figure skating - Team Challenge Cup 2016
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The first edition of & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Team Challenge Cup hosted by the & ldquo; Spokane Arena & rdquo; Spokane United States, & egrave; It was won by the US team, which & egrave; sets with abysmal competitive advantage.
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In the light of the values ​​in the field, it was thought that, in the key success, could be crucial the afternoon session dedicated to dance and artistic couples as North America was able to earn nearly sixteen lengths on & rsquo; Europe and beyond fifty-& egrave; on & rsquo; Asia. In reality & agrave ;, the host continent has collected more & ugrave; points also adding all the results in individual races.
In general, the average level of & rsquo; event & egrave; It revealed very high, but the fact is not surprising pi & ugrave; much of the light of the selection criteria. No lack of performance in some way gi & agrave; revenue in the discipline history and rewarded with stellar scores. It now remains to be seen whether the results obtained in Spokane will be officially taken into consideration in determining the different types of leadership. In this regard, they await news from the international federation.
RANKING FINALE1) 892.42 - America2) 848.06 - Europe3) 802.22 - ASIA
The team of the American continent & egrave; sets in three of the four specialties & agrave ;. L & rsquo; Asia has, however, got the better for a little more & ugrave; of a point in the men's field.
ARTISTIC COUPLES
Canadians Duhamel / Radford have literally created a vacuum, strong technical rate above the competition and especially the ability & agrave; to limit the vacuum passages. Faultless on each element of torque, the world champions have committed some trimming on the parallel jumps, but, on balance, have been able to dictate not only on the technical side, but also on each of the components of the program entry.
In second place, with an upper gap of thirteen points, came the Russians Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, now betrayed by salchow, launched in parallel or not makes no difference.
Italians Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise got the fifth stop on the plate leaving some points on the parallel jumps, but revealing the & rsquo; now customary consistency of lifting and on most of the couple elements.
STANDINGS (in bold the scores count towards the Team Challenge Cup) 1) CAN - Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD 143.78 (74.92 | 72.56) 2) RUS - & nbsp; Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov & nbsp; 130.46 (61.06 | 70.40) & ndash; 1:00 3) USA - Alexa SCIMECA / Chris Knierim 122.15 (61.75 | 62.40) & ndash; 2004) CHN - Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG 118.78 (59.10 | 59.68) 5) ITA - Nicole OF MONICA / Matthew GUARISE 105.88 (51.88 | 54.00) 6) JPN - Sumire SUTO / Francis Boudreau-AUDET 98.02 (52.74 | 49.04) & ndash; 1:00
DANCE
After a close fight on the edge of cents, Canadians Weaver / Poje preceded the US Chock / Bates. The Pasquale Camerlengo students cos & igrave; redeemed the vacuum passage of the recent World Cup, taking off the satisfaction to adjust the & rsquo; entire competition on the technical side.
The Azzurri Cappellini / Lanotte have clocked the third abutment prejudice in the wake of North American couples. To fight on equal terms with the usual opponents & egrave; Failure of a four-level on one of the two sequences of steps in torque.
STANDINGS (in bold the scores count towards the Team Challenge Cup) 1) CAN - Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew Poje 111.56 (55.34 | 56.22) PB2) USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES 111.30 (54.48 | 56.82) 3) ITA - Anna Cappellini / Luca LANOTTE 108.96 (53.40 | 55.56) 4) GBR - Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND 100.90 (50.98 | 49.92) 5) CHN - Shiyue WANG / LIU Xinyu 83.18 (41.18 | 42.10) 6) KOR - Rebeka KIM / Kirill MINOV 82.16 ( 42.64 | 39.54)
SECTOR FEMALE
The highlight of the & rsquo; event & egrave; It was the women's free program, characterized by four exclamation point tests. Evgenia Medvedeva, Satoko Miyahara, Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold were expressed at levels of absolute excellence doth the best skating career. The Russian and Japanese, cos & igrave; as was the case in the short-program, they have been flawless from one end & rsquo; other performing with quality & agrave; two double axel and seven triple jumps, seasoned with steps and spins rips applause. The two North American were not to be less, but both have paid a barb on one of the blowing elements (triple Rittberger for Gold and combination triple flip / triple toe loop for Wagner, however, placed in the second part of the music).
On the sidelines, it should be noted as Evgenia Medvedeva has reached the pi & ugrave score; highest ever in the contract segment.
L & rsquo; Italian Roberta Rodeghiero finished the test in ninth position.
STANDINGS (in bold the scores count towards the Team Challenge Cup) 1) RUS - Evgenia Medvedeva & nbsp; 151.55 (78.19 | 73.36) PB 2) JPN - Satoko MIYAHARA 145.02 (76.06 | 68.96) PB3) USA - Ashley WAGNER 143.20 (71.12 | 72.08) PB4) USA - Gracie GOLD 142.00 (71.92 | 70.08) PB5) RUS - elena radionova 133.31 (66.11 | 67.20) 6) KAZ - Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA 123.61 (64.17 | 59.44) PB7) JPN - Rika HONGO 122.15 (61.47 | 61.68) -1008) CAN - Gabrielle DALEMAN 115.93 (55.05 | 60.88) 9) ITA - Roberta RODEGHIERO 105.00 ( 48.80 | 57.20) -1.00
MALE SECTOR
Even today, the main protagonist & egrave; was Shoma Uno, took to the track with the & rsquo; intention to submit a plan by the base-value second only to the usual standards of the historic rival Boyang Jin. The final results gave reason to eighteen Japanese capable for the second time in his career to break the barrier of 190 points in an international event. & Nbsp; In one way or & rsquo; another, l & rsquo; student of Machiko Yamada & egrave; He managed to land three quadruple jumps, including a good flip to start the program. L & rsquo; execution of the quadruple toe loop, placed both in the second half & agrave; music, not & egrave; It was flawless, but both jump elements have been rotated.
The second score of the day & egrave; It was obtained from Jason Brown, who cos & igrave; It ended on a season characterized negatively by injuries. The US & egrave; It was the best of the lot in the sum of the components of the program and for the first time you & egrave; prompted more than 180 points in the contract segment, unprecedented for the Stars and Stripes movement. Essentially, Brown has proven to be at the moment the most & ugrave; Strong & ldquo; not quadruplista & rdquo; In circulation.
Below you & egrave; placed compatriot Adam Rippon, who confirmed it emerged of grace was in the latest releases, while the Chinese Jin Boyang, authentic revelation of the season, not & egrave; gone beyond the sixth place because several steps to empty the elements of planned jumps. However, the fact that he let go only in late April in & rsquo; last race of the season says a lot about the potential of & rsquo; athlete. L & rsquo; Asian & egrave; It was preceded by Europeans Mikhail Kolyada and Michal Brezina, much more & ugrave; brighter than all & rsquo; matte-short program yesterday.
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STANDINGS (in bold valid scores for the Team Challenge Cup) 1) JPN - Shoma UNO 192.92 (103.42 | 89.50) PB2) USA - Jason BROWN 181.50 (89.80 | 91.70) PB3) USA - Adam RIPPON 166.68 (80.68 | 87.00) -1004) RUS - Mikhail Kolyada 165.48 (83.28 | 83.20) - 1,005) CZE - Michal BREZINA 158.30 (76.60 | 81.70) 6) CHN - Boyang JIN 156.71 (84.01, 73.70) -1007) KAZ - Denis TEN 147.77 (68.17 | 81.60 ) -2008) RUS - Sergei VORNOV 132.79 (58.49 | 74.30) 9) CAN - Nam NGUYEN 127.10 (58.80 | 69.30) - 1:00
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