Finlandia Trophy

[kalle]

Mens short program result:

1 Tomas VERNER CZE 67,90 1
2 Anton KOVALEVSKI UKR 61,30 2
3 Pavel KASKA CZE 57,30 3
4 Parker PENNINGTON USA 55,70 4
5 Konstantin MENSHOV RUS 55,60 5
6 Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL 52,98 6
7 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI FIN 52,67 7
8 Gregor URBAS SLO 51,32 8
9 Jamal OTHMAN SUI 51,25 9
10 Konstantin TUPIKOV POL 45,89 10
11 Mikko MINKKINEN FIN 44,15 11
12 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN 41,40 12
13 Franz STREUBEL GER 39,40 13
14 Adrian ALVARADO MEX

Ladies short with the Finnish girls and Carolina Costner are up later today.

 

[eleonora.d]

1. Carolina Kostner ITA 58,54
2. Kiira Korpi FIN 57,06
3. Susanna Pöykiö FIN 54,40
4. Laura Lepistö FIN 52,62
5. Alisa Drei FIN 52,34
6. Jenni Vähämaa 51,22
7. Taylor Firth USA 50,72
8. Arina Martinova RUS 48,24
9. Viktoria Hegelsson SWE 45,62
10. Jenna McCorkell GBR 43,42
11. Valentina Marchei ITA 40,02
12. Malin Hållberg- Leuf SWE 36,78
13. Irina Movchan UKR 35,34
14. Annette Dytrt GER 34,56
15. Kristin Wieczorek GER 33,76
16. Michele Cantu MEX 29,20

Kostner leads even with the fall on the 3lutz and hand down on 3flip/3toe. She said she's not happy with her performance and will try to do her best tomorrow.

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

I understand Verner and continued success in the LP but what happended to Parker and Kevin?? Their scores are not even close.

Joe

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

Korpi so close to Carolina.

I think the Mens and Ladies here had to many butterflies In the SPs and I will expect much better in the Long Programs

Joe

 

[Mathman]

Fine score for Taylor Firth. I believe this is her first international event.

 

[oleada]

I am so impressed with the Finnish ladies. They have the best field in Europe right now.
Their basics are to die for (especially Laura Lepistö's). I really enjoyed all their SPs (haven't seen Drei yet, though). Absolutely loved Jenni Vähämaa - she has the jumps and nice flexibility. I think she deserved a higher score. If she skates like that at the GPF, I definitely think she will be a contender for the podium.

 

[Mathman]

I understand Verner and continued success in the LP but what happended to Parker and Kevin?? Their scores are not even close.

Joe

Parker pulled it up for the long program! First in the LP and 2nd overall. Vanderperren, 3rd in the free and thrid overall.

http://www.stll.fi/@Bin/203744/FT2007_SeniorMen_FS_Result.pdf

 

[Mathman]

Here's Verner's SP on YouTube (no sound).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx9PCthh6dk

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

Parker pulled it up for the long program! First in the LP and 2nd overall. Vanderperren, 3rd in the free and thrid overall.

http://www.stll.fi/@Bin/203744/FT2007_SeniorMen_FS_Result.pdf

Well, the Three are on the podium but now it's what happened to Thomas that Parker nuged him out of winning the LP? I'll check out the youtube.

Joe

 

[oleada]

Jenni won!
Susanna second and Carolina third.
I'm surprised in a really good way!

 

[netnuts]

Jenni won!
Susanna second and Carolina third.
I'm surprised in a really good way!

Carolina has never been a consistent skater. I doubt she'll ever get on the worlds' podium despite her talent.

 

[Mathman]

Kostner got less than 100 in the free skate. Korpi, too. They must have missed some jumps, or have some of them downgraded.

 

[oleada]

Carolina has never been a consistent skater. I doubt she'll ever get on the worlds' podium despite her talent.

She already has, unless you mean again.

 

[Jaana]

Kostner got less than 100 in the free skate. Korpi, too. They must have missed some jumps, or have some of them downgraded.

Korpi twofooted and doubled most of her jumps and neither did Kostner have a good evening jumpingwise. I´m very glad for Vahamaa´s win, because I felt that she was held down in the short programme (should have won it). Based on though that Poykio had a lead of 3 points over Vahamaa, I thought that Poykio should have won the competition. Kostner was really held up by the judges in short programme.

I was very happy about Poykio´s freeskate performance and choreography, and I can see that she has worked real hard during summer and in early fall. Wishing good luck to her and our other ladies in GP competitions!!!

In men´s competition Verner had an awesome sp choreography and interpreted the music wonderfully. The same goes for his freeskate (the programme was not quite ready, yet). What a versatile skater he is!!! Pennington had a great freeskate and deserved to win that part of competition. Our Nurmenkari skated the best freeskate that I remember from him, including a triple axel. Kovalevski had to withdraw after he had a terrible looking fall in freeskate warm-up.

 

[bibi]

could someone please post the result pages for the ladies and the men?
thanks a lot!
bibi

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

can someone post youtube LP links of vahamaa, pennington?

Joe

 

[Lumi]

Jenni Vähämaa sp:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K4fFeKHeJFg

Sp is beautiful preformance. Maybe best short that day, she should have been higher.

Jenni Vähämaa lp:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O6PK2rqvGO4

Kiira Korpi sp:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fuCvQTLfhvg

Kiira Korpi lp:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QwEmYdDzYSg

 

[Kati]

Thank you Lumi for the video links! Too bad that our TV only broadcasted the LP's, now I can enjoy once again wattching Jenni's SP!