Figure skating - Merano Cup 2015
The eighteenth edition of the Merano Cup & egrave; It was characterized by the predictable rule of the Russian veterans, who won by a wide margin the two competitions scheduled.
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Result aside, Alena Leonova and Konstantin Menshov, far more athletes & ugrave; seniors enrolled & Outdoors; event, have had a chance & agrave; making the dress rehearsal before the NHK Trophy, which disputer & agrave; in less than two weeks. The two students Evgeni Rukavitsin imposed themselves comfortably in both segments of the race revealing a & rsquo; & agrave obvious superiority; technical than the competition, at the time not yet equipped to express the same levels.
Both for the & rsquo; one that for the & rsquo; another, not & egrave; missed some step-load, but the overall performance is & egrave; proved positive. Alena Leonova, (176.66), returned from an early season with ups and downs, has well-executed combination triple toe loop / triple toe loop in both programs and gave the & rsquo; impression that he put behind the problems with the elements spinning top, that often have been a sore point. If & ograve; the short program, the same last season, had already & agrave; provided positive feedback, not so you could say for the new free, often peppered with steps to empty. In this sense, the situation & egrave; seemed improved over previous releases. On balance, there & rsquo; & egrave; s & Igrave; It was a fall on a triple flip, as well as an attempt to triple salchow opened badly after a single rotation, but were well completed two double axel and four triple jumps, including the & rsquo; difficult lutz. In the short program, however, the & rsquo; only error concerned the & rsquo; axel, only single run and, therefore, Regulation in hand, no value for the score.
Almost twenty-five St. Petersburg preceded the Italian national champion Jade Russian (151.06), in obvious progress compared to the Coupe de Nice in half & agrave; October. L & rsquo; elegant eighteen of Turin has unsheathed his usual mastery of steps, spins and double axel, but especially since the & rsquo; impression of being able to master in a short time l & rsquo; important triple flip, under rotated in both segments of the competition. In Merano, they came positive feedback from triple salchow and, in the free program, & egrave; It was well executed a triple toe loop.
Third place went & egrave; attested seventeen Czech Elizaveta Ukolova (140.75), only to have landed two double axel and five triple jumps in the free program.
The main disappointment of the race & egrave; Maria was Artemieva (137.10), not gone beyond the fifth place and seemed rather lost in & rsquo; last test before racing before leaving for Nagano, site of the sixth stage of the Grand Prix. The twenty-two Russian caught two bad days on the elements of jump confirming problems with double axel emerged in the latest releases. In & rsquo; occasion, the situation & egrave; turned out to be even worse as & egrave; failed even triple lutz. The condition generally unwell & egrave; clearly it emerged during the free program, characterized by two ruinous fall and a & rsquo; unusual approximation elements of spinning top. During the test, in fact, Artemieva struggled to hold back tears then burst into tears upon learning the score, well away from the pomp of a few weeks ago.
Things did not go better at Swedish Isabelle Olsson (137.87), second after the short program, despite some heartache too took home the triple lutz, but then literally wrecked segment pi & ugrave; long race in which, in addition to a couple of falls, he has collected a series of landings scrubby running properly only the first two double axel and triple salchow. The twenty-two M & ouml; rrum preceded Artmieva few tenths, finishing in fourth place.
The best of the other Italian present at Merano & egrave; was the twenty-three of Turin Ilaria Nogaro (124.17), author of a pi & ugrave; that discrete short program key to store a seventh place finish. The sixteen year old Milan Chiara Calderone (118.34) closed the test in ninth highlighting some problems too in completing the most of triple jumps, while seventeen Valdaostan Maria Guia Tagliapietra (109.23), the debut season after a lengthy process of physical problems , gave the & rsquo; impression to be still far from the best condition and & egrave; He had to settle for twelfth posto.Hanno took part in the trial also Jana Savina (90.86) and Naomi De Simone (82.60), respectively fourteenth and fifteenth.
The thirty-two Konstantin Menshov (229.08) ruled the roost in the competition for men in two days completing four quadruple jumps and two triple axels. In particular, the combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop were performed in an exemplary manner, cos & Igrave; as quadruple salchow the free program. Than planned, & egrave; for & ograve; Failure quadruple salchow the short program, replaced by a triple salchow, as well & egrave; the second triple axel segment pi & ugrave; long race, run double. In general, the quality & agrave; the triple axel & egrave; It was lower than the quadruple toe loop, but it is not a novelty & agrave ;. In kiss & amp; Menshov cry gave the & rsquo; impression of being upset for feedback on program components, slightly above the average of seven.
L & rsquo; wait before seasonal challenge among the emerging Italian Matteo Rizzo (182.20) and Maurizio Zandron (168.35) has dominated the seventeen stationed in Sesto San Giovanni, which cos & Igrave; confirmed his second place finish in the race Merano of twelve months ago. & Nbsp; The deputy national champion has solved the dispute to his advantage in the free program, in which he presented two double axel and seven triple jumps, including a triple axel, landed on two feet, and a triple toe loop judged under rotated from the panel. & nbsp; Zandron, however, after having had the better in the short program, has paid the price in the segment pi & ugrave; long race through some jump too open in flight. The final budget, have, in fact, weighed the missing points due to a single axel performed instead & eacute; triple and two double lutz instead & eacute; triple. Analyzing the results, the fight on the components of the program & egrave; It revealed very tight, but it was dominated by Rizzo, albeit by a narrow margin. For both, the triple Axel did not give the desired responses, but will & agrave; l & rsquo; key to make the leap in quality & agrave ;. Zandron, second after the short program, finished the test in fifth place preceded by Czech Jiri Belohradsky (179.28) and from & rsquo; Swiss Nicola Todeschini (175.26).
As for the other skaters in the Italian race, Dario Betti (142.28), Marco Zandron (138.42) and Mattia Dalla Torre (137.73) they were placed in & rsquo; order between the & rsquo; eleventh and thirteenth.
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