Figure skating - Senior National Championships 2014/2015
Francesco A. Armillotta
The first day of the Italian National Championships absolute, hosted by the Palavela in Turin, has revived excellent levels of competitiveness & agrave; Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, top athletes of the blue team. Overall, just the dancing competition you & egrave; revealed thick technical pi & ugrave; prized. In general, there have been surprises.
Saturday 20 December 2014 15 minutes reading time
SECTOR FEMALE
The segment of the race & egrave; was dominated by the seventeen year old Jade Russian (55.01), which is & egrave; afforded the luxury of getting the best technical score and assessment pi & ugrave; high on the sum of the components of the program. The hostess & egrave; was flawless, as usual, on spins, steps and double axel, placed in the second half & agrave; program, managing to limit the damage on the combination triple Rittberger / double toe loop and triple salchow preceded by step.
In second place, it & egrave; attested Roberto Rodeghiero (51.35), which, for the & rsquo; occasion, changed the layout of the program, and reversing combination jump preceded by step. The choice of favored Eve has to & ograve; paid dividends as the triple flip & egrave; complete with a step-out and the combination with two triple jumps & egrave; been replaced by triple toe loop / double toe loop. To complicate the situation for the twenty-four-Asiago, came the lost points because of a landing not perfect double axel and a level not excelled in the flying sit.
The provisional podium & egrave; completed by seventeen Micol Cristini (49.73), author of the best double axel of the race, run in the second part of the program cos & Igrave; as the triple salchow, not landed perfectly. On the positive side, should be highlighted also the combination triple toe loop / double toe loop. In any case, on the scoreboard weighed levels lost on top and inverted flying sit.
Afterwards, you & egrave; Chiara placed Cauldron (46,52), athlete pi & ugrave; young in the race. Fifteen school Agor & agrave; & Egrave; was l & rsquo; only to complete a triple lutz and, compared to the past, showed significant improvements on the elements of spinning top, normally not the specialty & agrave; of the house. Just regret l & rsquo; landing problematic double axel, which cost between around a point plentiful.
Surprisingly, a timely Ilaria Nogaro (46.02) took fifth place ahead of the veteran import Sara Falotico & nbsp; (44,82) and Carol Bressanutti (43,50).
L & rsquo; waiting junior champion in charge Maria Guia Tagliapietra (43,27) is & egrave; had to settle dell & rsquo; eighth penalized by falling on a triple lutz and double axel rotated under degraded. The sixteen Courmayeur & egrave; was for & ograve; l & rsquo; only athlete in the race to complete a combination with two triple jumps (triple toe loop / triple toe loop). Things did not go better at the same age and companion of colors Sara Casella (42,40), fall on the triple lutz and triple salchow that would open the combination, but one of the few to get the level pi & ugrave; high available on each element of spinning top.
MALE SECTOR
Ivan Righini (75.32) has laid the foundation for winning the second consecutive national title with imposing margin in the short program. L & rsquo; pupil of Michael Huth, filed a bad fall on the triple axel attempt, you & egrave; resumed the great performing better all the remaining elements among which the triple flip and the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, placed in the second half & agrave; of music. Moreover, combination and jump preceded by the step has been completed with a lot of raised arms. A margin up included a deduction of one point for early departure, which, clearly, has not affected in any way on & rsquo; progress of the race.
The first round of the challenge for the second place winner was seen leaving Carlo Vittorio Palermo (59.03), who ruled narrowly Matthew Rizzo (58,46). The eighteen year old trained by Lorenzo Magri skated for the & rsquo; occasion the best short program of the season opening in completing a combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop. The main regret & egrave; tied to the points left on the plate because of the lost levels on the elements of spinning, usually the highlight of the house. The sixteen year stationed in Sesto San Giovanni has, however, a well-executed combination triple flip / double toe loop, followed by a triple lutz preceded by step, but he paid the price because of the missing positions on the top combined, performed in trouble. On balance, Palermo has gained ground on the technical side, but Rizzo has almost closed the gap thanks to the assessments pi & ugrave; high on the components of the program.
A follow you & egrave; placed the eighteen Mattia Della Torre (55,60), at ease on the elements of the jump, including a valuable combination triple salchow / triple toe loop, but he also penalized because of some heartache too on top of the combined final.
L & rsquo; former rotellista Dario Betti (48,72), the second race after a long break due to injury, finished the short program in fifth place, ahead of the eighteen year old George Settembrini (48,62), who lost valuable points for failure l & rsquo; appointment with the triple jump preceded by step and for the attempted triple axel not been successful.
PAIRS OF ARTISTIC
Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek (58.44) have inflicted more than a point behind Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise (57.18) taking advantage of the fall of decisive Della Monica on triple salchow in parallel. The couple stationed at the Forum in Milan was still the best on the technical side, thanks in particular to the good performance of the triple twist, but has paid duty on four of the five items of the components of the program. & Nbsp; & nbsp; Marchei / Hotarek, for their part, have proved even jumping launched, limiting damage to the twist, deliberately run double.
Satisfaction for young Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini (45,66), which, despite a degree of execution is not positive, took home triple twist, triple toe loop in parallel and triple salchow launched, confirming the progress highlighted in the latest releases International.
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DANCE
Back in the race with a bang for the three-time national champions Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (76.55), which came close to perfection in the short-dance closing segment of the race with nearly a ten-point margin over expected Charl & egrave; it Guignard / Marco Fabbri (66,95).
For l & rsquo; occasion, the defending world title have appeared more & ugrave; rapid and sliding with respect to the Cup of China and have made some interesting change, starting from & rsquo; dress Cappellini went from white to black. L & rsquo; impression, especially in light of the level of excellence achieved, & egrave; that the technical panel has appreciated the performance, speech also valid for the judges both in terms of the degree to which the program components. That remains now is to wait for the first appuntamente International to confirm the possibility & agrave; to settle over those seventy points previously unattained in the competitions of the first level.
Guignard / Fabbri, veterans from the splendor of the Golden Spin, have mostly lost ground on the degree of realization of the elements and, unlike the leaders of the race, were not able to obtain the level four on mandatory sequence of paso-doble.
There have been surprises as regards the other positions. Misato Komatsuabara and Andrea Fabbri (59.75), gi & agrave; capable of inducing a & rsquo; & agrave important solidity; technique in international competitions held so far, have won the third place with a margin of more than six lengths ahead of the absolute beginners Ekaterina Riazanova / Andrea Vaturi (53,40). Students of Barbara Fusar Poli took their satisfaction to reach the level pi & ugrave; the upper hand on the first sequence paso-doble and performed twizzle of exemplary precision and quality & agrave ;.
Regarding Riazanova / Vaturi, the first exit non & egrave; was negative, but the disuse races has definitely had its weight making any judgment more complicated & ugrave; depth.
Fifth place & egrave; went to the young Sofia Sforza and Leo Luca Sforza (52,60), still eligible for junior competitions, who ruled the club mates Federica Bernardi / Saverio Giacomelli (52,15), penalized by a bloody passage vacuum on twizzle.
Overall, the top six couples classified have been shown to be able to consider good levels of competitiveness & agrave; reflecting the health of the movement.
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SYNCHRONIZED
Hot Shivers (54.41), defending champions, they are easily imposed in the short program, mortgaging what should be the twenty-first consecutive win in the National Championships. In compliance with the prediction of the eve, in second position have placed the Shining Blades (30,31), while the Flying Angels (19.00) finished in third place.
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