Figure skating - J.G.p. Colorado Springs in 2015
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After nearly two years of fasting, the United States have returned to occupy the rung more & ugrave; top of the podium at a men's Junior Grand Prix. The 'architect of the success & egrave; Nathan was Chen, already in the past & agrave; able to impose itself on three occasions in the circuit.
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The Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs & egrave; It was the scene of a show of force with rare earlier as the 'student Rafael Aratunian dominated the race from one end all''altro inflicting almost thirty points behind the pi & ugrave; rival and setting a new record for points in a qualifying round (236.76), as well as & egrave; second abutment absolute all-time in a race junior tier behind the 238.27 obtained from Japanese Shoma Uno in the final last season.
Nathan Chen, after being forced by a wide margin in the short program, you & egrave; repeated segment pi & ugrave; long race in which he revealed a convincing mastery of quadruple toe loop and triple axel, historical heel of Achilles'. On balance, the sixteen year stationed in California has completed two quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps, including two axel, brushing, although some details to be reviewed on the construction of the elements of spinning, & nbsp; the ninety lengths on the technical score. Chen, took to the track on the notes of the Symphony No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saens, he has had ample reason competition also on each item of the program components, but the 'impression & egrave; that there is room for growth rather obvious on the artistic side, left momentarily into the background to privilege the technical side.
The place of 'honor, thanks to a comeback of five positions, & egrave; Daniel went all''israeliano Samohin, recently rose to the headlines to have waived participation in the Grand Prix senior opting for the junior version. In the free program, the seventeen year old native of Tel Aviv had the merit to perform to the best two quadruple toe loop and, while falling, & egrave; He managed to turn even a quadruple salchow.
Japanese Sota Yamamoto, considered the eve the main rival to Chen, you & egrave; He had to settle for third moenta, penalized in the two days of competition from low rates of implementation of Tripo axel, a sine qua non for competitiveness & agrave ;. For fifteen Nagoya, skater unquestionably superior, remains to & ograve; the satisfaction of having completed the first quadruple toe loop in the career race, a weapon that could be important on the way to snatch the qualification for the final time in the balance. Yamamoto will & agrave; the game again in the stage of Torun, where trover & agrave; Roman Sadovsky, Deniss Vasiljevs and Alexei Krasnozhon, opponents on paper within reach, but all fast growing as well & egrave; motivated after the positive seasonal opening words.
A note on it is up to seventeen Ukrainian Yaroslav Paniot, another jumper of excellence capable of performing in the free program a quadruple toelooop and seven triple jumps, including two two flip and lutz. Able to present elements dall''elevato coefficient of difficulty & agrave; as the combination triple flip / triple Rittberger, the 'student of Viacheslav Zagarodniuk has, however, left something to be desired on the tops with built superificialit & agrave; and executed in trouble.
Behind dell''ucraino, which stood at the foot of the podium, you & egrave; placed the 'interesting US Hiwatashi Tomoki, who won the race for skaters without the triple axel and quadruple jumps.
In virt & ugrave; the realized results in Colorado Springs, the US filed the victory number 47 in men's qualifying stages, which must be added seven hits in the final, the 'least of which got by Jason Brown in 2011.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) USA - Nathan CHEN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 236.76 (1 | 1) [4 & deg; year] 2) ISR - Daniel SAMOHIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 207.17 (7 | 2) [5 & deg; year] 3) JPN - Sota YAMAMOTO & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 203.68 (2 | 3) [3 & deg; year] 4) UKR - Yaroslav PANIOT & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 192.04 (4 | 4) [5 & deg; year] 5) USA - Tomoki Hiwatashi & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 185.66 (6 | 5) [3 & deg; year] 6) RUS - Daniil BERNADINER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 179.93 (5 | 6) [3 & deg; year] 7) JPN - Mitsuki Sumoto & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 168.44 (9 | 7) [2 & deg; year] 8) CRO - Nicholas VRDOLJAK & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 168.09 (8 | 9) [6 & deg; year] 9) KOR - It Hyeong Lee & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 165.78 (10 | 8) [2 & deg; year] 10) USA - Anthony BOUCHER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 164.33 (3 | 11) [6 & deg; year] 11) ISR - Artem TSOGLIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 150.69 (13 | 12) [5 & deg; year] 12) GBR - & nbsp; Hugh BRABYN-JONES & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 148.04 (12 | 13) [6 & deg; year] 13) CAN - Antony CHENG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 144.10 (16 | 10) [5 & deg; year] 14) CHN - Runqi LIU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 143.61 (11 | 15) [6 & deg; year] 15) AZE - Larry LOUPOLOVER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 130.24 (17 | 14) [4 & deg; year] 16) CHN - Jiahao LI & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 120.52 (18 | 16) [3 & deg; year] 17) TPE - Micah TANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 117.93 (15 | 17) [4 & deg; year] 18) AUS - James MIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 110.30 (14 | 18) [2 & deg; year] 19) HKG - Wayne Wing Yin CHUNG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 90.89 (19 | 19) [6 & deg; year] 20) NZL - Brian LEE & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 89.19 (20 | 20) [3 & deg; year] 21) MAS - Zhi Ming TAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 75.57 (21 | 21) [4 & deg; year] 22) INA - Dwiki Eka RAMADHAN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 70.02 (22 | 22) [4 & deg; year]
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