2007 Winter Universiade in Torino, Jan. 17-21

Roster of athletes (click on Figure Skating in the Per disciplina box):
http://www.universiadetorino2007.org/ITA/atleti/atleti.aspx
Click on each name to see a brief profile & photo.

sammyf compiled this skater roster list on FSU:

Men
Nicholas Menzies - Australia
Christian Rauchbauer - Austria
Aliaksandr Kazakou - Belarus
Diego Dores - Brazil
Gheorghe Kenchadre - Bulgaria
Gary Wong - Canada
Jiangling Wu - China
Ming Wu - China
Song Gao - China
Jeremy Prevoteaux - France
Yoann Deslot - France
Damien Djordjevic - France
Frederik Pauls - Germany
Clemens Brummer - Germany
David Richardson - Great Brittian
Thomas Paulson - Great Brittian
Paolo Bacchini - Italy
Fabio Mascarello - Italy
Daisuke Takahashi - Japan
Nobunari Oda - Japan
Noriyuki Kanzaki - Japan
Dong-Whun Lee - Korea
Matrusz Chruscimski - Poland
Konstantin Menshov - Russia
Sergei Voronov - Russia
Artem Borodulin - Russia
Luca Cadez - Slovenia
Gregor Urbas - Slovenia
Justus Strid - Sweden
Kalle Strid - Sweden
Jamal Othman - Swiss
Alper Ucar - Turkey
Anton Kovalevskyi - Ukraine
Yaroslav Fursov - Ukraine
Oleksii Bychenko - Ukraine
Michael Peters - USA

Ladies
? Austria
Simone Pastusiak - Brazil
Hristina Vassileva - Bulgaria
Yan Liu - China
Binshu Xu - China
Dan Fang - China
Idora Hegal - Croatia
Valentina Marchei - Italy
Henriikka Hietaniemi - Finland
Guendaline Didier - France
Frederik Pauls - Germany
Akiko Suzuki - Japan
Yuki Umetani - Japan
Yea-Ji Shin - Korea
Ji-Eun Choi - Korea
Sun-Bin Lee - Korea
Katarina Gerboldt - Russia
Olaga Naidenova - Russia
Elena Zhidkova - Russia
Ksenija Jastsenjski - Serbia
Jacquelin Belenyesiova - Slovakia
Alenka Zidar - Slovenia
Cindy Carquillat - Swiss
Myriam Leuenberger - Swiss
Malin Hallberg-Leuf - Sweden
Jennifer Don - Taiwan
Chìung-wen Chang - Taiwan
Tugba Karademir - Turkey
Daria Belinska - Ukraine
Alisa Kyreieva - Ukraine
Vira Myedvyedyeva - Ukraine
Stephanie Roth - USA

Pairs
Dan Zhang/Hao Zhang - China
Elena Efaieva/Alexei Menshikov - Russia
Arina Ushakova/Sergei Karev - Russia
Daria Kazuchiz/Sergei Roslyakov - Russia
Tetyana Volosozhar/Stanislav Morosov - Ukraine

Dance
Xintong HUANG/Xun ZHENG - China
Xiaoyang YU/Chen WANG - China
Pernelle Carron/Jost - France
Judith Haunstetter / Arne Hönlein - Germany
Anna Cappellini/Lanotte - Italy
Minami Sakacho/Tatsuya Sakacho - Japan
Anastasia Platonova/Andrei Maksimishin - Russia
Olga Gmyzina/Ivan Lobanov - Russia
Anastasia Yakovleva/Ivan Manvelov - Russia
Nadiya Frolenkova/Mykhaylo Kasalo - Ukraine
Olga Oksenych/Oleg Tazetdinov - Ukraine
Alina Saprykina/Pavlo Khimich - Ukraine

Synchro - 8 teams: CAN, FIN, ITA, JPN, RUS, SWE, SWI, USA

Team USA article from USFS:
http://www.usfigureskating.org/event_story.asp?id=37180

Men's SP is finished but no official results link yet. Sources at FSU are reporting the top 3 as: Takahashi, Oda, Gao.

Sylvia said:

Men's SP is finished but no official results link yet. Sources at FSU are reporting the top 3 as: Takahashi, Oda, Gao.

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Thank-you so much Sylvia!

Nobunari Oda's SP at Winter Universiade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ek7X5HbbAM

That 3A looks surreal.
Big for the Italian crowd, they were really supportful and cheered loudly for all of the skaters.

The result page:

http://www.isufs.org/results/wu07/

This may be a crazy question, but I noticed that many countries sent multiple entries in the singles competitions, but the US only sent one each. Why? Also why was there no pairs or dance competition at Collegiate Nats? Was all this b/c of lack of funding? And does anyone know where Collegiate Nats will be held this year?

Answered one of my own questions: http://www.usfigureskating.org/event_details.asp?id=37175

What has happened for Tugba Karademir and Idora Hegel? Roxana Luca beat both of them at the SP

The Euros are already next week and I thought Karademir, and maybe Hegel too, might have been top ten candidates. I hope they just had a bad day and are going to skate better at Euros.

childfreegirl, I suspect the US only sends one to this competition because US Nationals immediately follow. Anyone with US Nationals ambition to make world team would refuse to go because of that. Japan sent their a-list men for the experience.

JOHIO2 said:

childfreegirl, I suspect the US only sends one to this competition because US Nationals immediately follow. Anyone with US Nationals ambition to make world team would refuse to go because of that. Japan sent their a-list men for the experience.

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On one hand, I can understand that, but there have to be other skaters like Roth and Peters who may not have the best shot at making the top half of their field at Nats who would like the international experience. I just don't get it. hwell:

kajsa said:

What has happened for Tugba Karademir and Idora Hegel? Roxana Luca beat both of them at the SP

The Euros are already next week and I thought Karademir, and maybe Hegel too, might have been top ten candidates.

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Tugba did finish in top 10!

Welcome to Golden Skate, TPW.

Go Tugba!

Mathman said:

Welcome to Golden Skate, TPW.

Go Tugba!

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You know, I talked to Tugba about two months ago and she said she had been working on her LP back to back, so it was like 9 minutes of skating non-stop. She said "It Felt Like Death". I'll bet