Figure skating - Russian National Championships 2014/2015
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The first day of the Russian National Championships Figure Skating, hosted dall''Iceberg Palace in Sochi, you & egrave; opened with the men's short program.
Thursday 25 December 2014 7 minutes reading time
The overall level of the race & egrave; revealed high because all athletes pi & ugrave; Expected you are presented with a polished expressing the top of the potential.
The partial success, probably in accordance with the prediction of the eve, & egrave; went to defending champion Maxim Kovtun, who, for the first time during the season, & egrave; able to perform perfectly as planned at the table. The nineteen year old trained by Elena Buianova completed in opening a combination quadruple salchow / triple toe loop, then performed a quadruple toe loop preceded by step and, in the second half & agrave; the music, the triple axel ordinance. Kovtun & egrave; managed to get the better than all''agguerrita competition both on the technical and on each item of the program components.
In second place, trailing by nearly six points, you & egrave; certificate Konstantin Menshov, by far the 'athlete pi & ugrave; senior race. The thirty-one of St. Petersburg has well completed a quadruple toe loop combination / triple toe loop, then landed a quadruple salchow placing a hand on the ice and, finally, has performed a good triple axel.
The step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; was occupied by twenty-seven Sergei Voronov, who was also comfortably over the threshold of ninety points despite before starting to skate had to wait a few minutes because of a problem with all''impianto music. The third place in the recent final of the Grand Prix opened the program with a quadruple toe loop combination / triple toe loop, managing to extricate themselves after a landing is not perfect four times, and then placed in the second part of the music is a triple Rittberger preceded by step a fine triple axel.
Not & egrave; was less the sixteen Adian Pitkeev, mate training Voronov. The young student of Ethers Tutberdize has perfectly executed a combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop and then added, in the second part of the disc, triple axel and triple lutz preceded by step.
A discreet Artut Gachinski, despite a fall on the quadruple toe loop, finished in fifth place ahead of the fifteen school Mishin Alexander Petrov, penalized compared to athletes that the 'preceded dall''assenza a quadruple jump in the program.
The main disappointment of the race is named after Artur Dmitriev, not gone beyond a disappointing fifteenth daughter of a quadruple toe loop attempt to not go beyond two rotations and fall on the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop.
As usually happens in national competitions around the globe, the feedback of the components of the program were compared to abitutini wheelies, but, in general, & egrave; seemed clear the 'intention to point out the difference between athletes engaged in major circuit and athletes who are still competing at the junior level.
RANKING PROGRAM SHORT MASCHILE1) Maxim Kovtun & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 98.14 (53.04 | 45.10) 2) Konstantin MENSHOV92.37 (50.99 | 41.38) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 3) Sergei Voronov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 91.24 (48.88 | 42.36) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 4) Adian PITKEEV87.36 (49.26 | 38.10) 5) Artur GACHINSKI 80.69 (43.49 | 38.20) - 1006) Alexander PETROV40.66 (40.66 | 36.21) 7) gordei Gorshkov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 75.29 (38.58 | 36.71) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 8) Moris KVITELASHVILI74.37 (39.83 | 35.54) - 1009) Alexander SAMARIN72.05 (37.87 | 34.18) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 10) Andrei LAZUKIN70.92 (38.20 | 32.72) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 11) Anton Shulepov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 66.48 (34.23 | 33.25) - 1:00 & nbsp; & nbsp; 12) Dmitri ALIEV64.36 (33.85 | 30.51) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 13) Artem LEZEEV63.01 (32.08 | 31.93) -1.0014) Roman GALKIN61.47 (33.26 | 28.21) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 15) Artur DMITRIEV60.82 (27.65 | 34.17) - 1.0016) Daniil BERNADINER59.21 (30.31 | 28.90) 17) Vladislav KAINOV57.54 (29.90 | 27.64) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 18) Evgeni VLASOV50.70 (22:17 | 29.53) - 1:00
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