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The forty-fifth edition of the Nebelhorn Trohpy, last chance to "grab" the Olympic qualification, opened with the women's short program, where there have been surprises and high performance profile.
Thursday 26 September 2013 5 minutes reading time
On the ice dell'Eislaufzentrum of Oberstdorf, the protagonist was Elena Radionova, making his debut in a senior international competition.
The fourteen-year-Moscow, a student of the increasingly gettonata Irina Goncharenko, he doth a service free of smudges, anninichilendo the qualified competition.
The defending World Junior Championship was almost perfect jump on the elements of completing an impressive combination in the opening triple lutz / triple toe loop and, in the second half of the disc, is a Rittberger preceded by the step that the double axel ordinance. In addition, as of consueuto, presented spins of enorne quality advantage on this side of flexibility with few equals. Radionova, reached the highest level piiù available also on the sequence of steps, set a new personal best by touching share 64.69 points, a goal difficult to reach for the vast majority of colleagues navigate more.
The place of honor, is the Japanese Miki Ando (59.79), the Riento in the race after an absence of nearly thirty months. Overall, the impression made by the twice champion rainbow was definitely positive, though there is still work to do on the tops. The twenty-five of Nagoya, awarded the highest ratings of the day on each of the components of the program, she appeared on the ball especially on the elements of completing easily double axel jump, triple Rittberger and a combination triple lutz / double Rittberger, by the rotation a little 'suspect on the second jump.
The podium is completed by U.S. Provisional Ashley Cain (57,85), so advanced compared to the recent past as to get the second technical score behind Radionova.
In the ranking of Olympic qualification, is in the lead, as predicted, the Georgian Elene Gedevanishvili (51,59), which, despite losing the level of the flying sit on the street leaving an element precedes the Czech Elizaveta Ukalova fifteen (50, 93) and the seventeen year old Brazilian U.S. school Isadora Williams (50.35), both very solid on the elements of jump. Ranked follow the wait Austrian Kerstin Frank (48.81), Australia's Brookle Han (48.74), fall into ruin on the triple Rittberger preceded by the step, and the Norwegian Anne Line Gjersem (48,35), which confirmed the progress that had already emerged in the past season.
The palm of the main disappointment of the day it is a tie to the Finnish Julia Turkkila (40,63), penalized by a fall on the triple Salchow and a shift to empty sull'axel completed only single, and spgnola Sonia Lafuente (40.46 ), regressed in an inexplicable than in the recent past and appeared in the form of very rough conditions. In the present case, hit, in particular, the choice of impoverishing from technical point of view the programs, and from which, however, has not resulted in a trial free from errors.
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Elena RADIONOVA - Nebelhorn Trophy 2013 - short program
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