Figure skating - Grand Prix Final 2014/2015
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Elizaveta Tuktamysheva concluded an autumn be framed with the success in the final of the Grand Prix of Barcelona taking on the guise of autenica dominating the first part of the season.
Saturday 13 December 2014 8 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; seventeen still stationed in St. Petersburg, after having triumphed in the circuit without worries ISU Challenger Series, has imposed its law even in the pi & ugrave; qualified the context of the Grand Prix, becoming the first Russian Irina Slutskaya after winning a final.
On balance, in little more & ugrave; two months, l & rsquo; student of Alexei Mishin took part in eight races at various levels by winning seven times and highlighting un''esemplare consistency of performance with respect to the scores achieved. Clearly, l & rsquo; apex & egrave; touched in Barcelona, ​​where Tutkamysheva in virt & ugrave; two programs with irrelevant smudges, knocked down for the first time in his career the wall of two hundred points snatching the record seasonal to compatriot Elena Radionova, only athlete so far able to defeat it.
Nell & rsquo; Spanish event, you & egrave; proved decisive race strategy as the program free & egrave; was slightly modified in order that & egrave; the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop in the second half slittasse & agrave; of music. Moreover, new fact in the course of the season, the segment pi & ugrave; long race & egrave; was realizing skated perfectly to plan. & nbsp; Were perci & ograve; well completed two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two lutz, without forgetting that steps and spins have earned the level pi & ugrave; high available.
The junior world champion Elena Radionova, favorite of the eve, you & egrave; had to settle for second place, but it had the merit to sell life dearly performing in the free program two double axel, seven triple jumps, including two lutz and two Rittberger, as well as & eacute; the best spinners of the race after those of specialist Julia Lipnitskaia.
Surprisingly, the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium & egrave; was won by the American Ashley Wagner, the only athlete over twenty springs in the race. The twenty-three coached by Rafael Aratunian & egrave; powerfully lifts from sixth place in the short program running in today's free two double axel and seven triple jumps, including a salchow judged under rotated. It & rsquo; cos & Igrave; deservedly got the fourth podium in the final in the last four years, but, placing apart, satisfaction pi & ugrave; big & egrave; was to be finally able to complete the combination triple flip / triple toe loop.
Wagner, despite evidence subdued on the elements of spinning top, preceded by a wide margin the Russian Anna Pogorilaya now fall at the end of the combination triple Rittberger / Rittberger / triple salchow, but able to achieve at the opening of the music a spectacular combination triple lutz / triple toe loop. Fall apart, in the plane of the race of the sixteen year old Muscovite, have missed the point of budgeted flying camel and spinning upside down, elements performed with enormous and unexpected worries.
L & rsquo; waiting Julia Lipnitskaia you & egrave; had to settle for fifth place, proving for the & rsquo; umpteenth time has not yet metabolized the new free program. The world silver medalist, having landed a valuable combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, & egrave; unusually fall on a double axel, however, the rotation is not sufficient, then wrecked in the second part of the music, betrayed by the flip, historically one of the jumps of the tip. On balance, l & rsquo; pupil of Ethers Tutberidze completed at best only a double axel and four triple jumps, too little to be able to play a leading role in a context characterized as that of a final Grand Prix.
The Japanese Rika Hongo, fished instead of & rsquo; injured Gracie Gold, finished the race in sixth position, but has not forfeited on both programs & nbsp; losing mainly ground because of feedback on program components not all & rsquo; height of competition.
On the sidelines, it should be noted as a female in the finals of Barcelona Russia has occupied the top two positions. If & ograve; once an exploit of this kind was already & agrave; occurred at the junior level, never occurred in the major category.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (RUS) - Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 203.58 (1 | 1) PB, SR2) (RUS) - Elena Radionova & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.74 (3 | 2) 3) (USA) - Ashley WAGNER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 189.50 (6 | 3) SB4) (RUS) - Anna Pogorilaya & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 180.29 (4 | 4) 5) (RUS) - Julia LIPNITSKAIA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 177.79 (2 | 6) 6) (JPN) - & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; Rika HONGO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 176.13 (5 | 5)
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; season best / record seasonal PB & ndash; personal best / personal best
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