Figure skating - Volvo Cup Riga 2013
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It ended in the late afternoon today the dance competition of the twenty-second edition of the Volvo Cup, B-class event underway in Riga
Friday 8 November 2013 3 minutes reading time
Victory went to the couple Azerbaijani Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov (152,42), which laid the foundation for the assertion'' dominating the short-dance. For students of Igor Shpilband, opaque in the dance Free Skate America and in the short-dance of the NRW Trophy in Dortmund, this is the first victory of the season.
In second place, but with the best result in the free dance, the Germans were placed Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi (149,24), newly eligible for the Olympic Games and coming off a decent sixth place at Skate Canada.
The podium was completed by the blue Lorenza Alessandrini / Simona Vaturi (143.96), already second in the Coupe de Nice in a couple of weeks ago. Students of Barbara Fusar Poli, third in both programs, have taken their satisfaction of getting the best technical score in the longer segment of the race reaching a remarkable 46.07.
Fourth place went to Italian-Slovak Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley (139.06), which preceded by a wide margin Estonians Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand (132,32).
Federica Bernardi / Christopher Mior (119.82), the second Italian couple in the race, had to settle'' s eleventh place finish losing two positions in the free dance compared to the result of short-dance.
In the meantime you are delinenando the ranking Italian Olympic qualification after each pair in Italian ballot turned in a national test and two international competitions.
125.55 - GUIGNARD / FABBRI (52.85 [75.50 x 0.7] - national race Assago, Oct. 19) (72.70 [145,4 / 2] - Ondrej Nepela + NRW Dortmund)
122.14 - ALESSANDRINI / Vaturi (51.68 [73.83 x 0.7] - national race Assago 19th October) (70.46 [140,93 / 2] - Coupe de Nice + Volvo Cup)
102.94 - BERNARDI / MIOR (43.14 [62.02 x 0.7] - national race Assago, Oct. 19) (59.80 [119.59 / 2] - U.S. International + Volvo Cup)
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