Finlandia Trophy

Joesitz (RIP) · Oct 2, 2008

MissIzzy said:
Why'd they withdraw? No injuries, I hope.

I think they will be doing their rehearsal in Karl Schafer instead.

ElFuego · Oct 3, 2008

No, N/B aren't going to Karl Schafer. The US teams there will be Maxwell/Traxler and Kriengkrairut/Giulietti-Schmitt.

N/B lost to Wester/Barantsev at a club competition this summer. Maybe they're re-tooling their programs.

SailorGalaxia518 · Oct 9, 2008

Finlandia could be ladies preview of Europeans

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081009&content_id=52682&vkey=ice_news

The 2008 Finlandia Trophy will serve as something of preview of the ladies competition at the 2009 European Championships, as five of the top-10 finishers from the 2008 event will take the ice Oct. 9-12, in Vantaa, Finland.

lanebalou · Oct 9, 2008

Starting orders
Ice Dance, Compulsory dance (Viennese Waltz), 15.00
1. Caitlin Mallory - Kristjan Rand EST
2. Kristina Gorshkova - Vitali Butikov RUS
3. Sinead Kerr - John Kerr GBR
4. Oksana Klimova - Sasha Palomäki FIN
*
5. Anastasia Platonova - Alexander Grachev RUS
6. Penny Coomes - Nick Buckland GBR
7. Nadia Frolenkova - Mikhail Kasalo UKR
8. Carolina Hermann - Daniel Hermann GER
9. Joanna Budner - Jan Moscicki POL .

Men, Short Program, 16.45
1. Thomas Paulson GBR
2. Mikko Minkkinen FIN
3. Konstantin Menshov RUS
4. Karel Zelenka ITA
5. Kevin van den Perren BEL
6. Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari FIN
*
7. Valtter Virtanen FIN
8. Alexei Bychenko UKR
9. Shaun Rogers USA
10. Sergei Voronov RUS
11. Alexandr Kazakov BLR
12. Alper Ucar TUR
*
13. Peter Liebers GER
14. Takahito Mura JPN
15. Andrei Lutai RUS
16. Maciej Cieplucha POL
17. Luis Hernandez MEX
18. Vladimir Uspenski RUS

Ladies Short Program, 19.45
1. Karen Zhou USA
2. Katarina Gerboldt RUS
3. Elene Gedevanishvili GEO
4. Viviane Käser SUI
*
5. Katharina Häcker GER
6. Sarah Meier SUI
7. Ana Cecilia Cantu MEX
8. Danielle Kahle USA
9. Susanna Pöykiö FIN
*
10. Akiko Suzuki JPN
11. Irina Movchan UKR
12. Jenni Vähämaa FIN
13. Laura Lepistö FIN
14. Jenna McCorkell GBR

dorispulaski · Oct 9, 2008

I do hope there will be youtubes of the Kerrs! :love:

TtonyV7 · Oct 9, 2008

Ladies field is not to shabby.

We got Gerboldt, my favorite female Russian right now. The Pre-European battle between the talented Finns and Meier with Gedevanishvili always in the mix. Also be nice to see how our US ladies will fair.

lmarie086 · Oct 9, 2008

dorispulaski said:
I do hope there will be youtubes of the Kerrs!

I heartily concur! Cannot wait to see their 'daring' new dance, as they've called it.
Patience may be a virtue...but it is one I increasingly lack as the season comes closer every day.

Sylvia · Oct 10, 2008

Here's the link to the Finlandia Trophy starting orders: http://www.stll.fi/finlandia_trophy/starting_orders/

USA's Shaun Rogers is blogging from Finlandia Trophy for Icenetwork. He also has a gallery of photos up: http://web.icenetwork.com/events/detail.jsp?id=50280

Link to the results index page: http://www.figureskatingresults.fi/results/0809/FT2008/index.htm

jamie · Oct 10, 2008

Ack. They're slow with the updates. Thank you for the links, however!

The womens competition looks great. I'm interested to see if McCorkell can stay consistent. If Gerboldt has made any improvements and of course the Finland V Meier battle.

Sylvia · Oct 10, 2008

A Finnish poster at FSU has reported the following UNOFFICIAL Men's SP results:
1. Takahito Mura JPN 76.40
2. Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari FIN 70.85 (landed his triple axel)
3. Shaun Rogers USA 68.77
4. (probably) Konstantin Menshov 67.34
5. Sergei Voronov
? Kevin Van Der Perren 63.68
Lutai and V. Uspenski may not have have made the top 10.

Medusa · Oct 10, 2008

Sylvia said:
A Finnish poster at FSU has reported the following UNOFFICIAL Men's SP results:
1. Takahito Mura JPN 76.40
2. Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari FIN 70.85 (landed his triple axel)
3. Shaun Rogers USA 68.77
4. (probably) Konstantin Menshov 67.34
5. Sergei Voronov
? Kevin Van Der Perren 63.68
Lutai and V. Uspenski may not have have made the top 10.

I had to check who Takahito Mura is. Must have been quite a program. Is anybody else in favour of 5 spots for the US- and Japanese guys at Worlds and Olympics?

lanebalou · Oct 10, 2008

1 Takahito MURA
JPN 76.40 41.80 34.60 7.15 6.65 7.00 6.95 6.85 0.00 #14
2 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI
FIN 70.85 39.30 31.55 6.25 5.65 6.55 6.45 6.65 0.00 #6
3 Shaun ROGERS
USA 68.77 37.82 30.95 6.65 5.90 6.05 6.25 6.10 0.00 #9
4 Konstantin MENSHOV
RUS 67.34 37.74 29.60 6.00 5.60 6.00 6.15 5.85 0.00 #3
5 Sergei VORONOV
RUS 65.95 36.70 29.25 6.05 5.55 5.85 5.90 5.90 0.00 #10
6 Kevin VAN DER PERREN
BEL 63.68 33.58 30.10 6.20 5.60 6.00 6.10 6.20 0.00 #5
7 Peter LIEBERS
GER 57.76 32.36 25.40 5.35 4.90 5.00 5.15 5.00 0.00 #13
8 Alexei BYCHENKO
UKR 56.83 30.68 26.15 5.60 4.90 5.15 5.40 5.10 0.00 #8
9 Aleksandr KAZAKOV
BLR 55.75 30.90 24.85 5.50 4.65 4.85 5.05 4.80 0.00 #11
10 Karel ZELENKA
ITA 54.31 25.46 28.85 5.75 5.50 5.80 5.95 5.85 0.00 #4
11 Maciej CIEPLUCHA
POL 52.05 25.80 26.25 5.35 5.05 5.35 5.30 5.20 0.00 #16
12 Vladimir USPENSKI
RUS 51.56 25.76 25.80 5.50 4.95 5.00 5.20 5.15 0.00 #18
13 Andrei LUTAI
RUS 51.10 22.90 29.20 6.25 5.70 5.60 5.90 5.75 1.00 #15
14 Valtter VIRTANEN
FIN 44.62 21.42 23.20 4.90 4.40 4.55 4.85 4.50 0.00 #7
15 Mikko MINKKINEN
FIN 43.80 19.90 24.90 5.05 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.05 1.00 #2
16 Thomas PAULSON
GBR 40.87 18.32 22.55 4.75 4.35 4.40 4.60 4.45 0.00 #1
17 Alper UCAR
TUR 33.21 13.86 20.35 4.10 3.75 4.10 4.25 4.15 1.00 #12

lanebalou · Oct 10, 2008

1 Akiko SUZUKI
JPN 58.40 33.20 25.20 6.60 6.00 6.30 6.30 6.30 0.00 #10
2 Laura LEPISTÖ
FIN 57.98 31.10 26.88 6.80 6.50 6.75 6.70 6.85 0.00 #13
3 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI
GEO 57.28 32.48 24.80 6.40 5.75 6.30 6.15 6.40 0.00 #3
4 Sarah MEIER
SUI 56.66 29.90 27.76 7.05 6.60 7.00 6.95 7.10 1.00 #6
5 Karen ZHOU
USA 55.70 32.70 23.00 5.95 5.40 5.75 5.70 5.95 0.00 #1
6 Jenna MCCORKELL
GBR 47.86 24.94 22.92 6.00 5.35 5.80 5.75 5.75 0.00 #14
7 Susanna PÖYKIÖ
FIN 46.02 21.22 24.80 6.45 5.95 6.15 6.25 6.20 0.00 #9
8 Danielle KAHLE
USA 44.88 24.68 20.20 5.25 4.75 5.10 5.20 4.95 0.00 #8
9 Katarina GERBOLDT
RUS 44.78 23.90 20.88 5.35 5.05 5.25 5.25 5.20 0.00 #2
10 Jenni VÄHÄMAA
FIN 43.76 22.00 21.76 5.70 5.30 5.35 5.40 5.45 0.00 #12
11 Katharina HÄCKER
GER 34.72 16.60 19.12 5.10 4.50 4.80 4.75 4.75 1.00 #5
12 Irina MOVCHAN
UKR 32.80 16.92 15.88 4.40 3.70 3.90 4.05 3.80 0.00 #11
13 Viviane KÄSER
SUI 27.58 12.30 17.28 4.65 4.15 4.25 4.40 4.15 2.00 #4

lanebalou · Oct 10, 2008

1 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 34.54 1
2 Kristina GORSHKOVA / Vitali BUTIKOV RUS 31.11 2
3 Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV RUS 30.78 3
4 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER 27.65 4
5 Caitlin MALLORY / Kristjan RAND EST 27.51 5
6 Nadia FROLENKOVA / Mikhail KASALO UKR 26.77 6
7 Oksana KLIMOVA / Sasha PALOMÄKI FIN 23.27 7
8 Penny COOMES / Nick BUCKLAND GBR 22.91 8
9 Joanna BUDNER / Jan MOSCICKI POL 22.88 9

feraina · Oct 10, 2008

It's great to see Akiko Suzuki do so well. It's so hard to be in her position, with stiff competition from Mao Asada, Miki Ando, and Yukari Nakano to represent Japan internationally. If she was from any other country, save for maybe USA, she'd get two GP's, and attend both 4CC/Europeans and Worlds.

At least she gets to go to NHK this season. I don't want any of Mao, Miki, or Yukari not skate to their potential or get injured, but if anything happens, hopefully she'll finally get to attend Worlds. She will soon turn 24, time is running out for her!

Joesitz (RIP) · Oct 10, 2008

Wow. The Men's result has Mura (Japan), Nurmankari (Finland) and Rogers (USA)

Weird. I would have thought v.d.Perren, Voronov, and maybe Rogers.

The LP may tell us more.

champs · Oct 10, 2008

Happy to see Mura having a good start (though we don't know what awaits the skaters in the free) after a disappointing Jr. Worlds at the end of last season, but not so happy to see that Poykio's TES. I hope she is free of the back pain from last season and will bounce back in the free program.

Also, what happened to Lutai? His TES seems extremely low for him.

champs · Oct 10, 2008

Hmmm ok, it looks like Lutai did 3A (fall), 3T, 3Lz-3T, where I suppose he had probably planned 3A, 4T-3T and 3Lz. It looked lik his second 3T was underrotated and that could be the reason for the low mark.

Hsuhs · Oct 10, 2008

Someone else posted a link to one of this user's vids in another thread. Here is a whole collection of Finlandia Trophy vids:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Hannaxxxxxx

lanebalou · Oct 11, 2008

Free Skate
1 Sergei VORONOV
RUS 134.57 63.77 70.80 7.00 6.80 7.10 7.20 7.30 0.00 #16
2 Shaun ROGERS
USA 132.37 64.17 69.20 7.00 6.85 6.70 7.10 6.95 1.00 #14
3 Takahito MURA
JPN 131.84 64.54 67.30 7.00 6.35 6.60 6.90 6.80 0.00 #15
4 Peter LIEBERS
GER 110.43 54.73 55.70 5.80 5.25 5.50 5.50 5.80 0.00 #7
5 Karel ZELENKA
ITA 106.87 47.97 59.90 5.95 5.80 5.85 6.15 6.20 1.00 #6
6 Andrei LUTAI
RUS 106.58 45.68 61.90 6.25 6.00 6.05 6.30 6.35 1.00 #4
7 Konstantin MENSHOV
RUS 101.64 46.94 55.70 5.80 5.25 5.20 5.90 5.70 1.00 #13
8 Maciej CIEPLUCHA
POL 100.48 46.28 55.20 5.60 5.35 5.30 5.60 5.75 1.00 #11
9 Aleksandr KAZAKOV
BLR 98.49 50.79 47.70 5.55 4.45 4.60 4.75 4.50 0.00 #10
10 Alexei BYCHENKO
UKR 94.98 40.88 54.10 5.60 5.10 5.20 5.55 5.60 0.00 #9
11 Vladimir USPENSKI
RUS 93.51 42.91 52.60 5.55 5.00 5.15 5.30 5.30 2.00 #8
12 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI
FIN 91.55 37.05 55.50 5.80 5.50 5.35 5.75 5.35 1.00 #12
13 Valtter VIRTANEN
FIN 86.51 42.71 45.80 4.95 4.60 4.35 4.60 4.40 2.00 #1
14 Thomas PAULSON
GBR 82.95 38.25 45.70 4.65 4.45 4.45 4.60 4.70 1.00 #2
15 Mikko MINKKINEN
FIN 80.41 33.91 48.50 5.05 4.85 4.55 4.80 5.00 2.00 #5
16 Alper UCAR
TUR 57.63 16.23 43.40 4.25 4.20 4.25 4.45 4.55 2.00 #3

Result
FPl. Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Takahito MURA JPN 208.24 1 3
2 Shaun ROGERS USA 201.14 3 2
3 Sergei VORONOV RUS 200.52 5 1
4 Konstantin MENSHOV RUS 168.98 4 7
5 Peter LIEBERS GER 168.19 7 4
6 Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI FIN 162.40 2 12
7 Karel ZELENKA ITA 161.18 10 5
8 Andrei LUTAI RUS 157.68 13 6
9 Aleksandr KAZAKOV BLR 154.24 9 9
10 Maciej CIEPLUCHA POL 152.53 11 8
11 Alexei BYCHENKO UKR 151.81 8 10
12 Vladimir USPENSKI RUS 145.07 12 11
13 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN 131.13 14 13
14 Mikko MINKKINEN FIN 124.21 15 15
15 Thomas PAULSON GBR 123.82 16 14
16 Alper UCAR TUR 90.84 17 16
WD Kevin VAN DER PERREN BEL
WD Luis HERNANDEZ MEX

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