figure skating - World Team Challenge 2016
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The opening day of the first edition of the Team Challenge Cup, focused on the short programs of specialty & agrave; single, it was dominated by a narrow margin the Asian team, ahead of two lengths the North American team.
Saturday 23 April 2016 12 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; event, hosted by the Spokane Arena in Spoakane, & egrave; It was marked by a long series of highly technical performance as witnessed by the nine personal records retouched. & Nbsp; Of course, as befits a competition held in late spring, the judges were known for generosity & agrave; in the evaluations of both components of the program that the degree of execution.
The end result & egrave; It was propiziato from & rsquo; trend of the men's race, dominated by Asian skaters that are clearly imposed in each of the descent groups on the ice with a lot of performance over the ninety points.
FINAL RANKING
1) ASIA64 (36 male sector, 28 women's sector) 2) AMERICA 62 (30 male sector, 32 women's sector) 3) EUROPA54 (24 male sector, 30 women's sector)
MALE SECTOR
The main protagonist & egrave; was the Japanese Shoma Uno, became law in discipline history as the first skater to complete a quadruple flip in competition. The eighteen year Nagoya, capable in & rsquo; occasion to well perform two quadruple jumps in addition to triple axel placed in the second half & agrave; music reached nearly 106 points, threshold far exceeded only by compatriot Yuzuru Hanyu. Shoma Uno, placed in the second group of descent on the ice, has easily been right Canadian Nam Nguyen and the Czech Michal Brezina, both fallen on two occasions.
In the first group, prevailed Kazakh Denis Ten, author of the best performance of the season and finally able to run a short program with minimal burrs. The Asian ventiduenne preceded by almost seven lengths the American Adam Rippon, able to close to parity & agrave; the match on the components of the program, but were penalized by not having run for choosing a quadruple jump. In any case, l & rsquo; pupil of Rafael Aratunian you & egrave; I had the satisfaction of migliorae your personal best. Russian Mikhail Kolyada, the revelation of the last World Cup, you & egrave; had to settle for third place, accomplices l & rsquo; failure to date with the quadruple toe loop and a fall on the triple lutz.
In the third and final group, the Chinese Boyang Jin was right competition, claiming the & rsquo; usual dominance on jump elements. The eighteen year-old Harbin not & egrave; It was flawless in & rsquo; execution of the combination quadruple lutz / triple toe loop and quad toe loop, but & egrave; rider managed to precede five abundant points the returning Jason Brown, made its race debut in & rsquo; calendar year 2016. The US took advantage of & rsquo; opportunity to present the new short program and, despite the decision to give up the quadruple jump and a landing with hand land the triple axel, he has edited the personal best.
To sum it all, the best of the lot & egrave; was Shoma A third man in history to break the hundred points in the contract segment and second all-time to go beyond these sixty lengths on the technical side. After that, the best scores were obtained from Boyang Jin and Denis Ten, who preceded Jason Brown and Adam Rippon. In addition to the Canadian Nam Nguyen, they have not prevented European skaters, the last in each group.
GROUP 1
1) 12 points - KAZ - Denis TEN (video) 92.63 (49.98 | 42.65) 2) 10 points - USA - Adam RIPPON (video) 86.05 (43.40 | 42.65) (PB) 3) 8 points - RUS - Mikhail Kolyada (video ) 70.60 (32.80 | 38.80) -1.00
GROUP 2
1) 12 points - JPN - Shoma ONE (video) 105.74 (60.89 | 44.85) PB2) 10 points & ndash; CAN & ndash; Nag NGUYEN (video) 64.91 (32.56 | 34.35) -2.00) 3) 8 points & ndash; CZE - Michal BREZINA (video) 64.54 (27.79, 38.75) -2.00
GROUP 3 1) 12 points & ndash; CHN - Boyang JIN (video) 93.18 (54.13, 39.05) 2) 10 points - Jason BROWN (video) 87.72 (43.52, 44.20) PB3) 8 points - Sergei Voronov 62.55 (26.35 | 37.20) -1.00
SECTOR FEMALE
For a change, the role of mattatrice & egrave; It was for the Russian Evgenia Medvedeva, who nearly pi & ugrave; a point not & egrave; He managed to snatch the world record at the Japanese Asada (78.66) and missed for ten cents a European record (77.66, Tuktamysheva). The world champion in charge doth the usual flawless performance managing to excel on each item presented. The sixteen year old Muscovite you & egrave; tax in the first group of descent on the ice by adjusting the Japanese Satoko Miyahara, equally impeccable and for the first time over scollinata share settantatr & egrave; points, and the American Gracie Gold, lingering to have performed twice instead & eacute; the triple lutz which opened the combination with the triple toe loop.
The second group & egrave; It was dominated by Canadian Gabriella Daleman, author of the personal best with a step further than the recent world championships. The eighteen year old from Toronto was close to seventy points and & egrave; distinguished, in particular for the quality & agrave; the triple combination toe loop / triple toe loop. There were reasons for satisfaction also for the & rsquo; Italian Roberta Rodeghiero, which, by virtue & ugrave; a smudge proof, has raised the level of & rsquo; rod touching the sixty-two points exceeded only by the Italian front Carolina Kostner. Japan's Rika Hongo, betrayed by a vacuum step on the jump preceded by step, he closed the race in third position with the absolute score more & ugrave; Low of the day.
Ashley Wagner imposed his law in the third and final group confirming the state of grace that has allowed it to win the d & rsquo; silver medal in the World Championships in Boston. The US veteran you & egrave; deprived of the satisfaction to precede again Medvedeva in the sum of the components of the program and above all impeccably executed the three jump elements, including the combination triple flip / triple toe loop. In the absence of rotation of problems, & egrave; got the new personal best with a growth of almost two points compared to the best performance of the past. Wagner preceded by almost ten points the sixteen year old Kazakh Elizabet Tursynabeva, in turn able to crumble the personal best as well as & eacute; the national one. Sadly last, however, Russia's Elena Radionova, who started poorly the test with a triple lutz landed on two feet and l & rsquo; he ended worse by running a single axel and falling on & rsquo; improvised combination triple flip / triple toe loop.
Except for the third teams in each group, all participants improved their personal records.
GROUP 11) 12 points - RUS - Evgenia Medvedeva (video) 77.56 (42.00 | 35.56) PB2) 10 points - JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA (video) 73.28 (39.88 | 33.40) PB3) 8 points - USA - Gracie GOLD (video) 71.34 (36.46 | 34.88)
GROUP 21) 12 points - CAN - Gabrielle DALEMAN (video) 68.45 (36.69 | 31.76) PB2) 10 points - ITA - Roberta RODEGHIERO (video) 61.75 (32.51 | 29.24) PB3) 8 points - JPN - Rika HONGO (video) 60.43 (29.99 | 30.44)
GROUP 3 1) 12 points - USA - Ashley WAGNER (video) 74.94 (38.90 | 35.64) PB2) 10 points - KAZ - Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA (video) 65.44 (35.80, 29.64) PB-NR3) 8 points - RUS - elena radionova ( video) 61.36 (30.44 | 31.92) & ndash; 1:00
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