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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2016 5:05:18 GMT
Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter led the U.S. ice dancers to a one-two finish at the 2016 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Teammates Rachel Parsons and Michael Parsons slipped to second to take the silver, while Alla Loboda and Pavel Drozd of Russia came from sixth place after the short dance to earn the bronze medal. All three teams achieved a personal best score in the free dance. Skating last, McNamara, 17, and Carpenter, 20, turned in an excellent performance to “Carmen” and got a level four for the straight line lift, the twizzles and the spin, while the step sequences and the rotational lift merited a level three. The ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) Final Champions scored 97.40 points and accumulated 163.65 points to add the gold medal to their silver from last year. “For us, we’re obviously very happy to have won the gold,” said McNamara. “It wasn’t our main focus. We were focusing on skating the best that we possibly could and we are very happy that it got us where we are, but we’re very happy that we skated the program we did and accomplished what we set out to do.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2016 5:08:32 GMT
In Hungary, the world championship in figure skating was held. Russian athletes failed to win a single gold award, but have shown that they can grow into serious artists. At the end in Debrecen World Junior Figure Skating Championships the Russian team was left without gold medals. Since 1993, when the Russian skaters began to perform at the junior world championships as an independent team, it happened a second time. Exactly ten years after a similar fiasco in Ljubljana.
The second most populous city of Hungary is considered to be the sports capital of the country. The local football team in recent years has deprived the Club of Budapest with the glorious history of the opportunity to play in the Champions League, and the Sports Hall of Fame on the "Phonics Arena" where the figure skating tournament impressive. Although just skaters in it. This sport in Hungary is not the most popular, although sometimes the representatives of the country broke the podium at the world championships and Europe, and even the Olympics.
Figure skating is now rapidly getting younger, which largely negates the very idea of the World Junior Championships. It can participate athletes up to 19 years, and in sports competitions and dancing couples age partners - up to 21 years. At the same time in adult competitions can participate from 15 years.
The Junior World Cup is different from an adult by the fact that the "shoot" it may be the representatives, so to speak, "former Soviet" countries. Ever since Radka Kovaříková and Rene Novotny, which led to the league title was not yet a State Duma deputy and coach in figure skating Irina Rodnina, the Czech Republic was not strong sports pairs. Now here we came. Anna and Martin Dushkova Bidart who won in Debrecen are not trained in Canada and not in Russia, and in his native country. And in the final Grand Prix in Barcelona, and at the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, the Czech skaters inferior Russians Yekaterina Borisova and Dmitry Sopot. At the World Championships, Anna and Martin in the short and in the long program received the best scores and deservedly won in the season.
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2016 5:05:00 GMT
The 2016 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships also resulted in an historic victory for Israel in the Junior Men’s Singles event, with an unusual gold medal win for Israeli skater Daniel Samohin, 17. The young skater landed an incredibly impressive three quadruple jumps, while there are men at the senior level who have not yet managed to land a quad in competition, like American Jason Brown. Samohin is coached by his father. He achieved a final score of 236.65. The Jerusalem Post reports that this is the first World Junior Championship medal to ever be won by an Israeli skater. Canadian skater Nicolas Nadeau took silver despite having under-rotated his quad toe loop, achieving a final score of 224.76.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2016 1:46:38 GMT
Elizaveta Nugumanova, 13, will rock the junior circuit next season. Elizabeth Nugumanova (Sports School, St. Petersburg)
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Post by katrinaxxx on Apr 28, 2016 10:34:26 GMT
good job.
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