Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2015
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The NHK Trophy, the sixth and final stage of qualifying for the Grand Prix hosted by the & ldquo; Big Hat Nagano & rdquo ;, you & egrave; open in the early morning with the Italian short program reserved for couples of art.
Friday 27 November 2015 6 minutes reading time
The level of competition, but it is not a novelty & agrave; for specialty & agrave ;, you & egrave; It revealed very high, as evidenced by six scores widely share over sixty.
In respect of the predictions of the vigil, the segment of the race & egrave; It was won by the Canadians Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford, who had the better of the competition both on the technical components of each item of the program. The defending champions, unbeaten in four stages of Grand Prix and nine race programs, have committed the & rsquo; unique barb worthy of note on the triple lutz in parallel, Duhamel landed with the & rsquo; support of a hand on the ice.
Students of Richard Gauthier preceded by more than two and a half points the Americans Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, who carried out the triple twist far better competition and, so & Igrave; as Duhamel / Radford, who committed the & rsquo; only mistake on the triple salchow in parallel, landed by Knierim with the & rsquo; support of a hand on the ice.
The provisional podium, with one and a half delay from place d & rsquo; honor, & egrave; was completed by the Chinese Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, second only to world champions in charge on the technical authors and, in particular, a triple Rittberger launched stun beauty.
Next, separate the one from the other twenty-six cents, were placed Russians Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat and Canadians Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch, associations in the second year of life, both able to significantly improve the personal best despite some trimming on the triple toe loop in parallel, landed on two feet from Bazarova and with the & rsquo; support of a hand on the ice from Iliushechkina and Moscovitch.
The expected French Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres, forced to quit the race in fourth position at least to earn the qualification to the final, had to settle for sixth place with a lead of just over two points from Bazarova / Deputat. The French couple & egrave; It was flawless on six of the seven mandatory elements distinguishing & nbsp; on the triple toe loop in parallel and on the lifting of group four, the best of the race. However, a & rsquo; ingenuity of James on top in final torque & egrave; cost to the Alps at least two positions and at least four and a half points in the case of level pi & ugrave; high. The 'element & egrave; It was judged not level because the skater French & egrave; found for an instant without at least one skate on the ice.
If at the end of the free program was reconfirmed ranking today, the qualified for the final in Barcelona would Duhamel / Radford (CAN), only full points, Kavaguti / Smirnov (RUS), Sui / Han (CHN), Scimeca / Knierim ( USA), Stolbova / Klimov (RUS), Yu / Jin (CHN) and Seguin / Bilodeau (CAN). As expected, under the new emergency regulation issued Monday & Igrave ;, it would be seven couples to leave for Spain.
RANKING SHORT PROGRAM PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
1) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD71.04 (38.00 | 33.04) 2) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM68.43 (37.28 | 31.15) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 3) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN67.00 (37.66 | 29.34) 4) RUS - Vera BAZAROVA / Andrei DEPUTAT64.06 (35.47 | 28.59) PB5) CAN - Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH63.80 (34.80 | 29.00) & nbsp; PB6) FRA - Vanessa James / Morgan CIPRES61.91 (31.63 | 30.28) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 7) USA - Jessica CALALANG / Zack SIDHU55.19 (30.10 | 26.09) - 1,008) GBRAmani FANCY / Christopher BOYADJI42.52 (19:17 | 23:35) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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