Figure skating - Santa Claus Cup / Trophy Tallinn
In the past week, several Italian athletes were engaged in Budapest, home of & rsquo; eighth edition of the Santa Claus Cup, and Tallin, theater of Tallinn Trophy.
Monday 8 December 2014 8 minutes reading time
In Hungary, Giada Russian (122.76) is & egrave; placed instead d & rsquo; honor preceded by fifteen hostess Ivett Toth (150.37). The seventeen year old from Turin & egrave; for & ograve; expressed below the levels shown in the recent Merano Cup revealing difficulties & agrave; on all triple jumps presented in competition programs. A good command of the double axel and excellent spins the they still allowed to precede the Romanian Julia Sauter (121.24) and fifteen Milan Chiara Calderone (114.44), second after the short program in which & egrave; well managed to complete a triple lutz preceded by step. A & rsquo; matte Bogdana Semyryazhko (78,15) is & egrave; had to settle dell & rsquo; eleventh place.
In the men, success & egrave; went to Spain's Javier Raya (154.26), who ruled compatriot Felipe Montoya (147.13) and l & rsquo; Austrian Manuel Koll (146.66). The eighteen year old blue Mattia Dalla Torre ended the competition in fourth place (138.40), while Dario Betti (122.58), returning after a long break due to injury, you & egrave; placed sixth.
In dance, the competition overall level pi & ugrave; higher among those played in Budapest, the emerging Polish Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriyev (144.36) preceded the wire the Turks, accompanied by Alexander Zhulin Alisa Agafonova / Alper Ucar (144.23). For both couples & egrave; was still a big party as in & rsquo; occasion were exceeded the minimum technical standards to take part in the World Championships. In third place were placed Italians Misato Komatsubara / Andrea Fabbri (129.37), penalized by a & rsquo; unexpected fall of the Japanese twizzle on the free dance, which cost a total at least seven points. Students of Barbara Fusar Poli, assisted by Stefano Caruso, however, have demonstrated a & rsquo; obvious technical growth storing the best scores of the season. Here they are positive indications for the young Sofia Sforza / Leo Luca Sforza (122.06), quarters behind the Italians and appeared higher than at the Warsaw Cup two weeks ago.
At the level of junior dance, imposed themselves strolling Italian-Hungarian Carolina Moscheni / Adam Lukacs (145.61), which would have had major worries in defeating the couples category increased. On the Italian front, Jasmine Tessari / Stefano Colafato (101.42) finished in tenth place, while Francesca Righi / Peter Papetti (92.83) achieved a fifteenth place.
In the test junior female, success for the fifteen-Hungarian Fruzsina Medgyesi (124.48), which had the best by a wide margin over compatriot Julia Batori (113.07). The best of Italian & egrave; Francesca was fourteen Zazza (106.13), fifth, while Delia Paparella (104.83) finished in seventh position. They took part in the race also & nbsp; Aurora Ripamonti (eighteenth with 94.24 points), Vivienne Contarino (19th with 94.01 points), Sara Martuscelli (twenty-second with 91.67 points) and Alessandra Pontrelli (thirty-second with 78.59 points).
The junior men's race & egrave; was dominated by the fifteen Deniss Vasiljevs (181.39), a talented Latvian gi & agrave; able to shine in the Junior Grand Prix circuit. The sixteen year old Simone Deer fourth with 134.68 points, & egrave; was the best of Italian and preceded the fourteen Nik Folini, tenth with 123.85 points, and the sixteen Olgierd Febbi, twelfth with 117.49 points.
Finally, in the category advanced novice female, should be reported to the fifth place Giorgia Zampieri (76.57).
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In Tallinn, success in the dance for the Israelis Allison Reed / Vasily Rogov (150.00), that cos & Igrave; as Georgians Tatiana Kozmava / Aleksandr Zolotarev (140.67) and Latvians Olga Jakushina / Andrey Nevskiy (139.07), exceeded the technical limits to take part in the World Championships. Israel also ruled the roost in the men's race thanks to Alexey Bychenko (209.02), who defeated the margin with young compatriot Daniel Samohin (184.94) and l & rsquo; Armenian Slavik Hayrapetyan (156.32).
In the women's competition, the Latvian Angelina Kuchvalska (156.28) celebrated sixteenth birthday ahead of the fifteen-Armenian Anastasia Galustyan (150.85) and the fifteen Finnish Liubov Efimenko (148.45). Guia Tagliapietra (132.58) finished in sixth place by completing the two segments of the race three triple lutz and not going far from closing in the short program the combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop. Sara Casella (100.89), however, & egrave; had to settle the fourteenth at the end of a test well below its potentials & agrave ;.
In the junior race, Chiara Mattana (94.53) is & egrave; placed seventeenth, Francesca Game (92.21) twenty, Chiara Cattani (90.73) and Eleonora Guzzo twenty-third (89.35) twenty-fifth.
A level advanced novice, Martina Mancusi (81.85) took fourth place, while Gaia Maiorano (75.95) finished the race in eighth place.
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