Figure skating - Russian National Championships 2014/2015
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Maxim Kovtun, at the end of a tight head to head with Sergei Voronov, took second consecutive national title after prevailing on the ice of & rsquo; Iceberg Palace of Sochi for less than a point.
Friday 26 December 2014 7 minutes reading time
Overall, the segment pi & ugrave; long race not & egrave; revealed all & rsquo; height of the short program yesterday and & egrave; was characterized by errors of various kinds, some of which will continue to demonstrate awkwardness federation.
The best performance of the day & egrave; was made by the twenty-seven Voronov, who has created a vacuum on the technical side completing two quadruple toe loop, six triple jumps, including two axel, and a double axel. However, in key victory, Fatal & egrave; revealed l & rsquo; not perfect execution of the second quadruple toe loop, landed on two feet, and the second triple axel, which needed a ride too all & rsquo; landing.
Kovtun, took to the track with a new suit of race colored pi & ugrave; sober, has, however, opened his performance with a double salchow instead of & eacute; four times, but l & Igrave; forward it & egrave; then taken up managing to complete a quadruple toe loop, six triple jumps, including two axel, and a double axel. L & rsquo; pupil of Elena Buianova, wrought by more than nine points on the technical front, has for & ograve; got the better of each item of the program components gnawing three lengths abundant that allowed him to defend himself from the bully back of Voronov.
The main surprise of the competition concerned the third position as Konstantin Menshov, second after the short program, had to raise the white flag in the face of the young Adian Pitkeev. The result & egrave; was propitiated by a decisive naivete & agrave; the thirty-one of St. Petersburg, who relapsed, & egrave; went to the confusion in the calculation of the jumps repeating three times a double toe loop. L & rsquo; mistake & egrave; doubly serious because & eacute; Menshov at the end of a trial marked by several steps to empty the elements of jump, decided to replace a double axel combination with a triple toe loop / double toe loop losing the value of & rsquo; entire combination. Respect of the race plan would, however, not allowed to be overridden by Pitkeev.
The seventeen year old student of Ethers Tutberdize, the victim of a violent fall on a triple axel attempt, had the merit to seize the 'opportunity & agrave; performing a quadruple toe loop and six triple jumps, five of them placed in the second half & agrave; music, but giving up the combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop / triple Rittberger completed pi & ugrave; Sometimes in training.
Afterwards, you & egrave; placed a convincing gordei Gorshkov, moved up from seventh to fifth place, thanks to a free program with a double axel and eight triple jumps, including two axel.
Artur Gachinski, author of a good quad salchow, but then smarritosi the rest finished in sixth place, and should be highlighted the debacle of fifteen Alexander Petrov crashed from fifth to ninth place due to the worst performance of a stagioone so far characterized by a remarkable constancy yield. For l & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin weighed, in particular, a bad day on the triple axel.
In virt & ugrave; the results today, Kovtun and Voronov tore the ticket to the European Championships, confirming the top men of the Russian movement. Third place available for the continental event in Stockholm remains, however, in runoff between Pitkeev and Menshov.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) Maxim KOVTUN271,52 (1 | 2) 02) Sergei VORONOV270,53 (3 | 1) 03) Adian PITKEEV240,96 (4 | 3) 04) Konstantin MENSHOV237,27 (2 | 5) 05) gordei GORSHKOV228.56 (7 | 4) 06) Artur GACHINSKI220,07 (6 | 7) 07) Anton SHULEPOV208.34 (11 | 6) 08) Moris KVITELASHVILI207.40 (8 | 9) 09) Alexander PETROV205,87 (6 | 10) 10 ) Dmitri ALIEV204.46 (12 | 9) 11) Alexander SAMARIN187.87 (9 | 14) 12) Artem LEZHEEV 186.25 (13 | 11) 13) Andrei LAZUKIN181,66 (10 | 17) 14) Daniil BERNADINER177.40 (16 | 12) 15) Roman GALKIN175.42 (14 | 15) 16) Vladislav KAINOV 175.25 (17 | 13) 17) & # 1045; vgeni VLASOV163.37 (18 | 17)
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