JGP Tallinn Entries

Congratulations to medalists Gracie, Rija, Samantha. Gracie: nice way to make an international debut! Rija: Makes the JGPF. Samantha: Doesn't make it. If my math is correct, she is First Alternate. Can't wait to see the videos. Now for the protocols.....

ETA: Lordy, Gold didn't have a single -GOE. :thumbsup: 3Z-3T and oops singled a loop....gave up a few points there. No edge calls, no UR's. Wow, just wow for a junior lady.

1 Gracie GOLD USA 112.51 59.60 52.91 6.68 6.32 6.79 6.71 6.57 0.00 #25
2 Risa SHOJI JPN 102.64 52.13 50.51 6.39 6.04 6.36 6.32 6.46 0.00 #27
3 Samantha CESARIO USA 91.22 45.45 45.77 5.82 5.39 5.75 5.79 5.86 0.00 #23
4 Maria STAVITSKAIA RUS 90.64 52.75 37.89 4.93 4.43 4.79 4.82 4.71 0.00 #17
5 Gerli LIINAMAE EST 90.47 51.78 40.69 5.36 5.00 5.04 5.07 4.96 2.00 #24
6 Isabelle OLSSON SWE 88.71 48.20 40.51 5.25 4.86 5.07 5.07 5.07 0.00 #21
7 Laurine LECAVELIER FRA 82.96 43.54 39.42 5.04 4.64 4.96 5.04 4.96 0.00 #15
8 Yuki NISHINO JPN 82.36 38.83 44.53 5.93 5.36 5.54 5.50 5.50 1.00 #28
9 Monika SIMANCIKOVA SVK 81.26 41.72 39.54 5.21 4.64 5.00 4.93 4.93 0.00 #18
10 Anna SHERSHAK RUS 79.72 39.37 42.35 5.43 5.18 5.32 5.25 5.29 2.00 #26
11 Victoria HUEBLER AUT 79.33 45.27 34.06 4.61 4.04 4.39 4.07 4.18 0.00 #19
12 Natalia POPOVA UKR 74.13 37.01 38.12 5.00 4.43 4.93 4.75 4.71 1.00 #22
13 Juulia TURKKILA FIN 73.24 36.59 36.65 4.75 4.43 4.61 4.61 4.50 0.00 #13
14 Svetlana ISSAKOVA EST 66.05 33.29 33.76 4.50 3.96 4.14 4.39 4.11 1.00 #14
15 Katie POWELL GBR 64.49 31.11 33.38 4.25 4.14 4.18 4.11 4.18 0.00 #11
16 Sindra KRIISA EST 60.68 30.46 32.22 4.29 3.89 4.00 3.96 4.00 2.00 #12
17 Inga JANULEVICIUTE LTU 60.60 32.09 28.51 3.86 3.64 3.50 3.50 3.32 0.00 #9
18 Viktoria CHIAPPA HUN 59.06 28.78 30.28 3.75 3.64 4.04 3.75 3.75 0.00 #7
19 Chantelle KERRY AUS 58.46 28.41 30.05 3.86 3.75 3.82 3.71 3.64 0.00 #1
20 Karina RUTLAUKA LAT 58.10 32.30 26.80 3.61 3.14 3.43 3.43 3.14 1.00 #4
21 Agata KRYGER POL 58.06 27.78 30.28 4.32 3.61 3.64 3.79 3.57 0.00 #10
22 Joyce DEN HOLLANDER NED 57.46 23.79 33.67 4.43 4.14 4.11 4.18 4.18 0.00 #20
23 Amelia SCHWIENBACHER ITA 55.85 26.97 29.88 4.07 3.57 3.61 3.79 3.64 1.00 #6
24 Camilla GJERSEM NOR 54.97 25.20 31.77 4.11 4.00 3.82 3.96 3.96 2.00 #16
25 Kristina PRILEPKO KAZ 52.70 26.58 26.12 3.79 2.96 3.43 3.18 2.96 0.00 #2
26 Nastassia HRYBKO BLR 50.66 24.96 27.70 3.93 3.29 3.39 3.57 3.14 2.00 #8
27 Heidbjort Arney HOSKULDSDOTTIR ISL 50.38 24.56 26.82 3.61 3.14 3.36 3.54 3.11 1.00 #5
28 Maral-Erdene GANSUKH MGL 38.18 19.12 20.06 2.75 2.36 2.50 2.64 2.29 1.00 #3

Overall

1 Gracie GOLD USA 172.69 1 1
2 Risa SHOJI JPN 157.83 2 2
3 Samantha CESARIO USA 145.96 3 3
4 Gerli LIINAMAE EST 140.30 6 5
5 Yuki NISHINO JPN 132.40 4 8
6 Maria STAVITSKAIA RUS 130.92 10 4
7 Anna SHERSHAK RUS 129.57 5 10
8 Isabelle OLSSON SWE 129.49 9 6
9 Monika SIMANCIKOVA SVK 125.66 8 9
10 Laurine LECAVELIER FRA 119.78 16 7
11 Natalia POPOVA UKR 119.12 7 12
12 Victoria HUEBLER AUT 118.51 11 11
13 Juulia TURKKILA FIN 110.58 14 13
14 Svetlana ISSAKOVA EST 103.19 15 14
15 Katie POWELL GBR 101.08 17 15
16 Sindra KRIISA EST 98.21 13 16
17 Joyce DEN HOLLANDER NED 95.17 12 22
18 Inga JANULEVICIUTE LTU 94.29 21 17
19 Agata KRYGER POL 91.76 20 21
20 Camilla GJERSEM NOR 90.89 18 24
21 Viktoria CHIAPPA HUN 89.57 23 18
22 Karina RUTLAUKA LAT 86.99 26 20
23 Amelia SCHWIENBACHER ITA 86.57 22 23
24 Chantelle KERRY AUS 86.15 27 19
25 Nastassia HRYBKO BLR 85.99 19 26
26 Kristina PRILEPKO KAZ 83.07 24 25
27 Heidbjort Arney HOSKULDSDOTTIR ISL 80.67 25 27
28 Maral-Erdene GANSUKH MGL 58.33 28 28

Sam doesn't make the JGPF

Risa presentation is even more beautiful when she grow up, better than many senior in my opinion. Her posture and flow on ice is amazing. She is like mini Arakawa + Chen.

Personally, I prefer her presentation more than gold (she totally deserve to win here, and USFSA should give her 2 grand prix) and other juniors this year.

PLACE 1 - 6: QUALIFIED FOR ISU JUNIOR GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL

1 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS 15 15 30 355.56
2 Polina SHELEPEN RUS 15 15 30 311.01
3 Vanessa LAM USA 11 15 26 302.06
4 Risa SHOJI JPN 13 13 26 305.32
5 Zijun LI CHN 13 13 26 304.59
6 Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA RUS 9 13 22 289.49

Samantha CESARIO is the first alternate.

Shoma Uno's FP:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ISUJGP2011#p/search/3/wxMyI8IrKmk

After Vanessa Lam last year, I said the rule needed to change. If you only get to compete in 1 event, and you win, you should be in the final.
Last year was particularly shocking, because people who qualified placed 3rd and 4th or 3rd and 5th or something made it to the final.
This year, Gracie is certainly much better than Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA and deserve to take her place.

Thanks to the Estonians (who went from 7th to a silver medal Wow!). Aldridge and Eaton are the Dance JGPF! Yay! They got into a tiebreaker with the Russians, but their strong scores helped!

Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS 15 15 291.41
Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 15 15 284.27
Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 11 15 264.44
Maria NOSULIA / Evgen KHOLONIUK UKR 15 11 253.18
Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI UKR 13 13 244.25
Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON USA 11 13 255.03

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Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER 13 11 253.25
Valeria ZENKOVA / Valerie SINITSIN 11 13 252.93
Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN 13 11 242.72

Mrs. P said:

Thanks to the Estonians (who went from 7th to a silver medal Wow!). Aldridge and Eaton are the Dance JGPF! Yay! They got into a tiebreaker with the Russians, but their strong scores helped!

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My goodness, I think you're right. Kosigina/Moroshkin are probably not smiling about now. Not only are Aldridge/Eaton in the Final, but I think due to tiebreaker on score, Bonacorsi/Mager are first alternates ahead of two other Russian teams.

Free dance scores!

1 Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 83.24 41.72 41.52 6.86 6.64 7.07 7.07 7.18 0.00 #20
2 Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND EST 74.35 37.78 37.57 6.29 6.04 6.39 6.36 6.39 1.00 #22
3 Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA 72.90 35.58 37.32 6.14 6.00 6.39 6.32 6.43 0.00 #19
4 Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN RUS 72.46 35.19 37.27 6.36 6.04 6.29 6.25 6.21 0.00 #18
5 Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor KOVALENKO UZB 68.24 32.29 35.95 5.89 5.71 6.14 6.14 6.32 0.00 #14
6 Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MACKEEN CAN 66.98 32.14 35.84 6.11 5.68 6.04 6.11 6.11 1.00 #21
7 Lolita YERMAK / Alexander LIUBCHENKO UKR 62.47 30.65 31.82 5.36 5.07 5.43 5.39 5.43 0.00 #13
8 Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Michael BRAMANTE USA 60.85 27.79 33.06 5.43 5.36 5.68 5.64 5.57 0.00 #15
9 Sara AGHAI / Jussiville PARTANEN FIN 58.69 28.51 31.18 5.14 4.96 5.25 5.39 5.43 1.00 #17
10 Natalia KALISZEK / Michal KALISZEK POL 56.87 31.65 27.22 4.64 4.46 4.61 4.50 4.50 2.00 #12
11 Laura BOUTARY / Mahil CHANTELAUZE FRA 56.65 30.14 27.51 4.64 4.39 4.71 4.57 4.75 1.00 #11
12 Victoria BAUSBACK / Demid ROKACHEV SUI 49.44 25.67 24.77 4.25 3.96 4.18 4.14 4.21 1.00 #10
13 Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 47.74 19.51 30.23 4.96 4.89 5.11 5.18 5.18 2.00 #16
14 Ria SCHIFFNER / Julian SALATZKI GER 46.90 22.30 24.60 4.29 3.75 4.29 4.14 4.25 0.00 #7
15 Cortney MANSOUR / Daryn ZHUNUSSOV KAZ 46.88 22.26 24.62 4.25 3.89 4.18 4.14 4.18 0.00 #8
16 Olga JAKUSHINA / Aleksandrs GRISHINS LAT 41.75 20.41 22.34 3.89 3.50 3.82 3.82 3.71 1.00 #6
17 Natalia JANCOSEK / Petr SEKNICKA SVK 41.61 24.07 18.54 3.32 3.00 3.07 3.18 2.89 1.00 #3
18 Ilona BIRGELAITE / Aivaras STRAVINSKAS LTU 38.91 21.27 17.64 3.07 2.86 3.00 2.86 2.93 0.00 #5
19 Viktoria-Laura LOHMUS / Andrei DAVODOV EST 36.01 22.57 17.44 2.89 2.64 3.18 2.89 3.14 4.00 #4
20 Adrienn SZEMES / Daniel SZENASI HUN 35.52 18.97 17.55 3.11 2.86 2.82 3.04 2.79 1.00 #1
21 Hanna-Maria TAMMO / Geido KAPP EST 28.44 15.32 15.12 2.61 2.43 2.57 2.61 2.43 2.00 #2
WD Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV BLR #9


Overall

Who'd a thunk it. Rand & Shtork in 2nd!

1 Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 142.72 1 1
2 Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND EST 126.51 2 2
3 Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN RUS 123.48 4 4
4 Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA 122.79 5 3
5 Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MACKEEN CAN 118.23 3 6
6 Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor KOVALENKO UZB 114.98 6 5
7 Lolita YERMAK / Alexander LIUBCHENKO UKR 108.98 7 7
8 Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Michael BRAMANTE USA 102.91 10 8
9 Sara AGHAI / Jussiville PARTANEN FIN 101.80 9 9
10 Laura BOUTARY / Mahil CHANTELAUZE FRA 98.34 11 11
11 Natalia KALISZEK / Michal KALISZEK POL 98.12 13 10
12 Olivia SMART / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 91.04 8 13
13 Victoria BAUSBACK / Demid ROKACHEV SUI 87.95 14 12
14 Ria SCHIFFNER / Julian SALATZKI GER 84.23 15 14
15 Cortney MANSOUR / Daryn ZHUNUSSOV KAZ 79.63 16 15
16 Olga JAKUSHINA / Aleksandrs GRISHINS LAT 73.18 17 16
17 Natalia JANCOSEK / Petr SEKNICKA SVK 71.18 19 17
18 Ilona BIRGELAITE / Aivaras STRAVINSKAS LTU 68.98 18 18
19 Adrienn SZEMES / Daniel SZENASI HUN 64.15 20 20
20 Viktoria-Laura LOHMUS / Andrei DAVODOV EST 57.45 22 19
21 Hanna-Maria TAMMO / Geido KAPP EST 51.42 21 21
WD Viktoria KAVALIOVA / Yurii BIELIAIEV BLR 12

bigsisjiejie said:

My goodness, I think you're right. Kosigina/Moroshkin are probably not smiling about now. Not only are Aldridge/Eaton in the Final, but I think due to tiebreaker on score, Bonacorsi/Mager are first alternates ahead of two other Russian teams.

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I revise my post. Boy was there some major tiebreakers! We had FOUR teams with 24 points.

I really, really regret that the ISU decided to cut JGPF spots from 8 to 6 per discipline. I didn't have any problem with the lack of parallel between numbers of Jr and Sr GP final participants. I hope ISU reconsiders going back to 8 spots again after this year.

bigsisjiejie said:

I really, really regret that the ISU decided to cut JGPF spots from 8 to 6 per discipline. I didn't have any problem with the lack of parallel between numbers of Jr and Sr GP final participants. I hope ISU reconsiders going back to 8 spots again after this year.

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Or if they are going to do six, they have to limit the events to six.

So happy to see an American team among all the Russians and Ukrainians!

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And Gracie Gold puts up a big score FS 112.51 overall 172.69. With nice PCS numbers....so much for those who thought that the unknown would get dissed by the judges on PCS. First place for now and that's likely to hold.

USFS is looking pretty stupid for their earlier decisions on certain JGP entrants. Gold obviously had not only high scores and was competition-ready, but had momentum building throughout the summer competitions, it should have been a no-brainer to schedule her earlier in the series to see how she did, to leave room for a second. Very bad USFS strategizing.

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And Doug Williams of the Tech Committee making the decision was at Glacier Falls Classic and saw Gold's performance.

For those wondering how the tie-breakers went:

1 Victoria SINITSINA / Ruslan ZHIGANSHIN RUS 15 15 30 1 291.41 2 172.84 89.36 118.57 39
2 Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 15 15 30 1 284.27 2 164.26 87.12 120.01 29
3 Anna YANOVSKAIA / Sergei MOZGOV RUS 11 15 26 1 264.44 2 152.90 83.24 111.54 42
4 Maria NOSULIA / Evgen KHOLONIUK UKR 15 11 26 1 253.18 2 145.80 73.58 107.38 36
5 Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI UKR 13 13 26 2 244.25 2 141.41 70.90 102.84 34
6 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON USA 11 13 24 2 255.03 2 153.57 81.37 101.46 36
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PLACE 7 - 9: SUBSTITUTE FOR THE ISU JUNIOR GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL
7 Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER USA 13 11 24 2 253.25 2 147.09 75.96 106.16 25
8 Valeria ZENKOVA / Valerie SINITSIN RUS 11 13 24 2 252.93 2 147.86 76.74 105.07 25
9 Evgenia KOSIGINA / Nikolai MOROSHKIN RUS 13 11 24 2 242.72 2 141.94 72.46 100.78 39

treeloving said:

Risa presentation is even more beautiful when she grow up, better than many senior in my opinion. Her posture and flow on ice is amazing. She is like mini Arakawa + Chen.

Personally, I prefer her presentation more than gold (she totally deserve to win here, and USFSA should give her 2 grand prix) and other juniors this year.

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ITA. Looking at protocols the downgraded 2lz and silly mistakes like not holding her spins long enough resulting in a level 3 and level 2, not adding a 3rd combination, and then somehow getting a level 1 on her footwork, cost her some points. The result is right, but I don't agree with Gracie's PCS being higher than Risa's, especially where Gracie was not totally clean herself either. Risa's program is also a little frontloaded but for her I think that's probably a good call for her where she struggles with URs. Today her jumps looked good though, they aren't big like Gracie's but not distractingly tiny like Vanessa Lam's (who I still love!), and no URs issued except for the popped lutz. I hope she and her coach can go back and address these little issues because I really think she can medal at the JGPF this season. Julia will likely run away with gold but IMO, Risa is the next strongest skater out of the remaining qualifiers. Funny though, she reminds me a lot of Arakawa who was also often overlooked from an artistic standpoint even though I found her artistry and basics some of the best in the business. Oh well, Gracie was awesome so I'm happy for her and hope she makes the JW team and prevents a Russian sweep of the podium there. Risa also seemed nervous today which may have affected her PCS, as did Cesario and Shershak. I felt especially bad for Samantha who looked borderline terrified while skating. I really wanted her in the final this season but am happy Polina K now gets a chance as she is a gorgeous skater as well.

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ITA. Looking at protocols the downgraded 2lz and silly mistakes like not holding her spins long enough resulting in a level 3 and level 2, not adding a 3rd combination, and then somehow getting a level 1 on her footwork, cost her some points. The result is right, but I don't agree with Gracie's PCS being higher than Risa's, especially where Gracie was not totally clean herself either. Risa's program is also a little frontloaded but for her I think that's probably a good call for her where she struggles with URs. Today her jumps looked good though, they aren't big like Gracie's but not distractingly tiny like Vanessa Lam's (who I still love!), and no URs issued except for the popped lutz. I hope she and her coach can go back and address these little issues because I really think she can medal at the JGPF this season. Julia will likely run away with gold but IMO, Risa is the next strongest skater out of the remaining qualifiers. Funny though, she reminds me a lot of Arakawa who was also often overlooked from an artistic standpoint even though I found her artistry and basics some of the best in the business. Oh well, Gracie was awesome so I'm happy for her and hope she makes the JW team and prevents a Russian sweep of the podium there. Risa also seemed nervous today which may have affected her PCS, as did Cesario and Shershak. I felt especially bad for Samantha who looked borderline terrified while skating. I really wanted her in the final this season but am happy Polina K now gets a chance as she is a gorgeous skater as well.

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Actually the two main mistakes Goldie got is that she got a Level 2 combo spin and that single loop. Neither mistake really disrupted her program, in fact, I was impressed that she just kind of moved on to the next thing. Also I noticed with her spin that she clearly saw she was not doing some of those last rotations, so she smartly finished it up. She was very focused, which bodes well for her in the future when the pressure's on.

I agree Risa has beautiful skating and I agree the nervousness and tentativeness she show in some parts of the program probably cost her some PCS points.

I will say her 2A-3T is one of the best in the biz. What ice distance! and she got all +1 and +2s on GOE! She and Julia got the exact points for that element and if both are clean and hit all the levels their BV are nearly the same (57.61 for Julia vs 57.21 for Gracie) Junior Worlds is going to be interesting...

Very Happy for Aldridge and Eaton ! Good luck to them.

I hadn't seen Gracie before. She's a total revelation to me.

The us girls have struggled with ur calls on jumps for awhile now.Sarah Hughes with her Olympic performance her jumps would have been questionable under COP.It is nice to see Gracie with the correct jumping technique which includes triple triples and getting good GOE's.The rest will come with more international experience.

congratulatons to all womens and dance medalist , good job all
congrats to all who made the final

yes, gracie showed mental fortitude during her first jgp event. For me she showed me here i come, look out. like the russian young ladies and the way michelle, tara in their first nationals, irina when i saw her at worlds in 1995,
mao and yu-na in their first gp in seniors.

but anyway good job all skaters.

Gracie Gold - this girl rocks! Hughe jumps and entrances without any question she is going to land them. Also a type of technique wich will survieve a grow-spurt (and some pounds more). She needs to polish Components wise, but hey this was her first interntional outing. I would also like to see more of her smiling wish came out after the last landed jump. I am sure she will make her way.