Figure skating - Trentino Universiade 2013
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The Song Nan of China won the gold medal in the men's competition'' Figure Skating Universiade.
Thursday 12 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-three stationed in Beijing has built its success in the short program, won the competition by a wide margin, resisting the bully back in the longer segment of the race by twentysomething son'' s art Russian Gordei Gorshkov.
The podium was completed by twenty-Japanese Akio Sasaki, moved up from the sixth position of the short, while countryman Yoji Tsuboi, third yesterday, crashed in thirteenth position.
The best free program skated by Gorshkov was able to complete seven triple jumps, including two axel lutz and two in the second half of the disc. Song, however, despite a day not very happy about the elements of jump is able to store a good quadruple toe loop and two triple axels that, on balance, were vital for maintaining leaderhsip. Akio Sasaki, again judged the best on the components of the program, had the merit of complete six triple jumps, but fell on the second attempt of the triple axel, which ongi case, even if completed in combination with a double toe loop, it would not changed the rankings.
The qurto place went to Russian twenties Zhan Bush, author of'' a good first part of the free program with lots of quadruple toe loop. However, a noticeable decline in the'' last minute, characterized by uncertainties on a triple lutz and a bad fall on a triple flip, deprived him of the bronze medal.
Afterwards, he finished third in the race Moris Russian Kvitelashvili, eighteen year old school Tutberidze abandoned in the quadruple toe loop'' by chance, which allowed him to convincingly win the fourth stage of the Cup of Russia.
The best of the Italians was the ventotenne Cavalese Bacchini Paul, who finished the Universiade in eighteenth place. Saverio Giacomelli, twenty of Trent, is, however, had to settle for the twenty-first place.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) (CHN) - Nan SONG 220.70 (1 | 2) 2) (RUS) - Gorshkov Gordei 213.52 and (2 | 1) 3) (JPN) - Akio SASAKI 203.66 (6 | 3) 4) (RUS) - Zhan BUSH 200.16 , (8 | 4) 5) (RUS) - KVITELASHVILI Moris 189.76 (5 | 7) 6) (HKG) - LAM Ronald 187.67 , (9 | 6) 7) (CHN) - WANG Yi 186.98 (7 | 8) 8) (KOR) - KIM Min Seok 185.80 (14 | 5) 9) (CHN) - Jinlin GUAN 185.69 (4 | 11) 10) (EST) - Viktor ROMANENKOV 182.84 (10 | 9) 11) (UKR) - Igor Reznichenko 180.51 (12 | 10) 12) (KAZ) - RAKIMGALIEV Abzal 178.63 (11 | 13) 13) (JPN) - Yoji Tsuboi 176.90 (3 | 17) 14) (SUI) - WALKER Stephane 176.26 (13 | 14) 15) (BLR) - Pavel Ignatenko 170.77 (18 | 12) 16) (BLR) - Mikhail KARALIUK 166.50 (15 | 18) 17) (ESP) - Javier RAYA 165.37 (17 | 15) 18) (ITA) - Paul BACCHINI 164.47 (16 | 19) 19) (CZE) - Pavel KASKA 162.34 (19 | 16) 20) (TPE) - CHEN Shu-Jui 151.61 (20 | 21) 21) (ITA) - Xavier GIACOMELLI 149.26 (23 | 20) 22) (TUR) - Ali DEMIRBOGA , 143.04 (24 | 22) 23) (TPE) - Jordan JU 139.91 (22 | 23) 24) (AUS) - Andrew DODDS , 130.17 (21 | 24)
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