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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2020 2:09:49 GMT
Americans Avonley Nguyen and Vadym Kolesnik won the ice dance gold medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships on Saturday.
Nguyen and Kolesnik were in third place coming into the free dance, but trailed by less than two points behind the leaders. The 2020 U.S. junior winners were the final team to skate and finished off their performance to "Piano Concerto No. 2" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, scoring 108.91 points. Their technical score of 58.64 was nearly three points higher than the rest of the field.
Their overall score of 177.18 gave them the gold ahead of Georgia's Maria Kazakova and Georgy Reviya, who took the first International Skating Union championship medal in ice dance for their country. Rhythm dance leaders Elizaveta Shanaeva and Devid Naryzhnyy of Russia got bronze.
Two-time U.S. champ Alysa Liu earned the bronze medal in the women's event.
Liu, 14, finished behind Russians Kamila Valieva and Daria Usacheva; Russia has dominated international women's competition since the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Liu scored 204.83 points in her world juniors debut, far behind Valieva's 227.30.
Liu, who is too young to participate in international seniors events, rallied from fourth place in the short program. She had the second-highest technical score in the field with 78.12 points despite a fall on her quadruple lutz. She landed a triple axel and six additional triple jumps.
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2020 23:06:41 GMT
Andrei Mozalev is the new world junior figure skating champion after a calm and composed free skate at the ISU World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, on Friday (6 March). The 16-year-old set new personal best scores for both the free skate (160.78) and overall score (245.09). It caps a stellar season for the Russian, who won two Junior Grands Prix, a Challenger Series senior event, and finished second at both the Junior Grand Prix Final and Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. Youth Olympic champion Kagiyama Yuma struggled with two big errors in his free skate, and could only finish second with 231.75 points. Mozalev's teammate Petr Gumennik (231.12) finished third after the USA's Andrew Torgashev, third after the short program, fell four times during his free skate. Kagiyama stutters in free skate Kagiyama, the leader after Wednesday's short program, was drawn to skate before Mozalev in the free program. Things did not get off to a good start for the Japanese, falling on an under-rotated quadruple toe loop that was meant to be part of an opening combination. He bounced back with solid jumping passes, including a triple loop, and another quadruple toe loop in combination with a double toe loop, although the triple Axel in his next combination was marked under-rotated too. But he lost more points in base value when he was only graded level threes on his Flying Camel Spin and step sequence, then popped his closing triple Axel down to a single. He was also called for an unclear edge on his triple Lutz. A visibly disappointed Kagiyama scored 145.93 points for his free skate, only good for fifth in the segment, and a total of 231.75 that put him only 0.63 ahead of Gumennik who had skated previously.
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2020 22:29:08 GMT
Japan’s Mana Kawabe fought for the landing of a triple loop, but was otherwise solid, landing a triple Lutz-triple toe and double Axel. The 15-year-old from Osaka earned 64.47 points for eighth place.
#WorldJFigure ladies free - Tomoe Kawabata. 3lutz3toe DG and bad fall, 3loop, 2axel, 3flip DG and 2ft, 2axel2toe1loop, 3lutz2toe, 1sal. Not the skate she wants and is capable of.
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