I’m not going to try to pull the wool over your eyes – I admit that I am not as familiar with the Junior skaters. So, this is almost purely based on the past scores that are on Rink Results.
In the Ladies, I was pleasantly surprised to find that You Young was top of the list. That said, I am nearly sure that if fskate.ru was still around, then I would find that the Russian girls have higher scores from domestic competitions. But, it isn’t, so this is what I have to go by.
In terms of the scoring positions, I did deviate from the statistics a wee bit behind the Russians. There were 6 points covering Kawabe, Tornaghi, and Ryabova. Now, I have been a fan of Tornaghi for more years than I should probably admit to! And I also like Ryabova a lot. So, I moved both of them ahead of Kawabe.
This may seem strange considering that Kawabe is this season’s Japanese Junior Champion and I normally like to put the Japanese skaters as high as I can. But, internationally, the other two have been scoring higher than her.
For the rest of them, Kiibus is probably the only one that I would say I was relatively familiar with. So, I just kept everybody else ordered by the scores.
With the Men, it was slightly better. Like with the Ladies, I was familiar with all the skaters that were in the Top 5 positions in the list. But there were more skaters further down the list that I was familiar with as well.
Unfortunately, Cha was the only one of these skaters that was in the Top 10 by score. He was in 7[SUP]th[/SUP]. But, since the guy in 6[SUP]th[/SUP] didn’t ring any bells with me, I moved Cha up a place to be my alternate (even though Rakić was a good few points ahead of him).
I was actually happy with the order of the guys in front of him, so I kept them at that.
In Pairs, even before I started doing my research, I knew who I was putting in the Top 2 positions, and in what order. And luckily enough, the statistics agreed with me.
I knew who I was putting in the next 2 positions as well, but wasn’t sure which order to put them in. But, when I went to the statistics, I found that although the Georgians had only 4 competitions listed, the Ukrainians were at also at those same four competitions. And the Georgians finished higher in every single one of them.
For the rest of them, I just went with the scores. Because, although I did recognise the names of the Canadians, Chinese and German partnerships, I wasn’t sure where they would fit in compared to each other or to the American partnership that I had never even heard tell of before.
Ice Dance was interesting when I ordered the partnerships by scores. Because one of the partnerships I had never heard tell of ended up on top. That said, all the partnerships I was familiar with filled the next 5 positions!
Well, that is not strictly true. I did recognise Denisa Cimlová’s name, but not her partner’s. So, seeing that I cannot find any previous partners for her, I wonder if I am remembering her name from when she was doing Singles skating.
Anyway, I kept the whole field in the order of the scores. There wasn’t actually much covering 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] position down to 6[SUP]th[/SUP] position. And barely a cigarette paper separating 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] and 4[SUP]th[/SUP]. But, keeping them in that order also made sense when you looked at the positions in the competitions that overlapped between them.
CaroLiza_fan
YOUTH OLYMPICS
Ladies
1. Young YOU, KOR
2. Kseniia SINITSYNA, RUS
3. Anna FROLOVA, RUS
4. Alessia TORNAGHI, ITA
5. Mana KAWABE, JPN
6. Ekaterina RYABOVA, AZE
7. Eva Lotta KIIBUS, EST
8. Audrey SHIN, USA
9. Alina URUSHADZE, GEO
10. Kate WANG, USA
Men
1. Daniil SAMSONOV, RUS
2. Yuma KAGIYAMA, JPN
3. Andrei MOZALEV, RUS
4. Yudong CHEN, CHN
5. Ilia MALININ, USA
6. Younghyun CHA, KOR
7. Aleksa RAKIC, CAN
8. Liam KAPEIKIS, USA
9. Andrey KOKURA, UKR
10. Daniel MRAZEK, CZE
Pairs
1. Apollinariia PANFILOVA / Dmitry RYLOV, RUS
2. Diana MUKHAMETZIANOVA / Ilya MIRONOV, RUS
3. Alina BUTAEVA / Luka BERULAVA, GEO
4. Sofiia NESTEROVA / Artem DARENSKYI, UKR
5. Brooke MCINTOSH / Brandon TOSTE, CAN
6. Yuchen WANG / Yihang HUANG, CHN
7. Catherine FLEMING / Jedidah ISBELL, USA
8. Letizia ROSCHER / Luis SCHUSTER, GER
Ice Dance
1. Irina KHAVRONINA / Dario CIRISANO, RUS
2. Katarina WOLFKOSTIN / Jeffrey CHEN, USA
3. Sofya TYUTYUNINA / Alexander SHUSTITSKIY, RUS
4. Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA, CAN
5. Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL, CAN
6. Utana YOSHIDA / Shingo NISHIYAMA, JPN
7. Yulia LEBEDEVA-BITADZE / Mikhail KAYGORODTSEV, GEO
8. Giulia TUBA / Andrea TUBA, ITA
9. Denisa CIMLOVA / Vilem HLAVSA, CZE
10. Anna CHERNIAVSKA / Oleg MURATOV, UKR
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