Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2014
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The United States came out winners from the women's competition the NHK Trophy, the last act of qualification of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating hosted by Namihaya Dome Kodama.
Saturday 29 November 2014 8 minutes reading time
Gracie Gold is & egrave ;, in fact, sets in both segments of the race to qualify for the final in Barcelona, ​​where, in virt & ugrave; the result of the Japanese leg, sar & agrave; the game also compatriot Ashley Wagner.
The 'student of Frank Carroll & egrave; became the first non-Russian skater to break the barrier of one hundred and ninety points in the current season, despite not been immune to smudges in the relevant segment pi & ugrave; long race where & egrave; managed to create a vacuum on the components of the program. & Nbsp; Gold has completed two double axel and four triple jumps, including two excellent lutz, but & egrave; fall disastrously on an attempted triple salchow and executed a double flip instead of & eacute; triple. Performance & egrave; was, however, quite convincingly on steps and spins, which, in addition to having reached the maximum level available, were performed with quality & agrave ;. Overall, the US national champion, in the past, never step on the pi & ugrave; top of the podium in the Grand Prix, showed a better physical condition than previously outputs seasonal, but, to try to compete on equal terms with the Russian skaters, avr & agrave; need a breakthrough on the elements of jump.
To confirm the results obtained in the short program, Alena Leonova has filed an unexpected place d & rsquo; honor, revealing an exponential growth compared to the disastrous performance of & rsquo; Ice Challenge in Graz, played a couple of weeks ago. All & rsquo; pupil of Evgeni Rukavitsin the merit of being able to & ldquo; recalibrate & rdquo; elements of spinning top, which had caused massive problems at Skate Canada. However, except for the triple toe loop combination fine / triple toe loop start and a double axel, the twenty-four in St. Petersburg & egrave; appeared lackluster elements jumping free program tainting almost all landings. The figure pi & ugrave; encouraging & egrave; represented by the final score as Leonova was close to personal best and has especially proven to hange in evidence over the one hundred and ninety points skating with less smearing segment pi & ugrave; long race, still less suited to its characteristics compared to artistic & rsquo; very short.
He licks, however, the wounds the Japanese movement, relagato this season to the role of spectator of the final event that has not happened since 2000. The sixteen away Satoko Miyahara you & egrave; consoled getting the second podium of his career, and ahead of the pi & ugrave; seasoned rival for leadership inside Kanako Murakami. However, the pi & ugrave; satisfied with the group & egrave; was the rookie Riona Kato, convincing fifth with the best technical feedback in the free program, where he completed two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two flip and lutz taken from the inner wire.
Afterwards, you & egrave; placed the sixteen year old Gabrielle Daleman, able to precede, thanks to the best free program of the career, the Chinese Li Zijun, appeared in athletics clear growth compared to the Cup of China, and the US Polina Edmunds, the main disappointment of a competition total of high technical . In fact, for the first time in history, l & rsquo; athlete who clocked l & rsquo; eighth score in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, reached 106.46, when previously parit & agrave; placement had not gone beyond 102.99 (Brookle Han, Skate America 2014)
Have qualified for the final in Barcelona: Elena Radionova (RUS) Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) Gracie Gold (USA) Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) Ashley Wagner (USA)
The reserves will be the Japanese Rika Hongo, Satoko Miyahara and Kanako Murakami
STANDINGS FINALE01) (USA) - Gracie GOLD & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 191.16 (1 | 1) SB02) (RUS) - Alena LEONOVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 186.40 (2 | 3) 03) (JPN) - Satoko MIYAHARA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 179.02 (4 | 2) 04) (JPN) - Kanako Murakami & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 173.09 (3 | 7) SB05) (JPN) - Riona KATO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 168.38 (8 | 4) PB06) (CAN) - Gabrielle DALEMAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 164.74 (7 | 6) SB07) (CHN) - Zijun LI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 162.90 (5 | 8) SB08) (USA) - Polina EDMUNDS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 161.79 (11 | 5) 09) (USA) - Christina GAO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 147.51 (6 | 10) SB10) (GEO) - Elene GEDEVANISHVILI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 142.96 (9 | 9) 11) (SUI) - Anna Ovcharova & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 132.32 (12 | 11) 12) (NOR) - Anne Line GJERSEM & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 125.17 (10 | 12) SB
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