Figure skating - Russia Cup 2015/2016
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The third stage of the Cup of Russia & egrave; It was hosted by the "KRK Uralets" of Yekaterinburg, which, in late December, will & agrave; theater of the National Championships.
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The main interest of the event the & egrave; for & ograve; failed to supervise as Adelina Sotnikova, initially announced among the participants, had to give up because of un''influenza.
In & rsquo; occasion, the attention of the experts have, however, mainly focused on competition and not senior & egrave; Failure few surprises.
In the women, Polina Tsurskaya (209.03) took part in the first race of his career in senior class skating two programs of high profile. The fourteen of Omsk, in the absence of competition that could really impensierirla, confirmed that quality & agrave; elements of jump when concentration than any other athletes. However, despite two tests or almost as & eacute; perfect, & egrave; It emerged some valuable indication of where to put hand in preparation for upcoming appointments. Specifically, in both segments of the race, the flying sit you & egrave; stopped at level three, while in the free program, albeit for a few tenths of a second, the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop & egrave; agrave & remained in the first half; of music. The podium & egrave; It completed by fifteen Moscow Evgenia Ivankova (149.80), a student of Viktoria Volchkova, and fourteen Alexandra Saiutina (147.98), training partner of Anna Pogorilaya. The disappointment of the race & egrave; was, however, the fifteen Natalia Ogoreltseva (139.24) not gone beyond the sixth.
At junior level, l & rsquo; he trimmed his thirteen Ekaterina Mitrofanova (174.19), second place in the stage of the Junior Grand Prix held in Torun in late September. L & rsquo; student of Sergei Davydov concluded both segments of the race instead of & rsquo; honor, performing in the free program two double axel and seven triple jumps, including a combination double axel / triple toe loop ended with a crash. Mitrofanova preceded the promising training partner Anastasia Mukhortova (169.85), leading after the short program. The twelve year old Muscovite has received applause for the spinners and the quality & agrave; overall skating, but & egrave; He was forced to raise the white flag in the segment pi & ugrave; long race because of a lengthy process of triple jumps under rotated. In third position, you & egrave; Alina placed Zagitova (166.73), who for some months is training with ethers Tutberidze. The twelve of Izhvesk & egrave; It was by far the best in terms of technical and & egrave; deprived of the satisfaction of winning the free program where she performed two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two two flip and lutz. Moreover, the & rsquo; & egrave ambitious opening words; It was characterized by the combination triple lutz / triple Rittberger and double axel / triple toe loop.
Between pairs of artistic, Alice and Alexander Korovin Efimova (167.94), students of Natalia Pavlova, have repeated the success obtained in the first stage showing a & rsquo; excellent knowledge of the triple twist and decent quality & agrave; on lifting. In second place, came the finalists of Junior Grand Prix Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov (164.20), as always penalized by a technical background on the jumps in parallel that still does not go over the double flip and double Rittberger. After that, they are placed Maria Chuzhanova / Denis Mintsev (149.46), which preceded Sofia Byriukova / Andrei Filonov (147.64), couple novice circuit stationed in Sochi at the school Volosozhar / Trankov
In the junior category, net success for the pair of Perm composed by twelve and seventeen Apollinariya Panfilova Maxim Selkin (153.68), stood out for the triple twist, triple flip and launched uprisings, including Reverse period.
In the dance, c & rsquo; & egrave; was the season debut of Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin (181.68), left the post in the first part of & rsquo; autumn because of the physical problems of Bukin. Students of Tandem Svinin / Zhuk, the l & agrave; scores Star, appeared more at ease on the dance free skate to the tune of & ldquo; & rdquo ;. Barcelona Compared to the best appearances of the past, & egrave; lacked a bit & rsquo; velocity & agrave ;, but & egrave; It showed a good quality & agrave; on twizzle and lift. To be reviewed, however, sequences ravensburger waltz. The triumph for the school Svinin / Zhuk & egrave; It was completed by the victory in the junior level of Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko (154.45).
In the men, the national champion Maxim Kovtun (222.48) & egrave; It was clearly defeated by gordei Gorshkov (245.02), winner of both segments of the competition. The twenty-two trained by Evgeni Rukavitsin gave up attempts to quadruple jumps skating two tests without smudging. In particular, in the free program he has completed a double axel and eight triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz.
Kovtun, however, has caught two miserable days on the quadruple salchow and as systematically occurred in training, he did not complete a quadruple toe loop in the short program, limiting the damage with three rotations. In the segment pi & ugrave; long race, has also opened in flight a lutz and a Rittberger, closing both only two rotations. On balance, despite assessments pi & ugrave; high on the components of the program, the & rsquo; student of Elena Buianova has accumulated in two days almost twenty-three & eacute; point gap generated by a gap of thirty points down on the technical side. In third position, you & egrave; He placed the eighteen year old student of Ethers Tutberdize Vladislav Tarasenko (199.83).
The race juniors & egrave; was won by eighteen Kazan Ilyin Evgeni (210.59), one of the few to have tried and completed the triple axel and clearly the best of the lot on the technical front that on each item of the program components. The fourteen year old Nikolai Gerasimov (196.56) & nbsp; has conquered the place d & rsquo; honor ahead of the promising twelve George Kunistsa (194.92), recently winner of the Memorial Panin and previously the first leg of the Cup of Russia.
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