Figure skating - Junior Grand Prix Final 2014/2015
The couples dance with Russian roost in the final of the Junior Grand Prix, monopolizing the podium in Barcelona.
Friday 12 December 2014 4 minutes reading time
Success & egrave; went to the defending champions Anna Yanowskaya / Sergei Mozgov, able to create a vacuum on both competition programs, confirming the association of senior category lent to junior competitions.
The students of Svetlana Alexeeva, while not revealing great precision on the sequences of steps in pairs, they got the best technical response even in free dance, reaching nearly ninety points in the segment of the race, but above all proving to have additional margin over the competition remained still lingered for over twelve lengths.
The battle for the post d & rsquo; honor saw out surprise winners At Loboda / Pavel Drozd, who, complete with a new personal best, have had much the better of the pi & ugrave; listed and seasoned Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko, that nothing could be done against the excessive power of the unexpected technical rivals.
In fourth place, with huge disappointment for not expressed on the level of the qualifying phase, were placed Canadians Mackenzie Bent / Garrett MacKeen, the eve unanimously considered the second force in the field. & Nbsp; However, the training partners of Gilles / Poirier were lacking the necessary gear shift appearing aloof and focused only on & rsquo; element of the case.
Bent / MacKeen have had the better of the countrymen Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang, far from the splendor of the last World Championships concluded on the podium.
The Russians Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov have closed both program in last place, revealing in the free dance, huge technical gap against opponents.
To find a & rsquo; other Russian hat trick in a final dance of Junior Grand Prix, & egrave; must go back to 2011 when Sinitsina / Zhiganshin prevailed prorpio complacent young Yanowskaya / Mozgov.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (RUS) - Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 148.58 (1 | 1) SB2) (RUS) - At Loboda / Pavel Drozd & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 136.31 (2 | 2) PB3) (RUS) - Betina POPOVA / Yuri Vlasenko & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 131.88 (3 | 3) 4) (CAN) - Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MacKeen & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 128.61 (4 | 4) 5) (CAN) - Madeline EDWARDS / Zhao Kai PANG & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 122.39 (5 ​​| 5) 6) (RUS) - Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 113.26 (6 | 6)
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