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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2022 20:06:33 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2022 21:10:46 GMT
Isabeau Levito (USA) beat Jia Shin of Korea by a slim margin to win the gold medal in what was an exciting Junior Women’s final in Tallinn. Lindsay Thorngren (USA) pulled up from fourth place to earn the bronze. Levito and Shin had their debut at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships while Thorngren had competed in Tallinn at the 2020 ISU World Junior Championships. Skating to Petr Tchaikovski’s “Russian Dance”, Levito nailed a triple toe, triple loop, two double Axels, triple flip-triple loop, triple Lutz-Euler-triple Salchow as well as level-four spins. All three combinations were in the second half of the program. The 15-year-old scored 134.05 points and totaled 206.55 points to become the first American since Rachel Flatt in 2008 to win the Junior Women’s world title. “Honestly, we put all the work in our training and when we are coming to competition we are just collecting our scores and medals,” Levito said. “A medal is just the reflection of our training and how well we did with our moves. I was very in the moment (in my program) and I just focused on one element at a time until the music ended.”
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2022 17:57:39 GMT
One after another, the final four skaters in the women’s free skate at the World Junior Championships performed with assurance and compelling quality, brightening the end of a long and muddled figure skating season. All did clean programs, the best by surprising Jia Shin of South Korea, who won the free and nearly upset favored Isabeau Levito of the United States for the title Sunday in Tallinn, Estonia. Levito, gritting her way through the free and getting some benefit of the doubt from the judges, held on by just 0.54 points to become the first U.S. woman atop the world junior podium since Rachael Flatt in 2008. Compatriot Lindsay Thorngren earned the bronze. Levito’s gold medal, following those in ice dance by brother-sister team Oona and Gage Brown and in men’s singles by Ilia Malinin, gave Team USA three of the four world junior titles for the first time since 2008. “We put in all the work in our training, so when we get to the competition, we’re really just collecting our scores and our medals,” Levito said. “Our medal is just a reflection on our training and how we did with our nerves.” She totaled 206.55 to 206.01 for Shin and 199.42 for Thorngren. Levito, 15, battled herself after taking a lead of more than three points over Shin into the free skate. Two of her final three jump combinations were problematic, but she emerged with positive grades of execution on them and finished the program with two strong spins. “I just focused one element at a time until the music ended,” Levito said. Asked if she had been more nervous than she expected, Levito said, “I think so, yes. I try to think what I will be feeling but you can’t really know how you are going to feel until it’s really happening.” Component scores in the short and free programs provided Levito a 3.49-point advantage over Shin.
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