Daniil did his first ratified quad in competition (Nationals) today, so he is first Norwegian to land a quad jump. This is in addition to the 3A he has landed as first Norwegian as well. He did attempt the quad sal at Tallinn Trophy as well but had a fall on it. His 3A is becoming more stable, he landed it both in the SP and FS at Tallinn Trophy with barely any negative GOE. He has his JWC mins now and I don´t think it will be any question if he will get selected. And of course he won the National junior title again with a score of 171.61
There was actually another competitor in the junior field, Henrik Grande-Brostrøm who scored 105.42 points. It was nice for Daniil to have company there, they had their own warm up, and earlier he had to have warm up with the senior women.
Daniil isn´t senior eligible before next season, and i´m getting optimistic about him getting senior mins for Worlds with the technical ability that he has.
Pernille With took her 2nd National junior title (139.35p) and Mia Risa Gomez her 4th National title (163.62p). Pernille won with over 20 points down to 2nd place of Therese Håvåg and 25 points down to Margarita Kursite in bronze. Pernille is the clear favorite for JWC - all though, she is still missing the minimums with only 0.18 points
However, I think it´s possible for her to get it after Christmas. So she just needs to marginally improve either her SP or FS TES. She is much closer this season.
Mia got a new PB best in the SP yesterday scoring 60.37, it´s also a new Norwegian SP record for women.
The senior women all had rough skates really in the free today, even Mia who had a similar free skate like in Beijing, 2 falls and some wonky landings but she attempted all her triples and even had a TES of 55 despite the mistakes. Almost 30p win over Linnea Kilsand in silver, who popped a lot of jumps, had 2 falls as well.. I think for Linnea it´s often competition nerves, she is very capable. Kaia Kleven who won the bronze had a rough skate as well with 3 falls and downgraded triples. Both Linnea and Kaia seem to struggle with timing issue and starting to pop jumps halfway..
Also it was nice to see Ida Vamnes back, she has been struggling a lot with injuries since was an upcoming and promising novice back in 2019-2020. I even started to think she had retired. She hasn´t been competing for a year now I assume because of injury, since she mostly did doubles and only had one triple attempt. I hope she can manage to stay injury free starting her first senior season and regain back her triples. She has such nice quality in her skating and beautiful spins and she feels like one of those skaters who talent got lost in constant injuries and that hasn´t been able to show her potential. I having my fingers crossed for her, I also hope that Linnea and Kaia can work out their timing issues/competition nerves because they are both beautiful skaters to watch with nice big jumps and nice spins, I would like to see how close they can come to Mia if they skate clean programs.
In Advanced Novice Mias little sister Ella Celine, won her first National title in novice category with a score of 95.37. Mia won her first National title in novice in 2019 with a score of 91p, so it´s very interesting to see Ella follow her sister foot step with a slightly better score. Ella had her 15th birthday 3 days ago and Mia was 14 when she won the same title, so Ella seems to be on the same development curve that Mia was. Ella is still only doing one triple jump - 3S, but it will interesting to see if she will add more triples later. I´m pretty certain Pernille will go to seniors next season, so with this title for Ella and the fact that she won every other domestic competition this season in her category, I do think it´s likely that she might get one JGP spot next season. Usually it seems one novice skater coming up to juniors get one spot. But a lot of the juniors skaters this season are attempting more difficult triples, so we will see. Hopefully Pernille will make it to JWC so that there will at least one more spot for Norway at the JGP stages next season.
Best of luck to both of them!
Particular the quad flip looks amazing!
