Figure skating - Finlandia Trophy 2015
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Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the twentieth edition of the Finlandia Trophy, making an important test in view dell''imminente racing Grand Prix, where they will try to defend the title won last season.
Saturday 10 October 2015 6 minutes reading time
On the ice of the "Barona Arena" Espoo, students Pasquale Camerlengo have easily imposed in both segments of the race, but to date the script was already & agrave; written on the eve.
However, especially in the free dance, choreographed by newcomer Peter Tchernyshev music by Ludovico Einaudi, there have been significant flaws, which had an impact in an important way on technical feedback. The main problem, along the lines of what happened in the short-dance, covered the twizzle, today characterized by an error of Poje in clear difficulty & agrave; on September 1 Next, the sequence of steps in a circle and the straight line lift were performed with some small uncertainty, but & egrave; Then came the turning point, and the second part of the program & egrave; flown smoothly and convincingly. Obviously, in virt & ugrave; errors, not the technical score & egrave; It was high, but the 'impression & egrave; that judges are extremely impressed, as the feedback on the components of the program were the pi & ugrave; assigned high in the first glimpse of the Challenger Series. Of course, in the coming days, there will be & agrave; time and way to fix those mechanisms that have not responded to better Espoo. The next competitive event should coincide with Skate Canada, the second leg of the Grand Prix scheduled for later this month.
The peak torque of the Canadian movement preceded novices Israeli Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko, capable ready way to overcome the significant threshold of one hundred and fifty points comfortably reaching the minimum technical standards to participate in the World Championships. The students of the winning school of Igor Shpilband you are put back into light for the quality & agrave; of twizzle, clearly the best in the free dance, and, on the whole, despite some uncertainty about small step sequences in pairs, showed immediately a remarkable solidity & agrave; technique. & nbsp;
The podium & egrave; It was completed by the Danes Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen, authors of the second performance in the free dance with a lot of best technical feedback.
The expected US Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean Luc Baker had to settle for fourth place with huge detachment from the third position, but the end result and especially the performance in the free dance were influenced by a bad fall on the staight line lift.
After that, with the new record Finnish official, they were placed the hosts Cecilia Torn and Jussiville Partanen, coached by Maruzio Margaglio. & Nbsp;
Finlandia Trophy will end & agrave; tomorrow with free maps of the races in single artistic.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE161.67 (1 | 1) 2) ISR - Isabella TOBIAS / Ilia TKACHENKO150.89 (2 | 3) 3) DEN - Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SORENSEN147.65 (3 | 2) 4 ) USA - Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER132.86 (4 | 7) 5) FIN - Cecilia T & Öland; RN / Jussiville PARTANEN131.08 (5 | 4) 6) CZE - Cortney MANSOUR / Michal CESKA127.31 (7 | 6 ) 7) CAN - Brianna Delmaestro / Timothy LUM127.12 (9 | 5) 8) FIN - Olesia Karmi / Max LINDHOLM117.75 (6 | 8) 9) AUT - Barbora Silna / Juri KURAKIN114.55 (8 | 9) 10 ) GBR - Carter Marie Jones / Richard SHARPE111.48 (10 | 10) 11) GER - Jennifer URBAN / Sevan LERCHE97.47 (11 | 11)
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