Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2013
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The final day of the Rostelecom Cup, now in its eighteenth edition, opened with the free program feminine, which sealed the'' exclusion of Carolina Kostner by the end of Fukuoka.
Saturday 23 November 2013 7 minutes reading time
The success, in accordance with the prediction of the eve, went to the hostess Julia Lipnitskaia already triumphed at Skate Canada. Fifteen coached by Tutberidze ethers, having dominated the short-program, Repeated and not at the same level of excellence in the longer segment of the race was able to get the better of the Italian skater for only sixty cents.
In comparison to the habits, Lipnitskaia was not accurate on the elements of the best jump by completing only three of the seven planned triple. However, because of a fall on the triple lutz and a landing with initial hand on the ground of the first double axel, was forced to overturn their pre shifting combinations later in the program. Victory in hand, the main positive note for the defending European record, appeared distraught in the kiss & cry, remains the advancement of more than three and a half points in the sum of the components of the program.
Carolina Kostner, however, has thrown away the chance of winning the race is not attacking a simple toe loop triple salchow final, which was then evaluated in order to obtain the'' 80% of the value. For the rest, the South Tyrolean ventiseienenne, clearly the best of the day on each of the components of the program, showed a growth importnate respect to the Cup of China managed to complete six triples, but not all of them characterized by a clean landing. In addition, in recent weeks has been able to act in the best elements of bringing in top-level locking as well as four steps. The good news is the sixteenth consecutive podium finish in top-level competitions, but it is regret for having only a single combination in the free program.
The lowest step of the podium was conquered by the revived American Mirai Nagasu, able to complete two double axel and five triples, overcoming atavistic rotation problems.
The'' Waiting Russian Elizaveta Tuktamisheva not gone beyond the fourth position confirming the'' inconstancy which catterizzato all competitions he has participated in this season. In the free program, the two crashes were fatal on triple lutz and triple flip, elements which in the past have always been the strong point. Now, unlike most quoted countrymen, all qualified for the final of the Grand Prix, will have a month to try to straighten out the situation and try to play for the national championship in the call for the European Championships in Budapest.
In fifth position, she placed fifteen-Japanese Satoko Miyahara, who has had the better of the American Agnes Zawadzki, declined in the second part of the free and hampered by too many landing on two feet. In seventh place, it lifts the Japanese Kanako Murakami, capable, thanks to the surprising best technical score of the day, to redeem'' s lackluster performance yesterday. With regard to the'' student of Machiko Yamada, should be highlighted the remarkable combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop with which he opened his free, but also assessments of the components of the program'' s height of its past.
Afterwards, it is classified, the Russian school Urmanov Nikol Gosviani, author of the personal record,'' while the last place went to Japan's Haruka Imai, now in difficulty on the jumps taken from the wire.
The average level of the women's race was still high because for the first time in a stage of Grand Prix classified the first seven have got more than 162 points.
The athletes qualified for the final, to be held in Fukuoka between 5 and l'' Dec. 8, are Japan's Mao Asada, skater elder of the lot'' from the top of his twenty-three years, the American Ashley Wagner and young Russian Julia Lipnitskaia, Anna Pogorilaya, Adelina Sotnikova and Elena Radionova. The reserves will be in Japan's Akiko Suzuki'' order'' s Italian Carolina Kostner and the American Gracie Gold.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (RUS) - Julia LIPNITSKAIA 190.80 (1 | 2) 2) (ITA) - Carolina KOSTNER 190.12 (2 | 1) 3) (USA) - Mirai NAGASU 175.37 (4 | 3) 4) (RUS) - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA 171.87 (5 | 5) 5) (JPN) - Satoko MIYAHARA 165.76 (6 | 6) 6) (USA) - Agnes Zawadzki 163.21 (3 | 8) 7) (JPN) - Kanako MURAKAMI 162.46 (9 | 4) 8) (RUS) - Nikol GOSVIANI 157.17 (7 | 7) primacy personale9) (JPN) - Haruka IMAI 145.30 (8 | 9)
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