World Championship figure skating among juniors started on Wednesday in Sofia. The Russians claim awards in all forms, and among the favorites of the tournament in women's single skating are students Eteri Tutberidze, one of which performs elements currently unattainable for any of the planet's skaters, including Olympic champion Alina Zagitova.
When the reigning world junior champion Zagitova fought Evgenia Medvedeva at the Olympic Gangneung, the 13-year-old winner of the Junior Grand Prix Final Alexandra Trusova in the final of the Russian Cup in Veliky Novgorod, for the first time in the history of national women's figure skating, she cleanly performed a quadruple jump - a quadruple salchow, which she stubbornly entered every official competition starting with the first leg of the Junior Grand Prix in Brisbane.
“I hope that during the season she will do it in pure performance at competitions,” said Daniil Gleykhengauz, the coach-choreographer of the Tutberidze group, in the fall.
“I want to do something first in the world,” Trusova herself told RIA Novosti in December, when she won the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, but again didn’t leave the quadruple Salchow. “Therefore, I teach both the triple axel and the quadruple sheepskin coat. the remaining quads ".
At the moment, except for Trusova, the quadruple jump is not performed at official starts by any of the planet's figure skaters.
In Sofia, Trusova started as the favorite of the tournament, and in the free program she must try two quadruple jumps - a salchow and a sheepskin coat. For the first time she performed a four-turn sheepskin coat cleanly in training in mid-December, at competitions she only once encroached on this element - in the same final of the Cup of the country.
I went to it 11 seconds after a superbly performed salchow, when she landed, her skate slipped, and only an excellent grouping allowed the athlete not to hit her face on the ice. The element, to Alexandra's credit, was counted, despite the total "minus 3".
She skated the rest of the program in a hurry and not as confidently as usual. And in the second half, Trusova has a cascade of triple lutz - triple rittberger, which now plays an almost decisive role in Zagitova's "adult" successes. At the Olympics in South Korea this cascade was the most difficult element for the skaters, at the junior world championship in Bulgaria it will become only the third - after two quads by Trusova.
One of Trusova's two main rivals in Sofia will be another student of Tutberidze - 14-year-old Alena Kostornaya who lost to Alexandra in the December Grand Prix Final in Japan, and who admits that "second place is just as common as the others, except for the main one."
"The first is the feeling that you are the best. You can only say" you won "in one case. Kostornaya in a December interview with RIA Novosti after she won the bronze medal of the "adult" Russian championship. The first adult tournament of his career.
Kostornaya does not yet have super-complex cascades, but she performs technically rich programs with mature grace beyond her years. In the future, the figure skater is predicted a significant increase in the component assessment. During Olympic Games Kostornaya won the Russian Cup final in the adult segment, while Trusova competed in the category of candidates for master of sports, gaining 216.70 points.
But a little before that, at the end of January, Kostornaya lost to Trusova at the country's junior championship in Saransk (211.51 against 212.09 points). Then, Kostornaya, externally radiating steel confidence, did not get a triple lutz in the short program, and Trusova made a mistake only once - on a quadruple salchow.
The third representative of Russia, 17 years old Stanislav Konstantinov also aspires to the Sofia Championship awards. At the national championship in December, the student of Valentina Chebotareva, perhaps finally in the eyes of experts, moved from juniors to adults, becoming the third in the free program after Zagitova and Maria Sotskova.
Konstantinov develops without fragments. "In general, I never force events in relation to the students. I do not give a heavy load. Therefore, at the age of 13-14, they are simply not able to ride like, say, the girls of Eteri Tutberidze - they need time," Chebotareva said in an interview with RIA Novosti , having designated his philosophy like this: " Big sport shouldn't start too early. "
Competition for Russian women will mainly be created by the Japanese woman Rika Kihira, capable of two triple axels in one program, as well as her compatriot Mako Yamashita.
Trusova for her rental on Friday received 72.03 points, the second place was taken by another representative of Russia Alena Kostornaya (71.63). Japan's Mako Yamashita (66.79) finished the top three. Another Russian figure skater Stanislav Konstantinov (62.63) finished sixth.
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The favorite in men's single skating is the American Alexei Krasnozhon, who won the last Junior Grand Prix Final. The skater performs a quadruple rittberger free, but makes it dirty.
The hopes of the Russians are connected with the skater Tutberidze Alexey Erokhov, which is capable of performing three quads in a free program. Erokhov failed in the Nagoya Grand Prix Final, becoming the fifth, but he won the junior national championship in Saransk, making a purely cascade of quadruple and triple sheepskin coats. An experienced junior will perform in the Bulgarian capital Roman Savosin and debutant Arthur Danielyan, who bypassed the strong Makar Ignatov and Vladimir Samoilov at the national championship, who made good marks in the current season at international starts.
Alexey Erokhov takes second place after short program in men's single skating at the World Junior Championships in Sofia.
Erokhov received 76.54 points for his rental. American figure skater Alexey Krasnozhon (80.28) is in the lead. The third is Japanese Mitsuki Sumoto (72.94).
Two other Russians Artur Danielyan (69.15) and Roman Savosin (65.36) are in 8th and 12th positions.
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V pair skating Russian couples won the entire podium. Interestingly, the silver medalists of the Nagoya Grand Prix finals, Russians Apollinaria Panfilova and Dmitry Rylov, could not qualify for the World Championship, as they became only seventh at the national junior championship.
But the bronze winners of Nagoya and reigning champions Russia among juniors Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin in the ranks. They argued for gold first of all with an experienced one. Anastasia Mishina paired with Alexander Gallyamov.
They looked like dark horses Polina Kostyukovich and Dmitry Yalin, who marked the beginning of the season with the only fairly clean quadruple twist in junior skating at the stage in Zagreb, where they took first place, but at the tournament in Gdansk, they failed in their free program, became only sixth and did not make it to the Junior Grand Prix Final. The bronze of the Russian championship breathed new strength into the guys of the famous Velikov group.
As a result, Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin won gold. According to the results of the short and free programs, they received 180.53 points. The second place was taken by Polina Kostyukovich and Dmitry Yalin (167.99), Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galyamov (167.24) closed the top three.
The gold was won by the students of Sergei Dobroskokov Daria Pavlyuchenko / Denis Khodykin, silver and bronze won by the couples of the group of Nikolai and Lyudmila Velikov and their grandson Vasily Velikov - Polina Kostyukovich / Dmitry Yalin and Anastasia Mishina / Alexander Gallyamov, respectively.
"Our couples performed very well, I am satisfied. Although at the beginning of the season this did not bode well. For nine years there has not been a completely Russian podium at the junior world championships. The first step has been taken," Velikova said by phone.
"All three pairs had chances for gold, it was important to skate the free program with fewer mistakes. At the senior level, none of the medalists of the championship is ready to compete yet, but everyone has the prospect. All three pairs are very good and with a future." added the specialist.
Daria Pavlyuchenko, performing in a duet with Denis Khodykin, is working on complicating the jumping part in the group of Eteri Tutberidze, where the Olympic champion-2018 Alina Zagitova and the silver medalist of Pkhenchkhan Yevgenia Medvedeva are training, the coach of the pair Sergei Dobroskokov told RIA Novosti.
"Over the summer, we intend to learn a quadruple twist - for this we will do acrobatics, complicate jumps - make a parallel triple flip or lutz, plus a cascade" 3-3 "of sheepskin coats, and, possibly," 3-3-2 ", as well as Let's complicate the support, "Dobroskokov said by phone." If we can master this in the spring-summer, then it makes sense to go to a higher level. "
“To improve the jumping part, Dasha goes to trainings with Eteri Tutberidze, and they help her a lot in this group,” the specialist continued. “And Dasha herself is happy to consult with Eteri. Denis has no problems with jumping, since he was a good single skater. The question is now in Dasha, she needs quite short time master new jumps. Salchow and sheepskin coat in pair skating have studied everything, I think that the time has come for a rittberger, lutz, flip and cascade "3-3".
According to Dobroskokov, "quadruple throws will continue to be practiced in pair skating, but the coaches will approach them pointwise." “We don’t think about it yet, but the complication of other elements is necessary,” the coach noted. “There is no other choice, since being extras is not interesting. usually do not last long at the adult level. "
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Winners of the Grand Prix Final and the country's junior championship came for gold ice dancing Anastasia Skoptsova and Kirill Aleshin... Earlier, the skaters noted that the goal of performing at the junior world championship is to win. "At every start, any athlete comes to win, regardless of previous victories or defeats. Of course, we will go to the World Junior Championships for the same purpose. We will try to adequately represent our country," Aleshin said.
Russia in Bulgaria was also represented by creative duets Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko and Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov... Americans Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko also fought for a place in the sun.
Skoptsova and Aleshin, who became the first in the short dance on Wednesday, won the free dance on Friday (88.71 points) and, with a score of 155.15 points on the sum of the two programs, became the winners of the tournament. The second place was taken by the Americans Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko (147.68), the Russians closed the top three Arina Ushakova and Maxim Nekrasov (146,88).
The Junior World Figure Skating Championships in Sofia will be considered one of the historic events in this sport. For girls, it is now becoming the norm 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 previously become the secret weapon of individual athletes. So, the Frenchwoman Surya Bonali was the first to try to perform jumps with four revolutions, but officially none were counted. The breakthrough was made by the Japanese woman 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 without a reason.
Trusova set a new trend in this season... First, she tried to perform a quadruple salchow in the final of the Junior Grand Prix, but did not twist it and fell. The same thing happened at the Russian Championship among girls. But the student 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 salchow, but also tried to perform a quadruple toe loop. 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, even junior skaters cannot enter quadruple jumps), the Russian woman performed salchow cleanly, having received an increase of two points for him. Next, the skater went onto the sheepskin coat and landed not too beautifully, but this jump also went a plus - this was the first time in history when a girl performed a quadruple sheepskin coat in a competition. And after all, not only this Trusova amazed the judges: in the second half of the program she had a cascade of Lutz - Rittberger, which is business card Alina Zagitova, and flip - sheepskin coat.
The Olympic champion is now stripped of all of her world records in junior skating. V short rental Trusova bypassed her friend training group a long time ago, and now she added 15 points to last year's achievement of 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 as 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 European Championships in 2020.
Alyona Kostornaya took the second place after Trusova in Sofia. While everyone is discussing the rivalry between Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova, these two juniors have been fighting with each other for a long time, both within the Tutberidze group and beyond. Kostornaya does not perform quadruple jumps, but she shows everything that she can in the second half of the programs. Her most difficult element is the flip-toe loop cascade, for which she gets even higher marks than Trusova.
Another Russian athlete Stanislava Konstantinova gained fame during the last adult Russian championship. Then she became the third in the free program and the fourth following the results of two rentals. In Sofia, a 17-year-old St. Petersburg woman performed below her capabilities and also remained one step away from the podium.
Men
The Eteri Tutberidze phenomenon extends not only to girls. She has 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 time of the planetary championship in Sofia.
Erokhov includes three quadruple jump: first a sheepskin coat in a cascade and salchow, and then a solo sheepskin coat in the second half. At the World Championships, the whole plan could not be fulfilled, the judges counted only the cascade. But the worthy performance of all the 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, starred. Erokhov will be able to compete with him only when he fully learns the quadruple rittberger 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 Aliyev, a participant of the Olympics in Pyeongchang, won silver with a score of 247.31 points.
The second place in Sofia was taken by another Russian Arthur Danielyan. In his speech, one can note a rare and rather valuable cascade of triple axel - rittberger - triple salchow. Danielyan has not yet performed quadruple jumps, but at the age of 14 this is quite acceptable. Already now he has managed to bypass the third Italian Matteo Rizzo, who has experience of performing at the last Olympic Games.
Couples and dances
In the world of figure skating, the results of juniors and juniors have a certain meaning: the transition to the adult level usually does not take long, and many current stars made a name for themselves at a very young age. With pair skating and ice dancing, things are a little more complicated. Very rarely, representatives of these two disciplines not only show results comparable to those of juniors, but generally stay together at a new stage of their sports career.
Nevertheless, it is also worth noting the successes of Russian figure skaters. For the first time since 1986, representatives of one country took the entire podium in the competition sports couples... The champions were Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin, who have a triple twist of a quadruple 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 in their assets. True, a couple from St. Petersburg made many mistakes and barely snatched silver from Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galyamov - the two Russian duos shared only 0.75 points.
Gold in ice dancing also went to Russia, which made it possible to repeat absolute record 1996, when all the medals of the highest standard went to Russian figure skaters. The best dancers this year were Anastasia Skoptsova and Kirill Aleshin, who earlier this season won the junior Grand Prix finals, 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.
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A week later, on March 19, 2018, under the auspices of the International Skating Union, the World Figure Skating Championship starts in the fashionable capital Milan. The dancers' competition will last until March 25th.
This is not the first time Italy will host figure skating competitions. Eight years ago, the World Championship was held in Turin. And in 1951 world championship also took place in Milan. The current championship will be held in one of the most famous sports complexes in Milan, Mediolanum Forum di Assago. The building with an area of 40 thousand square meters with three-level stands can accommodate more than 11 thousand spectators. the uniqueness of the forms and the innovative architecture of the Mediolanum Forum were awarded the European Prize in 1994.
Athletes will have to fight in four categories: singles men's skating, ice dancing, women's singles and pair skating. All participants will present short and free programs. Teams from Japan, Russia, China and the USA have the maximum quotas for the upcoming competitions.
Maya and Alex Shibutani, Madison Hubbel and Zachary Donoghue, Ekaterina Bobrova with Dmitry Soloviev, Anna Cappellini and Luca Lannothe, Gabriela Papadakis with Gimem Sizeron, as well as Tessa Vertiu and Scott Moir will compete in ice dancing this year. Caitlin Osmond, Satoko Miyahara, Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Pogorilaya, Mirai Nagasu, Maria Sotskova will perform for women. In men's single skating, viewers will see performances by Mikhail Kolyada, Boyan Jin, Sema Uno, Yuzuru Hanyu, Favier Fernandez, Nathan Chen. Couples at the 2018 World Cup: Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, Vannesa James and Morgan Sipre, Alena Savchenko and Bruno Masso, Megan Duhamel and Eric Redford, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, Sui Wenjing and Han Tsun.
The 2018 Figure Skating World Cup logo was created on the basis of the famous "da Vinci knots" - the most complex ornament that the outstanding creator often used in his works. The most famous ornament adorns the ceiling of the "Delle Asse" room in Milan's Sforza castle. Scientists have repeatedly compared the ornament with esotericism, it has also been suggested that the double spiral, symbolizing infinity and victory, may be a symbol of power. Mysterious curls of knots are associated with the footprints left by skaters on the ice during a spinning top, they also look like the invisible graceful traces of the movements of the hands of athletes performing an ice dance. The red lines of the logo symbolize the passion and will of the skaters on their way to victory, the curves of the lines are the symbol of blue ice.
The competitive program of the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships will begin at 12:45 pm Moscow time with the performances of women with free program, according to the Rosregistr website. At 20.00 will be held solemn ceremony discoveries. Couples with a short program will go on the ice from 20:45.