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At Espoo's Metro Arena, home to Finland's Trophy 2017, a new stage in the ISU Challenger Series 2017/2018 has been on the scene for the second day of races, with the excellent blues test, coming to a standstill and being able to achieve the score record. Today it's up to Carolina Kostner
Sunday 8 October 2017 6 minutes reading time
Rimont and personal points records. Good exploits for Della Monica-Guarise at Finland's Trophy 2017, the sixth stage of the ISU Challenger Series 2017. The national champion pair, third after the short, on the ice of Espoo Metro Arena, scored the best free day of the day with 128.08 points (63.73 of technical rating and 64.35 for the components), thus recovering a position against the Russians Stolbova-Klimov (third at the end) and closing second behind the Chinese Chinese Peng-Jin. The Asians have fallen twice, but lost only a few tenths of a point, ending with 198.03 (127.10 for the free program).
The final score of 193.50 is also for the blue tandem, also the first prize, obtained thanks to a second segment of the race is also a record, a primacy that goes to improve by more than a point the previous record, established at Lombardy Trophy 2016 (126.96 points). Signs, reads the FISG statement, which gives great confidence in view of the debut for Nicole and Matteo in the circuit of the Grand Prix, in just under a month, in the Beijing Cup of China from 3 to 5 November. The day program opened with the performance of short dance, won by French favorites Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron
Today, Sunday 8th October, the third and final day of Finnish ice races with, scheduled, Carolina Kostner's free kick from third place in the short. The men's race saw the successful return of Chinese Jin Boyang, second after the short program, which despite two drops, got 165.45 points in the free program, totaling 252.60. According to American Vincent Zhou, just sixth after the first race segment, but able to achieve the best performance in this race segment with 173.91 points, to close at the end at 250.01. Podium completed by Adam Rippon (249.88), also of Team USA.
The Challenger ISU Series is an international Figure Skating Series, introduced by the Federation during the 2014/15 season, which has to have at least three program disciplines. Through the support of the ISU, the goal is to ensure a good organization of up to ten (10) international competitions interconnected in-house within the series, providing opportunities for many skaters compete at senior international level and earn points for the world ranking.
Date Gare Location
13.09-17.09.2017 U.S. International Figure Skating Classic Salt Lake City, UT, USA
14.09-17.09.2017 Lombardia Trophy Bergamo, ITA
20.09-23.09.2017 Autumn Classic International Montreal, CAN
21.09-23.09.2017 Ondrej Nepela Memorial Bratislava, SVK
27.09-30.09.2016 Nebelhorn Trophy Oberstdorf, GER
06.10-08.10.2017 Finland Trophy Espoo, FIN
26.10-29.10.2017 Minsk-Arena Ice Star Minsk, BLR
16.11-19.11.2017 Warsaw Cup Warsaw, POL
21.11-26.11.2017 Tallinn Trophy Tallinn, EST
06.12-09.12.2017 Golden Spin of Zagreb Zagreb, CRO
FINAL CLASSIFICATION OF ARTISTIC COUPLES ESPOO, FINLAND
FPL. Country Couples SP Points FS
1 CHENG PENG / Yang JIN CHN 198.03 1 2
2 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 193.50 3 1
3 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV RUS 184.78 2 4
4 Liubov ILYUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 183.80 4 3
5 Kristina ASTAKHOVA / Alexei ROGONOV RUS 176.88 5 5
6 Deanna STELLATO / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 161.17 7 6
7 Jessica CALALANG / Zack SIDHU USA 156.88 6 7
8 Minerva Fabienne HASE / Nolan SEEGERT GER 135.38 8 8
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