Figure Skating - Skate America 2014
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The third and final day of Skate America, the opening stage of the twentieth edition of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating, we & egrave; opened with the free program reserved for couples of art.
Sunday 26 October 2014 8 minutes reading time
The & ldquo; Sears Centre & rdquo; Hoffman Estates & egrave; was the scene of the triumph of the Russian veterans Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov returned to success in the circuit in nearly two years away from & rsquo; s last statement, obtained in Troph & egrave; and the Eric Bompard 2012.
In & rsquo; occasion, the students of Tamara Moskvina have become the fourth pair of art in history to prevail in every qualifying round of the Grand Prix. Previously, they had crowned the & rsquo; Chinese company Shen / Zhao and Zhang / Zhang and Germans Savchenko / Szolkowy. However, unlike other associations, the Japanese-Russian pair has won only one success for each stage. The numbers assume, for ograve ;, & quite another dimension when you consider that in fourteen participation in events qualifying for the Grand Prix were obtained thirteen podiums.
Kavaguti / Smirnov skated to the tune of & ldquo; Manfred Symphony & rdquo; Petr I. Tchaikovsky, music chosen for the free program last season, never skated in the race because of the serious injury suffered tendon d & rsquo; s Achilles by Alexander Smirnov in October. The Russian veterans, although by more & ugrave; parts came the & rsquo; s invitation to hang shoes on the nail, have, however, decided to go in & rsquo; activities & agrave; competitive and the results of & rsquo; s opening words of the season gave their reason as, in addition to the clear victory at Skate America, formerly & egrave; came a convincing success in the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdforf, flagship event of the & rsquo; ISU Challenger Series.
Archived comfortable success in the short program yesterday, the couple based in St. Petersburg & egrave; confirmed at the top in the segment pi & ugrave; long race running perfectly almost all the evidence presented, among which a magnificent quadruple salchow launched and the sequence of two triple toe loop, not to mention the refinement on the inputs and outputs of the lifts. L & rsquo; only irrelevant deburring & egrave; was the loss of unison on top in parallel. In addition, Kavaguti / Smirnov, after three and a half years, are again "scollinati" above the threshold of 200 points snatching the record seasonal Canadians Duhamel / Radford.
The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; been conquered, to surprise, by the Americans Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier, who crumbled personal best able to improve by sixteen points. If you look at the results of the & rsquo; last month, the & rsquo; explosion could be announced but now with these proportions. Students of John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana, now also supported by Ingo Steuer, opened the program with a free triple twist worthy of the best Russian school, proposed lifts and throw jumps clean and above all they have limited the damage to a minimum on the jumps in parallel . In essence, the former junior world champions have been shown to be in possession of a "complete package" ready to climb positions in the international ranking.
The Chinese Cheng Peng / Zhang Hao have had to settle for third place, thanks to the bad day of Peng on the jumps in parallel, both ended with a fall to rotation missing. For the rest, students Hongbo Zhao stood out for the & rsquo; s great and quadruple twist to the & rsquo; width of triple jumps launched today by presenting a program pi & ugrave; elaborate and more & ugrave; full of passages of transition than in the past.
Next, penalized by the steps to empty the jumps in parallel and by a fall on the triple Rittberger launched, have placed the expected US Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim, which preceded the advanced training partners Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage, authors of the best race of his career with an increase of sixteen lengths than in the past.
The sixth & egrave; went to Canadians Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps, who had much the better of the German Annabelle Proelss / Ruben Blommaert and the Austrian Miariam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer.
STANDINGS FINALE1) (RUS) - Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 209.16 (1 | 1) SB, SR2) (USA) - Haven Denney / Brandon FRAZIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 183.84 (3 | 2) PB3) (CHN) & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; - PENG Cheng / Zhang Hao & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 182.43 (2 | 3) SB4) (USA) - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 168.62 (4 | 4) 5) (USA) - Madeline AARON / Max SETTLAGE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 160.04 (5 | 5) SB6) (CAN) - Vanessa GRENIER / Maxime DESCHAMPS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 143.59 (6 | 6) 7) (GER) - Annabelle PR & Öland, LSS / Ruben BLOMMAERT & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 136.35 (7 | 8) SB8) (AUT) - Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 135.83 (8 | 7) SB
Legend: SR - season record / record seasonal assolutoSB & ndash; Best season / season record PB & ndash; personal best / personal best
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