Junior World Championship figure skating in Sofia will be considered one of the historical events in this sport. It is now becoming the norm for girls to perform quadruple jumps, which previously only men were capable of. And the first to reach a new level of figure skating was the Russian woman Alexandra Trusova.
Strictly speaking, women's quadruple jumps have become the secret weapon of individual athletes before. So, the Frenchwoman Suria Bonaly was the first to try to perform jumps with four turns, but officially none was counted. A breakthrough was made by the Japanese Miki Ando in 2002, but new super-complex elements did not come into fashion: the competition was not yet so high as to take risks for no reason.
Trusova set a new trend in this season. She first attempted a quadruple salchow in the Junior Grand Prix final but missed it and fell. The same thing happened at the Russian Championship among girls. But the student of Eteri Tutberidze did not give up and in the final of the Russian Cup, which took place simultaneously with the Olympics, she not only made a salchow, but also tried to perform a quadruple sheepskin coat. The 13-year-old athlete went to Sofia with the intention of completing what she had begun and showing both jumps in a free program.
Trusova coped with her task. In the free program (in the short program, even junior figure skaters are not allowed to enter quadruple jumps), the Russian woman performed a clean salchow, receiving an increase of two points for it. Next, the skater went to the sheepskin coat and landed not too beautifully, but this jump also went to the plus - this was the first time in history when a girl performed a quadruple sheepskin coat in competition. And after all, Trusova amazed the judges not only with this: in the second half of the program she had a cascade of lutz-rittberger, which is Alina Zagitova's hallmark, and a flip-toe loop.
The Olympic champion has now been stripped of all her world records in junior skating. AT short box office Trusova bypassed her friend in the training group a long time ago, and now she has added 15 points to last year's achievement by Zagitova in the free program and 17 to the total score. Trusova won the junior world championship with a score of 225.52 points - with such numbers she would have claimed medals at the Pyeongchang Olympics, since there would not be such strict restrictions on the number of jumps that juniors have. True, Trusova will not be able to perform at an adult level for a long time. She will reach the required age for this only by the 2020 European Championships.
Second place after Trusova in Sofia was taken by Alena Kostornaya. While everyone is discussing the rivalry between Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova, these two juniors have long been fighting each other both inside and outside the Tutberidze group. Kostornaya does not perform quadruple jumps, but she shows everything she can in the second half of the programs. Her most difficult element is the flip-toe loop cascade, for which she receives even higher marks than Trusova.
Another Russian athlete Stanislava Konstantinova gained fame during the last adult championship of Russia. Then she became the third in the free program and the fourth according to the results of two rentals. In Sofia, the 17-year-old St. Petersburg woman performed below her abilities and also remained a step away from the podium.
Men
The phenomenon of Eteri Tutberidze applies not only to girls. She trained and continues to train men too, but almost no one has achieved serious success under her leadership. The first was Alexey Erokhov. This season, he immediately established himself as one of the best juniors thanks to two victories at the Grand Prix stages. It was not possible to confirm the status at the final tournament due to an injury, but the 18-year-old Muscovite recovered by the world championship in Sofia.
Erokhov includes in his free program three quadruple jumps: first a toe loop in a cascade and a salchow, and then a solo toe loop in the second half. At the World Championships, the whole plan could not be fulfilled, the judges counted only the cascade. But the decent performance of all other jumps was enough to become the first Russian figure skater in 16 years to win gold.
True, we must remember that shortly before the free program, the main favorite of the tournament, Alexei Krasnozhon, representing the United States, withdrew. Erokhov will be able to compete with him only when he fully learns the quad loop and flip, which he already does in training. The Russian scored 231.52 points in Sofia - this is still not enough for the junior level. A year ago, Dmitry Aliev, a participant in the Pyeongchang Olympics, won silver with a score of 247.31 points.
The second place in Sofia was taken by another Russian Artur Danielyan. In his performance, one can note a rare and quite valuable cascade of triple axel - rittberger - triple salchow. Danielyan does not perform quadruple jumps yet, but at the age of 14 this is quite acceptable. Already now he managed to get around the third Italian Matteo Rizzo, who has experience playing at the last Olympic Games Oh.
Couples and dancing
In the world of figure skating, the results of juniors and juniors have a certain meaning: the transition to the adult level is usually not long in coming, and many current stars made a name for themselves at a very young age. With pair skating and ice dancing, everything is somewhat more complicated. Very rarely, representatives of these two disciplines not only show results commensurate with juniors, but generally remain together at a new stage in their sports career.
Nevertheless, the success of Russian figure skaters is also worth noting. For the first time since 1986, representatives of one country took the entire podium in the competition of sports couples. The champions were Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin, who can distinguish a triple twist of the quad level and support for the level of adult skating.
The second place was taken by Polina Kostyukovich and Dmitry Yalin, who have a quadruple twist and a cascade of triple salchow - rittberger - triple salchow. True, a couple from St. Petersburg made a lot of mistakes and barely snatched silver from Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galyamov - two Russian duets shared only 0.75 points.
Gold in ice dancing also went to Russia, which made it possible to repeat the absolute record of 1996, when all the medals the highest standard went to Russian skaters. The best among the dancers this year were Anastasia Skoptsova and Kirill Alyoshin, who earlier this season won the Junior Grand Prix final, and in 2016 became the winners of the Youth Olympics in the team tournament. Bronze in Sofia was won by Arina Ushakova and Maxim Nekrasov.
Figure skating news in Russia today, April 22: Figure skaters from the European, Asian, North America will play in the USA Team Cup peace
The Team Figure Skating World Cup in the original format of the competition starts on Friday in Spokane, USA and will last until April 24. The tournament called the Team Challenge Cup, organized by the US Figure Skating Federation, is a competition in the "commercial" category. Athletes in it no longer represent their own countries, as in the last tournament or the "classic" world and European championships, but parts of the world and the continent - Asia, Europe and North America. Each team will be represented by three participants in the women's and men's single skating, two sports and two dance couples. Voronov and Kolyada will be put on the ice by Christopher Dean The regulations are unusual. If, within the framework of competitions in men's and women's single skating, athletes will present a short and free program, then dance and sports couples will be marked only free. On the first day of the starts, the skaters of each type of single skating will be divided into three warm-ups, the winner of each will receive 12 points, the 2nd place winner - 10, the 3rd - 8. By adding the points, the winner of the short program (in single skating) will be determined, who will receive prize money in the amount of 60 thousand dollars (10 thousand per athlete). On the next day of the competition, sports and dance couples will enter the fight, who will skate only an arbitrary program, and only the best amount of points from each team will be credited to the team piggy bank. On the same day, single skaters will take to the ice with free skates, the scores of two top athletes out of three will be counted and added to the results of greenhouses and dancers. General prize fund tournament is 617 thousand dollars, of which the winner will receive 210 thousand. The European team will perform under the leadership of the captain - Olympic champion Sarajevo-84 in ice dancing by Briton Christopher Dean. From Russia to the Europeans were initially delegated Sergey Voronov (men's singles), Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (sports couples) and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (women's singles). The 2015 World Champion was eventually unable to cope with an ankle injury and withdrew. The organizers instead invited the winner of the World Championships, Europe and the Grand Prix Final of this season, Evgenia Medvedeva. Elena Radionova was among the participants thanks to the victory in the voting on the tournament website. The third participant in women's single skating is Italian Roberta Rodegiero. Voronov's partner will be his compatriot Mikhail Kolyada, who replaced Maxim Kovtun, who won the vote, but then withdrew, according to the official version, due to "severe otitis." "Neither a flight nor a load is recommended for him," explained the athlete's coach Elena Vodorezova. "I've been rolling my skates now, they've already started putting on programs, and then - a hop, a bell, and that's all," Kolyada shared his joy with a correspondent of the R-Sport agency. The Russians will be accompanied by the Czech Michal Brzezina. Klimov performed at the World Championships in Boston (March 30 - April 2) with a back injury, but he and Stolbovaya duo remained overseas and continued to prepare for the tournament in Spokane. Together with them, the Italians Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise will stand up for the honor of Europe. Without world champions in ice dancing The winners of the last two world championships in ice dancing, the French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron, withdrew due to partner problems. They were replaced by the British Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, who will be accompanied by the Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte in the European team. North American team led by Olympic champion 1992 American Christy Yamaguchi formed: Canadian Gabrielle Daleman, Americans Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner (women's singles); Americans Jason Brown, Adam Rippon and Canadian Nam Nguyen (men's singles); Canadians Megan Duhamel/Eric Radford and Americans Alexa Shimeka/Chris Knierim (couples); Canadians Caitlin Weaver/Andrew Poje and Americans Madison Chalk/Evan Bates (dance). The Asian team led by the 2006 Olympic champion Japanese Shizuki Arakawa will be represented by: Japanese women Rika Hongo, Satoko Miyahara and Elizabeth Tursynbayeva from Kazakhstan (women's single skating); Chinese Jin Boyan, Japanese Syoma Uno and Kazakh Denis Ten (men's singles); Chinese Wang Xuehan/Wang Lei and Japanese Sumire Suto/Francis Boudreau-Audet (couples); Koreans Rebeka Kim/Kirill Minov and Chinese Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu (dance).
The Team Figure Skating World Cup in the original format of the competition starts on Friday in Spokane, USA and will last until April 24.
The tournament called the Team Challenge Cup, organized by the US Figure Skating Federation, is a competition in the "commercial" category. Athletes in it no longer represent their own countries, as in the previous tournament or the "classic" world and European championships, but parts of the world and the continent - Asia, Europe and North America. Each team will be represented by three participants in women's and men's singles, two sports and two dance couples.
Voronov and Kolyada will be brought to the ice by Christopher Dean
The regulation is unusual. If, within the framework of competitions in men's and women's single skating, athletes will present a short and free program, then dance and sports couples will be marked only free. On the first day of the starts, the skaters of each type of single skating will be divided into three warm-ups, the winner of each will receive 12 points, the 2nd place - 10, 3rd - 8. By adding the points, the winner of the short program (in single skating) will be determined, who will receive prize money in the amount of 60 thousand dollars (10 thousand per athlete).
On the next day of the competition, sports and dance couples will enter the fight, who will skate only an arbitrary program, and only the best amount of points from each team will be credited to the team piggy bank. On the same day, single skaters with free skates will take to the ice, the scores of the two best athletes out of three will be counted and added to the results of greenhouses and dancers. The total prize fund of the tournament is 617 thousand dollars, of which the winner will receive 210 thousand.
The European team will perform under the leadership of the captain - the Olympic champion of Sarajevo-84 in ice dancing Briton Christopher Dean. From Russia to the Europeans were initially delegated Sergey Voronov (men's singles), Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (sports couples) and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (women's singles). The 2015 World Champion was eventually unable to cope with an ankle injury and withdrew. The organizers instead invited the winner of the World Championships, Europe and the Grand Prix Final of this season, Evgenia Medvedeva.
Elena Radionova was among the participants thanks to the victory in the voting on the tournament website. The third participant in women's singles is Italian Roberta Rodegiero. Voronov's partner will be his compatriot Mikhail Kolyada, who replaced Maxim Kovtun, who won the vote, but then withdrew, according to the official version, due to "severe otitis." “Neither the flight nor the load is recommended for him,” explained the athlete’s coach Elena Vodorezova.
“I’ve been rolling my skates now, they’ve already started putting on programs, and then there’s a hop, a bell, and that’s all,” Kolyada shared his joy with a correspondent for the R-Sport agency. The Russians will be accompanied by the Czech Michal Brzezina. Klimov performed at the World Championships in Boston (March 30 - April 2) with a back injury, but he and Stolbovaya duo remained overseas and continued to prepare for the tournament in Spokane. Together with them, the Italians Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise will stand up for the honor of Europe.
Without world champions in dance
The winners of the last two world championships in ice dancing, the French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron, withdrew due to partner problems. They were replaced by the British Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, who will be accompanied by the Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte in the European team.
The North American team, led by the 1992 Olympic champion American Christy Yamaguchi, was formed by: Canadian Gabrielle Daleman, Americans Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner (women's singles); Americans Jason Brown, Adam Rippon and Canadian Nam Nguyen (men's singles); Canadians Megan Duhamel/Eric Radford and Americans Alexa Shimeka/Chris Knierim (couples); Canadians Caitlin Weaver/Andrew Poje and Americans Madison Chalk/Evan Bates (dance).
The Asian team led by the 2006 Olympic champion Japanese Shizuki Arakawa will be represented by: Japanese women Rika Hongo, Satoko Miyahara and Elizabeth Tursynbayeva from Kazakhstan (women's single skating); Chinese Jin Boyan, Japanese Syoma Uno and Kazakh Denis Ten (men's singles); Chinese Wang Xuehan/Wang Lei and Japanese Sumire Suto/Francis Boudreau-Audet (couples); Koreans Rebeka Kim/Kirill Minov and Chinese Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu (dance).
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In the American Spokane, a solemn ceremony of introducing the participants of the World Team Championship in figure skating -Team Challenge Cup was held.
5:43 23.04.2016
In the American Spokane, a solemn ceremony of introducing the participants of the World Team Championship in figure skating -Team Challenge Cup was held. The European team was introduced by its captain, the famous figure skater Christopher Dean.
Asia team:
Team North America:
Recall that the European team includes several Russian athletes. 2016 World and European Champion Evgenia Medvedeva, 2015 World Championship medalist Elena Radionova, European Championship medalist Sergei Voronov, Russian Championship medalist Mikhail Kolyada and Olympic silver medalists in pair skating, Olympic champions in team competition Ksenia Stolbova - Fedor Klimov.
The Team Challenge Cup will be held over two days. On the first day (April 23 at 5.30 Moscow time) single skaters with short programs will take to the ice. The next day, couples and dance duets start. A gala concert is planned for the final day of the tournament.
The Team Challenge Cup tournament is being held for the first time. Three teams participate in the competition - Europe, North America and Asia. Athletes were selected for the teams according to the rating as of January 1, 2016, the third numbers of single skaters were added by voting of fans; it was held on the official website of the tournament.
MOSCOW, April 22 - R-Sport, Anatoly Samokhvalov. The Team Figure Skating World Cup in the original format of the competition starts on Friday in Spokane, USA and will last until April 24.
The tournament called the Team Challenge Cup, organized by the US Figure Skating Federation, is a competition in the "commercial" category. Athletes in it no longer represent their own countries, as in the last tournament or the "classic" world and European championships, but parts of the world and the continent - Asia, Europe and North America. Each team will be represented by three participants in women's and men's singles, two sports and two dance couples.
Voronov and Kolyada will be brought to the ice by Christopher Dean
The regulation is unusual. If, within the framework of competitions in men's and women's single skating, athletes will present a short and free program, then dance and sports couples will be marked only free. On the first day of the starts, the skaters of each type of single skating will be divided into three warm-ups, the winner of each will receive 12 points, the 2nd place winner - 10, the 3rd - 8. By adding the points, the winner of the short program (in single skating) will be determined, who will receive prize money in the amount of 60 thousand dollars (10 thousand per athlete).
On the next day of the competition, sports and dance couples will enter the fight, who will skate only an arbitrary program, and only the best amount of points from each team will be credited to the team piggy bank. On the same day, single skaters with free skates will take to the ice, the scores of the two best athletes out of three will be counted and added to the results of greenhouses and dancers. The total prize fund of the tournament is 617 thousand dollars, of which the winner will receive 210 thousand.
The European team will perform under the leadership of the captain - the Olympic champion of Sarajevo-84 in ice dancing Briton Christopher Dean. From Russia, Sergey Voronov (men's singles), Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov (sports couples) and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (women's singles) were initially delegated to the Europeans. The 2015 World Champion was eventually unable to cope with an ankle injury and withdrew. The organizers instead invited the winner of the world championships, Europe and the Grand Prix Final of this season, Evgenia Medvedeva.
“I’ve been rolling my skates now, they’ve already begun to put on programs, and then - hop, bell, and that’s all,” Kolyada shared his joy with the correspondent of the R-Sport agency. The Russians will be accompanied by the Czech Michal Brzezina. Klimov performed at the World Championships in Boston (March 30 - April 2) with a back injury, but he and Stolbovaya duo stayed overseas and continued to prepare for the tournament in Spokane. Together with them, the Italians Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise will stand up for the honor of Europe.
Without world champions in dance
France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron, winners of the last two Ice Dance World Championships, withdrew due to partner problems. They were replaced by the British Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, who will be accompanied by the Italians Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte in the European team.
The North American team, led by the 1992 Olympic champion American Christy Yamaguchi, was formed by: Canadian Gabrielle Daleman, Americans Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner (women's singles); Americans Jason Brown, Adam Rippon and Canadian Nam Nguyen (men's singles); Canadians Megan Duhamel/Eric Radford and Americans Alexa Shimeka/Chris Knierim (couples); Canadians Caitlin Weaver/Andrew Poje and Americans Madison Chalk/Evan Bates (dance).
The Asian team led by the 2006 Olympic champion Japanese Shizuki Arakawa will be represented by: Japanese women Rika Hongo, Satoko Miyahara and Elizabeth Tursynbayeva from Kazakhstan (women's single skating); Chinese Jin Boyan, Japanese Syoma Uno and Kazakh Denis Ten (men's singles); Chinese Wang Xuehan/Wang Lei and Japanese Sumire Suto/Francis Boudreau-Audet (couples); Koreans Rebeka Kim/Kirill Minov and Chinese Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu (dance).