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dorispulaski

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Well, here we are at the last event of the JGP, and the ice dance spots for the JGPF are by no means certain.

The top 3 finishers here should be going to the JGPF, provided they come from the group that has already won a silver or gold medal-Chock / Zuerlein, Agafanova / Dun, & Pushkash / Kiselev.

The group that has won bronze medals must finish at least 2nd to go: Routhier /Saucke-Lacelle, Zenkova / Sinitsyn, and Alessandrini / Vaturi. If R / S-L, Z / S or A / V finish third, they will not go, as Antipova / Kudashev also would have 22 points, but would have finished 2nd once, and that's the first tie breaker.

With 6 prior JGP medal winners competing here, this should be an amazing competition to see, and I hope it will be telecast or at least streamed somewhere!

The CD here at Sheffield is the Paso Doble, and 5 of the top 6 teams have already competed the Paso this year. The only exception is Zenkova and Sinitsin.

For those who want a brush up on the Paso Doble, here's my season reference file on it:
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22951

Just so you can see how these teams stack up against each other, here are their stats from their previous competitions:

Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA 15 Points
Event score 156.52 (Merano 1st)
CD Paso 30.98
OD Base 26.80 PCS 22.13 Total 51.12
FD Base 34.50 PCS 37.16 Total 74.42

Alisa AGAFONOVA / Dmitri DUN UKR 15 Points
Event score 152.97 (Belarus 1st)
CD Paso 31.17
OD Base 24.80 PCS 22.64 Total 48.76
FD Base 34.70 PCS 36.14 Total 73.04

Ekaterina PUSHKASH / Dmitri KISELEV RUS 13
Event score 150.71 (Belarus 2nd)
CD Paso 31.52
OD Base 24.2 PCS 21.48 Total 46.88
FD Base 33.8 PCS 36.06 Total 72.31

Karen ROUTHIER / Eric SAUCKE-LACELLE CAN 11
Event score 149.83 (Ostrava 3rd)
CD Paso 30.68
OD Base 25.30 PCS 20.85 Total 48.54
FD Base 35.20 PCS 33.46 Total 70.61

Valeria ZENKOVA / Valerie SINITSIN RUS 11
Event score 143.20 (Mexico 3rd)
CD Starlight 27.00
OD Base 26.00 PCS 19.28 Total 46.48
FD Base 34.80 PCS 32.62 Total 69.72

Lorenza ALESSANDRINI / Simone VATURI ITA 11
Event score 142.01 (Merano 3rd)
CD Paso 28.64
OD Base 25.30 PCS 19.88 Total 45.69
FD Base 33.20 PCS 33.58 Total 67.68

Pushkash and Kiselev have had the highest Paso Doble score of this group this year, followed by Agafanova & Dun and then Chock and Zuerlein.

Chock and Zuerlein had by far the highest score in the OD.

It is very close between C&Z and A&D in the FD.

No one should assume anything about how this will all turn out between these 6 great teams.

Here's all of their Bio stuff that I could collect, as usual. I have added some new youtube videos of their JGP skates and other recent competitions.

Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA
Coaching History: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zoueva
Personal best 156.52 Merano 2008
Fifth Qualifiers for the 2008 Junior Grand Prix Final
2008 JGP Merano 1 1 1 1 (156.52)
2008 U.S. Junior National Championships 4 1 3 3 (161.40)
2008 Junior Grand Prix Final 4 7 5 5 (152.68)
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 2 4 2 3 (152.63)
2007 Tallinn Cup [JGP] 1 1 1 1 (150.99)
2007 U.S. Novice National Championships 7 5 5 5 (96.44)
2007 U.S. Pacific Coast Novice Sectionals 3 3 1 1 (97.80)
3rd Jr Nationals 2008
Ice Network, 150 minute mark for CD Viennese Waltz
Ice Network, 144 minute mark for OD Russian Gypsy
Ice Network, for 131 minute mark FD (West Side Story-she is very expressive and flexible)
Shpilband's most improved team in 2007/2008 season (she was 15 at US Nationals)
Lake Placid Open Paso Doble 3rd 25.26
Lake Placid OD (2nd Group B 47.97)
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...ginalDance-GroupB/chock-zuerlein_6448.jpg.php
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...ginalDance-GroupB/chock-zuerlein_6462.jpg.php
Lake Placid FD (Won group A, score 70.89)
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...Dance-GroupA/jrfdachockzuerleinDB-NEW.jpg.php

Their Paso Doble from Merano (all courtesy of sk8fan08
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=jIZmOXYrUi4&feature=related
Their OD From Merano
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=nUIsTC8IaoY&feature=related
Their FD From Merano
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=onKhS478aII&feature=user


Alisa AGAFONOVA / Dmitri DUN UKR
Coached by Marina Zoueva, Svetlana Chernikova, Igor Shpilband
Best total internation score 2008 Belarus 152.97
First Alternates for the 2008 Junior Grand Prix Final
First Alternates for the 2007 Junior Grand Prix Final
2008 Belarus JGP 2 1 1 1 (152.97)
2008 World Junior Championships 8 7 7 7 (150.57)
2008 Junior Grand Prix Final 7 5 6 6 (144.87)
2007 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 2 2 2 2 (158.33)
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 3 3 3 4 (151.56)
2007 Tallinn Cup [JGP] 2 2 3 2 (144.41)
2006 Chinese Taipei Cup [JGP] 4 2 2 2 (141.42)
2006 JGP Courchevel 8 4 3 4 (134.74)
2005 Gdansk Cup [JGP] 9 12 10 10 (115.22)
2004 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 14 10 10 10 (118.43)
2004 JGP Harbin 7 7 6 7 (119.04)
2002 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 4 4 4 4
Ukrainian Jr. Nationals OD 2008 (Putting on the Ritz) This is this year's OD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcd2CjeyFiY&feature=related
Ukrainian Jr. Nationals FD 2008 (This dates from August and may be this year's FD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-nxNS2uSjc
2006 Cup of Taipei, where they finished second
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJvkF7mhOU0

Ekaterina PUSHKASH / Dmitri KISELEV RUS
Personal best 2008 Belarus 150.71
2008 FD is to Scheherazade
2008 Exhibition is to "We Are the Champions"
2008 Belarus JGP 1 3 2 2 (150.71)
2008 Russian Jr. Championships 5 5 4 5 (156.95)
2007 Sofia JGP 6 4 3 4 (141.72)
2007 Tallinn JGP 11 6 2 6 (137.51)
They had a bad start with the CD, but scored 68.74 in the FD
2006 Chinese Taipei Cup [JGP] 7 6 8 7 (123.43)
---End Quote---
They recently scored 149.79 (1,2,1) at the Russia Cup competition in Samara, which they won. They scored 29.8 in the CD and had a fall in the OD. They are from the Svinin/Zhuk camp.
At the recent Russia Cup competition (http://s50.radikal.ru/i128/0809/8e/f3bb135b003e.jpg)
With Irina Zhuk (http://s44.radikal.ru/i105/0809/e6/39616e94c47e.jpg)
2008 FD Scherazade from Belarus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUFA8ndc_mg
2007 FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO8hazHI8Zw&feature=related
2006 OD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJ0oTECxf0&feature=related


Karen ROUTHIER / Eric SAUCKE-LACELLE CAN
Coach: Tyler Myles, Kelly Johnson, P. Porac Choreographer: Pasquale Camerlengo
Personal best (149.83) Ostrave 2008
OD: Blues (1930s): PS. I love You by Bette Midler; Jive (1930s): Stuff Like That There by Bette Midler
FD: Cinema Paradiso by D. Pontes; Cinema Paradiso by E. Morricone
2008 Czech Skate [JGP] 4 3 4 3 (149.83) 2008
2008 8th Lake Placid IDC OD Group A 39.08
2008 World Junior Championships 9 11 11 10 (138.61)
2008 Canadian Junior National Championships 2 2 2 2 (141.36)
2008 Junior Eastern Challenge 1 1 1 1 (137.61)
2008 Québec Junior Sectionals 1 1 1 1 (129.82)
2007 Sofia Cup [JGP] 5 5 6 5 (135.48)
2007 Vienna Cup [JGP] 6 7 9 8 (128.28)
2007 Canadian Junior National Championships 5 5 4 4 (126.81)
2007 Junior Eastern Challenge 3 4 4 4 (114.86)
2007 Québec Junior Sectionals 2 3 2 2 (120.35)
2006 JGP Mexico 4 4 4 4 (118.34)
2006 Junior North American Challenge Skate - Vancouver 1 4 2 2 (117.27)
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...ce-GroupA/jroda-routhier-saucke-lacel.jpg.php
6th Lake Placid IDC FD Group A 61.38
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...nce-GroupA/jrfdarouthiersauckeDB2-NEW.jpg.php
Article about their bronze medal showing at Ostrava:
http://www.tsn.ca/figure_skating/story/?id=250096

Lorenza ALESSANDRINI / Simone VATURI ITA
Their personal best is 142.01 at Merano 2008.
2008 JGP Merano 3 4 3 3 (142.01)
2008 Junior Bavarian Open 1 2 2 1 1 (140.14)
2008 Italian National Championships 2 3 3 3 (145.72)
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 6 7 5 6 (138.18)
2007 Croatia Cup [JGP] 6 6 6 6 (137.13)

Their bronze medal FD at Merano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEBUKDxPq8
A youtube of last year's OD (Flamenco)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okh4P2j_tHk


Alexandra PAUL / Jason CHEPERDAK CAN
2008 Madrid JGP 5 6 4 4 (138.85 )
2008 Canadian Novice National Championships 4 5 1 3 (75.99)
2008 Novice Western Challenge 2 3 1 1 (77.82)
2008 Central Ontario Novice Sectionals 2 3 1 2 (70.06)

Withdrew from the FD at LPIDC 2008
Photo:
http://www.tracings.net/paul-chep.png
A report of their novice performance from Novice Western Challenge from ice-dance.com with picture:
http://ice-dance.com/events-results/reports/scewchallenges08/novicefd.html
Another report of the novice dance at Canadian Nationals:
http://www.simcoe.com/article/64451


Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS
2008 Merano 7 5 6 6 (135.17)
2008 Russian Cup (Samara) 3 3 3 3 (137.69)
2008 Russian National Championships (Juniors) 12 12 12 12 (126.93)
Their FD at Merano 2008 is the first one on this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tpdiGdDUw
Withdrawn and replaced by

Valeria ZENKOVA / Valerie SINITSIN RUS
2008 Mexico Cup [JGP] 4 3 3 3 (143.20)
2008 Russian Nationals (Juniors) 9 9 9 10 (136.44)

Rowan MUSSON / Neil BROWN FRA
2008 Mexico Cup JGP 9 8 9 8 (114.62)
Another new team-Brown formerly performed with Maureen Ybanez
Musson formerly performed with de la Asuncion (here at 2007 asters)
2008 Masters de Patinage competition FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGMVLecLOI
Now withdrawn without replacement.


Nikki GEORGIADIS / Graham HOCKLEY GRE
Personal best 121.83 Madrid JGP 2008
Coach: Carol Lane, Juris Razgulajevs, Jon Lane
SP: Charleston (1920s): Thoroughly Modern Millie - Jazz Baby by M. K. Jerome, B. Merrill,
Foxtrot (1920s): Thoroughly Modern Millie - Jimmy by J. Thompson
Charleston (1920s): Thoroughly Modern Millie by J. v. Heusen, S. Cahn
FD: Santorini Sunset by Pavlo; Aegean Rhapsody - Melancholia by V. Matoridis;
Aegean Rhapsody - Zorba's Trance by V. Matoridis
2008 Madrid JGP11 10 8 10 (121.83)
2008 LPIDC Group B CD 6th (76.23) 5 4 12
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...l-PasoDoble/jrcda-pd-yorgiadishockley.JPG.php
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...lightwaltz/jrcda-sw-yorgiadis-hockley.JPG.php
2008 LPIDC Group B OD 4th (40.75) (.5 ahead of Routhier/Lacelle)
Great action shot of their OD:
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...alDance-GroupB/yorgiadis-hockley_6035.jpg.php
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...alDance-GroupB/yorgiadis-hockley_6023.jpg.php
2008 LPIDC Group A FD 5th (61.89)
http://photography.ice-dance.com/20...e-GroupA/jrfdayorgiadishockleyDB2-NEW.jpg.php
2008 Canadian Novice National Championships 3 2 5 5 (72.75)
2008 Novice Eastern Challenge 2 4 2 2 (72.01)
2008 Central Ontario Novice Sectionals 3 2 3 3 (65.29)
2007 Canadian Novice National Championships 8 15 12 12 (62.29)
2007 Novice Eastern Challenge 8 4 5 5 (63.57)
2007 Central Ontario Novice Sectionals 4 4 5 5 (60.84)


Ariane WEINTRAUB / Avidan BROWN ISR
This is a new team. This team competed in the US, broke up and are now back together and competing for Israel.
They competed together at LPIDC in Juveniles back in 2005, and at the US Junior Championships in 2006.

Rachel TIBBETTS / Collin BRUBAKER USA
Coach: Tiffany Dombeck; Choreographer: Ruslan Gonsharov (OD), Tom Dickson (FD)
2008 Madrid JGP 3 4 7 6 (137.93)
2008 U.S. Junior National Championships 11 9 10 10 (131.72)
2008 U.S. Pacific Coast Junior Sectionals 2 3 3 1 (146.02)
2007 Croatia Cup [JGP] 5 5 5 5 (142.75)
2007 Harghita Cup [JGP] 6 6 4 5 (133.71)
Their Ice Network Bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=38722&mode=P

Xenia CHEPIZHKO / Sergei SHEVCHENKO UKR
Their personal best total score 2008 Madrid Cup 123.35
2008 Madrid Cup [JGP] 8 8 11 9 (123.35)
2007 Junior Golden Lynx 1 2 2 2 (102.67)
2007 Novice Grand Prize SNP 1 1 1 1 (54.58)
2006 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 2 2 2 2 (59.51)
2006 Novice Grand Prize SNP 1 1 1 1 (57.31)
2006 Novice Liberec Trophy 2 3 2 3 (53.19)
2005 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 2 3 2 2 (48.83)
Their FD at Ukrainian Junior Nationals June 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWflJG0gsM
Their CD at Ukrainian Junior Nationals June 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLCEl3En4E4

Maria POPKOVA / Viktor KOVALENKO UZB
Coach: Alexei Gorshkov
Their personal best was also 118.83 at 2008 Belarus JGP
2008 Belarus JGP 10 10 9 9 ( 118.83 )
2007 Russian Cup MOB 108.68 9 11 13 (11th overall)

Sonja PAULI / Tobias EISENBAUER AUT
Coaching History: Jana Hübler, Pavel Laurencik
Personal best Madrid 2008 112.11
2008 Madrid Cup [JGP] 13 12 14 13 (112.11)
2008 Junior AEGON Challenge Cup 3 3 3 3 (108.53)
2008 World Junior Championships 26 29 28 (FNR)
2008 Austrian Junior National Championships 1 1 1 1 (136.59)
2007 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 19 17 14 17 (112.24)
2007 NRW Junior Trophy 7 13 11 12 (108.64)
2007 Sofia Cup [JGP] 14 14 15 14 (107.01)
2007 Vienna Cup [JGP] 16 16 17 16 (103.27)

Nikola VISNOVA / Lukas CSOLLEY SVK
Coach: Gabriela Hrazska
Best total score 126.74 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter 2007
SP: Charleston - Aviator soundtrack
FD: Michael Jackson Medley
History: Gabriela Hrazska
2008 JGP Courchevel 13 16 17 15 (108.03)
2008 World Junior Championships 22 22 16 17 (123.33)
2007 Junior Grand Prize SNP 4 2 5 4 (120.37)
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 12 8 8 8 (126.74)
2007 Vienna Cup [JGP] 13 13 14 13 (108.59)
2007 World Junior Championships 23 21 19 19 (107.01)
2006 Czech and Slovak Junior National Championships 2 2 2 2 (108.54)
2006 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 8 8 15 10 (104.46)
2006 Junior Grand Prize SNP 9 8 5 7 (109.71)
2006 JGP Liberec 14 12 13 14 (97.85)
2006 JGP Budapest 15 14 13 13 (90.98)
Their 2008 Jr. Worlds FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XtFaTuzO6U
Their 2008 Jr. Worlds OD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXGgUBv38KQ


Gabriela KUBOVA / Petr SEKNICKA CZE
2008 Czech Skate [JGP] 15 14 11 11 (110.56)
2007 Junior Pavel Roman Memorial 10 4 7 7 (129.35)
2007 Junior Grand Prize SNP 5 5 4 5 (118.54)
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 17 11 16 15 (117.00)
2007 Vienna Cup [JGP] 18 18 16 17 (102.03)
2007 Czech and Slovak Novice National Championships 1 1 1 1 (56.68)
2006 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 10 8 4 5 (52.83)
2006 Novice Grand Prize SNP 2 2 2 2 (52.11)
2006 Novice Liberec Trophy 4 5 3 4 (50.62)
2006 Czech Novice National Championships 1 1 1 1 (50.11)
2005 Novice Ice Dance Cup 4 2 2 2 (52.46)
2005 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 3 2 3 3 (48.59)
2004 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 7 6 7 7
2007/2008 OD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXE0uKIk9c
2007/2008 FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrSNncvuBs

Lili LAMAR / Nikolaj SORENSEN DEN
Lili Lamar used to skate with Zach Donohue, US
They are a new pair.
They withdrew from the Belarus JGP FD due to injury.
And they have withdrawn here.

Jekaterina SERGEJEVA / Andrejs SITIKS
LAT
Coach: Olga Smirnova, Natlia Linichuk, Gennadi Karponosov
Their personal best 89.89 2007 Chemnitz
OD: Swing; Jive
FD: Prayer in the Night by Sarah Brightman
2008 Madrid Cup [JGP] 20 18 18 18 (85.79)
2008 World Junior Championships 31 31 (FNR)
2008 Latvian Junior National Championships 1 2 1 1
2007 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter [JGP] 21 20 21 21 (89.89)
2007 Harghita Cup [JGP] 15 15 15 15 (76.18)


Martina MONTONATI / Francesco FIORETTI
ITA
Their Personal best is 2008 JGP Merano 90.93
2008 JGP Merano 17 16 16 17 (90.93)
Their FD is the first one on this video
Martina Montonati,Francesco Fioretti/ITA. Emese Laszlo, Mate Feses/HUN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlVCN7g5Yus&feature=PlayList&p=355F58DE0A112901&index=2

Dina KÖNIG / Kai KÖNIG GER
They are are German Novice National Champions and this is their Junior Debut.
2008 German Novice National Championships 2 1 1 1 (60.60)
2007 NRW Novice Trophy 2 5 3 4 (57.13)
2007 German Novice National Championships - Group A 1 2 1 1 (55.56)
2006 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 17 12 3 7 (51.13)
2006 German Novice National Championships - Group A 4 3 4 4 (40.10)
2005 Novice Pavel Roman Memorial 4 4 4 4 (40.83)

Sarah COWARD / Michael COWARD GBR
Personal Best 90.55 2007 Sheffield
2008 British Junior National Championships 3 3 3 3 (103.26)
2007 Junior Santa Claus Cup 9 10 9 9 (103.68)
2007 John Curry Memorial [JGP] 17 18 18 18 (90.55)
2007 British Novice National Championships 1 1 2 1 (45.38)
 
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chuckm

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 31, 2003
Country
United-States
Copying this over from the Roster thread:

Here are the current JGP stats for the Sheffield contenders:

Points, total, CD, OD, FD, team, CD type (PD or SW)

15 156.52 30.98 51.12 74.42 CHOCK / ZUERLEIN (USA), ITA- PD
15 152.97 31.17 48.76 73.04 AGAFONOVA / DUN (UKR), BLR - PD
13 150.71 31.52 46.88 72.31 PUSHKASH / KISELEV (RUS), BLR - PD
11 149.83 30.68 48.54 70.61 ROUTHIER / SAUCKE-LACELLE (CAN), CZE - PD
11 143.20 27.00 46.48 69.72 ZENKOVA / SINITSIN (RUS), MEX- SW
11 142.01 28.64 45.69 67.68 ALESSANDRINI / VATURI (ITA), ITA - PD
 
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