World Junior Tallinn - Second consecutive title for the Chinese Yu / Jin

Mondiali Juniores Tallinn - Secondo titolo consecutivo per i cinesi Yu/Jin
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Flavio Valle

Figure Skating - World Junior Championships 2015

World Junior Tallinn - Second consecutive title for the Chinese Yu / Jin

Chinese Xiaoyu Yu and Yang Jin won the second world junior title of his career, but had to suffer more & ugrave; expected to be right of Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau, who have left no stone unturned to try to subvert the obvious prediction of the eve.

The audience of the & ldquo; Tondiraba Ice Arena & rdquo; Tallinn & egrave; was perci & ograve; spectator of a challenge by the high technical content, marked by equilibrium of undisputed in both segments of the race. The defending champions, having imposed a narrow margin in the short-program, you are also repeated in the free program in which they performed the best jumps in parallel (triple toe loop sequence and two double axel), lifts and the triple Rittberger launched , committing to & ograve; a small barb sull''atterraggio triple flip and messing launched, did not again for the Chinese school, on the top pair. The students of the legendary Hongbo Zhao have still got the best technical score and assessment pi & ugrave; High on each component of the program giving China the seventh title in the history of specialty & agrave; as well & egrave; fifth in the last six years. Seguin / Bilodeau, for their part, have a free program skated without snagging reaching the maximum available on each item and completing extremely well both throw jumps (triple toe loop and triple salchow), that the jumps in parallel (triple salchow combination and double axel / double toe loop). The Canadian couple, absolute revelation of the season, has edited the personal best race suggesting could play an important role in the upcoming World Cup in Shanghai, where the 'objective sar & agrave; to hoist himself in the top ten. The third place, with abysmal gap from the head of the race, & egrave; went to the Russians Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin, competitive on throw jumps, lifts and triple twist, but as usual, with no solutions to limit the damage on the jumps in parallel. Nell''occasione, however, considering the two points less because of the dual drop Fedorova, the balance & egrave; went even below zero. Next, you have placed the Russians Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov, who repel the 'Attack of the US national champions Caitlin Fields / Utah Ernie Stevens, couple recently formed able to get the fourth stop in the free program. Italians White Manacorda / Niccol & ograve; Macii have finished the race in twelfth place, climbing a position with respect to the short program, thanks to the withdrawal of the Ukrainians Oganesian / Bardei. The junior national champions have distinguished themselves on lifting and presented both triple flip triple toe loop that launched. FINAL STANDINGS 1) CHN - Xiaoyu YU / Yang JIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 178.79 (1 | 1) 2) CAN - Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 176.32 (2 | 2) 3) RUS - Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 154.33 (3 | 3) 4) RUS - Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei SINTSOV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 140.39 (4 | 5) 5) USA - Caitlin FIELDS / Ernie Utah STEVENS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 138.62 (7 | 4) 6) JPN - Ami KOGA / Francis Boudreau AUDET & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 134.97 (6 | 6) 7) USA - Chelsea LIU / Brian JOHNSON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 133.57 (5 | 8) 8) CZE - Anna Dušková / Martin BIDAR & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.80 (9 | 9) 9) CAN - Shalena RAU / Sebastian ARCHERS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.66 (8 | 10) 10) CAN - Mary ORR / Phelan SIMPSON & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.25 (11 | 7) 11) RUS - Daria BEKLEMISHEVA / Maxim BOBROV & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 121.98 (10 | 12) 12) ITA - White MANACORDA / Niccolo MACII & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 118.27 (13 | 11) WD) UKR - Renata Oganesian / Mark BARDEI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; (12 | WD) & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
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