Figure Skating
France returns to the highest step of the Continental Couple of Artistic series after 87 years.
Friday 25 January 2019 3 minutes reading time
The first European title awarded to Minsk goes to the French Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres who, after setting themselves up in the Short Program, double, as a personal best, in the Free Program. The winners of the Grand Prix final total 225.66 raising the best world performance they had obtained at SkateCanada (221.81). It is necessary to go back to 1932 when Andree and Pierre Brunet imposed themselves in Paris to find a transalpine couple on the throne of Europe.
They can not confirm European champions for the third consecutive year, the vicecampioni of the world, the Russians Evgenia Tarasova and Alexander Morozov; detached from just over two and a half points at the end of the Short Program, the Russians are unable to overturn the situation in the Libero where they suffer some problems on the combination and close with a total score of 218.82 points for the Silver medal.
Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise, authors of an excellent Short Program that had hoisted them in third place, pay some smudging in the execution and, obtaining 205.14 points, which in any case represent the new personal best of the couple, are bypassed by only 14 cents from the very young Russians Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitri Kozlovskii, vice-champions of the junior world of 2017.
The junior world champions in charge, the Russians Daria Pavliuchenko and Denis Khodykin finish in fifth place with 185.92 points and precede the Germans Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nolan Seegert (180.56). Seventh place for Spaniards Laura Barquero and Aritz Maestu (160.16), eighth for the Croats Lana Petranovic and Antonio Souza-Kordeiru (151.89).
Lose a position compared to the Short Program the other blue couple in the race, the one formed by Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini: for them ninth place at 147.75 after making the tenth free day. A placement that will allow Italy to bring as many as 3 pairs in the next edition of Graz 2020.
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