Figure skating - Junior W.CH.2013, Milan
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The last day of competition of 38esimi Junior World Championships Figure Skating, hosted by "Ice Stadium Agora" in Milan came to an end with the program long female.
Saturday 2 March 2013 8 minutes reading time
After the short program surprisingly won by the American Samantha Cesario, there was great anticipation to see how it would be resolved a ranking that it appeared very balanced with seven athletes enclosed in just two and a half points. The Russian athletes great disappointment of yesterday are redeemed skating programs from a technical level that allowed it to occupy all three steps of the podium.
The gold medal went to the youngest of the trio Soviet Elena Radionova that has demonstrated its superiority to the tune of "And Finally I love you" and "Country of Deaf". The Muscovite class 1999 proved of great class proving to be a step ahead of rivals in terms of interpretation and quality of skating, scoring the best score on each of the items of the program components. Despite some elements of arrival is not perfect jump and the usual problem with the thread starting the Flip closed the free program at 116.23 points for a total of 169.71.
In second place with 165.67 she finished the 2012 junior world champion Julia Lipnitskaia. The music of The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky's pupil Ethers Tutberidze opened the program with two great combinations double Axel / triple toe loop / double toe loop and double Axel / triple toe loop, completing the perfection then a triple Lutz and a triple Rittberger. In the second half of the program, however, came the errors on the two triple flip taken from the wrong thread and especially on double salchow only completed for a free program for 111.81 points.
Bronze medal for Anna Pogorilaya she in Moscow and as the class Lipnitskaia 1998. The athlete coached by Anna Tsareva completed smoothly rotating the seven planned triple in his free skating, but was penalized in the degree of implementation of many of the elements of jump due to various imperfections in landing and compared to the two- countrymen again proved to be sour from the point of view of the interpretation.
At the foot of the podium the U.S. Samantha Cesario, has failed to confirm the levels of the short program mainly because of the problems we had on rotations of many jumps. Despite a good interpretation of the Black Swan by Clint Mansell in which he claimed all his maturity, the athlete class of 1993 was impacted by a panel perhaps too severe that he called under rotated a triple Rittberger, a triple Salchow and Rittberger combination of both triple Rittberger / double toe loop / triple Rittberger.
Disappointing performance for the other American Courtney Hicks who finished in fourth position after the short program you have to settle for fifth position after a free skating unconvincing, which has never failed to prove its technical and artistic value. The Californian has paid the showy step out on the triple toe loop in combination with the triple flip and triple Lutz, in addition to the triple Salchow that has been degraded.
It was a high value technical review in which the U.S. and Russia have dominated the medal winning ten of the twelve medals available and concluding paired in the head with two gold, one silver and two bronzes.
Here are the final standings:
Pos
Name
Nat
Points
SP
FS
1
Elena RADIONOVA
RUS
169.71
5
1
2
Julia LIPNITSKAIA
RUS
165.67
4
2
3
Anna POGORILAYA
RUS
160.32
2
3
4
Samantha CESARIO
USA
154.55
1
4
5
Courtney HICKS
USA
152.92
3
5
6
Gabrielle DALEMAN
CAN
149.39
8
6
7
Satoko MIYAHARA
JPN
147.42
6
8
8
Alaine CHARTRAND
CAN
144.38
12
7
9
Rika HONGO
JPN
142.62
7
10
10
Nathalie Weinzierl
GER
139.10
10
11
11
Yasmin SIRAJ
USA
139.08
13
9
12
So Youn PARK
KOR
135.42
14
12
13
Laurine LECAVELIER
FRA
131.25
9
15
14
Jenni SAARINEN
FIN
129.81
19
13
15
ZHAO Ziquan
CHN
126.11
20
14
16
HAN Brooklee
AUS
125.62
15
17
17
Anna KHNYCHENKOVA
UKR
121.62
18
18
18
Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO
PHI
119.76
24
16
19
Hae Jin KIM
KOR
115.22
11
21
20
Angelina KUCHVALSKA
LAT
114.11
22
19
21
Ivett TOTH
HUN
113.34
17
20
22
GUO Xiaowen
CHN
107.55
16
24
23
Sabrina SCHULZ
AUT
105.38
23
22
24
Josefine TALJEGARD
SWE
104.37
21
23
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