Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2014
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Javier Fernandez took second successful career in a qualifying round of the Grand Prix in imposing & rsquo; challenging Rostelecom Cup, the fourth act of the circuit.
Saturday 15 November 2014 8 minutes reading time
The ventuenne Spanish, despite a nagging tendinitis in his left knee, & egrave; managed to get the better of qualified competition in both segments of the race to become the first athlete to qualify for the final in Barcelona.
The audience of the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow had the & rsquo; & agrave opportunities; to attend a competition by the high technical content, characterized by a free program that & egrave; gi & agrave; entered history because, for the first time in a qualifying event of the Grand Prix, five skaters have crossed the threshold of 158 points.
Fernandez, filed a convincing success in the short-program, not & egrave; was outdone in the segment pi & ugrave; long race during which he completed three quadruple jumps and four triples. Technical aspect aside, & egrave; managed to create a vacuum on each component of the program is confirmed as the main alternative to the Japanese athletes. Moreover, compared to Skate Canada, the & rsquo; interpretation of music from the & ldquo; & rdquo Barber of Seville; Gioacchino Rossini & egrave; was decidedly more & ugrave; convincing through better physical condition that allowed him to remain on the note from & rsquo; start to finish.
In second place, with a gap of around thirteen points, you & egrave; attested the Russian veteran Sergei Voronov, in & rsquo; occasion arrived a few tenths off the personal best. The vice-European champion has brilliantly completed a quadruple toe loop in the free program and six triple jumps, including two axel of excellent workmanship, but mostly gave confirmation to have reduced over time the gap on the components of the program than most of their opponents. In light of today's result, the twenty-seven moscotiva is presenter & agrave; at the start of & rsquo; last stage of Osaka with a realistic chance & agrave; to qualify for the final.
A follow you & egrave; placed Michal Brezina, again on the podium in the Grand Prix to two years away from their third-place finish in Moscow. The twenty-four student of Karel Fajfr has finally shown to the master & rsquo; important technical background of jumps that has always been the best performing a quadruple salchow and six triple jumps, including two axel. The main deburring & egrave; was represented by the fall on the second attempt to quadruple salchow, however, judged under rotated, but, on the l & agrave; dell & rsquo; mistake, must be stressed as ever in November Brezina was able to express themselves on the levels of competitiveness & agrave; today.
The fourth & egrave; was conquered by an encyclopaedic Misha Ge, able to touch up the personal best of twenty points compared to the Cup of China last week and more than thirty lengths if you rifermimento the best performance of the past seasons. The twenty-three Uzbek has created two programs of rare quality & agrave; putting together in the free two double axel and eight triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz. & nbsp; In the end, regardless of the music now completed, did not want to learn to stop its fury agonistic exulting sedately for the & rsquo; incappando exploits made and the penalty of one point for time violation.
Ge preceded the American Jason Brown, ousted from the final of the Grand Prix, but pleased to have competato two double axel and eight triple jumps in the free program, soiled only by a couple of touchdowns complex of a triple lutz and a triple axel.
The rest of the competition & egrave; was regulated by the Japanese Takahiko Kozuka, came out with broken bones from the battle with the quadruple toe loop, sadly ended with two fall over.
The Italian rookie Ivan Righini, took to the track to the tune of some masterpieces of Frank Sinatra, you & egrave; had to settle dell & rsquo; eleventh place, penalized by a couple of falls and by failing to present the triple axel. The new student of Michael Huth has to & ograve; given l & rsquo; impression of being on the right track to complete the best quadruple toe loop and did not trivial, has shown it can comfortably complete six triple jumps in the second half & agrave; of the program.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) (ESP) - Javier FERNANDEZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 265.01 (1 | 1) SB02) (RUS) - Sergei Voronov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 252.00 (2 | 2) SB03) (CZE) - Michal BREZINA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 241.23 (4 | 3) SB04) (UZB) - Misha GE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 238.05 (5 | 5) NR05) (USA) - Jason BROWN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 235.56 (7 | 4) 06) (JPN) - Takahiko Kozuka & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 216.80 (3 | 7) SB07) (USA) - Max AARON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 212.60 (6 | 6) 08) (RUS) - Artur GACHINSKI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 201.26 (8 | 9) 09) (USA) - Stephen CAREERS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 201.24 (10 | 8) 10) (CAN) - Jeremy TEN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 198.50 (9 | 11) 11) (ITA) - Ivan RIGHINI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 195.07 (11 | 10) 12) (RUS) - Moris KVITELASHVILI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 174.25 (12 | 12)
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