Figure skating - Dortmund NRW Trophy 2013
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Tomorrow, will open the first part of the seventh edition of the "NRW Trophy" comeptizione second level (level B or, if you prefer) hosted by Westfalenhallen Dortmund.
Thursday 31 October 2013 7 minutes reading time
'' The event, as usual, will be divided into two "sections". At the beginning of November, will play the dance competitions with athletes engaged senior, junior, novice and advanced novice basic. In the early days of December (4-8) will, however, shift'' s artistic.
In the dance, the spotlight on hosts Tanja Kolbe / Stefano Caruso (pictured), who have had an encouraging start to the season. The German-Italian couple,'' winner of the 2011 edition, won at the beginning of October, the lowest step of the podium in the'' highly qualified Ondrej Nepela Trophy Bratislava, pulling out a performance of great technical soundness.
For students of Barbara Fusar Poli, from not too long fresh'' s Olympic eligibility, it will be the dress rehearsal before leaving for Tokyo, where he will take part in all'' NHK Trophy, the fourth leg of the Grand Prix.
The underdogs entitled, however, to Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin, junior world champions in 2012 and struggling to occupy one of the three Olympic berths available for lla Russia. Moreover, even the young students of Elena Kustarova will be on stage in Tokyo at the end of next week. The main alternative would be represented by Italian Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri, seventh with disappointment at Skate Canada, where the short-dance were overly penalized by a questionable call of the panel on the straight line lift. For the blue pair, recently winner of the first test of national dance held at the Assago Forum, it will be the third competition in the space of three weeks.
In rimomato center of Nordrhein-Westfalen there will be other pairs of thick world, able to guarantee the nation of apprtenenza the place for the trial of Sochi. '' And, in fact, proclaimed the presence of the Ukrainians Heekin-Canedy/Dun, fourteenth in the World Championships in London, Lithuanians Tobias / Stagniunas, seventh in the latest edition of'' Skate America and fifteenth in the World Championships in London, Azeri Zlobina / Sitnikov, eighth in the latest edition of'' Skate America and sixteenths in the World London, and Turks Agafonova / Ucar,'' still surprising fifth in recent Nebelhorn Trophy.
Will be followed with attention the emerging Polish school Shpilband Plutowska / Gerber, currently second pair excluded from the Olympic Games, and Canadians Ralph / Hill, though not gone beyond the fourth place in the Coupe de Nice dominated by the French Papadakis / Cizeron.
Among the interesting features of the race, we must not forget the debut in the senior class of Russians Yanovskaya / Mozgov, easily qualified for the final of the Grand Prix Fukuoka junior.
In the junior competition, with twenty-two pairs for now recognized, are also Italians Benedetta Biffi / Lorenzo Giossi. In the advanced novice (ten couples enrolled), the color blue will be defended by Francesca Righi / Alessandro Papetti, while novice basic level (twelve pairs entered) will be the game Beatrice Bergamin / Luca Morini.
SENIOR COMPETITION ENTRY LIST (as of Thursday 31 to 22:00, can not be excluded waivers)
01) (AUT) Barbora SILNA / Juri KURAKIN02) (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Aleksey SITNIKOV03) (BEL) Cecilie Postiaux / Richard POSTIAUX04) (CAN) Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL05) (CZE) Gabriela Kubová / Matej NOVAK , 06) (GER) Shari KOCH / Christian NÜCHTERN07) (GER) Tanja Kolbe / Stefano CARUSO 08) (GBR) Carter JONES / Richard SHARPE 09) (ISR) Allison REED / Vasili Rogov 10) (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI11) (KAZ) Ksenia Korobkova / Daryn ZHUNUSSOV 12) (LTU) Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS13) (POL) Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Peter GERBER14 ) (RUS) Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN15) (RUS) Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey MOZGOV16) (PPS) Celia ROBLEDO / Luis FENERO17) (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR 18) (UKR) Anastasiya Galeta / Avidan BROWN19) (UKR) Siobhan Heekin Canedy / Dmitriy DUN
You can follow the various segments of the race via live stream made available by the organizers. In this regard, simply go to: http://nrw-trophy.de/livestream.html
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