Figure skating - J.G.p. Bratislava 2015
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If good day starts in the morning, the new season of figure skating promises to be full of interesting ideas. The Ondrej Nepela Ice Arena in Bratislava, where the first leg of the Junior Grand Prix, & egrave; was, in fact, the scene of a women's short program that has spared emotions and high performance technical depth.
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In respect of the predictions of the vigil, success & egrave; He went to fourteen Russian Polina Tsurskaya, to debut in top-level competitions. L & rsquo; student of Ethers Tutberidze, but accompanied by the & rsquo; occasion by Sergei Dudakov, you & egrave; proved flawless elements jump among them a sumptuous combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, placed, unlike the recent past, at the opening of the program instead of & eacute; in the second half & agrave ;. For the rest, each element & egrave; It was performed without any heartache, as evidenced by the highest level available reached on steps and spins. Tsurskaya, took to the track to the tune of & rsquo; Adagio by Albinoni interpreted by violinist Ikuko Kawai, has created a vacuum on each item of the program components and & egrave; primarily distinguished by the richness of transitional passages, did not cos & Igrave; habitual in the junior category.
Never in the history of the discipline, a skater at the first exit absolute in one stage of the Junior Grand Prix was able to obtain a score pi & ugrave; high native of Omsk, scollinata immediately share over sixty. Moreover, in the past, the wall of sixty points to the debut had been broken only by heavyweights like Sotnikova (61.32), Radionova (61,15), Proklova (60.38), Lipnitskaia (60.37) and Gold ( 60,18).
In qualifying race in Bratislava, it & egrave; He joined the prestigious US-based company also Vivian The last December able to impose itself in a competition hosted junior right from the Slovak capital. Fifteen Texan ended the segment of the race instead of & rsquo; honor, touching portion 61,45 and confirming good familiarity with triple lutz, run in conjunction with the triple toe loop, and elements of spinning top, especially the upside, depending on quality & agrave; only one presented by companion training Emily Chan, now fifth.
However, the splendor stored today, a litmus test for the arriver & agrave; during the free program, during which will have & agrave; demonstrate that they have acquired the mastery on triple jumps taken by the wire (salchow and Rittberger), always lacking in the past.
The provisional podium & egrave; completed from & rsquo; waiting Never Japanese Mihara, finally able to break the barrier of sixty lengths. For fifteen Kobe they are & ograve; calls coming from the technical panel in sharp contrast with previous seasons. In fact, the triple flip, regular strength, has raised some perplexity & agrave; to the point of receiving a report of suspicious wire, while the triple lutz, not the specialty & agrave; the house, & egrave; It was judged to be perfectly executed.
Next, with more than seven points behind the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium, you & egrave; He placed the thirteen Russian Valeria Mikhailova, companion club Tsursakaya, ahead by nearly four lengths the eighteen year old American Emily Chan, best of the lot of steps and spins.
The ranks of the disappointed of the day, stand out the names of the veteran Japanese Rin Nitaya, only sixth because of two bloody steps to empty out triple flip and a double axel, and thirteen Korean, So Hyun An, not gone beyond the tenth place by of a double dip on the triple lutz, which was to open the combination with the triple toe loop and triple flip, however, to limit the rotation and not taken from an inside edge.
From Bratislava came encouraging news for the Italian movement. The fresh fourteen Lucrezia Gennaro, first athlete to have performed, clocked the sixth overall technical score, which enabled it to close the first part of the race in a & rsquo; excellent ninth. As usual, the & rsquo; student of Ludmila Mladenova you & egrave; demonstrated at ease on the triple Rittberger, completed in combination with a double toe loop, and on the double axel. The good & egrave; It was for & ograve; represented by the elements of spinning, all worthy of the level pi & ugrave; the upper hand, and especially since triple flip, landed on two feet, but very close to being completed in the best way.
L & rsquo; anticipated free program is disputer & agrave; tomorrow beginning at 16:30. The Italian rider & open his agrave; the fourth as well & eacute; penultimate downhill on the ice. L & rsquo; & agrave will last to skate; Russia's Polina Tsurskaya.
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FEMALE SHORT PROGRAM RANKING
01) RUS - Polina TSURSKAYA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 66.08 (39.49 | 26.59) [1 & deg; year]
02) USA - Vivian LE & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 61.45 (36.82 | 24.63) [2 & deg; year]
03) JPN - & nbsp; Never MIHARA60.81 (36.01 | 24.80) [3 & deg; year]
04) RUS - Valeriya Mikhailova & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 53.44 (31.06 | 22:38) [1 & deg; year]
05) USA - Emily CHAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 49.60 (26.93 | 24.67) - 2.00 [5 & deg; year]
06) JPN - Rin Nitaya & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 47.19 (24.76 | 22:43) [5 & deg; year]
07) UKR - Kim CHEREMSKY & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 45.53 (25.46 | 20:07) [1 & deg; year]
08) KOR - Soo Hee CHO & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 43.63 (23.75 | 19.88) [3 & deg; year]
09) ITA - Lucrezia GENNARO & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 43.30 (25.50 | 17.80) [1 & deg; year]
10) KOR - So Hyun AN40.29 (20:54 | 21.75) -2.00 [1 & deg; year]
11) ON - Shaline Rüegger & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 40.06 (22:20 | 17.86) [3 & deg; year]
12) HUN - Fruzsina Medgyesi & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 38.46 (23.12 | 16:34) -1.00 [4 & deg; year]
13) GER - & nbsp; Nicole SCHOTT38.39 (22:50 | 18.89) -3.00 [6 & deg; year] & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
14) LAT - Aleksandra Butko & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 38.26 (23.05 | 15:21) [3 & deg; year]
15) FRA - Marina POPOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 38.05 (21:16 | 17.89) - 1:00 [2 & deg; year]
16) SVK - Alexandra Hagarova & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 37.80 (22:25 | 15:55) [3 & deg; year]
17) LTU - Elzbieta KROPA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 37.43 (21.09 | 16:34) [4 & deg; year]
18) SIN - Shuran YU36.78 (20:15 | 16.63) [2 & deg; year]
19) CZE - Jana Coufalová & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 35.65 (19:23 | 16:42) [6 & deg; year]
20) SVK - Nina LETENAYOVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 34.83 (19:15 | 16.68) -1.00 [3 & deg; year]
21) ROU - Amanda STAN33.25 (17:45 | 15.80) [2 & deg; year]
22) TPE - Emma JANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 31.90 (16:58 | 15:32) [4 & deg; year]
23) MDA - Anna Gordienko & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 30.86 (15.83 | 15:03) [1 & deg; year]
24) KAZ - Zhansaya ADYKHANOVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 29.85 (15.93 | 13.92) [3 & deg; year]
25) AUT - Natalie KLOTZ & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 29.55 (15.67 | 13.88) [6 & deg; year]
26) NOR - Cindy Yu XIA28.82 (14:31 | 14:51) [4 & deg; year] & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
27) GBR - Kristen SPOURS28.13 (14.96 | 14:17) -1.00 [3 & deg; year]
28) KGZ - Malika SHARSHENBAEVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 26.73 (12.80 | 13.93) [3 & deg; year]
29) UZB - Shokhsanam TOKHIROVA & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 21:15 (11:07 | 11:08) -1.00 [2 & deg; year]
30) PHI - Louwee Shibata & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; 18:40 (15.08 | 11:25) -1.00 [4 & deg; year]
Key [1 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 2001 & ndash; June 30, 2002 [2 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 2000 & ndash; June 30, 2001 [3 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 1999 & ndash; 30 June 2000 [4 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 1998 & ndash; June 30, 1999 [5 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 1997 & ndash; June 30, 1998 [6 & deg; year] & ndash; July 1, 1996 & ndash; June 30, 1997
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