2019 Junior Worlds: Pairs' Pregame Chat

[GS Forum Staff]

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Entries as of 2/26/19

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[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]Gabrielle LEVESQUE / Pier-Alexandre HUDON[/TD]
[TD]CAN[/TD]
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[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]Brooke MCINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE[/TD]
[TD]CAN[/TD]
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[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Feiyao TANG / Yongchao YANG[/TD]
[TD]CHN[/TD]
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[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Cleo HAMON / Denys STREKALIN[/TD]
[TD]FRA[/TD]
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[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER[/TD]
[TD]GER[/TD]
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[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Talisa THOMALLA / Robert KUNKEL[/TD]
[TD]GER[/TD]
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[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]Hailey KOPS / Artem TSOGLIN[/TD]
[TD]ISR[/TD]
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[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]Vivienne CONTARINO / Marco PAULETTI[/TD]
[TD]ITA[/TD]
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[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]Riku MIURA / Shoya ICHIHASHI[/TD]
[TD]JPN[/TD]
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[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitrii IALIN[/TD]
[TD]RUS[/TD]
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[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]Anastasia MISHINA / Aleksandr GALLIAMOV[/TD]
[TD]RUS[/TD]
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[TD]12[/TD]
[TD]Apollinariia PANFILOVA / Dmitry RYLOV[/TD]
[TD]RUS[/TD]
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[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]Tereza ZENDULKOVA / Simon FUKAS[/TD]
[TD]SVK[/TD]
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[TD]14[/TD]
[TD]Sofiia NESTEROVA / Artem DARENSKYI[/TD]
[TD]UKR[/TD]
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[TD]15[/TD]
[TD]Sarah FENG / TJ NYMAN[/TD]
[TD]USA[/TD]
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[TD]16[/TD]
[TD]Kate FINSTER / Balazs NAGY[/TD]
[TD]USA[/TD]
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[TD]17[/TD]
[TD]Laiken LOCKLEY / Keenan PROCHNOW[/TD]
[TD]USA[/TD]
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[Nirti]

Here are the projected entries :

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[td]CAN[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]Gabrielle LEVESQUE / Pier-Alexandre HUDON and Brooke McINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE[/td]
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[td]CHN[/td]
[td]1/2[/td]
[td]Feiyao TANG / Yongchao YANG[/td]
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[tr]
[td]FRA[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Cleo HAMON / Denys STREKALIN[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]GER[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER and Talisa THOMALLA / Robert KUNKEL[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]ISR[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Hailey KOPS / Artem TSOGLIN[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]ITA[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Vivienne CONTARINO / Marco PAULETTI[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]JPN[/td]
[td]1/2[/td]
[td]Riku MIURA / Shoya ICHIHASHI[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]RUS[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitri YALIN, Anastasia MISHINA / Aleksandr GALLIAMOV and Apollinaria PANFILOVA / Dmitri RYLOV[/td]
[/tr]
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[td]SVK[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Tereza ZENDULKOVA / Simon FUKAS[/td]
[/tr]
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[td]UKR[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Sofia NESTEROVA / Artem DARENSKYI[/td]
[/tr]
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[td]USA[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]Sarah FENG / TJ NYMAN, Kate FINSTER / Balazs NAGY and Laiken LOCKLEY / Keenan PROCHNOW[/td]
[/tr]
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With 17 pairs, the number of entries is in the average of the last years.

Pairs who met the SP TES only : Hyang Mi RO / Kum Chol HAN (PRK)
Pairs who met the FS TES only : Heidrun PIPAL / Erik PIPAL (AUT), Darya RABKOVA / Vladyslav GRESKO (BLR), Yuchen WANG / Yihang HUANG (CHN), Daria DANILOVA / Michel TSIBA (NED)

 

[Nirti]

Last chance to qualify to Junior Worlds this week in Oberstdorf during the Bavarian Open !

5 teams are especially to follow : Pipal/Pipal (Austria), Rabkova/Gresko (Belarus), Roscher/Schuster (Germany), Danilova/Tsiba (Netherlands) and Zendulkova/Fukas (Slovakia)

 

[Nirti]

Last tickets validated for Zagreb at the Bavarian Open :
- Letizia Roscher and Luis Schuster, now Germany can use their 2nd spot
- Tereza Zendulkova and Simon Fukas, who can be the first slovak pair to compete at JW since 2009
- Alyssa Montan and Manuel Piazza, who beat their teammates Contarino/Pauletti in Oberstdorf... Italy has now to choose between 2 pairs for one spot.

Austrians Pipal/Pipal only reached the FS TES. Pairs from Belarus and The Netherlands failed to reach the SP TES too.

 

[Sabine]

Why is the US not sending Liu/ Meyh (the winners of Bavarian Open)? It seems to be the strongest US Junior pair and they must have the minimum pts. for sure.

 

[SnowWhite]

Why is the US not sending Liu/ Meyh (the winners of Bavarian Open)? It seems to be the strongest US Junior pair and they must have the minimum pts. for sure.

They only just got the minimums. They're a new team. And I don't think they're the strongest US team. Feng/Nyman made the JGPF. And Lockley/Prochnow's Jr Score at US Nats was better than Liu/Meyh's in Sr. They could have sent Liu/Meyh instead of Finster/Nagy in the 3rd spot, but L/M did Jr pairs at Golden Spin in December and only scored 97.80 total.

 

[Nirti]

Official list

17 pairs... For the moment we've got a cut after SP!

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Daria and Denis as subs :shocked:

 

[Nirti]

Surprising indeed... I'm curious to know which pair is the 1st alternate between them and Pepeleva/Pleshkov.
Pepeleva/Pleshkov finished 4th at Russian Junior Nationals, but the pairs ranked 5th and 6th didn't compete internationaly and cannot go to JW. Akhantieva/Kolesov and Poluianova/Sopot WD from Nats... That lets quite no other choice for Russia to call back the reigning champions

 

[hanca]

Daria and Denis as subs :shocked:

I guess it is a way to earn extra points. Leonova did junior worlds one year when she was already skating in seniors, so did some other single skaters. In pairs it hasn’t been as common because pairs have usually moved to seniors only when they aged out, whereas Daria and Denis moved with two or three more seasons of junior eligibility.

 

[AlexRus]

Pairs in order of Season Best
In () - other best only if no Season Best
1 Anastasia MISHINA / Aleksandr GALLIAMOV RUS 192.75
2 Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitrii IALIN RUS 189.53
3 Apollinariia PANFILOVA / Dmitry RYLOV RUS 186.59
4 Sarah FENG / TJ NYMAN USA 163.44
5 Cleo HAMON / Denys STREKALIN FRA 141.77
6 Riku MIURA / Shoya ICHIHASHI JPN 141.40
7 Laiken LOCKLEY / Keenan PROCHNOW USA 140.63
8 Feiyao TANG / Yongchao YANG CHN 140.59
9 Sofiia NESTEROVA / Artem DARENSKYI UKR 137.87
10 Hailey KOPS / Artem TSOGLIN ISR 132.74
11 Kate FINSTER / Balazs NAGY USA 128.31
12 Gabrielle LEVESQUE / Pier-Alexandre HUDON CAN 126.61
13 Brooke McINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE CAN 124.40
14 Talisa THOMALLA / Robert KUNKEL GER 119.54
15 Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER GER (118.11)
16 Vivienne CONTARINO / Marco PAULETTI ITA (117.92)
17 Tereza ZENDULKOVA / Simon FUKAS SVK 98.07