Figure Skating - Rostelecom Cup 2013
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The Germans Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy won the fourteenth career victory in a qualifying round of the Grand Prix of entering the Rostelecom Cup, now in its eighteenth edition.
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The four times World Champions, always on the podium in every event of the circuit so far played, had the best of both segments of the race, but in the free program not commented on the level twenty-four hours ago and decided, however, to give up the risky triple axel launched. The main problem for students of Ingo Steuer is the difficulty in performing the best jumps'' in parallel today fruity 2:58 points instead of the scheduled 10:19. Respect, however, the previous appearance in the Cup of China, there has been a growth on the components of the program, scollinate over seventy points, but in this case the difference to rivals Volosozhar / Trankov remains more than seven lengths.
'' The place of honor went to the Russians Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov, who thus redeemed the disappointing performance of the Trophée Eric Bompard in the past week. The students of Nina Mozer have silenced the many skeptics improving the primacy of a penny and a free skating mostly devoid of obvious flaws, including jumps in parallel. For quality of execution, ranging remarkability, in particular, the triple flip launched, the triple twist and the spectacular reverse period.
The podium was completed by the Canadians Kirsten Moore Towers / Dylan Moscovitch, who, because of an'' unusual fall at the end of a group of lifts of five have threatened to undermine the'' input into the final saving himself for just 63 cents point. Clearly than the triumphal Skate America, are missed'' s appeal almost twenty points in the sum of the segments of the race, the result of a couple of significant errors in technical terms, but also significantly lower ratings on the components of the program.
Thanks to an almost perfect free the Russians Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov were traced to the fourth square, presenting among other things, an interesting triple twist, new to this stage. For the couple originally from St. Petersburg is regret for the final failure, somewhat offset by new personal best.
The performance in the stage house was very positive even for novices Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze, now able to exceed 180 points with a lot of twist and triple quadruple toe loop in parallel in the second half of the disc.
Sixth place went to U.S. Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, authors of the new personal and very positive about triple twist and throw jumps, triple flip in particular.
Next, they placed the statunitesi Lindsay Davis / Rockne Brubaker, for the third consecutive free more than 100 points, and Japanese Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara, capable in the'' opportunity to revise the personal best and broke down the wall of the ninety points in the segment longer than the competition.
Overall, the average level of competition was high because for the first time in a stage of Grand Prix five couples have gone over 181 points, not to mention that they have fallen five personal records.
The couple qualified for the final, to be held in Fukuoka between 5 and December 8'' l have Volosozhar / Trankov (RUS), Savchenko / Szolkowy (GER), Pang / Tong (CHN), Duhamel / Radford (CAN), Moore -Towers/Moscovitch (CAN) and Peng / Cheng (CHN). The reserves will be Sui / Han (CHN), Berton / Hotarek (ITA) and Bazarova / Larionov (RUS).
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (GER) - SAVCHENKO Aliona / Robin SZOLKOWY 206.33 (1 | 1) 2) (RUS) - Vera Bazarova / Yuri LARIONOV 201.61 and (2 | 2) primacy personale3) (CAN) - Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan Moscovitch 188.73 (3 | 4) 4) (RUS) - Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov , 188.10 (6 | 3) primacy personale5) (RUS) - Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze 181.50 (4 | 5) primacy personale6) (USA) - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim 173.70 (5 | 6) primacy personale7) (USA) - Lindsay DAVIS / Rockne BRUBAKER 151.90 (7 | 7) 8) (JPN) - Narumi TAKAHASHI / Ryuichi Kihara 141.41 (8 | 8) personal record
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Vera BAZAROVA/ Yuri LARIONOV - Rostelecom Cup 2013 - free program
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