Figure skating - Nebelhorn Trophy 2015
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Starting tomorrow, the & rsquo; Eislaufzentrum Oberstdorf & nbsp; will host & agrave; the forty seventh Nebelhorn Trophy, second round of the circuit & ldquo; & rdquo ISU Challenger series;
Wednesday 23 September 2015 8 minutes reading time
Before the draw, seventy skaters representing eighteen countries and four continents are enrolled & Outdoors; event, but, unlike in the recent past, there will be representatives of Italian, except for that Lorenza Alessandrini & ograve; now competes for France.
In the women's race, there are the issues of concern, although it is hard to place a favorite. In Bavaria, there will be & agrave; the return to competition of Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond, who turned out & ograve; to the general public in imposing & rsquo; edition of & nbsp; Nebelhorn 2012. The nineteen year stationed in Alberta, to the post last season because of an injury, will have & agrave; immediately to deal with the same age Alaine Chartrand, direct rival for the leadership of the Canadian movement. They will then match the Americans Courtney Hicks and Mirai Nagasu, current second lines of the movement of stars and stripes accumunate from & rsquo; intention to present or later in the season the triple axel. In key victory, no potr & agrave; be ruled out a priori the application of the Russian Alena Leonova, second twelve months ago with a lot of personal best. The twenty-four in St. Petersburg will be & agrave; called to provide important signals after performance tests skates Sochi not really convincing. Among those, certainly, do not start jokes, stands the name of nineteen Japanese Mariko Kihara, training partner of Satoko Miyahara and winning the right to Oberstdorf Bavarian Trophy played in the month of February. The colors of the house will be defended by twenty-one Nathalie Weinzierl and from & rsquo; emerging fifteen Lea Johanna Dastich, appeared for & ograve; subdued in the stage of the Junior Grand Prix of Colorado Springs. Lastly. It promises to be interesting comparison between the twenties Brooklee Han and seventeen Kailani Craine, battling to determine who will have & agrave; Australians defend the colors in the next edition of the World Championships.
Certainly, he promises sparks the men's competition, which counts among the members the landlord Michal Brezina, fresh from unconvincing second place in the Lombardy Trophy in Sesto San Giovanni. Czech stationed in Oberstdorf trover & agrave; as the main opponents two & ldquo; & rdquo quadruplisti; Exception as the & rsquo; ambitious US Max Aaron and the veteran Russian Konstantin Menshov, & nbsp; in absentia Plushenko athlete pi & ugrave; senior circuit from & rsquo; top of his thirty-two springs. Among others, deserve mention French Florent Amodio, when an impoverished nobleman, the German Peter Liebers, a veteran of the debacle of the last World Championships, the Belgian Jorik Henrickx, absent due to injury for most of last season, and the second Online US Grant Hochstein.
Between pairs of artistic, it arouses great interest the presence of Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, absent from competition dall''ormai distant Olympic victory dated February 2014. The Russian pair, however, fresh wedding, prevailed in the Nebelhorn Trophy in 2013 starting their own Oberstdorf the ride that after six months ended with the triumph of Sochi. The race promises to be a high level as they will be at the starting line even national champions US Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, among couples pi & ugrave; progressed last season, Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, vice-world champions juniors, and the French Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres, about to add to their arsenal quadruple salchow launched. L & rsquo; Eislaufzentrum terr & agrave; then baptism Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert, ambitious new German couple at the first exit racing.
In the dance, the highlight & egrave; represented by the debut season of the vice-world champions Madison Chock / Evan Bates, second at Oberstdorf last season. There are also curiosities & agrave; for the first output of Canadians Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, moved to Montreal in the spring at the school directed by Patrice Lauzon and Marie France Dubreuil. For the role of third force in the field & egrave; open challenge between the Turkish school Zhulin Alisa Agafonava / Alper Ucar, recently selected to take part in the Troph & egrave; and Eric Bompard, and the emerging US Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus.
CALENDAR OF RACE
THURSDAY & Igrave; & nbsp; Sept. 24
14:00 & ndash; SHORT DANCE 16:30 & ndash; SHORT PROGRAM COPPIE20: 00 & ndash; MALE SHORT PROGRAM
FRIDAY & Igrave; 25 SETTEMRE
11:30 & ndash; SHORT PROGRAM FEMMINILE14: 45 & ndash; FREE MAP COUPLES 19:00 & ndash; FREE MAP MEN
Saturday, September 26
10:30 & ndash; FREE MAP FEMMINILE14: 00 & ndash; DANCE FREE
Sar & agrave; You can follow the & rsquo; event logging to free straming made available by ornganizzatori.
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