Figure skating - YOG 2016 Lillehammer
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Friday & igrave; February 12 is Alzer & agrave; the curtain on the second edition of the Youth Olympic Games, to be held in Lillehammer (NOR) and surroundings.
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The figure skating competitions, with the starting line 76 skaters representing over 24 nations, will be hosted by & rsquo; Olympic Amphitheatre in Hamar.
As the basis for establishing the participation fees for each nation, they have been used in the first instance the results of the last World Junior Championships. The vacancies were, however, granted, discipline to discipline the nations were excluded from the first assignment. To determine which countries allocate the few remaining places available and to compile the repechage ranking, you & egrave; considering the final classification of the stage of the Junior Grand Prix circuit qualifying. For races in single, athletes are eligible born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001. In terms of dance and artistic couples, the male component of the combination must be born between January 1 1997 and December 31, 2001 while the female part must respect the limits of et & agrave; imposed for single races.
Only three nations will be able to field skaters in each discipline. Nell & rsquo; occasion, as well as Russia and the United States, l & rsquo; honor will touch & agrave; all & rsquo; Italy, which, thanks to a long series of waivers, got the chance & agrave; to be present also in the race for the artistic couples, only one in which it was had not been conquered the qualification.
There will be of international importance names, including several athletes who were on the podium in the Junior Grand Prix circuit.
In the women's field, the underdogs are up to fourteen Russian Polina Tsurskaya, so far unbeaten in all competitive segments addressed in the junior events of the current season. The main alternative & egrave; It represented by fifteen compatriot Maria Sotskova, while the role of the third force in the field it is for the Japanese fourteen Yuna Shiraiwa. In key podium, they do not start jokes almost sixteen Kazakh Elizabet Tursynbaeva and fifteen Japanese Kaori Sakamoto. The Italian colors will be defended by fourteen Lucrezia Gennaro, winner of the last two national junior titles.
Which highlight of the men's competition promises to be the comparison between the sixteen year old Russian Dmitri Aliev and Japanese peer Sota Yamamoto, one of the protagonists of the recent final of the Junior Grand Prix. The fight for the podium should also involve the sixteen year old Latvian Deniss Vasiljevs, the Korean Hwan Cha Jun fourteen and sixteen Canadian Roman Sadvosky, third finalist of Junior Grand Prix race. L & rsquo; Italy Schierer & agrave; the sixteen-year in Sesto San Giovanni Adrien Bannister.
Among the artistic couples rinnover & agrave; the challenge among Russians Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot and the Czechs Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar respectively first and second in & rsquo; last final of the Junior Grand Prix. L & rsquo; Italy is affider & agrave; to Irma Caldara and Edward Caputo.
In the dance, finally, the Russian pairs Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin and Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov appear more & ugrave; credited for success with US Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye ready to enter in the contest. On the front of the blue, will della Francesca and Pietro Righi game Papetti.
ATHLETES ENTERED
SECTOR FEMALE (16) (ARM) Anastasia Galustyan (CHN) Xiangning LI (FIN) Years J & ä RVENP & ä ä; (GER) Annika HOCKE (HUN) Fruzsina Medgyesi (ITA) Lucrezia GENNARO (JPN) Kaori SAKAMOTO (JPN) Yuna Shiraiwa (KAZ) Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA (LAT) Diana Nikitina (NOR) Juni Marie Benjaminsen (KOR) Ji Hyun BYUN (RUS) SOTSKOVA Maria (RUS) Polina TSURSKAYA (SVK) Hagarova Alexandra (USA) Vanna GIANG
SECTOR MALE (16)
(ARG) Mauro CALCAGNO (CAN) Roman Sadovsky (CHN) Tangxu LI (CHN) Yunda LU (FIN) Lauri Lankila (FRA) Adam SIAO HIM FA (ISR) Mark GORODNITSKY (ITA) Adrien BANNISTER (JPN) Shimada Koshiro (JPN) Sota YAMAMOTO (LAT) Deniss VASILJEVS (MAS) Kai Xiang CHEW (KOR) Jun Hwan CHA (RUS) ALIEV Dmitri (UKR) Ivan SHMURATKO (USA) Camden PULKINEN
ARTISTIC COUPLES (10)
(CAN) Justine BRASSEUR / Mathieu Ostiguy (CHN) Yumeng GAO / Bowen LI (CHN) Ying ZHAO / XIE Zhong (CZE) Anna Dušková / Martin BIDAR (ITA) Irma CALDARA / Edward CAPUTO (KOR) Su Yeon KIM / KIM Hyungtae ( RUS) Ekaterina Borisova / SOPOT Dmitry (RUS) Alina USTIMKINA / Nikita Volodin (UKR) Anastasia POBIZHENKO / Dmytro SHARPAR (USA) Sarah ROSE / Joseph Goodpaster
DANCE (12)
(BLR) Emilia KALEHANAVA / Uladzislau PALKHOUSKI (CAN) Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary Lagha (EST) Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev (FRA) Julia WAGRET / Mathieu COUYRAS (GER) Charise Matthaei / Maximilian PFISTERER (ITA) Francesca Righi / Peter PAPETTI (LTU ) Guoste DAMULEVICIUTE / Deividas KIZALA (RUS) Anastasia SHPILEVAYA / Grigory SMIRNOV (RUS) Anastasia SKOPTCOVA / Kirill Aleshin (UKR) Maria GOLUBTSOVA / BELOBROV Kirill (UKR) Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr BYELIKOV (USA) Chloe LEWIS / Logan BYE
RACE CALENDAR
Saturday 13 14:00 & ndash; Short program pairs of artistic 16:00 & ndash; Men Short Program
Sunday 14 14:00 & ndash; Short-dance 16:10 & ndash; Ladies Short Program
MONDAY & Igrave; 24:00 15 & ndash; Free program 14:20 artistic couples & ndash; Men's Free Program
TUESDAY & Igrave; & nbsp; 12:30 16 & ndash; Free Dance 15:00 & ndash; Women's Free Program
Saturday 20 14:00 & ndash; Team trials
HALL OF & rsquo; GOLD 2012 - SECTOR FEMMINILE1 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 2 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Adelina Sotnikova 3 & deg; (CHN) & ndash; LI Zijun
2012 & ndash; SECTOR MEN 1 & deg; (CHN) & ndash; Han YAN 2 & deg; (JPN) & ndash; Shoma A 3 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Feodosiy EFREMENKOV
2012 & ndash; ARTISTIC COUPLES 1 & deg; (CHN) & ndash; YU / JIN 2 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Fedorova / Miroshkin 3 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Dolidze / IVANOV
2012 & ndash; DANCE 1 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Yanovskaya / Mozgov 2 & deg; (UKR) & ndash; Nazarova / NIKITIN 3 & deg; (RUS) & ndash; Simonova / DRAGUN
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