Figure Skating - NHK Trophy 2013
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The first title assigned to the thirty-fourth edition of the NHK Trophy, hosted by "Yoyogi National Gymnasium" in Tokyo was one of the pairs of art.
Saturday 9 November 2013 6 minutes reading time
The victory went to Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, who have extended the period unbeaten at thirteen months. The Russian pair has thus closed the sixth win in as many qualifying stages of the Grand Prix, but the first in Japanese territory, gaining access to the'' final Fukuoka.
The performance of the defending World Champions, as evidenced by the second all-time score obtained was along the same lines of the triumphal ride of Skate America. The students of Nina Mozer, after leading the short program, were repeated easily even in the longer segment of the race, accumulating more than fifty-four point lead over nearest rival. '' In the occasion, did not arrive on the third consecutive world record, but the improvement has been missing for a little more than a point, which reflects the continued performance now reached. Regarding the free program, l'' only element that gave problems in term of level obtained, but not capable of running, was l'' tricky outer coil back, while for the rest everything was performed with conseuta the accuracy and where necessary with a remarkable unison.
In the struggle between Chinese couples for second place, with a prize conqusitare the possibility of qualifying for the final, had the better, surprisingly, Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao, who took advantage of an unexpected "harakiri" the most young Wenjing Sui / Cong Han through by-passing not only in the final standings of the NHK Trophy, but also in the provisional ranking of the Grand Prix.
Neither of the two associations Asian iivelli is able to repeat the preceding stages but Peng / Zhang had the merit of containing errors, paying duty mainly because of the steps to empty on the jumps in parallel, voiced by Peng, and for the '' landing with step-out on the triple Rittberger launched. Notable, however, the quadruple twist opening and the triple salchow launched in the second half of the disc.
Sui / Han, however, they caught one of the worst days of the remarkable career so far, collecting three falls, the most serious before lifting axel amount of group five aborted with immediate loss of more than seven points. The first element leap in parallel, which would have to be a combination triple toe loop / double toe loop,'' c'' unusual was the fall of the Han, Sui and voiced the first toe loop. Moreover, came a fall on the triple lutz launched. The three times World Champions juniors, authors of the fifth free, they had to settle for the lowest step of the podium saying goodbye to any chance so to reach the final.
The fourth place went to the Americans Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir, preceded by a narrow margin that the young fellow Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, capable of improving the personal best by more than eight points. To follow, were placed Canadians Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers, disastrous over jumps in parallel and on the triple lutz launched ended with a crash, the Russians Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov, today launched mainly in the crisis on, and the Japanese Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara, authors of the staff despite the obvious difficulties of jumps and launched in parallel.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV 236.49 (1 | 1) 2) (CHN) - PENG Cheng / Hao ZHANG182.18 (3 | 2) 3) (CHN) - Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN171, 32 (2 | 5) 4) (USA) - Marissa CASTELLI / Simon SHNAPIR 168.89 (5 | 3) 5) (USA) - Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER 167.85 (4 | 4) primacy personale6 ) (CAN) - Paige Lawrence / Rudi SWIEGERS 153.55 (6 | 6) 7) (RUS) - Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV 145.37 (8 | 7) 8) (JPN) - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi Kihara 136.13 (7 | 8) personal record
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