Figure skating - Trentino Universiade 2013
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The Chinese Song Nan has a clear claim to the success of the Universiade men's race in dominating the short program, held today at the ice palace of Trento (Ice Stadium).
Wednesday 11 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-three stationed in Beijing has succeeded for the first time this season to skate a flawless test by creating a vacuum on the technical front. After opening the disc with a valuable combination toeloppo quad / triple toe loop, no worries completed the triple axel in the second part of the music and a triple lutz preceded by the step. Convincing elements of spinning, it was also the best of the day like the Japanese Akio Sasaki on the sum of the components of the program.
In second place, trailing by almost eleven points, finished the twenty year old Russian Gordei Gorshkov, which preceded by a narrow margin the twenty-Japanese Yoji Tsuboi, the twenty-four Chinese Jinlin Guan and the eighteen year old Russian Moris Kvitelashvili. It should however be noted as among Gorshkov and the'' Swiss Stephane Walker, ranking thirteenth in there are only a little more than eight points of difference. Therefore, if one side seems to have ended the battle for victory, it was announced very interesting fight for the podium with many athletes involved.
The best of the Italians, now all under tone, it was the veteran Paolo Bacchini not gone beyond the sixteenth position, due to a fall on the triple Rittberger.
The landlord Saverio Giacomelli, twenty of Trento, closed position in ventitreeesima failing to qualify for the skin of his teeth for the free program, although it has lost some serious points due to the lack of rotation of the triple bet.
Surprisingly, finally,'' twenty-awaited Zandron Mauritius has concluded its Universiade in advance suffering from a very bad day on the elements of jump. '' The student Cristina Mauri had to settle for the twenty-sixth position, not enough to go to the second part of the race.
The free program will be held tomorrow at 18:15 Dalel.
Finally, it is important to remember that the Kazakh Denis Ten, pre-race favorite, withdrew before the race due to an injury suffered in the'' last training session.
CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM SHORT
01) 81.56 (CHN) - SONG Nan02) 70.73 (RUS) - Gordei03 Gorshkov) 69.47 (JPN) - Tsuboi Yoji04) 69.45 (CHN) - GUAN Jinlin05) 69.40 (RUS) - KVITELASHVILI Moris06) 67.69 (JPN) - SASAKI Akio07) 67.29 (CHN) - WANG Yi08) 66.50 (RUS) - BUSH Zhan09) 65.51 (HKG) - LAM Ronald10) 64.35 (EST) - ROMANENKOV Viktor11) 64.00 (KAZ) - RAKIMGALIEV Abzal12) 62.65 (UKR) - Reznichenko Igor13) 62.48 (SUI) - WALKER Stephane14) 59.53 (KOR) - KIM Min Seok15) 59.22 (BLR) - KARALIUK Mikhail16) 57.45 (ITA) - BACCHINI Paolo17) 55.20 (ESP) - RAYA Javier18) 54.70 (BLR) - Ignatenko Pavel19 ) 54.63 (CZE) - KASKA Pavel20) 54.33 (TPE) - CHEN JUI-Shu21) 52.50 (AUS) - Andrew22 DODDS) 51.95 (TPE) - jordan23 JU) 51.87 (ITA) - GIACOMELLI Saverio24) 51.84 (TUR) - DEMIRBOGA Ali25 ) 50.06 (AUT) - Mario IONIAN-Rafael26) 48.10 (ITA) - ZANDRON Maurizio27) 47.66 (AUS) - WEBSTER Mark28) 47.61 (ESP) - MONTOYA Felipe29) 45.48 (AUT) - KOLL Manuel30) 44.13 (FRA) - LEJEUNE Florian31 ) 41.41 (AUS) - Jordan32 DODDS) 32.68 (THA) - KONGCHIM Suchet
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