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The first title awarded in the forty-fifth edition of the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf was one of the pairs of artistic, conquered, as forecast, the Russians Tatiana Voloszhar / Maxim Trankov
Friday 27 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The World Champions in office have dominated the race from end to end technical and artistic revealing overwhelming power that put some warning in the other pretenders to the Olympic title. The students of Nina Mozer ended the competition with more than 230 points, but in the free program, first in the history, they managed to collect more than 150 points. As twenty-four hours ago, Volosozhar / Trankov have almost grazed the presentation committing un'impercettibie deburring sull'atteraggio the triple Salchow in parallel, closed a little 'toe by Maxim Trankov. In fact, pedantry aside, each element presented has been distinguished by the refined detail, not to mention that to finally silence the skeptics, there have been steps to transition to precede and follow the various mandatory elements, were those of last season with the exception of the death spiral (in this case external back).
The second place went to the Germans Wende / Wende (174.88), who had the better of fellow Vartmann / Van Cleave (162.81) and Prölss / Blommaert (158.38). Ranking aside, the budget of the host country, it was found more than positive because the three pairs are all gone well beyond the respective personal best by increasing the level of difficulty of the programs.
In terms Olympic qualifying, the free has upset the hierarchy of the first segment of the race sanctioning the surprising elimination of the Japanese Takahashi / Kihara, affected by the errors in a series of Narumi Takahashi, as always extremely fallosa on the jumps in parallel.
They gained the ticket to Sochi the British Kemp / King (146.30), Ukrainians Usmantseva / Talan (141,45), Estonians Zabijako / Zaboev (138.87) and the Israelis Davidovich / Krasnopolski (133.86), authors of a thrilling comeback from the extreme rear of the standings. Further more, a pair of artistic flagged Israel took part in the Olympic Games.
It should be noted that, with the exception of Kemp / King, all the couples that have given to the nation of membership to qualify for the upcoming exhibition in five circles were born in the early months of 2013, speech also valid for Takahasu / Kihara (129.54 ) and Ziegler / Kiefer (124.93), which follow in the rankings.
The twenty places available for the Olympic Games in Sochi are assigned as follows: RUSSIA 3CANADA 3GERMANIA 2CINA 2France 2USA 2Italia 2GRAN BRITAIN 1UCRAINA 1ESTONIA 1Israel 1
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Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR/Maxim TRANKOV - Nebelhorn Trophy 2013 - free program
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