Figure skating - Grand Prix Final 2014/2015
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Thirteen years after the success of Dube / Davison in Kitchener in Ontario, a Canadian couple of artistic & egrave; returned to triumph in the final of the Grand Prix.
Saturday 13 December 2014 6 minutes reading time
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, now long-time veterans, have managed to raise the level of & rsquo; dipstick when far more & ugrave; of the season and dominated from one end & rsquo; another race hosted by CCIB in Barcelona, ​​defending the & rsquo; imbattibilit & agrave; seasonal on each race program which took part.
Nell & rsquo; occasion, students of Richard Gauthier, creator and mentor of the association, have crumbled the previous personal best progressing at once ten points and becoming the third pair in history to break the barrier of two hundred and twenty points, previously've crossed by only Volosozhar / Trankov and Savchenko / Szolkowy.
After you set the measurement in the short program, Duhamel / Radford started uphill segment pi & ugrave; long race because of a landing of the triple lutz with hand ground by Duhamel, but l & Igrave; forwards have flirted perfection performing impeccably each element, among which, in particular, the best triple twist of his career, the quadruple salchow launched, the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double toe loop and triple lutz launched.
The Russians Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, favorites Eve, nothing they could do against the excessive power technician rivals storing l & rsquo; yet another second place of a calendar year in 2014 that saw them instead d & rsquo; honor including at European, Olympic and world. Students Nina Mozer were still pushed over the primacy seasonal and skated two programs with subtle barbs. L & rsquo; main error concerned the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double toe loop, complemented by Stolbova with a simple toe loop in the middle.
In light of today's result, not & egrave; except that & rsquo; current peak torque of the Russian movement can reason on & rsquo; hypothesis of raising the technical rate of the free program.
The fight for the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium, which involved three Chinese couples, saw out winners Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, not gone to & ograve; Over fifth score in the segment of the race today. & Nbsp; The three times world champions juniors, authors of a quadruple twist and throw jumps quality & agrave ;, have again left on the plate level on the reverse period and, above all, they paid a short circuit of Sui on what would have been a open combination of a triple toe loop, but become a kind of single toe loop.
After that, you are placed Peng Cheng / Hao Zhang, who skated the best free program of the season opened with a sumptuous quadruple twist and soiled only by a completed single axel instead of & eacute; Double from Cheng.
In fifth place, with the satisfaction of having improved the personal record, came the junior world champions in office Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, who preceded veterans Russians Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov, & nbsp; riscattatisi, after the disastrous short-program, with a fine free program during which they were able to complete the quadruple salchow launched minimizing smudges.
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FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CAN) - Meagan DUHAMEL / RADFORD Eric & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 220.72 (1 | 1) NR, SR2) (RUS) - Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 213.72 (2 | 2) SB3) (CHN) - Wenjing ON / HAN Cong & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 194.31 (3 | 5) 4) (CHN) - PENG Cheng / Hao ZHANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 191.79 (5 | 3) SB5) (CHN) - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 187.79 (4 | 6) PB6) (RUS) - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 184.54 (6 | 4)
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; season best / record seasonal PB & ndash; personal best / record personaleNR - national record / national record
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