Figure skating - Junior W.CH.2013, Milan
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The third day of 38esimi Junior World Championships Figure Skating, hosted by "Ice Stadium Agora" in Milan opened with the women's short program.
Friday 1 March 2013 13 minutes reading time
Before moving on to'' technical aspect of the race is unfortunately recorded yet another organizational problem of this world. Once in two athletes from the conclusion of the program, the Korean So Youn Park has remained at the center runway waiting in vain for the start of the music, in fact an electrical fault has postponed the performance of the last two athletes than half an hour. After the problem was with the reconstruction of ice last night that did slip I program the start of free pairs of artistic over ninety minutes, another flaw in organizing the event which certainly does not bode well for Italy and ISU will not please.
The race showed an average level quite high, but the number of errors committed by jumping on the elements listed more skaters have created a table with scores much lower than expected.
The panel of race used a yardstick excessively severe and in the evaluation of the rotation of the jumps and in the program components. The ranking at the end of this short program is well balanced with the first seven athletes gathered in the space of just two and a half points and a free program that promises to be spectacular.
At the top of the list is the American Samantha Cesario with 54.69 points, author of a clean program and in which he relied on his greater experience on the components of the program having been born in 1993. Esibitasi on the notes of Carmen Fantaisie by David Garret, the athlete coached by Mary Lynn Geldermann defended itself on the tops built many good and who have reached level 4 in two of them despite the lack of flexibility and completed to perfection triple flip at the start of the program, one of the best of the day, followed by a good double Axel and then by combining triple Rittberger / double toe loop positioned in the second half of the program, but with the first jump judged under rotated.
Good performance for Anna Pogorilaya which is in second place with 53.98 points. The least expected of Russia has completed the elements of jump well, among them being the combination triple Lutz / triple toe loop, but made a mistake on the entry of flying camel which was assessed only level 1. The student of Anna Tsareva, who has starred in "Songs from the Victorious City" by Anne Dudley has paid a score on the components may be too low compared to what was done to see, the same fate befell many of his other opponents.
With the same result as Pogorilaya, but in third place due to the technical score lower we find another American, Courtney Hicks. The athlete Californian has played a very good performance from the artistic point of view and showed excellent spins of all level 4, but was penalized for striking step out in landing a triple flip and especially for the triple toe loop in combination with the triple Lutz that has been degraded.
The disappointment of the day are undoubtedly the two young girls Russian Elena Radionova and Julia Lipnitskaia who presented with all the underdogs and now I'm even out of the podium. The Lipnitskaia was affected by the error on the combination, in fact, the triple Lutz was able to attack only a simple toe loop, instead of the expected three times, and in addition to the points lost as a base value has received the required -3 GOE, since the combination must consist of at least two jumps both doubles. The skater stationed in Moscow, as usual, delighted the audience with beautiful tops showing off all her dowry of flexibility to the limit of contortion achieving level 4 on all three elements and with a high degree of execution especially on wonderful overturned.
The Radionova, dominated the junior season and second behind TUKTAMYSHEVA in Russian national, although it proved to be the best on the components of the program has been only the seventh technical score that has relegated to the fifth position with a total of 53.48, nearly ten lengths in less of its staff. After opening the program with the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop fouled by a lutz under rotated, the fourteen year old Muscovite has made the biggest mistake of falling on the flip completed only twice.
Shortly rewarded by the judges the young Japanese Satoko Miyahara, author of a program by the considerable technical bill, but overly penalized by the decisions of the panel. The student Mie Hamada was seen call is rotated under the jumps of the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop that the triple flip spoiled by a thread starting wrong. The petite Japanese finished in sixth place with 52.16 points, very disappointed by the result.
Unfortunately for the only Italian in the race, the young Sara Casella, class 1998. The student Romina Poli was penalized on the second score being dropped on the ice as the first athlete ever, but will pay a high price for the mistakes of all the elements of jump, the program was opened by a combination of triple Lutz / double Toeloop with uncertain arrivals on both jumps, then dall'Axel totally open and not completed even simpler and finally from Flip performed only twice and with a bit of wrong input. The young Aosta Valley closed the short program with 36.74 points, four points and a half away from the last position useful for accessing the free skating.
Recall that as in the men's short program even in the short women at the junior level of the three elements of jump that run one must necessarily be the Flip, and not in combination that can not be repeated.
Here are the standings after the short program:
Pos
Name
Nat
Points
1
Samantha CESARIO
USA
54.69
2
Anna POGORILAYA
RUS
53.98
3
Courtney HICKS
USA
53.98
4
Julia LIPNITSKAIA
RUS
53.86
5
Elena RADIONOVA
RUS
53.48
6
Satoko MIYAHARA
JPN
52.16
7
Rika HONGO
JPN
52.15
8
Gabrielle DALEMAN
CAN
50.70
9
Laurine LECAVELIER
FRA
50.43
10
Nathalie Weinzierl
GER
49.97
11
Hae Jin KIM
KOR
49.26
12
Alaine CHARTRAND
CAN
48.14
13
Yasmin SIRAJ
USA
47.65
14
So Youn PARK
KOR
47.24
15
HAN Brooklee
AUS
47.20
16
GUO Xiaowen
CHN
46.44
17
Ivett TOTH
HUN
46.02
18
Anna KHNYCHENKOVA
UKR
44.96
19
Jenni SAARINEN
FIN
44.95
20
ZHAO Ziquan
CHN
44.50
21
Josefine TALJEGARD
SWE
43.09
22
Angelina KUCHVALSKA
LAT
42,11
23
Sabrina SCHULZ
AUT
41.60
24
Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO
PHI
41.25
25
Rebecka Emanuelsson
SWE
39.03
26
Isadora WILLIAMS
BRA
38.57
27
Gerli LIINAMÄE
EST
38.10
28
Patricia GLESCIC
SLO
37.11
29
Sara BOX
ITA
36.74
30
Nicole RAJICOVA
SVK
36.56
31
Reyna Hamui
MEX
36.15
32
Net SCHREIBER
ISR
35.78
33
Elizaveta Ukolova
CZE
35.05
34
Camilla GJERSEM
NOR
35.05
35
Pernille SORENSEN
DEN
34.17
36
Agata Kryger
POL
33.65
37
Isabella SCHUSTER-VELISSARIOU
GRE
33.23
38
Melisa Sema ATIK
TUR
32.58
39
Aleksandra Golovkina
LTU
32.34
40
Marta GARCIA
ESP
32.01
41
Amani FANCY
GBR
30.48
42
Anna AFONKINA
BUL
30.04
43
Kristina ZAKHARANKA
BLR
29.65
44
Laure Nicodet
SUI
29.10
45
Kim BELL
NED
27.76
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