Figure skating - US Sectionals 2014/2015
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In the last week have played the Sectional Championships US, the last act of national Championship qualifying, which will be held in Greensboro between 17 and January 25
Tuesday 25 November 2014 10 minutes reading time
As usual, the most attention was directed to the women, who saw in the race athletes of international level. On balance, there & egrave; Failure few surprises and & egrave; also got a & rsquo; elimination excellent.
& Nbsp; All according prediction in the Pacific Coast Sectional, hosted by & rsquo; Eagles Ice Arena in Spokane, CITY located in the state of Washington for the & rsquo; when submerged in snow. Victory & egrave; went to the favored Karen Chen (171.58), which preceded her companions training Leah Keiser (162.34), in the lead after the short program, and Tyler Pierce (155.31). Fifteen of Freemont not & egrave; however expressed to the maximum of the potential not running the Rittberger preceded by step in the short program and dropping dramatically in the second half & agrave; segment pi & ugrave; long race, characterized by jumps under rotated and a double instead of ribtterger & eacute; triple. L & rsquo; last place useful for the final & egrave; was conquered by the noble fallen Caroline Zhang (145.14), who defeated in both programs Katarina Kulgeyko (140.32). Unfortunately for Carly Gold, twin sister Gracie, not gone beyond the seventh place (124.92).
In the Midwestern Sectional, you & egrave; held at the Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva, c & rsquo; & egrave; was, however, a & rsquo; unexpected elimination. L & rsquo; waiting Barbie Long (132.48), third last season, finished the race in fifth position, preceded by just seven hundredths of a point from the amazing Christina Cleveland (132.55). Competition & egrave; was clearly won by eighteen Mariah Bell (174.76), author of the best score ever in the round of Sectionals. The new training partner Jason Brown, however, well completed in the free program two triple flip and two triple lutz, equally divided between the first and second part. In second place, it & egrave; placed the national junior champion Amber Glenn, author of an excellent short program opened by a combination triple flip / triple toe loop, then also performed well in the free which has for & ograve; botched on the remaining elements of jump. & nbsp; The podium & egrave; was completed by Ashley Shin (145.86), second score in the segment pi & ugrave; long race.
Nell & rsquo; Eastern Sectional, was staged at the & ldquo; Polar Ice House @ The Factory & rdquo; Wake Forest, you & egrave; sets surprise Madison Vinci (149.93), which preceded in both programs a & rsquo; matte Franchesca Mary Chiera (141.84), winner twelve months ago and favored for success. The level of competition is not & egrave; was still high, considering that the first place in the free program has performed a double axel and two triple jumps, including two salchow. Katie McBeath (135.82), in tears after a free well below expectations, finished in third position adjusting narrowly Mary Yang (135.72), for sure l & rsquo; athlete with programs pi & ugrave; ambitious, although it was penalized for too many jumps lack the required rotation.
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In the men, the performance pi & ugrave; striking & egrave; was that of the fifteen Nathan Chen (243.89), which has set aside for the moment the triple axel inserting programs quadruple toe loop, well-executed at the second attempt in the free. For the rest, l & rsquo; pupil of Rafael Arutunian absent because & eacute; in the wake of Wagner and Rippon in Bordeaux, has confirmed that the young American pi & ugrave; interesting revealing a perfect mastery of spins and triple jumps. In the Pacific Coast Sectional, Chen has had much the better of Sean Rabbitt (202.26), Shotaro Omori (193.43) and Philipp Warren (179.66), all qualified for the National Championships.
In Geneva, you & egrave; imposed Jordan Moeller (217.18), training partner of Mariah Bell, ahead & nbsp; Alexander Johnson (212.36), author of the best free program. Clearly detached competition regulated by Sebastien Payannet (146.64) and Robert Przepioski (136.06).
In the race of Wake Forest, success for Grant Hochstein (200.95), which despite a free rather subdued, preceded with margin Timothy Dolensky (185.29), Patrick Rupp (183.01) and Jimmy But (177.53 ).
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As for dance and pairs artistic, all subscribers to Sectionals were admitted to the National Championships.
In dance, the best ones were the brothers Gamelin (135.36), winners of the Eastern Sectional front Hoptman / Flichenkov (130.68). & Nbsp; A Spokane, all according to the prediction of success Aronow / Brubaker (114.57), cos & Igrave; how to Geneva where they won Olsson / Lorello (134.00). Will be the game of Greensboro also Maxwell / Devereaux (114.02), Ponomaryova / Altukhov (104.18), Reynolds / Reynolds (102.36), Patsis / Fast (92.53), Gaughan / Lithco (81.49) and Bynum / Deveikis (69.02).
Between pairs of artistic, c & rsquo; was interest in the debut of Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran (148.91), winners of the race of Wake Forest before Shaughnessy / Morgan (81,99). The other pairs took to the track were Oltmanns / Joshua Santillan (130.14), first in the Midwestern Sectional on De La Mora / Wilson (118.44), without forgetting the tandem of Anja Davidovich, present at the last Olympics with colors Israel, and AJ. Reiss (123.44), only entered the race in Spokane.
As for Castelli / Tran, showed the typical problems of skaters together for a short time. In the short program, & egrave; was presented a triple twist still far dall''optimum, & egrave; was admirably completed the triple salchow in parallel, but there & rsquo; & egrave; was a bad fall on the triple salchow launched. In the free program, however, were well executed a double twist and lifting of group five, reverse period including, but arrived two falls on the jumps in parallel. Moreover, the second jump launched presented, in addition to the triple salchow, & egrave; was a double lutz, reflecting a situation of work in progress.
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