Figure skating - U.S. Nationals 2014
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Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir, despite the third in the free program, you are ricofermati U.S. samples between pairs of artistic storing the second national title of his career.
Saturday 11 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The success of the students of Robert Martin was primarily built in the first segment of the race in which, surprisingly, have managed to accumulate a wide margin over the competition.
Overall, the TD Garden in Boston was the scene of a competition by the high technical content, which will seriously embarrass the federation. In fact, taken for granted the presence of the winners in the Olympic Games, it will now have to decide who among the runners Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay and third Caydee Denney / John Coughlin, encouraged the vigil, will leave for Sochi.
In the free program, Castles / Shnapir have not been flawless on the elements of jump in parallel and have racked up a fall on'' ambitious attempt to quadruple salchow, but, in spite of the technical performance of the third day, they were again the best in the sum of components of the program.
Zhang / Barthlomay, on the lowest rung of the podium twelve months ago, have, however, proved to be the most solid pair from the technical point of view, doth two tests without smudging. In the free, in particular, have been appreciated for the quality of jumps and launched in parallel, mainly paying duty on each item of the program components.
Denney / Coughlin for their part have obtained the highest score in the longer segment of the race, but will regret in the long Clearance vacuum John Coughlin on what was supposed to be a combination double axel / double toe loop / double toe loop, but which in the end turned out to be a combination of single jumps. For the rest, the students of Dalilah Sappenfield performed items scheduled flawless finishing among other things a good triple flip launched in the second half of the music.
The fourth place, with a large detachment from the podium, went expected to Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim, today tutt'' nothing but flawless on challenging jumps launched presented.
Following were placed former junior national champions Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, who climbed through a competitive free program Tarah Kayne / Danny O'' Shea and DeeDee Leng / Timothy LeDuc, rivelrazioni the first day of competition.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir (73.13 | 132.58) 205.71 02) Felicia Zhang / Nathan Bartholomay (66.50 | 135.22) 201.72 03) Caydee Denney / John Coughlin (65.40 | 136.03) 201.43 04) Alexa Scimeca / Christopher Knierim (64.68 | 124.99) 189.67 05) Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier (59.52 | 122.07) 181.59 06) Tarah Kayne / Danny O'' Shea (61.48 | 112.41) 173.89 07) DeeDee Leng / Timothy LeDuc (66.40 | 105.54) 171.9408) Gretchen Donlan / Andrew Speroff (61.70 | 109.03) 170.73 09) Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker (54.14 | 109.67) 163.81 10) , Jessica Pfund / AJ Reiss (55.16 | 100.88) 156.04 11) Jessica Noelle Calalang / Zack Sidhu (51.19 | 100.46) 151.65 12) Alexandria Shaughnessy / James Morgan (48.45 | 92.28) 140.73
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