This week two challenger events took place.
Here are the results of the ice dance event at Autumn Classic International:
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Alonside the Lombardia Trophy, the US International FS Classic took place last week.
Here are the results of the ice dance event: The 2016-2017 season might be over but figure skating fans tend to pay plenty of attention to any news in the off-season related to their favourite teams, particularly regarding music anouncements for their programs of the following season. Furthermore, excitement is quite large this year, since the Olympic Winter Games will take place next year.
So, the first thing to know is that all teams will have a Latin Short Dance, since the pattern dance chosen for this season for the senior couples is the Rhumba, to which can be added any of the following rhythms: Cha Cha, Samba, Mambo, Meringue, Salsa, Bachata and any closely related Latin American or Caribbean Rhythms. On what concerns the junior teams, the pattern dance is the Cha Cha Congelado and they can add any of the rhythms mentioned above. In this post I will be adding any news concerning anouncements that the teams may make. Music Announcements: AUSTRALIA Kimberly Hew-Low & Timothy McKernan SD: Safari J Balvin, ft. Pharrell Williams, BIA, Sky FD: Exogenesis Matilda Friend & William Badaoui FD: Love Story AZERBAIJAN Anastasia Galyeta & Avidan Brown FD: Cabaret BELARUS Adelina Zvezdova & Uladzimir Zaitsau SD: Apologize - Justin Timberlake; Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps - The Pussycat Dolls FD: Lexus (The Pursuit of Perfection) - Ralf Kempen, Mark Joggerst; Tema Celeste - Roberto Cacciapaglia Karina Sidarenka & Maksim Yalenich NEW SD: Ambientscapes; Let's get loud FD: Horchat Hai Caliptus - Ishtar; Pistolero - Juno Reactor CANADA Alicia Fabbri & Claudio Pietrantonio SD: Historia de un Amor - Nana Mouskouri; Sweet Like Cola - Lou Bega FD: El Tango de Roxanne; Come What May (Moulin Rouge!, comp. Craig Armstrong) Ashlynne Stairs & Lee Royer SD: El Beso del Final - Rudy Perez, performed by Christina Aguilera; I Like It Like That - Pete Rodriguez, Tony Pabon FD: Un monstre a Paris - Sean Lennon; La Seine - Matthieu Chedid, Sean Lennon (A Monster in Paris) Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus SD: Bailando, El perdedor, Let me be your lover - Enrique Iglesias FD: Cheek to cheek & I won't dance - Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Cassidy McFarlane & Kameron Jeromkin SD: Sway Ellie Fisher & Simon Pierre Malette-Paquette SD: Amado Mio; Donde Estas, Yolanda - Pink Martini FD: La Strada (comp. Nino Rota) Gina Cipriano & Jake Richardso SD: Come; Makeba - Jain FD: Merry Go Round (Howl’s Moving Castle, comp. Joe Hisaichi) Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker NEW SD: Cuéntame Que Te Pasó - Rosario FD: Love Theme - Robin and Marian, comp. John Barry; Merry Men - Robin Hood, comp. Marc Streitenfeld; The Ride to Sherwood/The Ride to Nottingham - Robin and Marian, comp. John Barry Irina Galiyanova & Tommy Tang SD: Dance With Me - Debelah Morgan; La vida loca - Francisco Cespedes FD: Time in a Bottle - Sim Croce; Lost in the Forest - Shin Jae Young Jade McCue & Gabriel Clemente SD: Maria (Ricky Martin); Ole Ole Ole (Ricky Martin); I Need to Know (Marc Anthony) FD: Another Day of Sun; City of Stars (Duet); Someone in the Crowd (La La Land, comp. Justin Hurwitz) Jessica-Lee Behiel & Jackson Behiel NEW SD: Let’s Get Loud; Theme from Mahogany; On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez FD: Amarcord; 8 and 1/2; Amarcord Suite - comp. Nino Rota Jessica Li & Jacob Richmond SD: Broadway Mambo - Perez Prado; Asi Es La Vida - Clandestinos FD: Runaway; Conqueror (Aurora) Jolie Che & Paul Ayer FD: Sarabande Suite Kaitlyn Chubb & Alex Gunther SD: Whatever Happens - Michael Jackson; Sway - Michael Buble FD: True colors by Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick; September by Earth, Wind and Fire Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje FD: Spartacus (comp. Aram Khachaturian); choreography by Lori Nichol and Linda Garneau Katerina Kasatkin & Corey Circelli SD: Mujer Latina (Thalia) FD: Faded (Alan Walker feat. Iselin Solheim) Katrine Roy & Oliver Zhang SD: Cha Cha Cha - Mo’ Horizons; Amado Mio - Cinema Serenade Ensemble FD: Assassin’s Tango - Mr. and Mrs. Smith, comp. John Powell; Tanguera - Sexteto Mayor Keelee Gingrich & Parker Brown SD: Europa [Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile]; Smooth - Santana FD: The Curse - Agnes Obel; Neverland - Takenobu Leia Dozzi & Liam Fawcett SD: Addicted to You ; Don’t Stop the Party (Pitbull feat. TJR) FD: Vinegar & Salt; Amalfi (Hooverphonic) Lily Hensen & Nathan Lickers SD: Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps; Por Arriba, Por Abajo - Ricky Martin FD: Who wants to live forever - Queen; performed by The Tenors Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha SD: Bla Bla Bla Cha Cha Cha - Petty Booka; Tu Picadura - Gary Tesca FD: Dream - Imagine Dragons; Nemesis - Benjamin Clementine (x) Molly Lanaghan & Dmitre Razgulajevs SD: Samba Vocalizado - Luciano Perrone; Lo So Che Finirà - Anna Tatangelo; Johnny’s Mambo - Michael Lloyd NEW FD: Selections from Mary Poppins (comp. the Sherman Brothers) Natalie D'Alessandro & Bruce Waddell SD: I Need to Know - Marc Anthony; Let’s Get Loud - Jennifer Lopez FD: Your Song - Elton John, Bernie Taupin; Your Song (Ellie Goulding); Your Song (Moulin Rouge!, perf. Ewan McGregor); Original Arrangement/A Wonderful Love - Karl Hugo Natascha Collier & Philippe Marchand SD: India - Yan Amor; Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Pussycat Dolls FD: Overture; Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast, comp. Alan Menken) Nina Mizuki & Veniamins Volskis SD: Que La Detengan NEW FD: Arrietty’s Song; Sho’s Song (Arrietty, Cecile Corbel) Olivia Han & Grayson Lochhead SD: I Need to Know; Quítate Tú Pa Ponerme Yo - Marc Anthony FD: Selections from Pirates of the Caribbean (comp. Hans Zimmer) Olivia McIsaac & Elliott Graham SD: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás - Pink Martini ; Angelina - Lou Bega FD: Let It Be Me - Ray LaMontagne; What I Wouldn’t Do - Serena Ryder Ravie Cunningham & Cedar Bridgewood NEW SD: Where Do I Begin - Shirley Bassey [Away Team Remix] FD: Johanna; A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd, comp. Stephen Sondheim Sarah Arnold & Thomas Williams SD: Besame Mucho FD: Fall for You (Leela James); If I Ain’t Got You (Alicia Keys feat. Usher) Theadora Sauve & Alexandre Faucher SD: Sway - Pink Martini; Beautiful Maria of My Soul - perf. Mambo All-Stars feat. Antonio Banderas; Copacabana - perf. Copacabana Original London Cast FD: Anything Goes; But Beautiful; It Don’t Mean a Thing - perf. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Valerie Taillefer & Jason Chan SD: Con Mi Sombra - S-Tone Inc; Skip to the Bip [Brazil Mix] - Club Des Belugas FD: Closer Than Sisters (Penny Dreadful, comp. Abel Korzeniowski); A Boat to Argentina (Amen, comp. Armand Amar) Vanessa Chartrand & Alexander Seidel SD: Samba Pa’ Ti; Oye Como Va (Santana) FD: Lament; You Must Love Me; Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (Evita, comp. Andrew Lloyd Webber) CZECH REPUBLIC Nicole Kuzmichova & Alexandr Sinicyn SD: Magalenha - Antonio Carlos; Fly Love - Jamie Fox; Mas Que Nada - Jorge Ben FD: Cabaret (Willkommen; Money; Mein Herr) - John Kander Natalie Taschlerova & Filip Taschler SD: Cha Charanga - El Rubio Loco; Temptation - Tom Waits; Bailar -Elvis Crespo, Erick Orrosquieta, Robert Fernandez FD: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg; In This Shirt - Jamie McDermott, performed by The Irrepressibles FINLAND Cecilia Torn & Jussiville Partanen NEW FD: Funny Face; I've Got A Crush On You FRANCE Marie Dupayage & Thomas Nabais NEW SD: Take It Easy My Brother Charles - Jorg Ben Jor; Un Canto a mi tierra - Quantic and his Combo Barbaro; Real in Rio - Real Copa FD: Yesterday - Tangoloco, Daiel Garcia Quinteto; Grand Guignol - Bajo Fondo Marie Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac SD: "September" & "How deep is your love" FD: Another one bites the dust; You Take My Breath Away - Queen Angélique Abachkina & Louis Thauron NEW FD: Je suis malade - Lara Fabien; Mariage D'Amor - Richard Clayderman Loicia Demougeot & Théo Le Mercier SD: El Pescador by Totó La Momposina; La Collegiala by Rodolfo y su Tipica; Onda Tropica - Punkero Sonidero NEW FD: Light of the Seven by David de Miguel; Strange by Apollo G'eeze Natacha Lagouge & Corentin Rahier NEW SD: Medley - Cafe Latino; Frío Sin Ti - Navajita Plateá ft. Buika; Samba Beach - Danny Davis, Peter Weitz FD: Theme : the life of Coco Chanel [Little Black Baby - Scott Joplin (ragtime); Tango A Meta - Fabrizio Biondi; Tema per una donna sola by Ennio Morricone; Casino de Deauville - Alexandre Desplat; Cocomotion by El Coco (disco) GERMANY Katharina Müller & Tim Dieck SD: Dibby Dibby (Samba); I am not the only one - Sam Smith (Rhumba); Campo Grande (Samba) FD: Bodyguard musical soundtrack Kavita Lorenz & Joti Polizoakis SD: Aguanile - M. Anthony (Salsa); Mil Pasos - Soha (Remix) (Rhumba); Quimbara - C. Cruz (Salsa) GREAT BRITAIN Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckand SD: Remix of Rhumba D'Amour by Torvill and Dean, choreography by Christopher Dean FD: Battle Remembered - Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, choreography by Christopher Dean Sasha Fear & George Waddell FD: Coldplay Medley (Sky full of stars; Fix You; Viva la vida) Emily Rose Brown & James Hernandez SD: I Wanna Dance With Somebody; One Moment in Time - Whitney Houston FD: Who Wants To Live Forever - Brian May, performed by The Tenors Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson FD: West Side Story Leticia Marsh & Elliot Verburg NEW SD: Bones Bugalu - Gabriel Rios; Lo So Che Finra - Erik Satie, performed by Tataneglo; Ven a bailar - Bilal Haiji, performed by Jennifer Lopez FD: Moulin Rouge soundtrack [Sparking Diamonds; El Tango de Roxanne; Come What May] HONG KONG Valerie So & Marcus Yao NEW SD: Samba; Despacito - Luis Fonsi FD: Singing in the Rain; Walking on Sunshine ISRAEL Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko SD: Shape of You - Ed Sheeran ; She Will Be Loved - Rhythms del Mundo ; Fireball - Pitbull FD: Samson et Dalila-Camille Saint-Saëns ITALY Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri SD: Salsa; Rhumba; Samba FD: Exogenesis Symphony Part III - Muse Jasmine Tessari & Francesco Fioretti FD: La Tosca - G. Puccini JAPAN Kana Muramoto & Chris Reed SD: I like it like that - Pete Rodriguez; Mondo Bongo - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros; Batucada - DJ dero NEW FD: Music Medley from Ryuichi Sakamoto Yuka Orihara & Kanata Mori NEW SD: Hoy Es Adios, A Gozar Timbero FD: Planetarium & Epilogue from La La Land soundtrack Rikako Fukase & Aru Tateno NEW SD: Senorita Bonita; Tequila; Que Rico Mambo Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto SD: Ahora Quien - Marc Anthony; Samba do Brasil (Radio Remix) - Bellini FD: Yentl soundtrack (“Where is it Written?” and “A Piece of the Sky”); Sabrina soundtrack ( John Williams’ instrumental End Credits) LATVIA Aurelija Ippolito & Malcolm Jones FD: Alex Clare - Damn Your Eyes; Cover of Tainted Love LITHUANIA Allison Reed & Saulius Ambrulevicius FD: Stairway to Heaven POLAND Natalia Kaliszek & Maksym Spodyriev SD: mix of Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce & Shakira FD: swing, quickstep and foxtrot or waltz RUSSIA Anastasia Shpilevaya & Grigory Smirnov SD: Cha Cha (Tom Jones Kiss) and samba (Dominó-Baila Baila Comigo) FD: Love Story; choreographer Irina Zhuk Anastasia Skoptsova & Kirill Aleshin SD: rhumba, Cha-cha, salsa FD: Tango (Vuelvo Al Sur, Paris, Texas – Gotan Project) Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva & Nikita Nazarov SD: cha cha; samba FD: Ghost (musical soundtrack) - Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard Eva Kuts & Dmitrii Mikhailov NEW SD: Cha Cha - Michael Jackson; Juan Magan - Mariah FD: Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse Evgeniia Lopareva & Alexey Karpushov NEW SD: Kiss; In Style and Rhythm - Tom Jones FD: Moldavian Song - Emir Kusturica; Maki Maki - Goran Bregovic; Mesecina - Goran Bregovic Ksenia Konkina & Grigory Yakushev NEW SD: Cuentame - Caribbean Kings Band; Lick It; Samba FD: El Choclo Polina Ivanenko & Daniil Karpov NEW SD: Rhumba; Cha Cha; Samba FD: L'Immersita - Il Volo Sofia Evdokimova & Egor Bazin FD: Ave Maria Sofia Polishchuk & Alexander Vakhnov NEW SD: Chilly Cha Cha - Jessica Jay; Hip Hip Chin Chin - Club des Belugas FD: Black Swan (soundtrack) - Clint Mansell Sofia Shevchenko & Igor Eremenko SD: Let's Cha Cha - MC Mario; Happy - Max Sedgley FD: Heart Cry - Drehz ; La Boulange - Yann Tiersen Tiffany Zahorski & Jonathan Guerreiro NEW FD: Muse medley Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov FD: Vocalise, Piano concerto nr.2 - Rachmaninoff SOUTH KOREA Yura Min & Alexander Gamelin SD: Despacito - Luis Fonsi; My All - Mariah Carey; Mujer Latina - Thalia FD: Arirang Alone - Sohyang SPAIN Olivia Smart & Adria Diaz SD: Despacito - Luis Fonsi FD: "A Mans World" & "Natural Woman" sneak-peak Celia Robledo & Luis Fenero SD: Shakira medley (Hips Don't Lie;...) FD: The Skin I Live In; Flamenco Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khalyavin SD: Santana FD: Don Quixote (Flamenco), Choreography by Antonio Najarro SWITZERLAND Victoria Manni & Carlo Rothlisberger NEW SD: I Like It Like That; Beautiful Maria; Do You Only Wanna Dance FD: Sixteen Tons; ZZ Top's Tush UKRAINE Alexandra Nazarova & Maxim Nikitin SD: Cucurrucucú Paloma; Pink Panther Mambo (?) FD: Pirates of the caribbean soundtrack Maria Golubtsova & Kirill Belobrov NEW SD: Kaboom - Ursula 1000; Love Freedom - DJ Maksy; Hip Hip Chin Chin - DJ Maksy FD: Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen Olga Giglava & Yegor Yegorov SD: Besame Mucho - Michael Bolton; Shall We Dance - John Altman; Can I Tico Tico You - Abreu/Bega FD: Daydreams - Abel Korzeniowski; The Adjustment Bureau (soundtrack) - Audiomachine; Akkadian Empire - Audiomachine USA Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov Somerville FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg Allie Rose & JT Michel FD: Bonnie and Clyde theme Amanda Miller & Daniel Tsarik FD: Four Seasons Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik SD: cha cha, rhumba, and mambo rhythms FD: West Side Story Caroline Green & Gordon Green SD: Chilled Mambo - the Mambo Molly and the 5 Alarms; Donde Esta Tu Amor - Son By Four; Music from Samba Latina soundtrack FD: Music from Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor - Alexander Borodin; Stranger in Paradise - Sarah Brightman Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye SD: Carino - Jennifer Lopez; Como Ama Una Mujer - Jennifer Lopez; On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull FD: Child of Light OST by Coeur de Pirate ("Final Breath; "Place de République" and "Metal Gleamed in Twilight") Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko SD: Quizas, Quizas, Quizas - Sarita Monitel; Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps - Pussycat Dolls; Conga - Gloria Estefan FD: Dance for Me Wallis; Abdication (from "W.E." soundtrack) - Abel Korzeniowski Claire Purnell & Lucas Purnell FD: Fiddler on the Roof Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci FD: La La Land soundtrack Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville SD: Mas Que Suerte - Beatriz Luengo; De Hombre A Mujer - Donato & Estéfano; Samba Hey - El General FD: Zavedi Me - Hari Mata Hare; Nyah - Hector Teixeira Pereira & Hans Zimmer; No Ronees Das Conmigo - Tangos De La Reponpa - Susi Elliana Pogrebinsky & Alex Benoit SD: "Baddest Girl in Town" (Pitbull feat. Mohombi and Wisin);"Lo So Che Finera" (Anna Tatangelo); "Bailar" (Deorro feat. Elvis Crespo) FD: Desire (Rock Blues) [I Put a Spell on You (perf. Annie Lennox); original composition] Emma Gunter & Caleb Wein SD: Se Escaparon - Bombon; Huele A Peligro - Myriam Hernandez; Pasame La Botella - Banda Agua Caliente FD: I Give Up - Elija Bossenbroek; Crimson Sky - Calm Music for Studying Isabella Amoia & Luka Becker SD: Caramelo; Angel de mi corazon; Caramelo (Sugar's Dance Remix) - Olga Tanon FD: Code Name Vivaldi; Arwen's Vigil; Michael Meets Mozart - Piano Guys Jocelyn Haines & James Koszuta FD: Sinatra Medley Julia Biechler & Damien Dodge SD: Into You (Rhumba remix) - Ariana Grande; I Know You Want Me -Pitbull FD: American Woman - Lenny Kravitz; I Put a Spell On You - Joe Cocker; Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker SD: Get Busy - Sean Paul; Soha Mil Pasos - Isabelle & Félicien; Fireball - Pitbull FD: Liebestraum (last season's FD) Karina Manta & Joseph Johnson SD: Right Now -Pussycat Dolls; Fireball - Pitbull FD: Moulin Rouge ("One Day I'll Fly Away" and "Your Song" - perf. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman); Choreography by Christopher Dean Katarina DelCamp & Maxwell Gart FD: Motown music ("I Feel Good" and "Try a Little Tenderness") Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter SD: Mambo Italiano - Orietta Berti; El Perdedor - Enrique Iglesias; Big Bagz - Alex Romano FD: Anime Contro Vento by Medialuna Tango Project Madison Chock & Evan Bates NEW SD: Marc Anthony medley FD: "Imagine" by John Lennon Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue SD: "Cuando Calienta el Sol" - Talya Ferro; "Le Serpent" - Guem; "Sambando (Los Ritmos Calientes)" (x) sneak-peak FD: Across the Sky Instrumental - Rag N' Bone Man; Caught Out In the Rain - Beth Hart sneak-peak Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani SD: Perez Prado FD: Coldplay: Paradise Molly Cesanek & Nikolay Usanov FD: Romeo & Juliet Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva FD: A Thousand Years - Christina Perri Rachel Parsons & Michael Parsons NEW SD: Mambo Molly - Mambo Molly; Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Zuchero FD: La Partida - Victor Jara; Sikuridadas & Quiaquenpita - Inti-Illimani[South American music, based on the contemporary ballet “Ghost Dances”] Sophia Elder & Christopher Elder FD: Alice in Wonderland soundtrack Coaching Changes: GERMANY Kavita Lorenz and Joti Polizoakis will train with Marina Zoueva (previously coached by Igor Shpilband) ISRAEL Isabella Tobias and Ilia Tkachenko will train with Marina Zoueva, Oleg Epstein, Massimo Scali and Johnny Johns (previously coached by Igor Shpilband and Adrienne Lenda) RUSSIA Tiffany Zahorski and Jonathan Guerreiro will train with Elena Kustarova and Svetlana Alekseeva (they were previously coached by Alexander Zhulin) Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov will train with Alexander Zhulin (they were previously coached by Elena Chaikovskaia, Marina Zueva and Massimo Scali. Splits/Retirements: CANADA Elysia-Marie Campbell & Philippe Granger Sabrina Bédard & George Waddell Priya Ramesh & Brandon Labelle Mira Samoisette & Dominic Barthe Yohanna Broker & Matthew Korkoian Alexa Linden & Addison Voldeng (x) JAPAN Emi Hirai & Marien de la Asuncion (x) KOREA Lee Ho-jung & Richard Kang-in-Kam (x) LITHUANIA Taylor Tran & Saulius Ambrulevicius (x) RUSSIA Elena Ilinykh & Ruslan Zhiganshin (x) USA Anastasia Cannuscio & Colin McManus (x) Danielle Thomas & Daniel Eaton Charlotte Maxwell & Ryan Devereaux (x) New Partnerships: AUSTRALIA Chantelle Kerry & Andrew Dodds (x) CANADA Molly Lanaghan & Dmitre Razgulajevs (x) Olivia McIsaac & Elliott Graham (x) Ellie Fisher & Simon Pierre Mallet Paquette (x) GEORGIA (?) Diana Davis & Fedor Varlamov (x) GREAT BRITAIN Sasha Fear & George Waddell Eleanor Hirst & Adam Miller (x) Tish Marsh & Elliot Verburg (x) LITHUANIA Allison Reed & Saulius Ambrulevicius MEXICO Megumi Tsutsumi & Devin Dickey RUSSIA Alisa Lozko & Adian Pitkeev (x) Elena Ilinykh & Anton Shibnev (x) USA Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik Isabella Amoia & Luca Becker Allie Rose & JT Michel Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva Amanda Miller & Danile Tsarik Competition Schedules: Challenger Series
Maximum Scores: Junior SD: 80.20; Junior FD: 106.50; Junior Total: 186.70 (x) Senior SD: 85.30; Senior FD: 124.70; Senior Total: 210.00 (x) Other news: Spain: Olivia Smart and Kirill Khaliavin got spanish nationality South Korea: Alexander Gamelin is eligible for the Olympic Games Denmark: Help Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen so that they can participate at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games; UPDATE: The appeal was not successful (x) Poland: Kaliszek/Spodyriev - Injury news Russia: Stepanova/Bukin will have choreography from Tchernyshev whereas Sinitsina and Katsalapov's will be from Zhulin; Bobrova/Soloviev working with Radu Poklitaru for Free Dance Minto Summer Skate 2017: Junior SD FD / Senior SD FD Chesapeake Open Results (x) Lake Placid Results (x) Entries for the Junior Grand Prix of Brisbane (x) Entries for the Junior Grand Prix of Salzburg (x) Entries for the Junior Grand Prix of Riga (x) NEW The most important competition of the season took place in Helsinki between March 29th and April 2nd. While the podium may have ended up as most people predicted, as well as the teams present in the top ten, there was a great deal of unpredictability in how these results came about. All in all, it was quite an exciting event. Here are the results: The most important competition of the year, the World Championships, begin on the 29th. However, the short dance takes place on the 31st of March, with the free dance happening on the 1st of April. Predictions of this event where extremely hard to come up with, since the field is deep and anything can happen. Virtue and Moir are chasing their 3rd World Title, but so are Papadakis and Cizeron. Many medalists are present, like Maia and Alex Shibutani, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje or even the 2014 World Champs Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte. Here are my predictions:
Other couples to watch:
There are a couple of other couples I will be keeping an eye on. Starting with Guginard & Fabbri and Tobias & Tkachenko who may challenge the top 10. Also, I am extremely curious to see how well will the Spanish team of Olivia Smart and Adria Diaz place. Moreover, I really like the programs of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen of Denmark, particularly their short dance. The Chinese team of Shiyue Wang & Xinyu Liu is another one to keep an eye on, and so is the Korean team of Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin. The second French team of Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac is another one to watch: they have an amazing skating quality. Additionally, the Turkish team of Alisa Agafonova & Alper Ucar has been having great results this season. Lastly, I have really liked the British team ever since the Lombardia Trophy, so I will be watching Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson. From the 14th to the 19th of February, the Bavarian Open took place. The favourites to the win were Italian Champions and recently crowned silver medalists at the European Championships, Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte. Nevertheless, the "battle" for the only spot of the Spanish team at Worlds would end here with Smart/Diaz and Robledo/Fenero trying to surpass the techical score obtained by Hurtado/Khaliavin in the short dance. Other relevant names present included Lorenz/Polizoakis from Germany and Torn/Partanen from Finland.
Happening in the same week as the Four Continents, this was the opportunity to take a look at some of the newest and most unknown European teams. Here are the results: The Finlandia Trophy was the last event of the Challenger Series to take place before the start of the Grand Prix Season. Some surprises were in store, with Russians Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin winning gold ahead of the favorites, the Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue. Here are the results of this competition: 7. Cecilia Törn/Jussiville Partanen (Finland) – Total of 126.93 points
8. Taylor Tran/Saulius Ambrulevicius (Lithuania) – Total of 117.63 points 9. Emi Hirai/Marien de la Asuncion (Japan) – Total of 102.03 points 10. Olesia Karmi/Max Lindholm (Finland) – Total of 101.02 points The U.S. International Figure Skating Classic marked, at least for me, the enthusiasm of having figure skating back for another season. Of course, it had to do with the “premiere” of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of the United States of America. They were coming as the winners of last year’s edition and the ultimate favourites to the victory after a highly successful season, which indeed happened. Despite a not so great season for Canadians Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam, they could never be counted off, especially in the roster of athletes present. Nevertheless, my excitement was particularly large due to the presence of the new Spanish team Olivia Smart and Adria Diaz. Why is that? Well, being Portuguese entails that we support Spanish athletes (as we don’t have any) and I was always particularly fond of Sara Hurtado and Adria Diaz. The results of this event are here: SD - Short Dance; FD - Free Dance Perhaps the largest surprise was the silver medal of Kana Muramoto and Chris Reed of Japan. At least, I was certainly not expecting it. Also, Manta/Johnson finished well ahead of Thomas/Eaton even though last year they were behind them at US Nationals.
Besides the couples above, Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin of South Korea were 6th (134.74), Alisa Agafonova/Alper Ucar of Turkey were 7th (131.76), Danielle Thomas/Daniel Eaton from the USA were 8th (128.64), Tina Garabedian/Simon Proulx-Senecal of Armenia 9th (127.38), Cortney Mansour/Michal Ceska of Czech Republic were 10th (120.20), Mackenzie Bent/Dmitre Razgulajevs of Canada were 11th (112.10) and Katharina Muller/Tim Dieck of Germany were 12th (109.84). |
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