Figure skating - J.G.p. Zagreb 2014
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Shoma Uno & egrave; clearly imposed in the men's race of the seventh round of the Junior Grand Prix by launching a clear message to his opponents ahead of the final circuit.
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The sixteen year old Nagoya (227.51), to gain the longed-for ticket to Barcelona, ​​did not want to leave anything to chance and, on the ice of the & ldquo; Dom Sportova & rdquo; Zagreb, showed the best performance of the season in junior competitions. In addition, he missed by a & rsquo; trifle is the best all-time performance in a free program junior, still in possession of the American Jason Brown (154.09 during the World Cup class of 2013 played in Milan), the best performance of competition, established by Joshua Farris (228.32 on the same occasion by Jason Brown).
Shoma Uno, back from first place in the short-program, completed in the program free two quadruple toe loop and six triple jumps, five of which were performed in the second half & agrave; music along with a couple of double axel. L & rsquo; unique concerned deburring l & rsquo; landing with his hands in the land of the first four times, so if you want to nit-pick, you can & ograve; add the input wire of the triple lutz seemed not properly exterior. L & rsquo; student of Machiko Yamada, previously never step on pi & ugrave; top of the podium in a stage of the Junior Grand Prix, had qualified because of competition both on the technical and on each item of the program components, reconfirming over the wall of the seventy points PCS (program components score), gi & agrave; crossed a few weeks ago in Aichi.
At this point, the experts are waiting to assess Shoma Uno in the context of a senior race, where, free from the constraints on the short program, it may take a & rsquo; another dimension "creating embarrassment" to their compatriots Walls and Kozuka, on paper rivals pi & ugrave ; credited to conquer & rsquo; last place available to Japan for the World Championships in Shanghai senior. The biggest question mark remains the & rsquo; idiosyncrasy for the triple axel, a problem difficult to solve in quick times.
The place d & rsquo; honor & egrave; was conquered by the fifteen-US Nathan Chen (208,16), we do not are the owner of the technical means to deal on equal terms the winner today. In the free program, l & rsquo; pupil of Rafael Arutunian well has completed seven triple jumps in the second half & agrave; of the music, but the lack of a quadruple jump and unfamiliarity of the triple axel have proved lethal to the expectations of victory. Chen has nevertheless tried twice for the triple axel, completing a single rotation on the first occasion and the second landing attempt the jump with a step-out rotation completed. Compared to the habits, the national junior champion has left on the plate levels and points on the tops proposing, as in the previous season, the top low in terms of value is a handicap.
On the first step pi & ugrave; bottom of the podium & egrave; accommodated the seventeen year old Korean June Hyoung Lee (203.92), which, even in virt & ugrave; the result of Zagreb, won a historic qualification to the finals of Junior Grand Prix. Previously, in fact, l & rsquo; unique Korean figure skater to win and reach the & rsquo; concluding act of the circuit was Yu-Na Kim.
Lee, winner of the stage to Courchevel, Slovenia has improved in the personal record by running two double axel in the free program and eight triple jumps, including to & ograve; a lutz not taken from the outer edge and a Rittberger landed with some heartache too. Ci & ograve; Accordingly, the surprising choice to make the combination of three jumps right in with the opening lutz, penalizing strategy points to the hand.
In fourth position, you & egrave; placed the seventeen year old Russian Murad Kurbanov (182.78), which preceded the sixteen year old Ukrainian Ivan Pavlov (177.07), best career result in the circuit.
The sixteen year old Russian Andrei Lazukin (169,96), fresh from a convincing success in the stage of Dresden in the past week, & egrave; had to settle for a poor eighth place losing the chance & agrave; access to the final. Accomplice to an unfortunate illness of the season, l & rsquo; student house & nbsp; Mishin & egrave; was betrayed by his triple axel, which turned out to be the & rsquo; winning the German stage.
L & rsquo; Italian Carlo Vittorio Palermo (142.60) has recovered a couple of positions with respect to the short program closing in seventeenth place with a new personal best in both the segment pi & ugrave; long to tender in & rsquo; entire competizione.Il eighteen pupil of Lorenzo Magri has completed, albeit with some heartache too, two double axel and five jumps & nbsp; triples, including the first toe loop that perhaps was meant to be an attempt to fourfold. As usual, the quality should be highlighted & agrave; the elements of the spinning top.
At the end of the qualifying stage, they won the & rsquo; access to the final in Barcelona the following athletes:
Q & ndash; 30 & ndash; 442.09 & ndash; (CHN) JIN Boyang Q & ndash; 28 & ndash; 447,50 & ndash; (JPN) UNO ShomaQ. & Ndash; 28 & ndash; 424.70 & ndash; (RUS), Alexander Petrov Q & ndash; 26 & ndash; 407.73 & ndash; (KOR) LEE June HyoungQ. & Ndash; 26 & ndash; 398.50 & ndash; (JPN) YAMAMOTO SotaQ. & Ndash; 24 & ndash; 384.52 & ndash; (CAN) Roman Sadovsky
The reserves will be:
24 & ndash; 389,54 & ndash; (CHN) ZHANG He 24 & ndash; 367.85 & ndash; (RUS), Alexander Samarin 22 & ndash; 375.66 & ndash; (RUS) Aliev Dmitri
Obviously, spe & rsquo; absence of a skater the United States, mainly due to the choice of Nathan Chen to take part in a single stage of qualification. Among the six to the finals, l & rsquo; unique to have imposed on two occasions & egrave; Chinese Boyang Jin, while the Japanese Yamamoto & Sota egrave; the only one never to be climbed to the pi & ugrave; top of the podium.
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