Figure skating. Rostelecom Cup 2013
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Maxim Kovtun has failed to put an end to the long run without a win for Russia in the men's Grand Prix races, now grown to more than four years.
Saturday 23 November 2013 5 minutes reading time
The final victory in the eighteenth edition of the Rostelecom Cup is, in fact, went to the Japanese Tatsuki Machida, who won by a wide margin of Skate America.
The twenty-three stationed in Osaka was right competitive skating two programs of enormous strength, especially the free where he completed two quadruple toe loop and seven triples, including two axel. Therefore, despite a precarious state of health,'' the student Anthony Liu manenuto'' s unbeaten season and earned his third victory in his career in the circuit.
Maxim Kovtun, however, after having set a new European record in the short program, he caught a bad day on the quadruple salchow, which infleunzato his performance in a negative way in the free. On balance, the landlord has completed a quadruple toe loop and three triple jumps, including a step-out to axel done in sequence. However, in spite of a test well away from'' excellence, has grown by more than four points in the sum of the components of the program. The eighteen year stationed in Moscow was thus qualified for the final of Fukuoka, where'' will be the only European in the race.
The podium was completed by Spaniard Javier Fernandez, a distant relative of the athlete'' admired last season. In particular, the free program today was full of errors on items in the past solid as the quadruple Salchow, but the problems concerned more or less every item jumps.
The fourth place is deservedly went to veteran Russian Konstantin Menshov, who has had much the better of the American Richard Dornbush, moved up from seventh to fifth position thanks to the second performance in the free program. Next, they placed the'' former Russian star Artur Gachinski, appeared overly submissive on the ice, the German Peter Liebers, also now abandoned by the triple axel, and the Uzbek'' Misha Ge, only to have received a standing ovation from the audience because of its quality of genuine showman.
I qualified for the final, held in Fukuoka between 5 and l'' Dec. 8, are Patrick Chan (JPN), Tatsuki Machida (JPN), Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN), Maxim Kovtun (JPN), Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) and Han Yan (CHN). The role of reserves in touch Nobunari Oda (JPN), Adam Rippon (USA) and Jason Brown (USA)
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (JPN) - Tatsuki MACHIDA 257.00 (2 | 1) 2) (RUS) - Maxim Kovtun 240.34 (1 | 4) 3) (SPA) - Javier FERNANDEZ 226.99 (3 | 5) 4) (RUS) - Konstantin Menshov 223.03 (4 | 3) 5) (USA) - Richard Dornbush 215.45 (7 | 2) 6) (RUS) - Artur GACHINSKI 211.49 (5 | 6) 7) (GER) - Peter LIEBERS 197.65 (6 | 7) 8) (UZB) - Misha GE 190.28 (8 | 8)
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