2024-25 Russian Grand Prix - Stage 5 - Saint Petersburg

[LadyB]

Bide your time, darling - the Junior season is long!

 

[lariko]

Yay, the archive for the junior women is loaded. Diving in!

 

[LadyB]

Looking forward to Eduard's Les Mis

 

[AlexBreeze]

So good to see Roman again!!! Redemption skate, please!

Why redemption? He did everything he could in the SP.

 

[lariko]

Gosh, gorgeous outing by junior women. I am carefully optimistic that Rubtzova's power build means that 3A is going to stay with her for the next few years. I didn't remember Monogarova, but now I do, particularly with that beloved music. Milto did less for me than for other folks here, but she was also making mistakes and it might have impacted her. About the only really dark moment was Bazyluk chosing to compete on fresh injury; while it's understandable she wants to stay in the competition she could have easily prioritized junior Nationals, skipped the cup final and everyone would have been happier for it. I liked this free for Prinvea far more than her short, it looked far more organically to me. And, Dzepka was simply sublime with that characteristic unrushed on music everything. Me, happy

 

[AlexBreeze]

It looks like the bronze goes to Tyumen. Always nice to see men from smaller cities succeeding since men's singles is not really developed outside of Moscow/SPb.

 

[KhinSuShein]

ok i would say for Nikita SARNOVSKY, after 1 year break, his come back is a success even though he wont get high GOE or good PCS i think.

 

[KhinSuShein]

Oh pcs is > 77 it is fair then !

 

[LadyB]

Why redemption? He did everything he could in the SP.

No sweat, I only wanted him to be a bit higher up.

 

[AlexBreeze]

ok i would say for Nikita SARNOVSKY, after 1 year break

He missed several months actually.

 

[LadyB]

Congrats to the Podium, happy for Eduard

 

[Jelle307]

Who is going to women Junior GP Final?

 

[AlexBreeze]

Junior Men

1. Lev Lazarev
2. Nikita Sarnovsky
3. Arseniy Fedotov
4. Nikolay Kolesnikov
5. Vadim Voronov
6. Eduard Karartynyan
--- Junior Channel One Cup ---
7. Aleksandr Semkov
8. Mikhail Aleksakhin
9. Gleb Kovtun
10. Mark Lukin
11. Makar Solodnikov
12. Maksim Badavi
--- Federation Cup Final ---
13. Ilya Malkov
14. Ilya Malyshev
15. Mikhail Tikhonov
16. Makar Puzin
17. German Lenkov
18. Artemiy Marinin
--- Junior Nationals ---
S1 Ivan Ramzenkov
S2 Matvei Bugaev
S3 Fedor Barchenko-Emelianov

 

[AlexBreeze]

Junior Women

1. Elena Kostyleva
2. Alisa Dvoeglazova
3. Lidiia Pleskacheva
4. Elizaveta Andreeva
5. Alena Prineva
6. Margarita Bazylyuk
--- Junior Channel One Cup ---
7. Agata Petrova
8. Sofia Dzepka
9. Valeria Lukashova
10. Anna Lyashenko
11. Lyubov Rubtsova
12. Elizaveta Labutina
--- Federation Cup Final
13. Varvara Liss
14. Polina Tikhonova
15. Dina Khusnutdinova
16. Valeria Litvincheva
17. Milana Lebedeva
18. Maria Kotova
--- Junior Nationals ---
S1 Alena Krivonosova
S2 Diana Milto
S3 Alisa Yurova

Ekaterina Tsipukhina and Kira Trofimova might be added if they recover by junior nationals.

Diana Milto and Alisa Yurova definitely deserve nationals but got two most stacked stages.

 

[Remilia]

She is also barely 13, so PCS will come in time, but I would have had her around 27, and that would have been generous.

I'm sorry, this is such a nitpick, but Margarita actually turns 14 in 4 months, so I wouldn't consider her barely 13. But yes, I don't consider her to be an artistic skater at all, but she's still very young, so plenty of time to improve. She was certainly overscored in the pcs aspect here, imo. I don't think she should have gotten higher pcs than Kira and Diana. Also, I was very surprised to see her somewhat disastrous performance here. Maybe they pushed her too soon and she hasn't fully recovered from her injury yet. But of course, she's not a robot, everyone has their bad days

It was nice to see Prineva actually land one of her quads, but these programs still just don't do her justice
Dzepka was lovely, and I really look forward to seeing her in seniors (which I believe will be in 2 seasons, since she has a late birthday), same with Lyubov. Though, I don't think Lyubov has nearly the same maturity as Dzepka, but if she keeps that 3A consistent, she'll certainly be fighting for a place on the podium at every comp. I also greatly enjoyed little Yana here. Shame she didn't qualify for anything, but I'm sure we'll see her at novice nats

 

[Remilia]

idk if it's just me, but Prineva's fp dress reminds me of the one Anna had for her fp during the 20/21 season

 

[AlexBreeze]

Such a pity the camera's didn't show Roman's coaching team. Just look who was there.

 

[Mathematician]

Monogorova is talented but Plushenko should be imprisoned at least for a few days, for letting her skate that HIDEOUS cover!! Cant they just use the original waltz? Honestly! Ruined!

Rubtsova amazingly consistent axel but why the solo 3T?

Prineva still deserves a way better program but its not terrible and shes good enough to make it enjoyable.

Dzepka easily skate of the night she is senior level. Very obviously a different level from everyone else. They need to keep giving her this sort of music unlike her SP then she might become my favourite junior. Its incredible to watch. She could've got even higher PCS honestly one judge only gave her 7.75 PR I would give her at least 8.25.

 

[Mathematician]

Looks like Akateva was farming 4Ts in the training I think we could see a couple at this stage

 

[thatdarncat]

Last Grand Prix about to start