Figure skating - Merano Cup 2015
All & rsquo; lunchtime today, open his & agrave; flying the eighteenth edition of the Merano Cup, B-class event that, as usual, will come & agrave; hosted by "Meranarena" Merano.
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Competitions, except withdrawals of & rsquo; last time, should involve one hundred thirteen athletes representing seventeen countries, distributed among the categories novice, junior and senior male and female sections.
The highlight will be & agrave; represented by the senior women's race, which will see & agrave; at the starting almost twenty-five Russian Alena Leonova, vice-champion in World Championships & rsquo; now distant 2012, and the twenty-two Maria Artemieva, back from three podiums in as many outputs in the Challenger Series circuit ISU. As the main alternative to the two athletes of St. Petersburg & egrave; He announced the twenty-two Swedish Isabelle Olsson, Denkova-Staviski won the Cup a few days ago and committed to Skate Canada cos & Igrave; as Leonova.
Home Italy, headlights trained on season debut of seventeen Maria Guia Tagliapietra forced to defect to physical problems of different content before the Junior Grand Prix circuit and then the Finlandia Trophy. They will also participate in the eighteen national champion in office Giada Russian, sixth in the Coupe de Nice in half & agrave; October, the sixteen year old Chiara Calderone, who during the season premiered in the Junior Grand Prix circuit. The large Italian contingent will & agrave; completed by Jana Savina, Ilaria Nogaro and Electra Mary Olivotto. Among the other athletes present, they deserve mention the seventeen Czech Elizaveta Ukolova, that in spite of & rsquo; et & agrave; has already & agrave; a & rsquo; Olympic experience, and the sixteen year old French Nadjma Mahamoud, winner in Merano test juniors a couple of years ago.
The test will be male & agrave; ennobled by the presence of thirty-two Russian Konstantin Menshov, among the best in business quadruplisti & agrave; and recently won the Finlandia Trophy. The emerging blue Matteo Rizzo and Maurizio Zandron, rose by shots in the last races, try to worry the veteran San & nbsp; Petersburg with a keen eye on the scores in optical national ranking. On the Italian front, the game will also Mattia Della Torre, Carlo Vittorio Palermo, Zandron Marco and Dario Betti, appeared in progress in Denkova-Staviksi Cup.
At junior level, it rinnover & agrave; in the men's game between the South Tyrolean Daniel Grassl thirteen and fourteen Czech Matyas Belohradsky, he won in Graz from & rsquo; pupil of Lorenzo Magri. The blue colors will be defended by Alberto Vanz, Paolo Balestri, Bozzuto Marco Simone deer and Nik Folini. In & rsquo; crowded test female, headlights focused on the fourteen Italian Lucrezia Gennaro Leccardi and Elizabeth, who will face the promising German Kristina Isaev and weigh the ambitions of the Russian Alena Tortunova. The other Italian in the race will Tullia Maria Trevisan, Chiara Censors, Sara Conti, Marta Chestnut, Giorgia and Francesca Zazza Zampieri.
In the novice category, andr & agrave; followed closely the twelve year old Alessia Tornaghi, brilliant in the second test of the national junior Asiago. In large Italian contingent, they are also & nbsp; Greta Baldan, Federica Guolo, Lara Naki Gutmann, Gaia Maiorano, Alice Marchelli, Gaia Club, Marina Piredda, Judith Sartori and Valentina Indelicato. In the men, will go & agrave; staged a challenge Italy-Germany committed young Emanuele Indelicato, Nikolaj Memola, Frangipani and Philip Gabriel Clerici.
CALENDAR OF RACE
THURSDAY & Igrave; 12:00 5 & ndash; advanced novice women's short program 15:00 & ndash; advanced novice men's short program 16:00 & ndash; female junior short program
FRIDAY & Igrave; 611: 15 & ndash; advanced novice women's free program 14:40 & ndash; Men's Free program advanced novice 15:40 & ndash; free program female juniors 20:35 & ndash; male junior short program
Saturday 711: 15 & ndash; 13:40 Men's Free program Junior & ndash; 16:25 women's short program & ndash; men's short program
Sunday 809: 45 & ndash; 13:05 Women's Free Program & ndash; Men's Free program
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