Figure skating - NHK Trophy 2014
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Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the second successful career in Grand Prix imposing itself without too many worries in the NHK Trophy, the last leg of the qualifying Grand Prix hosted by the & ldquo; Namihaya Dome & rdquo; Kadoma.
Saturday 29 November 2014 7 minutes reading time
Students of Richard Gauthier, rulers of the short program, were reconfirmed in the segment pi & ugrave; long race, despite not being able to achieve better than planned. After running without major worries triple twist and triple lutz in parallel & egrave ;, in fact, I got a bad fall on trying to quadruple salchow launched and, by return, Duhamel opened the combination of three jumps with a double toe loop instead of & eacute; triple. The day is not positive elements Jump & egrave; continued with a landing of the triple lutz launched with a small step-out, without forgetting that the lifting of the final three group not all worked out for the best. Duhamel / Radford, clearly far from the performance of Skate Canada, I still managed to get the most feedback & ugrave; top of the sum of the components of the program, while remaining distant from the scores achieved by Stolbova / Klimov in previous stages.
The Russians Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov had to settle for second place, but skated the worst free program of the season. The main steps to empty arrived in & rsquo; incipit as Kavaguti & egrave; fall on the sequence of two triple toe loop and, subsequently, on & rsquo; challenging quadruple salchow in parallel which today has claimed victims prestigious. No problem, however, in the second part of the program characterized by the presence of the triple Rittberger launched and lifting all well executed.
The podium & egrave; was completed by the Chinese Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, who, for the first time in his career, more than one hundred and eighty points scollinati are easily winning the final of the Grand Prix in Barcelona. The junior world champions have scored the best technical score in the free program proving the pi & ugrave; competitive absolute elements jump in parallel, in this case the triple toe loop and double axel sequence, performed without any heartache. Then go remarkability triple Rittberger launched from & rsquo; height sidereal and the best triple twist of the race. The only smudge worthy of note came on & rsquo; landing a triple flip and launched on top in final torque.
The Russians Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat confirmed the fourth place in the Cup of China, but today were extremely penalized by a bad day of Bazarova, fall on what would have been a triple toe loop in parallel and on the triple flip launched, without forgetting the obvious difficulty & agrave; the triple Rittberger launched and combination double axel / euler / double salchow.
To follow, but with twenty points behind by the students of Oleg Vassiliev, were placed Germans Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave, who, while expressing the level of Skate Canada, they got the best finish of his career in the circuit. The ranking & egrave; was closed by the Americans Dee Dee Leng / Simon Shnapir, advanced by ten lengths than the Rostelecom Cup, and giapponesei Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara, by far the couple has less from technical point of view among those entered in the competition and, balance, between all those who took part in the twentieth edition of the circuit.
& Nbsp; The six couples qualified for the final of the Grand Prix of Barcelona are:
Stolbova / Klimov (RUS) Duhamel / Radford (CAN) Kavaguti / Smirnov (RUS) Peng / Zhang (CHN) Sui / Han (CHN) Yu / Jin (CHN) The reserves will, however, in & rsquo; order Tarasova / Morozov (RUS ), Denney / Frazier (USA), Wang / Wang (CHN).
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FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CAN) - Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD199,78 (1 | 1) 2) (RUS) - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 183.60 (2 | 3) 3) (CHN) - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 182.00 (3 | 2) PB4) (RUS) - Vera BAZAROVA / Andrei Deputat & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 165.70 (4 | 4) 5) (GER) - Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 145.36 (5 | 5) 6) (USA) - Dee Dee LENG / Simon Shnapir & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 138.24 (6 | 6) PB7) (JPN) - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi KIHARA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 131.26 (7 | 7)
Key: SB & ndash; season best / record seasonal PB & ndash; personal best / personal best
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