Figure skating - Dortmund NRW Trophy 2013
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At the end of the short-dance of the seventh edition of the NRW Trophy in Dortmund, Italians Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri have posed a serious threat to the victory.
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In addition to Kolbe / Caruso, blocked by logistical problems, they eventually decided to boycott the event'' also attessi Russian Sinistina / Zhiganshin, Lithuanians and Poles Tobias Stagniunas Plutowska / Gerber.
The first segment of the race was dominated by Guignard / Fabbri, the third competition in the last three weeks. Students of Barbara Fusar Poli, absent in the'' opportunity as committed to Beijing in the third stage of the Grand Prix, they got the highest scores on the technical front and on each item of the program components. Above all, after the mishap took place at Skate Canada, the straight line lift was not a problem and returned to get the level four in order with a lot of valuable degree of execution. For the rest, it was the'' timely execution of the set of twizzles, who have obtained the highest level available, as well as the diagonal no touch, arrived at a competitive level three. As regards, however, the two sequences finnstep, also because of a'' clear judgment of the panel, we have seen some sporadic level three, but the couple stationed in Milan stopped at two levels both.
In second place, with a gap of more than seven points, are the Turks Agafonava / Ucar, which preceded the Israelis Rogov / Reed and Canadians Ralph / Hill. It is noted that the disappointing performance of Azeris Zlobina / Sitnikov not gone beyond the'' eighth place, despite the second score of the day on the components of the program. For new students of Igor Shpilband was a fatal fall on the sequence of finnstep sign up first. Little better than they did the Ukrainians Heekin-Canedy/Dun in trouble on the segment of the race so as happened at the Nebelhorn Trophy.
The fight for second place promises to be wide open as between the second in the standings and eighth the difference is slightly more than five points.
RANKING-SHORT DANCE
1) (ITA) Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI59.40 (29.64 | 29.76) 2) (TUR) Alisa Agafonova / Alper UCAR52.37 (27.63 | 24.74) 3) (ISR) Allison REED / Vasili ROGOV50.98 (25.99 | 24.99) 4) (CAN) Kharis RALPH / Asher HILL50.35 (25.26 | 25.09) 5) (GER) Shari KOCH / Christian NÜCHTERN49.73 (26.13 | 23.60) 6) (CZE) Gabriela Kubová / Matej NOVAK49.46 (24.63 | 24.83) 7) (UKR) Siobhan Heekin Canedy / Dmitriy DUN48.19 (21:39 | 26.80) 8) (AZE) Julia Zlobina / Aleksey SITNIKOV47.22 (20.63 | 28.59) 9 ((AUT) Barbora SILNA / Juri KURAKIN46.05 (22.99 | 23.06) 10) (GBR) Carter JONES / Richard SHARPE45.86 (23.75 | 22.11) 11) (ESP) Celia ROBLEDO / Luis FENERO37.11 (17.75 | 19:36) 12) (UKR) Anastasiya Galeta / Avidan BROWN37.11 (16.12 | 20.99)
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