Figure skating - J.G.p. Dresden 2014
The protagonist of the second day of the Pokal der Blauen Schwerter of Dresden, the penultimate stage of qualifying for the Junior Grand Prix circuit, & egrave; was again the Japanese Wakaba Higuchi, energetic, fast and technically gifted.
Friday 3 October 2014 12 minutes reading time
The thirteen-year-Tokyo (176.14), after having dominated the short program, you & egrave; regularly repeated in the segment pi & ugrave; Long race itself as the main alternative to Russian Serafima Sakhanovich and Evgenia Medvedeva, winning both qualifying stages played. In virt & agrave; today's result, you Higuchi & egrave; qualified for the final of the circuit, dragging her compatriot Yuka Nagai, who was waiting for the 'outcome of the German stage in order to obtain the mathematical certainty. For the last two seats available, remain in the race US Karen Chen and Russian Maria Sotskova Proklova and Alexandra, with the Japanese Miyu Nakashio the window. Will be decisive & agrave; clearly the stage of Zagreb next week, which will have agrave &; as main dish just the clash between Chen, Sotskova and Proklova.
In today's free, Wakaba Higuchi has achieved a clear round by recording the best technical feedback and evaluation pi & ugrave; high on each component of the program, reflecting the credit increasingly encountered in the field.
Specifically, he completed two double axel and seven triple jumps, making a & rsquo; unusual snagging on & rsquo; landing of the triple lutz (step-out), the jump in absolute peak of the house. Among the unresolved issues, it should also be noted the input wire of the triple flip, not exactly interior.
In the second position, you & egrave; placed the fourteen year-old Kazakh Elizavet Turzynbaeva (164.79), author of an excellent free program only dirtied by falling on a triple lutz missing rotation. L & rsquo; student of Brian Orser has, however, showed growth compared to the previous release of Aichi completing an exemplary two double axel and six triple jumps, spins as well as the level pi & ugrave; high available. Nell & rsquo; occasion, be Higuchi Turzynbaeva who improved their personal best, but for the young Kazakh Russian school, thanks to a race calendar is not so & igrave; easy, l & rsquo; access to the final results gi & agrave; now precluded.
The third place & egrave; shoved & rsquo; matte Russian Alexandra Proklova (149.16), still far from the best condition due to an injury suffered in the spring. Even in the free program, the fourteen year-old trained by Inna Goncharenko has alternated bursts of quality & agrave ;, in particular the spin reversed and the combination double axel / triple toe loop in the second half & agrave; of music, relevant passages in vacuum, see falls on triple flip and triple Rittberger both missing rotation.
At the foot of the podium, you & egrave; attested to the hostess Lutricia Bock (145.42), which has improved all personal records, revealing a good grasp of the combination with two triples, but also room for growth on the tops. Moreover, the native of Chemnitz has swept away the challenge with compatriot Nathalie Weinzierl, extremely disappointing in today & rsquo; Ondrej Nepela Trophy Bratislava.
In fifth position is & egrave; placed l & rsquo; fickle Russian Elizaveta Yushchenko (136.88), which preceded the Japanese Mariko Kihara (134.00).
L & rsquo; Italian Giada Russo (113.82) finished the race in thirteenth place distinguished by the quality & agrave; of spins, but paying exceedingly duty on the elements of jump. In the roadmap today do not appear, in fact, triple jumps completed.
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In the dance, success & egrave; was easily conquered by the Russians Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko (147.31), the second argument in careers in the circuit. The Russian pair has dominated the length and breadth of both segments of competition, winning both on the technical side than on each individual item of the program components. In particular, in free dance & egrave; also arrived the first level four of the season on a sequence of steps in pairs, in this case the diagonal. Students of Ksenia Rumiantseva, complete with a personal best improved by twelve points, qualified for the final in Barcelona, ​​where they will find Canadians Bent / MacKeen and Edwards / Pang over their compatriots Loboda / Drzod. Unless surprises, after the stage of Zagreb, the company will be added to the Russians Yanovsakia / Mozgov and Morozova / Zhirnov.
I quoted US Lorraine Mcnamara / Quinn Carpenter (139.35), despite being able to touch up the supremacy staff, they had to settle for one & rsquo; bitter second location that will not allow & agrave; their access to the & rsquo; Final Act. It remains a small consolation to the fact that you have filed an invaluable level four on the sequence of steps in torque diagonally.
The podium & egrave; been completed by the Canadians Brianna Delmaestro / Timothy Lum (130,78), gi & agrave; in the second stage of Ljubljana, but as McNamara / Carpenter out of the final.
A follow were placed Russians Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin (126,54), which in the free dance they climbed over the Ukrainians Valeria Gaistruk / Alexei Olejnik (120.20), the best result of his career in the circuit.
Entrants Italian Valentina Gabusi / Nik Mirzakhani (101.36) finished the race in tenth position, confirming the placement of partial short-dance.
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At the turn of the & rsquo; lunch time, you & egrave; played the short program of the pairs of art, focusing on the challenge among Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau (59.18) and the Russian Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin (57,74), called to redemption after being clearly outclassed by rivals in stage of Ostrava.
At the end of a tight head-to-head, they still prevailed, complete with a new personal best, the Canadian boys, driven by higher technical feedback which more than compensated for the lost ground in the sum of the components of the program. L & rsquo; factor in determining the result of partial & egrave; revealed the double lutz in parallel, well executed by Seguin / Bilodeau unlike Fedrova / Miroshkin, which have lost ground via the wire wrong input by Fedorova. In any case, both pairs have distinguished the best on the rest of the elements, performing convincingly both the triple twist that the triple Rittberger launched.
If at the end of the competition will come & agrave; confirmed the rankings today, but nothing would change in inverted position, is the one that others will qualify for the final in Barcelona.
The third place, with wide gap from the top, & egrave; was occupied by the Russians Maria Chushchanova / Denis Mintsev (48,16), which, in a comparison between pairs making its debut in the circuit, they set extent of the Americans Chelsie Liu / Brian Johnson (46.87) and fellow Daria Beklemisheva / Maxim Bobrov (45,28). & nbsp; L & rsquo; outcome of this & ldquo; triptych & rdquo; promises to be very interesting in key qualification for the final, considering that the three couples will then be engaged in the & rsquo; latest stage in Zagreb, where, except for the Russians Vigalova / Zakroev, the pool of members is well within reach.
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