World Junior Championships Sofia 2014
Gianluigi Ferrario
After winning, surprisingly, the short dance of the Junior World Championships, being held at the Winter Sports Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria, the U.S. couple Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker is confirmed on the roof of the defending the free world to the big dance from the assault of the Russian pair composed by Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov. Thanks to a well-conducted free the Canadian duo Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang has recovered two positions relative to the first segment of the race overtaking the wire Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter, on the eve of third parties.
Friday 14 March 2014 8 minutes reading time
In a few would have bet on the eve of the confirmation of the primacy of U.S. couple, but with the help of a convincing performance in every element proposed defended themselves as best by the return of the Russian couple, able to recover only a point in the village today. Students Pasquale Camerlengo and Anjelika Krylova got level 4 on all three lifts and presented on Twizzle, made in unison. The only uncertainty of the program it was committed in the distance in the circle at the beginning of the program, valued only level 3, but that did not compromise the defensive end position with 157.12 points overall, thanks to a substantial tie the score devoted to components of the program.
Silver then Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov, real disappointed the event. The duo from Moscow, coached by Svetlana Alexeeva and Elena Kustarova scored 91.36 points in the free program, the best score of the day and new personal best, but the assault on the summit failed because of some imperfections in the sequences of steps, especially the & ldquo , Midline in hold step sequence ".
Completing the podium Canadians Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang with 139.65 points, which with a specific and well-executed free overtook the U.S. competition. The pair coached by Megan Wing and Aaron Lowe duo has performed the best elements of lifting presented, but pointed to some problems on the sequence of steps is diagonal in circles where they have not exceeded the level 2 squandering valuable points but they are not were decisive for the final classification.
Medal of wood for Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter authors only free day of the fifth with 79.88 points. Students Alexei Kiliakov, choreographed by Elena Novak did not improve their staff in the segment due to a penalty of one point for lifting large, which probably cost him the medal in the junior competition.
Completing the top 6 pair Nazarova / Nikitin, fifth with 134.65 redeeming a short dance undertone, and Koreans Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov,
Bad step backwards for the young U.S. couple formed by brothers Parsons, eighths, receding of four positions due to a technical score deficit.
Here are the final standings:
1
Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER
USA
157.12
1
2
2
Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
RUS
155.16
2
1
3
EDWARDS Madeline / PANG Zhao Kai
CAN
139.65
5
3
4
Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER
USA
138.53
3
5
5
Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim NIKITIN
UKR
134.65
7
4
6
Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV
KOR
133.35
6
7
7
Betina POPOVA / Yuri Vlasenko
RUS
132.47
8
6
8
Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS
USA
131.82
4
8
9
Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN
RUS
126.72
10
9
10
Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND
GBR
121.01
12
10
11
Estelle ELIZABETH / Romain LE GAC
FRA
118.07
11
11
12
Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MacKeen
CAN
117.81
9
12
13
Cortney MANSOUR / Michal CESKA
CZE
112.70
14
14
14
Carolina Moscheni / Adam LUKACS
HUN
111.35
16
13
15
Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV
BLR
108.56
15
16
16
Ria Schiffner / Julian SALATZKI
GER
108.22
13
18
17
Cagla DEMIRSAL / Berk Akalin
TUR
102.11
18
17
18
Angelique ABACHKINA / Louis Thauron
FRA
100.68
19
15
19
ZHAO Yue / LIU Chang
CHN
99.00
17
20
20
Carina GLASTRIS / Nicholas Lettner
GRE
96.48
20
19
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
Magico Becchis, apre la doppietta azzurra con Valerio: è il 5° titolo mondiale del fuoriclasse cuneese
A Madona ecco il titolo tanto atteso per l'Italia dello skiroll, con la Sprint a skating tutta del campionissimo ancora sul gradino più alto del podio iridato, assieme al compagno di nazionale d'argento. Peccato per Alba Mortagna (miglior tempo in qualificazione), 4^ nel giorno di Kaparkaleja. Titoli juniores a Lia (con tripletta norge tra le donne) e il lettone Bilans che trionfa in casa.
2