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For the eighth time in the history of the '"Oliwia Ice Arena" in Gdansk hosted the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating. The stage of qualification Polish, fourth of seven calendar, he smiled to Adian Pitkeev and Evgenia Medvedeva, young students Ethers Tutberidze that, dominating from end to end in their field, they conveniently gained access to the final in Fukuoka.
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Qualification for the final act also acquired the rulers of the test dance Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker, former winners of the stage in Mexico City. The U.S. couple coached by Pasquale Camerlengo, despite a move to empty on the set of twizzle the free dance, it was easily imposed in both segments of the competition with 144.84 tearing the season record to the Russians Yankovskaya / Mozgov, winners of the stage Košice of the past week.
It should be noted as compared to the previous races will be raised levels of the sequences of quickstep, a fact testified by the results of the couples who have occupied the top positions.
Pride of place, complete with a new personal record, went to advanced Ukrainians, school Zhulin, Nazarova / Nikitin (135.22), who ruled the Russians Loboda / Drozd (134,11), already in the third stage of Riga
The leitmotif of the men's race was the comparison between the two young Russians Adian Pitkeev and Alexander Petrov, able occasion to crush their personal records.
In the now eternal struggle between Moscow school and school of St. Petersburg, had much the better of the fifteen member of the Russian capital Pitkeev (213.89), author of a free program rips applause characterized by the execution of high quality tops that accompanied eight triple jumps. The runner Petrov (195,40), the expression of house Mishin younger than one year compared to the winner, showed a good grasp on the elements of jump, despite a fall on the combination of the short program, but paid duty on tops, all very educational, not to mention a much lower artistic maturity.
The podium was completed by He Zhang (186.89), sixteen year old Chinese with good lines and interprativa decent quality, but without the triple axel in junior category now also need to compete with the top of the class. Nevertheless, in the light of the place of honor conquered seven days ago in the proof of Kosice, the student Xin Zhang still maintains a small hope of reaching the final of Fukuoka.
In the women's competition, the Russian Evgenia Medvedeva repeated his success in Riga in late August by recording the new season record (179.96). The thirteen year old Muscovite, flawless on the elements of spinning, he dug a huge furrow between itself and the competition and had the merit of performing without apparent effort seven triple jumps in the free program, including the combination triple salchow / triple toe loop in the second half ; the disc.
It was, however, found to be highly uncertain, the fight for the remaining podium positions. At the end, the U.S. has checked the listed Angela Wang (152.36), which was however expressed well below its potential. The sixteen year old student of Christy Krall, filed a positive short when it chose not to perform the combination with two triple jumps, opened with a spectacular free combination triple lutz / triple toe loop / double toe loop, almost a rarity in the women's field. However, as has happened on other occasions in the past, then you are completely lost by collecting three falls (triple Rittberger, triple lutz and double axel).
The third place went to Canadian fifteen Gabrielle Daleman (148.29), penalized by a disastrous short when he put together two fall over on a triple Rittberger and an uncertain combination of open from triple lutz. The deputy national champion was, however, revived in the longer segment of the race in which, in spite of an obvious physical decline in the last minute, managed to complete six triples, including two lutz which remain the main dish dellla home. Behind the fifteen of Toronto has placed the Japanese Miyabi Oba (146.86), author of the second free after being betrayed by falls in the short program on the combination triple salchow / triple toe loop and triple Rittberger, always points strength of his skating.
Big disappointment, finally, Mariah Bell (128.11), fresh from the podium in the stage of Mexico City, but on this occasion appeared out of phase from the first jump of the short program. The deputy U.S. junior champion, complicit in steps to empty repetition of both segments of the race, has not gone beyond the seventh losing any possibility of access to the final.
In the next week, the circuit will move to Minsk in Belarus, where they will return to tread the ice even couples artistic.
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