Figure Skating - World Junior Championships 2015
As of tomorrow morning, the & ldquo; Tondiraba Ice Arena & rdquo; Tallinn will host & agrave; the fortieth edition of the World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
Tuesday 3 March 2015 9 minutes reading time
Unless withdrawals last minute, 163 skaters representing 42 countries and five continents well will compete between Wednesday & Igrave; and Saturday in the capital of Estonia, previously never home of & rsquo; event.
Among the holders of the securities, are enrolled only Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, pair of Chinese artistic & nbsp; committed in the course of the season in the major category. The finalists of the Grand Prix as well as & eacute; Winners of & rsquo; last edition of the Universiade appear net favored to win by a wide margin since start of competition both on the technical and on the various components of the program. The only alternatives are represented by the Canadian Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, winners of the Junior Grand Prix Final, and the Russians Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin. In absentia of the expected Russian junior national champions Vigalova / Zakroev, forced to forfeit a few days ago, will not be, in fact, are other couples able to aspire to the podium with credentials. The colors will be defended by Italian rookies White Manacorda and Niccolo Macii, left for s & rsquo; Estonia with l & rsquo; aim to finish the race in the top ten.
The competition level pi & ugrave; high announcing the male that includes the starting athletes can aspire to the top ten in the World absolute. In particular, the highlight of the race & egrave; represented by the challenge between the seventeen year old Chinese Boyang Jin, one of the best & ldquo; quadruplisti & rdquo; the world, the seventeen year old Japanese Shoma Uno, fresh from victory in the final of the Junior Grand Prix, and the Russian Adian Pitkeev, medal & rsquo; silver in the last edition and seasonal debut in the junior category. A step pi & ugrave; place themselves under the fifteen US Nathan Chen, looking for redemption after a dull, the & nbsp; fourteen Japanese Sota Yamamoto, the main revelation of the last months, and almost sixteen year old Russian Alexander Petrov, recently ruler of the Russian national junior championships. For a place in the top ten not start beaten the fifteen Canadian Roman Sadovsky, the eighteen year old Korean Seo Jin Kim, the eighteen year old Russian Alexander Samarin and the eighteen year old Chinese Zhang He. For l & rsquo; Italian sar & agrave; the game the sixteen year stationed in Sesto San Giovanni Matteo Rizzo, called to improve the result of & rsquo; past year and can aspire to the top twenty positions.
In dance, the Russians Anna Yanovskaya / Sergei Mozgov, unbeaten so far in the season, seem on their way to the conquest of that title failure surprise twelve months ago. & Nbsp; For the rest, sar & agrave; very interesting comparison between those who have so far competed in the junior category and who has gi & agrave; made appearances in the major category. In this regard, on the one hand you put the Russians Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko, Americans Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter, Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons and Canadian Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen, Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang, from & rsquo; else instead , Italian-Hungarian Carolina Moscheni / Adam Lukacs, Ukrainians Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin and Poles Natalia Kaliszek / Maksim Spodirev, couples who have had a positive experience in the European Championships. The renowned Italian school avr & agrave; at the starting Sofia Sforza / Leo Luca Sforza, who will try to bring together the top ten after mostly & ugrave; competed at the senior level in recent months.
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In the women, the fourteen year old Japanese Wakaba Higuchi and fifteen US Karen Chen are calls to question the supremacy of Russian, emerged strongly in the course of the last four seasons characterized by as many titles won and monopolized the podium in the races of Milan and Sofia. Not sar & agrave; for & ograve; simple counter the fifteen Evgenia Medvedeva, favorite of the eve, and the same age Serafima Sakhanovich, instead d & rsquo; honor in the previous edition right at his training partner. Also, will not go & agrave; underestimated the third Russian Maria Sotskova, fourteen year old winner of the final of the Junior Grand Prix of 2013, but then slowed by a few crashes too. Among others, the sixteen year old Japanese Yuka Nagai and fifteen Kazakh Elizabet Tursynbaeva appiono the only ones able to join the fight for the top five, while the sixteen American Tyler Pierce, the fifteen Korean Da Bin Choi and fourteen Japanese Kaori Sakamoto pose just behind. The Slovak Nicole Rajicova, the Latvian Diana Nikitina, l & rsquo; Hungarian Ivett Toth, the German Lutricia Bock, the Finnish Jenni Saarinen and l & rsquo; Armenian Anastasia Galustyan will try to get among the top ten, but l & rsquo; objective appears tutt & rsquo; nothing but trivial catch up. The sixteen year old blue Guia Maria Tagliapietra, the second appearance in the World Championships junior, appears in the possession of the potential to close the race in the top twenty positions. & Nbsp;
CALENDAR (Italian time)
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WEDNESDAY & Igrave; 4 9:30 & ndash; women's short program (43 members) 17:45 & ndash; pairs short program of artistic (13 subscribers)
THURSDAY & Igrave; 512: 45 & ndash; Short Dance (27 subscribers) 18:00 & ndash; free program pairs of artistic
FRIDAY & Igrave; 609: 45 & ndash; men's short program (40 members) 17:00 & ndash; program Women's Free
Saturday 712: 30 & ndash; free dance 17:00 & ndash; men's free program
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