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After eight years since the last apparition, the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating is back in Slovakia, but this time in Bratislava to Košice but rather, a place that has always linked its name to hockey on ice.
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For the main dish of the event was announced the international premiere in the junior category of the thirteen Russian Serafima Sakhanovich, able to rival last season almost on equal terms with Elena Radionova in races at home.
On balance, the women's competition has actually turned out to be the most interesting, but the role of main character is touched to the U.S. Karen Chen (179.08), which, thanks to its success in Slovakia, it is virtually assured qualifying for the final Fukuoka although the official mathematics will have to wait the next weeks. fifteen student of Tammy Gambill, at the end of a challenge characterized by high technical content, had the better of the Russian revelation Alexandra Proklova (175.11), thirteen-year-Moscow never seen in the past on the levels expressed in the race of Košice.
Chen, compared to the previous output line two weeks ago, she appeared much more on the ball and, while confirming the impression of being often at the limit with the rotation of the jumps, has proven more secure execution of each element. In particular, the short program, enhanced by a sumptuous combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, it was almost perfect.
Alexandra Proklova, a student of Inna Goncharenko and training partner Elena Radionova, had the merit of not accuse the pressure to debut in the circuit and, in addition to mastery of jumps (flip at all) and spins, programs presented by the choreography brilliant and with a quantity of steps of upper transition to the category average. In the light of what we saw on the ice, it is not surprising therefore that the young Russian has earned the most points in the free program.
The podium was completed dall'oltremodo progressed Japanese Riona Kato (165.09), who got the better of Serafima Sakhanovich (161,72), penalized by a disastrous short program. Compared to the beginning of the calendar year, the thirteen-year St. Petersburg has appeared decidedly grown physically and, perhaps for this reason, has not appeared effective as in the past on some elements of jump. However, despite the mistakes, showed the highest technical score in the free program impressing those who work for the ambitious distribution of elements. Just to clarify the situation, Sakhanovich presented a short film with all the jumps, placed in the second half of the disc.
Homemade Italian, encouraging performance for the sixteen year old, school Zanica, Micol Cristini (122.37), eleventh ranked eighth and even at the end of the short program in which there has been no Rittberger only.
In any case, on the front female, the competition of Košice has largely proved to be the most qualitative of the season.
Great balance in the test male won in a sprint finish by seasoned Japanese Kenji Tanaka (193,61) in front of the Chinese He Zhang (191.16) and the Russian national junior champion Mikhayl Kolyada (189.41). The expected U.S. Shotaro Omori (183.15), bronze medalist in the last World Junior Championships played in Milan, has not gone beyond the fifth position, accomplices problems with the axel in the free program. The seventeen year old student still Tammy Gambill was also preceded by the new Russian Moris Kvitelashvili (187,79), only athlete in the race able to complete a quadruple jump.
To underline the good performance of the fifteen blue Matteo Rizzo (141,09), which, thanks to a free program that has completed five triple jumps, he managed to finish the race in eleventh place in the Grand Prix debut junior.
In the dance, the listed Russian Yankovskaya / Mozgov (143.39), stored in the unfortunate past season, immediately imposed their law imposing a wide margin on U.S. couples Parsons / Parsons (131.10), early in the season to reach the highest level (level four) of both sequences of quickstep, and Moore / Klaber (123,91). It should be emphasized fifth of the couple flagged Korean Kim / Minov (121.50), which for a little more than two points has missed a historic podium.
Excellent performance for the pair composed of Italian-Hungarian Carolina Moscheni and Adam Lukasz (199,49), who decided to compete for Hungary, even though you're training at the Ice Palace Agora of Milan. Students of Barabra Fusar Poli, making its debut in the Grand Prix junior, got a convincing seventh place with a tight detachment from the podium.
The Italian duo composed by Sara Ghislandi / Jonah Third Ortenzi (103.21) has, however, ended in eleventh place with a growth in terms of points compared to the first stage of the season held in Riga
The best news for the Italian movement are, however, come from the race of the pairs of art. Cernuschi Alessandro and Filippo Ambrosini (131.53) have in fact shown enormous progress compared to a few months ago and have missed the podium by a neck. The young couple, coached at the Forum of Assago by Cristina Mauri and Tiziana Pagani, finished in third place a short program free of burrs in third place and has since handed a position to affordable Russians Nagalati / Bobrov (132.25) only for aborted due to a lift in the free program.
The race was dominated by the Russians Vigalova / Zakroev (168,10), who qualified for the final of Fukuoka with a lot of seasonal best score and the personal record crumbled. On this occasion, the couple trained by the spouses Tiukov, has impressed for the extraordinary mastery of throw jumps which allowed them to submit triple flip and triple Rittberger in the second half of the program free.
The place of honor, went to the favorites on the eve Fedorova / Miroshkin (153.95), Russian junior champions in office outclassed the occasion of almost every aspect.
The defending champions junior Italian Giulia Foresti / Leo Luca Sforza (114.34) have had to settle for eighth place finish, but they may regret an unfortunate short program in which failure between lifting and double axel unrealized lost more than ten points.
Next week the junior Grand Prix will stop in Gdansk in Poland, where it will be held the competition of pairs of art.
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