Event preview - Ladies

Ladies--If I were going to attend this event, I would most want to see the programs of some outstanding novices up for their JGP debut-Marissa Secundy (USA), Yokiko Fujisawa (JPN), and Alexandra Najarro (CAN). As to winning the event, I expect the top 6 to be Maxwell, Ishikawa, Berton (yes, her 4th place scores from Courchevel could be enough to win in this group), Gozeva, Fujisawa, and Secundy.


Stefania BERTON ITA
Euros 2008 LP (13th 132.59)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKShFuGAAU
4th Courchevel 114.81
7th Sheffield 114.53
6th Sofia 107.65
Her Courchevel performances
LP: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=efU4KyykhPk
SP: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=seaHS4mCf2A


Shoko ISHIKAWA JPN
2nd AEGON Championship 134.98
5th Tallinn
5th Harghita
3rd Japanese Junior Nationals (130.96)
Her LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4LZCNVjuk


Oksana GOZEVA RUS
6th Russian Championshps 132.52
Sp Russian Nationals 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShjZ4vNs78

Jana SMEKHNOVA RUS- WITHDRAWN
6th Tallin 114.28
3rd Sofia 122.71
5th Russian Champions 132.70

Angela MAXWELL USA
2nd US Junior Nationals
120.26 Lake Placid, where she finished 3rd
Show at Ice House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDooDS7cJzY&feature=related
Lake Placid SP 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svt7wu1aaLU&feature=related
Skate Detroit 2007 LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k6_IQriu_M&feature=related

Sofia OTALA FIN
5th Sheffield
9th Vienna
Best total score 116.24 Sheffield

Marissa SECUNDY USA
US Novice Champion
Her SP at Liberty 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyaSLS14MI
Her LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYMBYdZuKc
She finished 1st overall in her group in Juniors at Liberty 114.01.

Na-Hee SIN KOR
5th in South Korean Seniors
5th Lake Placid
18th Sheffield
17th World Juniors
Best totals score 113.61

Alexandra NAJARRO CAN
First in Canadian Novices last year (103.04)

Yukiko FUJISAWA JPN
She's 12 or 13, and a very interesting little skater to watch, I think.
Her SP at Skate Copenhagen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9SR-82YBU&feature=related
Her LP at Skate Copenhagen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bO-QpmYq8

McKenzie CRAWFORD CAN
10th Canadian Juniors 108.36

Radka BARTOVA SVK
16th Sheffield
14th Vienna
2nd in seniors in Slovakia
best total score 105.12

Dasa GRM SLO
27th Sheffield
18th Harghita
1st in Juniors in Slovenia
Best total score 88.11

Angelica OLSSON SWE
6th AEGON 2007 (101.64 )

Isabelle OLSSON SWE
1st Novice Warsaw Cup 2007 (101.1)

Ekaterina PROYDA UKR
best score World Juniors 2005 104.64
22nd Nebelhorn 2007

Zanna PUGACA LAT
2nd in Seniors in Latvia
19th Tallinn
22nd Chemnitz
best total score 80.60

Beatrice ROZINSKAITE LTU
1st in Seniors in Lithuania
43rd Jr. Worlds
23rd Tallinn
best total score 75.61

Barbara VILLARREAL MEX
Coupe de Nice 27th place

Kathryn MAGNO PHI

Aneta MICHALEK POL
21st Tallinn
39th Jr. Worlds
Best total score 77.14

Isabel HEINTGES GER
http://tracings.net/hein-isab.html
Her record on Tracings.


Sandy HOFFMANN GER

Maria TSAKIRIS GRE
35th Merano 52.51

Fanni FORGO HUN
68.77 Croatia 2007 JGP 68.77 (28th place)

Clara PETERS IRL
coached by the Ludingtons. I think this is the first I've seen a girl from Ireland competing

Monia ALEKSIC CRO

Kristina KOSTKOVA CZE

Anita MADSEN DEN
18th Coupe de Nice 2007

Yong Myong PHYO PRK
3rd in Seniors in North Korea

Olga IKONNIKOVA EST
3rd in Seniors in Estonia
Best total score 101.2
8th Tallinn
4th AEGON

Matleena LAAKSO FIN
87.61 Courchevel (21st)

Kyl-Jade BETTERIDGE AUS

Katrin KUNISCH AUT
96.00 Best total score
5th in Seniors in Austria

Juna DRABYSHEVSKAIA BLR

Stefanie PECHLANER BUL
76.97 at Merano (best total score)
Her LP at Merano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0ywHFkg9E

dorispulaski said:

Isabel HEINTGES GER
52.51 best score Merano (35th)

Sandy HOFFMANN GER

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Isabel didn't compete at Merano
JGP USA 2007 SP 33.76 + FS 63.29
Coupe de Nice SP 35.22 + FS 56.88

Sandy
Golden Bear SP 35.57 + FS 61.38
Nationals SP 38.52 + FS 70.09

Sandra, Thank you for the correction.

Fujisawa is an adorable little skater. Lots of charm there. Some additional info:

She won Skate Copenhagen in the Novice Girls division with a score of 138,05. She scored 48,76 in the short program and 89.29 in the free. She landed a 3T+2T, 3Lz and 2A in her SP and had high levels on her spins and spiral. In the free, sh landed 3Lz, 3T+2T+2L, 3S, 3F+2T, 2A and 3T+2A+SEQ. She had lots of +3s for her layback spin.

She also finished second in Novice A at Japanese Nationals (74.10 in her FS).

Shoko Ishikawa finished eighth at Japanese Senior Nationals with a score of 142.57.

Smekhnova finished eighth at Russian Juniors with a score of 122,68.

Jana Smekhnova (16), S5 and J8 at the Russian Nationals 2008 will not compete in Ostrava. Does anyone know what happened?

Wow, 138.05 is a big score for the novice division. The 2nd place girl at Skate Copenhagen got 85.01. I found a page with the protocols:
http://www.hvidovre-skojteklub.dk/viewpage.php?page_id=40

Here's her ISU bio: http://www.isufs.org/bios/isufs00011381.htm
Yukiko Fujisawa is age 13 years and 5 months.

Mao Asada was 2 weeks away from age 14 when she scored 138.02 at the JGP Long Beach (USA). Then Mao added the 3A to her repertoire ...

It looks like Angela Maxwell is going to get some competition and even if she wins, Fujisawa might surpass her in a couple of years.

However, it looks like the novices at Skate Copenhagen performed junior programs. Less impressive but still good. Maybe it'll be Angela with a clear win with the two japanese ladies competiting for silver.

I could see it that way!