Figure skating - Russia Cup 2014
Dmitry Ikunin FSkate.ru
In the past week, the 'Ice Palace in Samara hosted the first of the five stages of the Cup of Russia, which will contribute circuit & agrave; to determine which athletes will take part in the national championships.
Monday 15 September 2014 13 minutes reading time
Like every year, the seats available for the National Review, which will be held & agrave; Sochi will be eighteen in the field for male and female, twelve and fifteen pairs of artistic dance. However, it should be noted that the athletes nominated to take part in the Senior Grand Prix are admitted to, cos & igrave; as those who have reached the final of the Junior Grand Prix.
In the women's field, are currently gi & agrave; qualified Alena Leonova (11/1990), Maria Artiemeva (03/1993), Adelina Sotnikova (07/1996), Nikol Gosviani (09/1996), Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (12/1996), Anna Pogorilaya (04/1998), Julia Lipnitskaya (06/1998), Elena Radionova (01/1999), Evgenia Medvedeva (11/1999) and Serafima Sakhanovich (02/2000) In the margin, it should be remarked how, with the exception of Leonova and Artiemeva, the current qualified are all athletes still eligible for junior competitions.
In the men are already definitively agrave; admitted to Konstantin Menshov (02/1983), Sergei Voronov (10/1987), Zhan Bush (04/1993), Artur Gachinski (08/1993), Mikhail Kolyada (02/1995), Maxim Kovtun (06/1995) and Adian Pitkeev (05/1998).
In couples of art, they have the guaranteed place Antipova / Maisuradze, Bazarova / Deputat, Davankova / Enbert, Kavaguti / Smirnov, Stolbova / Klimov, Tarasova / Morozov, Volosozhar / Trankov
In the dance, finally, the game will be Bobrova / Soloviev, Ilinykh / Zhiganshin, Monko / Khaliavin, Sinitsina / Katsalapov and Stepanova / Bukin. In this case, because of the short-dance different, normally do not take into consideration the couples engaged full-time in junior category.
The National Championships, unless exceptions for top-class athletes, will be used to determine which skaters will take part in the European Championships in Stockholm, an event in which Russia avr & agrave; have three seats for each discipline.
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Going back to the first stage of the Cup of Russia, it is not surprising the presence of skaters gi & agrave; qualified for the National Championships as the internal circuit is normally used as a test of training before the Grand Prix and above & egrave; useful to submit the new programs being considered by the panel and the judges.
Between the pairs of art are imposed Astakhova Kristina and Alexei Rogonov (163.78), skaters who have had experiences with other partners, but gi & agrave; of discrete levels of competitiveness & agrave; despite having started skating together for a few months. The pupils of Artur Dmitriev submitted immediately programs decidedly ambitious (triple jumps in parallel, triple twist, triple flip and triple Rittberger launched, reverse lasso), alternating executions of quality & agrave ;, species on the cast, some understandable step-load on the rest .
In the second position, you & egrave; placed the new pair of Perm, school Kalinina, Tatiana Kuznetsova / Semen Stepanov (141.92), while Arina Cherniavskaia Anthony Souza-Kordyeru (131.58), trained in Moscow by the young Arina Ushakova, they had to settle for third and last place.
At the junior level, success & egrave; Maria went to Vigalova / Egor Zakroev (157.86), followed by a couple of Perm Valentina Tiukova with the credentials to try to excel in the Grand Prix class as long as the yield on the jumps in parallel is greater than that revealed in the free program Samara.
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In the dance, pairs of Togliatti coached by Oleg Sudakov were featured at all levels. In the senior race, in fact, the favorite Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin (143.44) had reason to easily Margarita Belyakova / Dmitry Volkov (107.08) and Ludmila Sosnitskaya / Pavel Golovishnikov (101.02), while in the junior competition success & egrave; Sofia went Evdokimova / Egor Bazin (137.30) in the past on the podium in the Junior Grand Prix, which preceded Sofia Polishchuk / Aleaxnder Bahnov (125.10) and Anastasia Skoptcoca / Kirill Aleshin (110,20).
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In the men, you & egrave; imposed Sergei Voronov (229.30), improved on the elements of spinning than in the past, but still not completely comfortable on the jumps, despite having completed fluency in combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop in the short program and another quad toe loop in addition to two triple axels twenty-four hours. The vice-European champion preceded Artur Dmitriev (224.59), Alexander Petrov (216.08), best of the lot in the free program, Gordei Gorshkov (202.13) and Sergei Borodulin (192.29). & Nbsp; junior A level, success more difficult than expected for the sixteen year old Andrei Lazukin (202.96), fell on the triple axel in the short program, but then able to complete seven triple jumps in the segment pi & ugrave; long race. In the second position, you & egrave; placed the fifteen Moscow Vladimir Samoilov (200,68), which had the better of the twelve-year old St. Petersburg Petr Gumennik (196.39), training partner Lazukin at the school of spouses Mishin.
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In the women's field, success & egrave; went to a Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (169.65) with two faces. The seventeen year old coached by Alexei Mishin skated a decent short program, but it has extremely messy in the segment pi & ugrave; long race during which he completed just three triple jumps and & egrave; view delete from your computer, as happened to Voronov, a combination double salchow / double toe loop / double toe loop because he had previously executed a triple lutz in combination with a double toe loop (as of this season, any kind of double jump pu & ograve; be repeated on only two occasions the penalty 'cancellation dell''intero element involved). & Nbsp; addition, to confirm what he had glimpsed on the occasion of & rsquo; Skate Open in Moscow a few weeks ago, the spinners, combined in part, proved to be still far dall''essere recorded.
A follow were runners fifteen Moscow Alsu Kaiumova (140.54) and the sixteen year old Ekaterina Bayanova Perm (132.77), who, taking advantage of a field participants rather mediocre, have collected important points in key qualification for the national.
The highlight of the first stage of the Cup of Russia & egrave; for & ograve; was l & rsquo; awaited confrontation in the junior women's race between thirteen Moscow Polina Tsurskaia and l & rsquo; eleven of St. Petersburg Anastasia Gubanova (pictured), skaters still in et & agrave; novice who stole the show to all those who have trod the ice of Samara.
In the end, l & rsquo; won the day by a narrow margin Gubanova (188,40), thanks to a flawless performance in the short program in which he had the better off rival on the technical front, that on each of the components of the program. The roles have been reversed in the free program, won by a pi & ugrave; Tsurskaia perky, able to run six of the seven jump elements in the second half & agrave; of music. Specifically, l & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze has put together two double axel and seven triple jumps, complete with a two combinations triple lutz / triple toe loop, in addition to level four spins. Gubanova has, however, presented a program with a distribution pi & ugrave; regular elements and jump to the end & egrave; still managed to complete two double axel and seven triples, including two lutz and two flips. & nbsp;
At the moment, on the technical front, the international figure skating & egrave not; able to offer anything better, except perhaps a contest between the Japanese Yuna Aoki and Marin Honda in top condition.
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The second stage of the Cup of Russia will be held & agrave; Jo & scaron; kar-Ola between 6 and 10 October, while at the end of the month garegger & agrave; Sochi (27-31). In November, however, will & agrave; the turn of Kazan (18-22) and in conclusion, in the first days of December (2-6), the circuit will land & agrave; in Moscow.
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