Figure skating - J.G.p. Zagreb 2015
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Those expecting a men's final of the Junior Grand Prix with athletes of six different nations & egrave; He remained hopelessly disappointed. The seventh and last act of qualifying, hosted by the "Dom Sportova" Zagreb, has not, in fact, the Chinese smile He Zhang, who & egrave; had to settle for fourth place and said goodbye to the prize trip in Spain.
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Fortunately, the eighteen year old Changchun potr & agrave; live with serenity & agrave; the verdict of the field because even with the best performance of his career would not arrive the success necessary.
The Croatia Cup lived on combating dall''elevato technically between the Canadian Nicolas Nadeau, who won the short program yesterday, and Russian Alexander Samarin, so far mainly known for its inconsistency in spite of an undeniable talent.
In the end, thanks to the performance far better career, the 'has checked the seventeen year old Muscovite, who, on the notes of the soundtrack of the movie "Pearl Harbor", & egrave; He was able to complete a quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps, including two axel and two lutz, not forgetting steps and spins performed better and all''unisono by highest level available. Samarin rimpianger & agrave; Long the disastrous free program Bratislava, which effectively sealed his elimination from the final. However, in virt & ugrave; dell''exploit of Zagreb, complete with a second performance all-time Russian junior races first level (after 225.94 obtained from Aliev in Linz), will & agrave; the second reserve.
At eighteen Canadian Nicolas Nadeau & egrave not ;, however, was enough to retouch the personal best by nearly forty points to win the first success in the circuit. They have proved fatal thirty-nine cents missing, that for & ograve; They do not in any way affected the scope of the provision. The 'student Yvan Desjardins well completed two double axel sequence and seven triple jumps, including two axel, but he missed the' appointment with the quadruple toe loop, open in flight and completed only twice. Technical aspect aside, Nadeau has proven to be one of the best interpreters of the junior circuit and nell''occasione did really empty on each item of the program components, reaching far beyond the seven media.
Third place went & egrave; placed the fifteen-born American Japanese Tomoki Hiwatashi, name to be reckoned with for the next season, while the Chinese He Zhang, chief disappointed by the day, finished in fourth place ahead of the fourteen Japanese Koshiro Shimada, again with impeccable author of a free two double axel and seven triple jumps, but at work, as you & egrave; seen in Chu-Shihoku-Kyushu Regional Championship in recent days, to add to the technical background also the triple axel now missing.
The nineteen year old Italian Mattia Della Torre has got a pi & ugrave; that discreet eleventh managing to complerare a double axel and five triple jumps in the free program. Moreover, the 'student Debora Savaris remodeled in Zagreb all primates officials.
The Russian victories in the circuit have become thirty-five, including three statements in the final (Kovtun, Shubin, Timchenko), and Samarin & egrave; He became the sixteenth Russian skater to establish themselves in a qualifying round.
QUALIFIED FOR THE FINAL
30 points [15 | 15] (473.13) & ndash; [USA] CHEN Nathan 30 points [15 | 15] (435.86) & ndash; [RUS] ALIEV Dmitri26 points [11 | 15] (436.10) & ndash; [JPN] YAMAMOTO Sota 26 points [15 | 11] (402.10) & ndash; [CAN] Roman Sadovsky 26 points [13 | 13] (434.36) & ndash; [ISR] SAMOHIN Daniel 26 points [13 | 13] (412.81) & ndash; [USA] ZHOU Vincent
Sostituti26 points [13 | 13] (412.43) - [LAT] VASILJEVS Deniss24 points [09 | 15] (410.09) - [RUS] Samarin Alexander20 points [07 | 13] (408.42) - [CAN] NADEAU NicolasCLASSIFICA STAGE OF ZAGREB
1) RUS - Alexander Samarin & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 223.84 (2 | 1) 2) CAN - Nicolas NADEAU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 223.46 (1 | 2) 3) USA - Tomoki Hiwatashi & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 197.62 (4 | 3) 4) CHN - He ZHANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 187.32 (3 | 5) 5) JPN - Koshiro Shimada & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 181.07 (8 | 4) 6) JPN - Daichi MIYATA & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 178.32 (5 | 6) 7) USA - Tony LU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 169.46 (7 | 7) 8) KOR - It Hyeong Lee & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 166.65 (6 | 8) 9) CZE - Petr KOTLARIK & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 158.31 (10 | 9) 10) SWE - Illya Solomin & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 155.64 (9 | 10) 11) ITA - Mattia FROM TORRE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 141.30 (12 | 11) 12) AUS - James MIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 131.48 (14 | 13) 13) GBR - Josh BROWN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 129.55 (11 | 18) 14) TPE - Micah TANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 127.75 (21 | 12) 15) MAS - Kai Xiang CHEW & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 126.44 (13 | 15) 16) GEO - Armen Agaian & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 122.09 (18 | 14) 17) LAT - & nbsp; Glebs BASINS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 117.86 (16 | 17) 18) NZL - Michael DURHAM & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 117.67 (15 | 20) 19) HUN - Alexander Borovoy & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 115.88 (17 | 19) 20) ISR - Mark GORODNITSKY & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 111.99 (23 | 16) 21) POL - Ryszard Gürtler & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 108.57 (22 | 21) 22) TUR - Osman AKG & uuml; N & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 104.67 (20 | 22) 23) SVK - Jakub Kršňák & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 104.62 (19 | 23) 24) ROU - Valentin COSTACHE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 66.81 (24 | 24)
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