NHK Trophy, the sixth stage of the 2016/2017 Grand Prix of Figure Skating season, kicked off in Sapporo, Japan on November 25.
Insofar as figure skating is one of the most popular and successful winter species sports in Russia, it is worth talking about what the Grand Prix series is and how the Russians are doing in it.
The Figure Skating Grand Prix Series is an annual figure skating competition held under the auspices of the International Skating Union (ISU). Unlike other ISU competitions, athletes participate in the Grand Prix not on a national basis, but on the basis of the individual rating of each skater. Thus, the best figure skaters of the world, the elite of the world figure skating and the best of the best advance to the Grand Prix finals. Moreover, each skater can take part in no more than two preliminary stages of the Grand Prix.
The 2016/2017 Grand Prix series includes six stages: Skate America (held in Chicago), Skate Canada International (Mississauga), Rostelecom Cup (Moscow), Trophée de France (Paris), Audi Cup of China (Beijing), NHK Trophу (Sapporo).
Score points and prize money in your pocket
At each stage, the participants are awarded points: for singles and singles for 1-8 places (1st place 15 points, 8th place - 3 points), for dance and sports couples - for 1-6 places (1st place 15 points, 6th place - 5 points).
According to the sum of points, after six stages held, 6 best representatives each reach the Grand Prix finals, which will be held in Marseille.
In addition to prestige, tournaments also have a commercial component: the winner of each stage of the Grand Prix receives 18 thousand dollars, the silver medalist - 13 thousand dollars, the third place - 9 thousand dollars. In the Grand Prix finals, the winners will receive $ 25,000 each.
How are ours in Japan?
Initially, it was assumed that at the tournament in Sapporo Russia would be represented by Alena Leonova, Anna Pogorilaya, Maria Sotskova(single women), Mikhail Kolyada, Adian Pitkeev(singles), Ksenia Stolbova— Fedor Klimov(sports couples), Victoria Sinitsina — Nikita Katsalapov(dance couples).
However, in mid-September, due to a back injury, Adian Pitkeev starred, a month before the start - Ksenia Stolbova with Fedor Klimov (due to a partner injury), and a week before the start - Alena Leonova. All Russians were replaced by foreigners.
After the short program among women, Russian Anna Pogorilaya is in the lead, her compatriot Maria Sotskova is in second place.
Which Russian will make it to the Grand Prix finals?
At five stages of the 2016/2017 Grand Prix, the Russians won 5 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze medals: this is the best indicator among all participating countries.
The winners among Russians in the current season were Evgenia Medvedeva("Skate Canada International", "Trophée de France"), Anna Pogorilaya("Rostelecom Cup"), Ekaterina Bobrova — Dmitry Soloviev("Rostelecom Cup"), Elena Radionova("Audi Cup of China").
At the moment, Russians Evgenia Medvedeva and Elena Radionova have guaranteed themselves participation in the Grand Prix finals. In case of a successful performance in Sapporo, they have good chances join them Pogorilaya and Sotskova.
In the competition of sports couples, the duo guaranteed themselves a performance in Marseille Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov, who took third and second places at two stages, respectively. Russians Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, who, in addition to the already mentioned victory in Moscow, have the third place, will perform in the competition of dancing couples in the final.
There is practically no chance of seeing Russian single men in Marseilles. The best of them, Sergey Voronov, has the third and fourth places in the asset and is now in overall standings takes the sixth position. However, according to the results of the stage in Sapporo, he will almost certainly be pushed several places down.
Mikhail Kolyada, performing in Sapporo, in order to get to the Grand Prix finals, must perform a real miracle, because he has only the fourth place in his asset, and in order to get ahead of competitors in Japan, he needs to become a winner.
Youth Grand Prix: Russian youth took over the world
In parallel with the adult, the Junior Grand Prix in figure skating is also held. It is gratifying that the representatives of Russia occupy a dominant position here. At seven stages of the Youth Grand Prix, the Russians won 13 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze medals.
The participants in the final of the Junior Grand Prix have already decided. The singles boys will have four Russians in the finals, the girls - three representatives of Russia. Full domestic hegemony in the tournament of sports pairs: five out of six finalist duets represent Russia. Against this background, the dancers are slightly worse off: only two Russian duets in the final.
Grand Prix is not the main thing
For all its prestige, the Grand Prix is not the main start of the season for figure skaters. The Russians are ahead of the Russian championship, which will be held on December 20-26 in Chelyabinsk. According to its results, a national team will be formed, which will take part in the European Championship in Czech Ostrava on January 23-29, 2017. The main start of the season will be the World Championship in Helsinki, Finland, scheduled for March 29 - April 2, 2017.
This tournament, crowning the pre-Olympic season, should give an idea of the favorites of the 2018 Olympics in South Korean Pyeongchang.
Marseille will host final of the Grand Prix in figure skating, list of participants which is already known. First of all, let's answer the question of fans of this sport - when will the Grand Prix finals in figure skating take place? This the most interesting ending The Grand Prix will be held in Marseille from 8th to 11th December.
Final Grand Prix 2016-2017: who made it to the final
Before naming full composition participants in the Grand Prix finals, let's call those who will go to the final of the Grand Prix 2016-2017 from Russia.
In the masculine single skating Sergei Voronov will represent the Russian national team only as a reserve, and four Russian athletes will compete in the women's singles in the main competitions at once. These are the leaders of the Russian national team - Evgenia Medvedeva, Anna Pogorilaya and Elena Radionova, as well as Maria Sotskova.
V doubles the final of the Grand Prix in Marseille, the Russian tandem Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov will compete for the victory, while Natalia Zabiyako and Alexander Ebert are going to France as substitutes.
Finally, in ice dancing, Russia will be represented by one pair - Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Soloviev.
We will quickly inform you about the Russian juniors who will go to Marseille. In the junior category, the Russian national team will be represented by: men's singles- Alexander Samarin, Roman Savosin, Ilya Skirda and Dmitry Aliev; women's singles - Anastasia Gubanova, Polina Tsurskaya, Alina Zagitova, Elizaveta Nugumanova (reserve) and Stanislav Konstantinov (reserve); sports couples - Anastasia Mishina and Vladislav Mirzoev, Alina Ustimkina and Nikita Volodin, Amina Atakhanova and Ilya Spiridonov, Ekaterina Borisova and Dmitry Sopot; ice dancing - Alla Loboda and Pavel Drozd, Anastasia Shpilevaya and Grigory Smirnov, Anastasia Skoptsova and Kirill Aleshin (substitutes), Sofia Polishchuk and Alexander Vakhnov (substitutes).
Well, now - full lineup of adult competitions of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Finals in Marseille... We have already mentioned the Russian representatives. Spaniard Javier Hernandez, Canadian Patrick Chan, Japanese Sema Uno and Yuzuru Hanyu, Americans Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon will also compete in men's single skating.
V female category Canadian Kaitlin Osmond and Japanese Satoko Miyahara will compete with the Russian skater quartet.
The competition of sports pairs will include Canadians Megan Duhamel and Eric Redford, Germans Alena Savchenko and Bruno Masso, Chinese tandems Yu Xiaoyu - Zhang Hao and Peng Cheng and Dzin Yang, as well as another pair from Canada Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau.
Favorite dancers are Canadians Tessa Vertyu and Scott Moir. In the same program, three American couples made it to the Grand Prix finals: Maya Shibutani and Alex Shibutani, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Madison Hubell and Zachary Donoghue, as well as dancers from France Gabriela Papadakis and Guillaume Sizeron.
Figure Skating Grand Prix Final 2016-2017: broadcast schedule
Figure skating fans will be able to see all broadcasts of the Grand Prix finals from Marseille to live on the TV channel "MATCH TV".
Now more about the schedule of the Grand Prix finals Moscow time. On December 8, at 21:45 Moscow time, a short program of sports couples will start, and on the same day, at 23:10, on the ice with short rental the men will come out.
On December 9 at 21:05 a short dance will be performed by dance couples, and at 22:20 a free program will be shown by sports couples. On the same day, December 9, at 11:25 pm, the short program will be performed by women.
Three free programs are scheduled for December 10: at 18:45 for dancers, at 21:00 for women and at 22:20 for men.
The figure skating holiday in Marseille will end on December 11 demonstration performances which will start at 16:00.
December 8, 2016
Alina Zagitova leads after the short program in the final of the junior Grand Prix series in Marseille.
The student of Eteri Tutberidze and Sergei Dudakov skated the program cleanly, having made a groundwork of almost 6 points compared to her rivals before the free program. Anastasia Gubanova is third, Elizaveta Nugumanova is in fourth place.Silver medalists of the junior world championship in pair skating Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev are in the lead after the short program.
Another Russian couple, Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin, are third.Dmitry Aliev, Alexander Samarin and Roman Savosin are in the lead after the short program.
Another Russian Ilya Skirda takes 6th place.
The dance duet Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd are in the lead after a short dance.
Another one Russian couple Anastasia Shpileva / Grigory Smirnov round out the sixth place in the dance competition.Alla LOBODA - Pavel DROZD.
Alla - 18 years old, Pavel - 20 years old.
Coaches: Ksenia Rumyantseva, Ekaterina Volobueva. Choreographers: Richard Benois, Igor Rasporsky.This is not the first time the pair have made it to the final of the junior series. A year ago and two years ago, they were the silver medalists of the Grand Prix finals in Barcelona. At the World Junior Championships in Debrecen, the Russians took 3rd place. This season we won twice at the Grand Prix stages in Saransk and Tallinn. The free program for the skaters this season was staged by the French choreographer Richard Benoit.
Pavel: “This season is our last, we then move to senior, so we need to show that we are ready for such a transition. Naturally, there is a certain burden of responsibility, because this is the last year. we have heightened ambitions, heightened desire. Now we need to prove ourselves in juniors, so that our couple has a distinctive feature, so that we are noticed, remembered, so that, as they say, we do not get lost in seniors ... "
Alla: "We still have to work a lot. And it is not even discussed that we have to go to every start, and we go out as to the last. We give our all in training and competition."
Based on materials from Olga ERMOLINA (FFKKR)
Photo by Yulia KOMAROVA and Mikhail SHAROV
The final of the Grand Prix in figure skating has ended in Marseille, France. In the piggy bank of the "adult" Russian team there are two golds and one bronze, the juniors have three golds, three silvers and one bronze. World record Evgenia Medvedeva, four quadruple jump Nathan Chen, the "golden" debut of Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov - in the material of "Lenta.ru".
Final Grand Prix - the most prestigious tournament figure skaters and, without exaggeration, the main event of the first half of the 2016/2017 season in the world of figure skating. Six of the best sports couples, six dance duets, the same number of singles and singles came to Marseille to determine the strongest in their programs.
Sports couples
The first set of medals was played by sports couples. Russia in this form was represented by Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov and Natalia Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert. Both couples train in the group of Nina Moser, the coach of the reigning Olympic champions Tatyana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov, who, in turn, miss this season due to the pregnancy of the partner.
Both Russian duos made their debut in the Grand Prix series finals. But this did not prevent our skaters from performing with dignity in Marseille, and Tarasova and Morozov from winning a tournament of this level for the first time in their careers. Evgenia and Vladimir twice became bronze medalists of the European Championship, at the last year's World Championship they took fifth place. In Marseille, in the free program, they performed a quadruple twist, an ultra-C level element, and for the first time in their careers they announced themselves so loudly. Although it is worth admitting that the main rivals of the Russians skated far from flawlessly, the Chinese Yu Saoyu / Zhang Hao, who became the second, lost to Tarasova / Morozov on the sum of two programs by a little more than seven points, and two-time world champions from Canada Megan Duhamel / Eric Redford were on their own. themselves are not alike, breaking up both the short and free programs.
The second Russian duet Natalya Zabiyako / Alexander Enbert finished their performance in fourth position, which can be considered a success in the current conditions for the guys. Natalia and Alexander learned that they would be performing in France a couple of days before the start of the competition, when Alena Savchenko / Bruno Massot had to withdraw due to their partner's injury.
Anastasia Mashina / Vladislav Mirzoev celebrated the victory in the junior tournament, Alexandra Boykova / Dmitry Kozlovsky (all - Russia) climbed to the third step of the podium.
Men
The men's tournament in Marseille took place without the participation of domestic athletes, which, of course, upset figure skating fans from Russia. But, to tell the truth, even without our guys in France there was someone to look at. Yes, and in the current competition in men's single skating, Russian figure skaters do not have to claim high positions at the moment.
The undisputed hero of the Grand Prix finals of the 2016/2017 season is 17-year-old American Nathan Chen. In the free program, the skater performed four quadruple jumps under the "Polovtsian Dances", including two for the first time performed in one program without errors. hardest jump- the fourth lutz in a cascade with a triple toe loop and a quadruple flip. For the cascade of a quadruple lutz-triple toe loop, Nathan Chen received a record mark for one jump element - 19.9 points.
In terms of the sum of the two programs, the American lost only to Sochi Olympic champion Yuzur Khan. The renowned Japanese man brilliantly coped with the short program to the track Let 's go crazy, performed by Prince. In the free program, Hanyu also announced four quadruple jumping elements, but he fell from one. short program injury and skated arbitrary with bandaged legs. Reigning champion World Spaniard Javier Fernandez became the fourth, Canadian Patrick Chan the fifth, the American Adam Rippon, who came out a year ago, closed the top six.
The performance can be considered successful Russian juniors in the singles tournament. Dmitry Aliev with a total of 240.07 points became the first, Alexander Samarin, who won the silver, lost a little less than four points to him. I would like to hope that by Olympic Games at least one competitive skater from Russia will appear in Pyeongchang, who will be able to compete on equal terms for places on the podium with the elite of the world men's single skating.
Dancing on Ice
For the last two years, Gabriela Papadakis / Guillaume Sizeron has been the trendsetters in the most subjective form of figure skating. For two seasons, the French did not know defeat, systematically, step by step, approaching the main tournament of the four-year period as the undisputed leaders. But this year, the plans of Papadakis and Sizeron were disrupted by the Olympic champions of Vancouver and the silver examples of Sochi Tessa Virtu / Scott Moir, who decided to return to the big sport.
The return of the Canadians turned out to be truly triumphant, they not only received exorbitant points from the judges, but also beat the seemingly invincible French in all respects. In Marseille, Virtue and Moir received a record 80.50 points from the judges for their short dance. Before Canadians, no couple in the history of modern judging has managed to score more than 80 points for a short dance. Gabriela Papadakis / Guillaume Sizeron finished second on aggregate, with Maya Shibutani / Alex Shibutani from the United States taking the third place.
The Russian duo Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitry Soloviev remained outside the podium, finishing in fourth place. But in the current realities, this result can be considered successful, given everything that the guys had to endure over the past few years - both the partner's injury and the Meldonium scandal involving the partner.
“Today, unfortunately, we tore off our signature element - rotational support,” said Bobrova after the end of the tournament. - V recent times generally could get out of any position and do it. But today it didn’t work out, and it’s very offensive, the judges usually give “plus three” for her. However, from the good - we received not very low scores without this support, which means we can hope that with it the marks will be even higher. "
In the junior competition, the Russian duo Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd lost the championship to the American pair Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons. The Russians lost less than one point to their rivals.
Women
Over the past few years, the singles tournament has attracted the closest attention and aroused great interest among all figure skating lovers and fans. In Marseille, four out of six participants represented Russia. The company of Anna Pogorila, Maria Sotskova, Evgenia Medvedeva and Elena Radionova was the Canadian Kaitlin Osmond and the Japanese Satoko Miyahara.
The Japanese figure skater Miyahara showed almost the best skates in her career in France, which allowed her to eventually rise to the second step of the podium. The first, as expected, was Evgenia Medvedeva, the winner of last year's final in Barcelona, although in the free program the pupil Eteri Tutberidze made a small mistake on the first flip. Moreover, Medvedeva received 79.21 points for the short program, setting a new world record. Anna Pogorilaya is in third position, Caitlin Osmond is in fourth, Maria Sotskova, a debutante of the adult Grand Prix finals, is in fifth, Elena Radionova is in sixth.
In the junior tournament, the championship was won by Alina Zagitova, who trains in the group of Eteri Tutberidze, the second was another Russian woman Anastasia Gubanova.
Women
1.Evgenia Medvedeva(Russia) - 220.65
2. Caitlin Osmond (Canada) - 206.45
3. Satoko Miyahara (Japan) - 192.08
4.Elizaveta Tuktamysheva(Russia) - 187.99
5. Elaine Chartran (Canada) - 185.56
6.Rika Hongo (Japan) - 171.19
7. Choi Da Bin ( South Korea) - 165,78
8. Na Hyun Kim (South Korea) - 164.48
9. Mirai Nagasu (USA) - 151.42
10. Yushi Helgesson (Sweden) - 149.77
11. Yuka Nagai (Japan) - 147.56
Men
1. Patrick Chan (Canada) - 266.95
2. Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) - 263.06
3. Kevin Reynolds (Canada) - 245.06
4. Michal Brzezina (Czech Republic) - 227.42
5. Daniel Samokhin (Israel) - 226.53
6. Misha Ge (Uzbekistan) - 226.07
7. Alexander Petrov(Russia) - 224,39
8. Takahito Mura (Japan) - 222.13
9. Liam Fairus (Canada) - 210.89
10. Han Yan (China) - 209.11
11. Grant Hochstein (USA) - 204.69
12. Ross Miner (USA) - 196.53
Dancing on Ice
1. Tessa Virtue - Scott Moir (Canada) - 189.06
2. Madison Chok - Evan Bates (USA) - 188.24
3. Piper Gilles - Paul Poirier (Canada) - 182.57
4. Anna Cappellini - Luca Lanotte (Italy) - 180.35
5. Alexandra Stepanova - Ivan Bukin (Russia) - 168,10
6.Caitlyn Hawaii - Jean-Luc Baker (USA) - 162.19
7. Laurence Fournier Baudry - Nikolai Sorensen (Denmark) - 156.71
8.Alexandra Paul - Mitchell Islam (Canada) - 144.85
9. Shiyue Wang - Xinyu Liu (China) - 144.16
10.Cecilia Thorn - Jussiville Partanen (Finland) - 139.14
Sports couples
1. Megan Duhamel - Eric Redford (Canada) - 218.30
2. Yu Xiaoyu - Hao Zhang (China) - 202.08
3. Lyubov Ilyushechkina - Dylan Moskovich (Canada) - 190, .22
4. Haven Denny - Brandon Fraser (USA) - 188.23
5. Yuko Kawaguchi - Alexander Smirnov (Russia) - 182,75
6. Nicole Della Monica - Matteo Guarise (Italy) - 178.67
7. Brittany Jones - Joshua Regan (Canada) - 151.68
Some facts and achievements:
- Return to the competition of Olympic champions Tessa Virtue - Scott Moir.
- Dance couple Madison Chock - Evan Bates have updated their top scores in a short dance, as well as in the sum of the two programs.
- Evgenia Medvedeva set a new personal best in the short program with 76.24 points.
- Caitlin Osmond for the first time in her career got on the podium of the Grand Prix stage, while updating her best achievements in short and free programs, as well as by the amount of points.
- Kaitlyn Osmond became the 15th figure skater to achieve more than 200 points in total.
- Kevin Reynolds for the first time in his career got on the podium of the Grand Prix stage.
- Only in this offseason, Yu Xiaoyu and Hao Zhang, who joined the pair, immediately took second place.
- The pair Lyubov Ilyushechkina - Dylan Moskovich for the first time in their careers got on the podium of the Grand Prix stage.
I wrote only what Match TV showed about this. Nikolai P., she is already thinking about her Russian husband.)) Very modest and well-mannered by the way. Although she looks like that ... She looks much younger without makeup.
Nina, returns) Mishin praised her, said that she worked very well with him
Nikolay, it happens!
Is Carolina Costner still returning? I already thought that she would end her career as a skater, I also like this stubborn, hardworking girl.
Seryoga, he is not Carolina's coach, she had an internship with him.
I will root for Costner even more. After all, it is almost ours)) I wonder if this competition will benefit both of them? And how will Mishin bring two such figures to the starts at the same time?
Nina, yes yes you are right! I don’t know how, but I lost one line from the Word) I have already fixed everything.
Thank you very much for the indicated error, henceforth I will check even more thoroughly
Seryoga,
no, I do not consider Grishin such a strong word. I even like him in some moments, especially in tandem with Tarasova, but in the assessment of the Canadian girl he was, in my opinion, overly servile. For some reason.
Now, if he praised Fernandez, I would not be indignant. He really deserves all praise, albeit a dangerous competitor to our Kolyada. Yes, the Moscow stage promises to be spectacular in terms of competition between our girls.
Seryoga, we will definitely be sick for Kolyada. And for the girls. It's a pity Fedor has an injury. One sports pair, Trankov-Volosozhar, do not compete for a good reason, Yuka and Smirnov do not pull up to high places, which are already on the podium in the competition. We rolled back in sports pairs.
Even though Guerreiro was naturalized in dancing, we still have a failure now in this form. New Navka and Kostomarov are not expected yet.
Anton Pavlovich Chaika, if you saw the discussions on other sports sites where you can use a strong word, then there are many questions from the fans and experts regarding the commentator Grishin. Maybe he is forced to comment on this view? He does Dakar and football is better.
Fernandez, Uno, Tanaka will come to Moscow. It will be difficult for Kolyada. In our dances, we naturalized Gereiro-Zagorski (I am an ardent opponent of this), I will not root for them in principle, our girls Lipnitskaya, Pogorila and Radionova can only compete with Murakami. Sotskova's debut in France, that's who I will root for from the bottom of my heart! And Stolbova-Klimov were announced in Japan only for the last stage, and then in the case of Fedor's injury heals.
Seryoga, I also liked Kolyada last season. Being a debutant of the World Cup, he did not shiver, but showed everything he was ready for. Show everything you can at the main start is expensive! I will be sick!
Seryoga,
that's how I knew what they would say to me about the second half of the program, but Zhenya's scores began to increase significantly towards the very end, when about two-thirds of the program was over.
And it is precisely with a more or less clean rental among American-Canadian women that the judges generally do not notice blots and add up so that n. e. b. at. hot. So it was at the World Cup, when Anya Pogorilaya performed much better than the American, but she was pulled up by the judges to 2nd place.
And there is nothing to say about the free program at Osmond: either she stumbled, then she fell altogether, and Grishin never tired of praising her, as if he himself was performing someone's obligatory program.
I understand that now we have a global sport: athletes and coaches have mixed up in a bunch - who trains whom, who plays for which country, assigns themselves an area of definition, but everywhere there should be a measure, especially when there is nothing to praise for, but should be be indignant at judicial bias.
Anton Pavlovich Chaika, let's be honest. Cool, she skated a short one, maybe a plus and went a lot, but the rental is clear, with aesthetics. Miyahara also skated smoothly, but with blots. That is from the wrong edge, there is no height in jumps, but this is all without an allowance, from there and the loss to the same Canadian.
And Zhenya's points are growing for other reasons. She has all the difficulty in the second half of the programs, both short and free, which in itself is a plus. In addition, both tracks and all third level rotations.
Lilia, we have a boy, Kolyada's surname. We are waiting for the next stage. I think that he learned the second quadruple over the summer.
In my opinion, the judges played along strongly, especially in the free program: the scores do not correspond to her skating with blots, and even with a fall, they just pulled her out with all their might. On the pedestal, she clearly occupies a wrong place. She could have been pulled for the first time, just from the very beginning Zhenya skated much better than her. And I remember how at first, very restrainedly, Zhenya's scores for technique grew in arbitrary, and then, when her superiority became clear, they did not skimp.
Stop, stop! Did I miss something? Actually returned to the ice Olympic champions Vancouver Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir! What I am glad about, wonderful couple!
Thank you, everything is clear and understandable. Zhenya is smart. Lisa felt a little lacking. Couples, of course, are weak, not the level of Russia. Let's hope that they will catch up to the Olympics. And we are waiting for guys of the level of Yagudin and Plushenko))
Nikolay P., thanks for your efforts, Medvedeva is great, by the way, we congratulated her in yesterday's news today.