross Miner.
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