Figure skating - Junior W.CH.2013, Milan
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Thanks to his second score in the free program the American couple Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier win the gold in the artistic couple of 38esimi Junior World Championships Figure Skating 2013 in the course of performing at the Ice Stadium Agora of Milan.
Thursday 28 February 2013 7 minutes reading time
Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier are the new junior world champions in 2013 with the two segments of the race very positive closed always in the first positions. Thanks to a free, skated to the music of Rota's La Strada, by 103.22 points (52.20 and 50.52 in the technical components), according to the day, the result of a triple twist of exquisite workmanship, a good triple Rittberger launched and a good double Axel executed in parallel. The only inaccuracy of a good program launched triple Salchow where a landing was not clean. Have excellent lifting group 5:03 well evaluated by the panel and positioned in the second part of the program. The paired coached by Silvia Fontana and John Zimmerman was 155.83 points and staff greatly improved.
In second place Canadians Margaret Purdy and Michael Marinaro with 154.70, a new personal record, with the third free defended the best position acquired in short. Their program has not been free of errors, particularly on where it is launched on the triple twist on the triple Rittberger that the landing was not the best. Small inaccuracy also on the parallel combination triple toe loop / double toe loop where she arrived on two feet on the triple.
Rounding out the podium waiting for the Russian pair Lina Fedorova and Maxim Miroshkin, big favorites that have compromised on the eve of the race in the short program, but the authors of a good recovery thanks to the best free day and rose again from the seventh position. Great taking the Triple Twist, good jumps in parallel and without error thrown. Have excellent lifts performed in the second part of the disc, as the two spinners for titali 105.14 and 154.57 points in the segment totals.
So a few points between the top three couples in a final postponed for more than 90 minutes faster than the original program for a problem with the ice caused by the malfunction of the Zamboni.
The Chinese pair Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin, vice-world champions outgoing and the first after the short, fell back to fourth place due to a free full of errors. The duo has performed only the fifth Asian free due to a double Axel, the second sequence (2A +2 A) under rotated triple toe loop to her and degraded. Finally Xiaoyu Yu is then fall stumbling over the steps between the two lifts.
Julia Sforza Luca Foresti and Leo have maintained the thirteenth position by gaining 113.48 points, a new personal best improved by about 8 points. The duo Bergamo, younger couple in the race with six potential seasons in the category, has paid the price because of two falls of Julia, launched on the triple Salchow and double Axel in parallel. The two boys, however, have for the first time introduced two triples launched in the free program and performing the lifting of good invoice with the assessed level 4 from the panel.
Here are the final standings:
FPL.
Name
Points
SP
FS
1
Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER
USA
155.83
3
2
2
Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO
CAN
154.70
2
3
3
Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin
RUS
154.57
7
1
4
Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN
CHN
151.47
1
5
5
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir MOROZOV
RUS
148.74
4
6
6
Brittany Jones / Ian Beharry
CAN
147.97
5
7
7
Annabelle Prölss / Ruben BLOMMAERT
GER
147.83
6
4
8
Kamilla GAINETDINOVA / Ivan BICH
RUS
135.61
10
8
9
Jessica Calalang / Zack SIDHU
USA
133.01
8
9
10
Britney Simpson / Matthew BLACKMER
USA
121.51
9
11
11
Hayleigh BELL / Alistair SYLVESTER
CAN
120.75
14
10
12
Meiyi LI / Bo JIANG
CHN
116.92
12
12
13
Giulia FORESTI / Leo Luca Sforza
ITA
113.48
13
13
14
Julia Lavrentieva / Yuri Rudyk
UKR
113.00
11
14
15
Marcelina LECH / Jakub TYC
POL
103.64
15
15
16
Rachel EPSTEIN / Dmitry EPSTEIN
NED
91.31
16
16
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