JGP Dresden, Germany 09/30/2009-10/04/2009

[life684]

Short summary Ladies LP:

After being a nervous wreck yesterday home town girl Sandy Hofmann got the job done today, she was almost clean much to the delight of the audience .... without the mistakes yesterday she might have even medalled ... oh well

Agafonowa again skated to a piece of overdramatic music that she could not do justice, she was also not as solid with her jumps as yesterday.

Kiri Baga had a good skate but not with as much confidence as yesterday, still very lovely and lots of potential

The one that really rocked the house was Angela Maxwell, she was the only one staying consistently in her program and with her music. She went without hesitation into the jumps even though it meant that she would miss some.

Other skaters that caught my eye were Yretha Silete (elegant beauty) and Isabell Olson (powerful and good spring in jumps although strangely she would make mistakes on most of them).

Overall, it was a fairly well-skated event. The american girls were way ahead of everyone else in the presentation department but not necessarily in terms of jumps and spins.

Thanks for the summary Michaelk. US could have as many as 4 ladies in the GPF. Musademba, Baga and Gao or Kawamura could join Maxwell in GPF

 

[life684]

Ice Dancing FD :
1 Ekaterina PUSHKASH / Jonathan GUERREIRO RUS 81.67 42.01 39.66 6.50 6.50 6.68 6.68 6.79 0.00 #21
2 Lorenza ALESSANDRINI / Simone VATURI ITA 75.77 39.25 37.52 6.07 6.14 6.36 6.39 6.43 1.00 #19
3 Marina ANTIPOVA / Artem KUDASHEV RUS 75.59 40.02 35.57 5.93 5.86 6.00 6.04 5.86 0.00 #20
4 Piper GILLES / Zachary DONOHUE USA 74.14 39.01 35.13 5.89 5.75 6.00 5.89 5.82 0.00 #18
5 Stefanie FROHBERG / Tim GIESEN GER 72.28 38.82 33.46 5.54 5.39 5.71 5.71 5.68 0.00 #17
6 Carolyn MACCUISH / Tyler MORRIS CAN 67.26 35.85 31.41 5.21 5.11 5.32 5.39 5.25 0.00 #14
7 Olivia Nicole MARTINS / Alvin CHAU CAN 67.16 36.14 31.02 5.25 5.04 5.18 5.25 5.21 0.00 #15
8 Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER USA 65.43 35.50 29.93 4.96 4.86 5.04 5.11 5.07 0.00 #13
9 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG CHN 63.71 35.13 28.58 4.79 4.64 4.79 4.93 4.75 0.00 #11
10 Oksana KLIMOVA / Sasha PALOMAKI FIN 63.28 32.17 31.11 5.07 5.11 5.18 5.36 5.29 0.00 #16
11 Siobhan HEEKIN-CANEDY / Dmitri ZYZAK UKR 59.25 32.26 26.99 4.61 4.46 4.39 4.64 4.39 0.00 #9
12 Charlotte AIKEN / Josh WHIDBORNE GBR 58.74 31.20 27.54 4.61 4.46 4.61 4.75 4.61 0.00 #10
13 Juliane HASLINGER / Tom FINKE GER 58.04 32.70 26.34 4.39 4.32 4.36 4.57 4.36 1.00 #12
14 Nikola VISNOVA / Lukas CSOLLEY SVK 57.23 32.77 25.46 4.29 4.14 4.18 4.46 4.21 1.00 #5
15 Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Dawid PIETRZYNSKI POL 57.00 32.34 25.66 4.32 4.29 4.18 4.39 4.18 1.00 #8
16 Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST SUI 56.98 31.80 25.18 4.14 4.04 4.32 4.25 4.36 0.00 #3
17 Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND EST 52.36 28.16 24.20 4.11 3.89 4.00 4.11 4.14 0.00 #7
18 Chloe IBANEZ / Marien DE LA ASUNCION FRA 51.33 28.19 24.14 4.04 3.93 4.00 4.25 3.96 1.00 #6
19 Shari KOCH / Christian NUECHTERN GER 48.17 26.89 21.28 3.64 3.46 3.57 3.71 3.39 0.00 #4
20 Ayesha YIGIT / Shane SPEDEN NZL 44.04 25.96 18.08 3.11 2.86 3.07 3.11 3.00 0.00 #1
21 Maria ANTOLIN / Luis FENERO ESP 41.00 26.40 15.60 2.61 2.54 2.39 2.93 2.57 1.00 #2


Final result

1 Ekaterina PUSHKASH / Jonathan GUERREIRO
RUS
164.01 1 1 1
2 Lorenza ALESSANDRINI / Simone VATURI
ITA
155.62 2 2 2
3 Piper GILLES / Zachary DONOHUE
USA
152.60 3 3 4
4 Marina ANTIPOVA / Artem KUDASHEV
RUS
152.56 4 4 3
5 Stefanie FROHBERG / Tim GIESEN
GER
147.37 5 5 5
6 Olivia Nicole MARTINS / Alvin CHAU
CAN
140.53 6 6 7
7 Carolyn MACCUISH / Tyler MORRIS
CAN
137.17 9 8 6
8 Oksana KLIMOVA / Sasha PALOMAKI
FIN
135.09 7 7 10
9 Lauri BONACORSI / Travis MAGER
USA
134.02 8 10 8
10 Xueting GUAN / Meng WANG
CHN
131.44 12 9 9
11 Charlotte AIKEN / Josh WHIDBORNE
GBR
124.99 10 11 12
12 Siobhan HEEKIN-CANEDY / Dmitri ZYZAK
UKR
124.56 11 12 11
13 Juliane HASLINGER / Tom FINKE
GER
121.01 16 13 13
14 Nikola VISNOVA / Lukas CSOLLEY
SVK
120.18 13 14 14
15 Justyna PLUTOWSKA / Dawid PIETRZYNSKI
POL
118.06 17 15 15
16 Ramona ELSENER / Florian ROOST
SUI
115.25 18 17 16
17 Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND
EST
113.21 15 16 17
18 Chloe IBANEZ / Marien DE LA ASUNCION
FRA
110.49 14 18 18
19 Shari KOCH / Christian NUECHTERN
GER
101.64 19 19 19
20 Ayesha YIGIT / Shane SPEDEN
NZL
89.52 21 20 20
21 Maria ANTOLIN / Luis FENERO
ESP
87.16 20 21 21
Alessandrini / Vaturi qualifies to the GPF , but Antipova/Kudashev lost the bronze medal by 4 hundredth of a point , and that could be the margin by which they failed to make it to the grand prix finals. Gilles and Donohue are all but out of the running for GPF unless three grand prix winners perform disastrous routine in the next two competitions.

Last years ice dancing junior grand prix belonged to the americans this year Russians will probably win 5 out of 7 gold medals with Shibutanis winning the other two.

 

[Charlotte Elizabeth]

Any videos at all?

 

[life684]

Pairs LP
Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN 107.44 60.47 46.97 5.93 5.82 5.89 5.93 5.79 0.00 #19
2 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 97.69 54.03 43.66 5.75 5.21 5.54 5.50 5.29 0.00 #15
3 Anais MORAND / Antoine DORSAZ SUI 92.66 50.90 41.76 5.39 5.04 5.21 5.25 5.21 0.00 #17
4 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER USA 91.79 48.28 44.51 5.61 5.32 5.64 5.71 5.54 1.00 #20
5 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV RUS 88.00 45.71 42.29 5.43 5.14 5.14 5.36 5.36 0.00 #18
6 Brittany JONES / Kurtis GASKELL CAN 83.38 46.47 38.91 5.04 4.71 4.86 4.89 4.82 2.00 #12
7 Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO CAN 79.97 42.81 38.16 4.96 4.50 4.68 4.89 4.82 1.00 #8
8 Ekaterina PETAIKINA / Maxim KURDUYKOV RUS 79.15 40.19 39.96 5.18 4.79 4.86 5.21 4.93 1.00 #21
9 Duo CHENG / Yu GAO CHN 76.97 38.13 39.84 5.32 4.79 4.93 5.00 4.86 1.00 #16
10 Taylor STEELE / Robert SCHULTZ CAN 76.69 39.44 37.25 4.89 4.54 4.64 4.68 4.54 0.00 #14
11 Felicia ZHANG / Taylor TOTH USA 73.07 36.31 37.76 4.89 4.57 4.71 4.82 4.61 1.00 #11
12 Juliana GURDZHI / Alexander VOELLER GER 72.60 38.45 35.15 4.64 4.18 4.36 4.54 4.25 1.00 #10
13 Rie AOI / Wen Xiong GUO HKG 71.30 38.88 32.42 4.25 4.00 4.04 4.11 3.86 0.00 #4
14 Victoria HECHT / Christopher TREFIL HUN 69.83 35.76 34.07 4.36 4.18 4.14 4.43 4.18 0.00 #5
15 Cassie ANDREWS / Nicholas ANDERSON USA 68.73 33.01 36.72 4.64 4.50 4.54 4.64 4.64 1.00 #13
16 Anastasia LEVSHINA / Jakub TYC POL 67.49 34.47 33.02 4.36 3.93 4.14 4.14 4.07 0.00 #6
17 Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR CZE 65.04 32.01 34.03 4.46 4.14 4.21 4.32 4.14 1.00 #7
18 Natalia KALISZEK / Michal KALISZEK POL 60.70 32.36 30.34 4.04 3.71 3.68 3.82 3.71 2.00 #3
19 Karolin SALATZKI / Nolan SEEGERT GER 54.68 29.46 26.22 3.61 3.14 3.21 3.29 3.14 1.00 #2
20 Stina MARTINI / Severin KIEFER AUT 50.00 23.07 26.93 3.54 3.11 3.43 3.39 3.36 0.00 #1
21 Ekaterina MELNIK / Sergei DEINEGA UKR 47.02 22.97 28.05 3.93 3.50 3.25 3.64 3.21 4.00 #9


Final Result

1 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN
CHN
164.84 1 1
2 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG
CHN
147.89 5 2
3 Britney SIMPSON / Nathan MILLER
USA
144.80 2 4
4 Anais MORAND / Antoine DORSAZ
SUI
142.45 6 3
5 Tatiana NOVIK / Mikhail KUZNETSOV
RUS
138.48 4 5
6 Ekaterina PETAIKINA / Maxim KURDUYKOV
RUS
131.94 3 8
7 Duo CHENG / Yu GAO
CHN
125.15 7 9
8 Brittany JONES / Kurtis GASKELL
CAN
125.11 11 6
9 Taylor STEELE / Robert SCHULTZ
CAN
122.61 8 10
10 Margaret PURDY / Michael MARINARO
CAN
120.52 13 7
11 Felicia ZHANG / Taylor TOTH
USA
118.50 10 11
12 Juliana GURDZHI / Alexander VOELLER
GER
118.38 9 12
13 Cassie ANDREWS / Nicholas ANDERSON
USA
110.24 12 15
14 Victoria HECHT / Christopher TREFIL
HUN
107.17 16 14
15 Rie AOI / Wen Xiong GUO
HKG
105.75 18 13
16 Anastasia LEVSHINA / Jakub TYC
POL
104.32 17 16
17 Klara KADLECOVA / Petr BIDAR
CZE
103.44 14 17
18 Natalia KALISZEK / Michal KALISZEK
POL
94.89 19 18
19 Karolin SALATZKI / Nolan SEEGERT
GER
85.20 20 19
20 Ekaterina MELNIK / Sergei DEINEGA
UKR
84.63 15 21
21 Stina MARTINI / Severin KIEFER
AUT
74.78 21 20


Sui/Han scores a huge score ;they are a class act. Hope Chinese can give them an entry at chinese grand prix. They are lot better than most senior teams and truly deserve a senior grand prix event.

 

[Sdongxie]

Sui/Han scores a huge score ;they are a class act. Hope Chinese can give them an entry at chinese grand prix. They are lot better than most senior teams and truly deserve a senior grand prix event.

The girl is too young to participate in senior grand prix

 

[hongligl]

wow, that was remarkable! Two back to back solid competitions! Six PBs! They do can top so many senior pairs! Finally a superb future chinese pair! Their coach was Bin Yao's partner Bo Luan. I guess it's her turn now.

 

[life684]

Nan SONG CHN 130.63 74.83 55.80 5.75 5.25 5.79 5.50 5.61 0.00 #24
2 Artur GACHINSKI RUS 120.22 62.60 58.62 5.96 5.39 5.82 6.14 6.00 1.00 #26
3 Gordei GORSHKOV RUS 114.09 58.09 56.00 5.68 5.39 5.61 5.61 5.71 0.00 #25
4 Richard DORNBUSH USA 110.21 54.87 56.34 5.82 5.39 5.68 5.64 5.64 1.00 #22
5 Grant HOCHSTEIN USA 109.21 51.85 57.36 5.89 5.54 5.79 5.75 5.71 0.00 #21
6 Franz STREUBEL GER 100.42 52.00 48.42 4.86 4.68 4.89 4.96 4.82 0.00 #13
7 Andrei ROGOZINE CAN 97.77 44.71 54.06 5.46 5.29 5.39 5.50 5.39 1.00 #23
8 Daniel DOTZAUER GER 93.10 43.66 49.44 5.18 4.79 5.07 4.86 4.82 0.00 #17
9 Viktor ZUBIK FIN 89.56 45.22 44.34 4.75 4.21 4.50 4.39 4.32 0.00 #20
10 Saverio GIACOMELLI ITA 87.93 43.29 44.64 4.43 4.32 4.50 4.68 4.39 0.00 #7
11 Javier RAYA ESP 87.75 38.65 49.10 4.79 4.86 4.82 5.04 5.04 0.00 #18
12 Petr COUFAL CZE 87.75 43.11 45.64 4.79 4.39 4.46 4.68 4.50 1.00 #19
13 Morgan CIPRES FRA 87.56 42.36 45.20 4.71 4.43 4.46 4.54 4.46 0.00 #16
14 Sebastian IWASAKI POL 86.95 41.23 46.72 4.79 4.64 4.64 4.75 4.54 1.00 #12
15 Yakov GODOROZHA UKR 82.49 43.85 39.64 4.18 3.82 4.11 3.89 3.82 1.00 #11
16 Denis WIECZOREK GER 82.02 37.60 45.42 4.64 4.46 4.54 4.57 4.50 1.00 #15
17 Jakub STROBL SVK 78.81 34.43 44.38 4.64 4.29 4.29 4.54 4.43 0.00 #14
18 Tomi PULKKINEN SUI 76.62 32.98 43.64 4.39 4.14 4.29 4.46 4.54 0.00 #6
19 Brendan KERRY AUS 75.27 41.29 34.98 3.79 3.21 3.46 3.57 3.46 1.00 #1
20 Jamie WRIGHT GBR 73.11 32.55 40.56 4.00 3.89 4.07 4.18 4.14 0.00 #10
21 Mario-Rafael IONIAN AUT 72.35 36.27 37.08 3.93 3.50 3.75 3.68 3.68 1.00 #9
22 Kevin ALVES BRA 68.74 31.32 37.42 3.82 3.39 3.71 3.86 3.93 0.00 #5
23 Boyito MULDER NED 62.74 31.30 33.44 3.57 3.29 3.18 3.43 3.25 2.00 #3
24 Simon BERGERSEN NOR 54.00 26.00 30.00 2.96 3.07 2.86 3.07 3.04 2.00 #2
25 Vivian John PARNELL-MURPHY IRL 49.89 21.39 29.50 3.00 2.86 2.96 3.07 2.86 1.00 #4
26 Hon Lam TO HKG 47.22 17.44 29.78 3.46 2.82 2.79 3.00 2.82 0.00 #8

Final Result

1 Nan SONG
CHN
187.71 4 1
2 Artur GACHINSKI
RUS
183.89 1 2
3 Gordei GORSHKOV
RUS
174.60 3 3
4 Grant HOCHSTEIN
USA
169.85 2 5
5 Richard DORNBUSH
USA
166.83 5 4
6 Andrei ROGOZINE
CAN
152.67 6 7
7 Daniel DOTZAUER
GER
144.64 8 8
8 Franz STREUBEL
GER
143.92 15 6
9 Javier RAYA
ESP
140.69 7 11
10 Viktor ZUBIK
FIN
136.76 9 9
11 Morgan CIPRES
FRA
133.95 10 13
12 Petr COUFAL
CZE
133.85 11 12
13 Sebastian IWASAKI
POL
131.40 14 14
14 Yakov GODOROZHA
UKR
128.04 13 15
15 Denis WIECZOREK
GER
127.90 12 16
16 Saverio GIACOMELLI
ITA
127.53 19 10
17 Jakub STROBL
SVK
121.33 16 17
18 Tomi PULKKINEN
SUI
116.93 18 18
19 Mario-Rafael IONIAN
AUT
114.47 17 21
20 Jamie WRIGHT
GBR
107.76 21 20
21 Brendan KERRY
AUS
106.46 25 19
22 Kevin ALVES
BRA
102.43 23 22
23 Boyito MULDER
NED
97.18 22 23
24 Simon BERGERSEN
NOR
86.08 24 24
25 Hon Lam TO
HKG
82.38 20 26
26 Vivian John PARNELL-MURPHY
IRL
75.46 26 25

Song and Gachinski qualifies for GPF with 28 Points.Dornbush leads Hochstein and Gorshkov on superior placement in either of the grand prix he competed, though all three have accumulated 22 points from their 2 grand prix outings.

 

[lakeshore]

Their coach was Bin Yao's partner Bo Luan. I guess it's her turn now.

Yao is stubborn. He only cares about those pairs under his wings. Luan used to coach Ding/Ren, who won Jr. world title. But Ding/Ren got little chance when they went to the Sr. level even with a throw quad.I fear the same fate for S/H.

 

[woshisunnya]

Yao is stubborn. He only cares about those pairs under his wings. Luan used to coach Ding/Ren, who won Jr. world title. But Ding/Ren got little chance when they went to the Sr. level even with a throw quad.I fear the same fate for S/H.

As long as I feel sorry for the early retirement of D/R in China, it is unfair to blame Yao in this case. D/R never won JR world title, They won JGPF once and was secod in JR world behind Z/Z in 2003. Durig their senior period, they were gave two GP spots each season, attended to 4CC, Asian Games and Winter Universiade. The only international game they missed was worlds and they actually not as good as the top three at that period.
I actully feel more sad about another Chinese team Li/Xu, They are retire now and the Chinese fed left one sopt in 2006 world's Pair because Zhao's injury, they could send Li/Xu to worlds that year and it was their only chance and they missed it, very sad.

 

[Tammi]

but Antipova/Kudashev lost the bronze medal by 4 hundredth of a point , and that could be the margin by which they failed to make it to the grand prix finals.

Based on the most recent roster changes, I think Russia has played the game well and all but ensured that Antipova/Kudashev will be in the final (along with 3 other Russian dance teams). Unless, as you pointed out, something crazy happens.

 

[feraina]

Sui/Han are so good and so cute! Their videos from JGP Dresden don't seem to be up yet, but here are their skates from JGP Minsk, which they also won.
SP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geFyVt9DFBk&feature=related
LP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn-bVCsQAFI

I love how they got the audience clapping from the get-go in the SP.

They had PB's in Minsk (153), and beat that by 12 points in Dresden (165), so they must've skated even better! Can't wait for the new videos. They have great flow, presentation, spins, lifts, and awesome throws. It's great that they save their throw 3S for the very end of the LP. He seems the best among the young pairs guys from China, in terms of posture and technique and strength. She's just so cute and adorable! Doesn't her face look a little like Pang's, though? I feel like this couple and their coach(es) pay a lot more attention to presentation, choreography, music, and costumes than Bin Yao's pairs, even the older ones. No?

Too bad she's 18 days too young for them to compete in the GP's... Well, they are storming the JGP's, and they should be doing well in JGPF and JW! :agree:

 

[SailorGalaxia518]

U.S. earns four medals at JGP Germany

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091003&content_id=7306150&vkey=ice_news

The surprise ladies victor at this week's JGP event in Dresden, Germany, was reigning U.S. novice champion Kiri Baga. Lack of international experience could not derail the 14-year-old's competitive edge, which gained her an early 5.40-point lead over bronze medalist Polina Agafonova of Russia following the short program. Baga's teammate, Angela Maxwell, finished second overall to collect her second silver this season since her first stop at the JGP Budapest in August.

 

[Lucky Star]

Pushkash/Guerreiro FD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNOiQM_0PPo

 

[Trevorgao]

Hey,

Who has Sui and Han's LP? Cant wait to see their perfect performance.

Thanks !

 

[oleada]

Pushkash/Guerreiro is the only vid that's been posted so far.

I'm actually really impressed with them. I was not a fan of Pushkash with her previous partner, but she looks much improved and she and Jonathan are a good match. They had a much softer style of skating than they did with their previous partners. For their first competition together, they did an excellent job. :thumbsup:

 

[dorispulaski]

I was very impressed with P&G, too!

 

[Charlotte Elizabeth]

They look good together but is it just me or they seem quite slow on this video?

 

[supermarina75]

They look good together but is it just me or they seem quite slow on this video?

It seems the video is freezing a little at times,
if you pay attention to the strokes they take they actually cover lots of ice

 

[oleada]

I actually thought there ice coverage was quite good.

 

[beep_beep]

Wow, just seven (??) months after JW and Guerreiro already has flowing male ice dancer hair... (he looks so young...)