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Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2016 22:29:27 GMT
The Grand Prix of Figure Skating season is coming to a close, but not before the best of the best gather in Marseille, France, from Dec. 8th though the 11th to determine this season's champions. The following skaters and duos have qualified for the Grand Prix Final and are listed in order of ranking from their performances so far this season. Pairs 1. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford (Canada) 2. Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot (Germany) 3. Xiaoyu Yu and Hao Zhang (China) 4. Cheng Peng and Yang Jin (China) 5. Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov (Russia) 6. Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau (Canada) Men's 1. Javier Fernandez (Spain) 2. Patrick Chan (Canada) 3. Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) 4. Shoma Uno (Japan) 5. Nathan Chen (U.S.) 6. Adam Rippon (U.S.) Ladies 1. Evgenia Medvedeva (Russia) 2. Anna Pogorilaya (Russia) 3. Elena Radionova (Russia) 4. Kaetlyn Osmond (Canada) 5. Maria Sotskova (Russia) 6. Satoko Miyahara (Japan)
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Post by Admin on Dec 6, 2016 22:16:48 GMT
The top U.S. singles figure skaters this fall were men, a stunning reversal of a half-decade-long trend. As Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu ran away with the NHK Trophy title by 32.56 points Saturday, the rest of the men’s and women’s standings in the last of six qualifiers for December’s Grand Prix Final revealed this: A U.S. man qualified for the Grand Prix Final for the first time since 2011. Two, in fact, for the first time since 2009. No U.S. woman qualified for the Grand Prix Final for the first time since 2008. Without a doubt, the U.S. star of the six-event, fall Grand Prix season was Nathan Chen, a 17-year-old who finished a distant second to Hanyu at NHK. Chen posted 268.91 points, the highest total score by a U.S. singles skater in the history of the decade-old points system.
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2016 22:15:31 GMT
The final Grand Prix Series tournament of figure skating starts on Thursday in Marseilles. Russian figure skaters can take all the places on the podium. The final Grand Prix went six strongest singles, couples and sports dance duets in the first six stages of the qualifying series. The main contenders for victory are among women Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Pogorilaya and Elena Radionova, another Russian skater reached the final - Maria Sotskova. The main favorite is 17-year-old Medvedeva, who last year won the final of the Grand Prix and the World Cup, beating on both its stages of this season's series. The six participating women's tournament also includes Canadian Kathleen Osmond and Satoko Miyahara of Japan.
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2016 22:18:36 GMT
Russian figure skaters have great prospects and a large margin of safety, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government in charge of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko said in an interview with "R-Sport". In late November, it became known to all the participants of the Grand Prix Final, which will be held 8-11 December in Marseille. Of the six participants of the finals in women's figure skating, four are Russian - Anna Pogorilaya , Evgenia Medvedeva, Elena Radionova and Maria Sotskova. "In skating we simply have skaters who are very cool with working with our coaches - said Mutko on the phone -. Huge prospects, high strength, well, just all coaches -.! Well done, do the girls - well done. They told me everything. really like: and Medvedeva, and Pogorilaya, we all believe they are leaders, and here is another young (Maria Sotskova) skater and we still have Julia Lipnitskaya, Lisa Tuktamysheva - and they had a chance of reaching the final." He also noted that the alarming men's figure skating. "Men's figure skating, of course, disturbing. I would like to see Max Kovtun, of course, finally figure himself out. In pair skating, we are fine now with Tanya (Volosozhar) and Maxim (Trankov) back and (Xenia) pole and (Fedor) Klimov -. I think that everything will be okay, too, "- said Mutko.
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2016 22:29:14 GMT
New world record set by a Russian figure skater and reigning world champion of Europe Yevgenia Medvedeva. After performing her short program at the Grand Prix finals in Marseilles, she has received from the jury of the competition 79.21 points. Thus, she broke the record of Japanese Mao Asada, who in 2014 received 78.66 points, according to "R-Sport". Ladies SP results #GPFinal 1. Evgenia Medvedeva RUS 79.21 2. Kaetlyn Osmond CAN 75.44 3. Satoko Miyahara JPN 74.64 Kaetlyn Osmond (@kaetlyn_23) made her debut at the #GPFinal with an amazing short program! She is in 2nd place! #GPFMarseille #GPFigure "I did a good program although I'm not completely satisfied." Sotstkova #GPFigure
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