Figure skating - Lexus Cup of China 2013
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It took 110 qualifying stages of Grand Prix before China succeeded in breaking into the male competition. The historic taboo has been broken by Yan Han winner in'' eleventh edition of the Cup of China, hosted by the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
Saturday 2 November 2013 8 minutes reading time
The seventeen year old stationed in the capital of China is successful, as well as Anna Pogorilaya no more than two hours ago, to win the first appearance in the circuit, improving their personal records as well as China's primacy over ten lengths.
The landlord has the merit to capitalize on the'' huge advantage gained in the first segment of the race by defending on the program free from the overbearing return of Russian Maxim Kovtun, author of the best performance of the day. Passport in hand, the first two positions in the standings were so occupied by the younger athletes in the race, abnormal occurrence in men and even more striking when you consider that both were to debut in the Grand Prix.
By analyzing what happened on the ice, you want to still precarious condition of many, either because attempts to quadruple rose exponentially, have not seen clean programs in the most literal sense of the term, except for the winner of the segment race, which is not, however, failed to present the schedule.
Han Yan, who skated on the song "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss, performed a sumptuous combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop, but unlike yesterday, he needed a step-out to land the triple axel . In the end, he managed to complete six of the eight triples planned, but, on the route plan today, they weigh a fall on the second triple flip and a double instead of triple Rittberger. It should be noted as well jump five elements have been carried out in the second half of the disc, not to mention the quality of the spins that, in the men's field, can account for a really strong point. In this regard, it should be remarked how all the Chinese athletes in the race have submitted tops built way to reach level four, and was equaled only by the American Richard Dornbush. The winner of the race was also removed satisfaction for the first time to break through the wall of the eighty non-trivial points in the components of the program, making it the best in the race on three of the five items. The Kazakh Denis Ten, ranked fourth, is however, managed to precede the Chinese on choreography and interpretation.
The Russian Kovtun has built the best performance in the free program thanks to the quadruple Salchow, perfectly atterratto on two occasions, the second of which in combination with a double toe loop. In order not to miss anything, he also added two triple axels in the second half of the disc, but went to empty on trying to quadruple toe loop, open in flight and completed only twice. '' In the occasion, the training partner Sotnikova defended himself in some way in ostiche spins bringing home a pair of four levels. It goes without saying that, mainly because of the difficulty of the elements of jump, the free program today it seemed poor with regard to the steps of transition and work with their feet.
The podium was completed by the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka that, from today, because without the possibility of access in the final, will focus exclusively on the National leagues in mid-December, try Olympic qualifying. The performance today'' s student of Nobuo Sato was not all'' height of the prestigious past. In particular, they weighed two fall over on an attempted quadruple toe loop, which appeared to limit the rotation, and a triple flip. The twenty-four of Nagoya is perfectly completed six triples, while leaving the street one of the two triple axels planned.
The fourth place went to Denis Ten, author of a free light and shade, which, however, in the light of the various physical resentments, bodes well ahead of the rest of the season. The vice-world champion has had the satisfaction of getting the best result of his career in a stage of Grand Prix, and between a barb and the other is'' still managed to put together, as well as the best sequence of steps of the day six triple jumps, including a triple axel landed with step-out.
A follow have placed the American Richard Dornbush, complete with seven triples completed in spite of the steps to empty the quad, and the Frenchman Florent Amodio, was defeated by the battle with qudruplo salchow and author of many botched landings on the other elements of jump .
The palm of disappointment of it all'' event'' unrecognizable Nan Song, a distant relative of the athlete'' admired a couple of seasons ago. The Chinese national champion has not gone beyond the eighth'' also preceded by the German Peter Liebers. In the final position, finished the landlord Yi Wang.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CHN) 245.62 Han YAN (1 | 2) primacy cinese2) (RUS) Maxim Kovtun 238.65 (2 | 1 ) primacy personale3) (JPN) Takahiko Kozuka 226.92 (3 | 5) 4) (KAZ) Denis TEN 224.80 ( 4 | 3) 5) (USA) Richard Dornbush 218.57 (6 | 4) 6) (FRA) Florent AMODIO 213.39 , (5 | 6) 7) (GER) Peter LIEBERS 200.80 (7 | 7) 8) (CHN) Nan SONG 196.80 ; (8 | 8) 9) (CHN) Yi WANG 185.22 (9 | 9)
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