Figure skating - Russian Nationals 2013
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'' It jumped the counter in the Russian Figure Skating Championships, hosted by'' Iceberg Palace in Sochi. Evgeni Plushenko, pre-race favorite and race leader after the short program, was defeated by eighteen Maxim Kovtun, who won the first national title of his career.
Wednesday 25 December 2013 7 minutes reading time
The thirty-one of St. Petersburg was the victim of a suicide tactic and probably too much to want to overdo it,'' she lost the opportunity to win a success that seemed written. Moreover, at the end of the race, still shaken by what happened, said he had no intention of taking part in the European Championships in Budapest, on the occasion of the Olympic Games, will attend only to the test team.
Compared to the convincing appearance of Riga, the construction of the free program has been literally turned upside down to try to accomplish three quads in the first minute. However, if the first attempt to quadruple toe loop has been completed, albeit with difficulty, the following two jumps were a toe loop and then a salchow, both triples rather than quadruples. The main problems, however, came in the second half of the disc when intestarditosi for the triple axel that it did not want to come in, upset than planned by making two double axel sequence and then a third double axel, which is clearly not , was counted by the computer. At the end, Plushenko is, in fact, managed to complete the coveted triple axel, but the points lost on the way, also by virtue of a double rather than triple lutz, were decisive. In addition, in the'' economy of the score, he also weighed the fact that he performed two of the three combinations available.
Maxim Kovtun, fell on the ice several minutes after Plushenko, was able to complete two of the three planned quad, but above all it has achieved two triple axels in the second half of the music by creating a vacuum on the technical score, although, on balance, has submitted only four triple jumps, chats to two quads (4S, 2S / T, 4T, 3A/2T, 3A, 3LZ, 3S/2T, 2A). '' The student Elena Buianova, coach of the day also because of the success of female Sotnikova in the short program, had the merit of taking a leap to the'' unexpected opportunity and, while not expressing themselves at the top of the potential, could to win.
In line with what has happened in the short program, the third place went to Sergei Voronov, who has completed two quadruple toe loop and two triple axels, but also repeated two triple Rittberger road to losing an element of jump.
In all honesty, the programs presented today by athletes on the podium, beyond high as inappropriate assessments obtained in the various items of the PCS (program componentes score), did not appear at internationally competitive only because of the rich and chased long periods of rest between a jump and the other''. In the men's field, skating has long taken an'' other'' folk and the impression is that in Russia there is not yet realized that opponents like Hanyu and Chan, now light years away, but rather as Machida and Takahashi Fernandez, you can not beat only with the jumps, always a challenge only on the jumps can be beaten.
The fourth place went to Konstantin Menshov thirties, the author of the fourth free program. Afterwards, he finished the promettennte fifteen Adian Pitkeev that preceded Artur Gachinski. Mikhail Kolyada, fighting for the top five positions, it is, however, had to retire due to the rupture of the laces of a shoe.
At this point, we await communications from the Russian Federation regarding who will take part in the individual competition of the Olympic Games.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) Maxim Kovtun 267.13 (93.08 | 174.05) 02) Evegeni PLUSHENKO 261.37 (98.41 | 162.96) 03) Sergei Voronov 249.44 (89.10 | 160.34 ) 04) Konstantin Menshov 230.13 (70.72 | 159.41) 05) Adian PITKEEV 224.25 (76.75 | 147.50) 06) Artur GACHINSKI 224.17 (69,10 | 155,07) 07) Alexander Petrov 216.47 (71.79 | 144.68) 08) Zhan BUSH 216.46 (72,46 | 144,00) 09) Artur DMITRIEV 202.03 (71.32 | 131.71) 10 ) Murad KURBANOV199, 86 (64.48 | 135.38) 11) Sergei BORODULIN197, 31 (64.72 | 132.59) 12) Gordei Gorshkov 196,72 (70,73 | 125.99) 13) Alexander SAMARIN193 , 11 (62.74 | 130.08) 14) LAZUKIN186 Andri, 25 (58.42 | 127.83) 15) Moris KVITELASHVILI 184.98 (70,47 | 114,51) 16) Vladislav SEZGANOV183, 64 ( 63.03 | 120.01) 17) Konstantin MILYUKOV165, 58 (64,10 | 101,48)
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