The Russians Atakhanova / Spiridinov leave their mark in the qualifying stage of Linz

I russi Atakhanova/Spiridinov lasciano il segno nella qualificata tappa di Linz
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Figure skating - J.G.p. Linz 2015

The Russians Atakhanova / Spiridinov leave their mark in the qualifying stage of Linz

After the first appointments of apprenticeship, the season of pairs of artistic juniors & egrave; finally it took off for the pleasure of the small audience at the "Keine Sorgen Eisarena" Linz, home of the fourth stage (third for couples to artistic) Junior Grand Prix circuit.

As it regards the podium, the segment pi & ugrave; long race has traced the positions of the short program confirming a technical level finally worthy of the prestigious stage. The race & egrave; It was won by the young Russian Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridinov, couple born just over & ugrave; a year ago and which it might & agrave; compete at junior level for three more seasons. The debut in the circuit of the students of Natalia Pavlova did not leave indifferent the experts, because the technical caliber, complete with a package already & agrave; almost complete, not & egrave; gone unnoticed. Atakhanova / Spiridinov, higher competition for quality & agrave; skating and not surprisingly by far the best on the evaluation of the components of the program, the 'have also checked on the technical side of the situation on proving all''altezza jumps in parallel (combination triple toe loop / double toe loop / double and triple Rittberger salchow) and the cast (triple salchow and triple Rittberger). Ci & ograve; Accordingly, there are plenty of room for growth of triple twist, however, performed better today than in the short program, and difficulties & agrave; Never lift. In second place, came the Czechs Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar, another combination that has the elements of the strength jump, triple lutz launched understood. Moreover, today's result & egrave; historic state want to improve personnel twenty-four points, because you want & egrave; never in the past a couple of artistic flagged Czech had never been on the podium in a stage of the Junior Grand Prix. To have the mathematical certainty dell''accesso the final Duskova / Bidar, quarters in Riga, will have to wait for the 'last leg, but unless results outside the box, should rest easy. The podium & egrave; completed by Ukrainians Renata Oganesian / Mark Bardei, winners of the stage of Riga and gi & agrave; mathematically qualified for the final. Even students Lilia Batutina managed to touch up the staff pushing for the first time in his career over 150 points. Specifically, they were superior to direct competitors of lifting and twist, but they paid duty on the elements of jump, thanks to a landing of the triple salchow in parallel with a complex step-out by Oganesian. & Nbsp; & Nbsp; The first three pairs were classified clocked the best seasonal performance ever digging a deep furrow with competition committed in previous appointments. & Nbsp; Next, they placed the Russians Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov, probably forced to say goodbye to the final, so & Igrave; such as training partners Elena Ivanova / Tagir Khakimov not gone beyond the sixth and preceded by surprise advanced Canadian Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy. Young blue Irma Caldara and Edward Caputo closed the first international junior tenth managing to break through the wall of one hundred points. Except for an attempted triple flip not been successful, students Tiziana Pagani performed as planned, revealing improvements on the double twist, he had given some trouble in the short program. Passed the first hurdle, there will be & agrave; time and opportunity to grow on each of the elements. Russia has closed the forty-fifth win in a qualifying round of the Junior Grand Prix, which are added in the final five statements. FINAL STANDINGS 1) RUS - Amina ATAKHANOVA / Ilia Spiridonov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 162.50 (1 | 1) 2) CZE. - Anna Dušková / Martin BIDAR & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 158.71 (2 | 2) 3) UKR - Renata Oganesian / Mark BARDEI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 152.92 (3 | 3) 4) RUS - Anastasia POLUIANOVA / Stepan Korotkov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 135.46 (7 | 4) 5) CAN - Justine BRASSEUR / Mathieu Ostiguy & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 135.11 (4 | 6) 6) RUS - Elena IVANOVA / Tagir Khakimov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 131.28 (6 | 8) 7) CHN - Ying ZHAO / XIE Zhong & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 129.71 (8 | 7) 8) USA - Chelsea LIU / Brian JOHNSON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.73 (5 | 9) 9) USA - Lindsay WEINSTEIN / Jacob SIMON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.55 (9 | 5) 10) ITA - Irma CALDARA / Edward CAPUTO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 103.80 (10 | 10) 11) CHN - HAN Yue / Ziyu KANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 102.35 (11 | 12) 12) KOR - Ye Ri KIM / Alex Kang Chan KAM & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 98.55 (12 | 11)
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