Russian Nationals Younger Age

[Grin]

YaY, Akatieva won with 17.99 points to spare!

 

[AlexRus]

Today livestream https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=esvgfYvCLtg

 

[xeyra]

Seeing this protocol is fascinating. All those 1.40 for her jump elements! She's still only 10, right? Is there video?
https://twitter.com/friedrich_hohen/status/974564628926676992

 

[Spirals for Miles]

puremagic, any way that Akatieva can go up soon??

EDIT: lol, just found her, thanks

 

[AlexRus]

Younger girls, final results, top 6 of 30.
FPl. Name Birth Points El SP FS
1 Sofia Akatieva 07.07.2007 229.62 1 2 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNlmxsqDXFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRlGQZXEDMY
2 Sofia Samodelkina 18.02.2007 211.39 3 3 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv3gs9UfdVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xeG333AK4
3 Maria Dmitrieva 04.10.2007 208.11 4 4 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kZ9ic2olUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4_LRLJpPM
4 Elizaveta Berestovskaya 08.12.2007 207.47 2 1 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_X4WtLnNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQkhjrooto
5 Darya Loboda 2007 195.74 6 5 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fob68RUVpMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMG5RUUPTx0
6 Valeria Ovchinnikova 06.08.2007 187.53 5 11 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuM-KrSB40k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEaDADbqClI

Sofia Akatieva - nice, clean, strong, solid.
Sofia Samodelkina - 3Lz+3Lo< and 2A+3T< fall
Maria Dmitrieva - 3F+2A+SEQ and one UR

All Top 3 - 7 triples and one 2A in FS. It is more complicated in Novice program (6 jumping elements, 2 combos 2 jumps each, i.e. 8 jumps total) than in Junior or Senior FS.

Elizaveta Berestovskaya - moved to 4th because of two falls.

 

[AlexRus]

Younger boys, final results, top 3 of 28.
FPl. Name Birth Points El SP FS
1 Maxim Belyavsky 2007 218.03 1 1 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwgVqhTEfEc
2 Arseniy Fedotov 2009 197.19 2 2 2
3 Mark Lukin 03.11.2007 188.32 3 3 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyYT4wprgY

Maxim Belyavsky - complicated jumps.
All last warm-up of FS - nice skating and triples, very good for so young boys,

 

[AlexRus]

Elder Girls, results after Elements and SP, Top 6 of 29.

FPl. Name Points El SP
1 Alena Kanysheva 124.56 1 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr0PtIpU1-8
2 Anfisa Ryabova 118.06 3 4 (Tatarstan Princess) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAOSO3OulLk
3 Sofia Moroz 117.91 4 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSPhAvzi44
4 Anna Frolova 115.03 7 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nVqQ5vH55E
5 Anastasia Shabotova 112.08 2 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84FV0c_4UjI
6 Sofia Muravieva 111.14 5 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUz0M9KvWQ

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Interesting, Kanysheva got bonuses on all 3 spins. Without bonuses, she would have had 65.20 and would have been second in the short behind Moroz (but first overall so far)
Is Kanysheva really such a wonderful spinner??
Also: she did 3Lz-3Lo in elements and URed the 3T on the end of her 3Lz...*indulgent smile*

 

[tars]

Congrats to amazing Sofia and for new 229 points Younger Age record beating previous one by +30 points, but why am I under the impression all four top younger age girls except Dmitrieva jumped lower than usual?
Am I still influenced by Sasha's quads or 2000km travel to Tyumen took its toll?

 

[Shayuki]

Congrats to amazing Sofia and for new 229 points Younger Age record beating previous one by +30 points, but why am I under the impression all four top younger age girls except Dmitrieva jumped lower than usual?
Am I still influenced by Sasha's quads or 2000km travel to Tyumen took its toll?

And new free skate record by over 15 points. With a decent spin and 2A+2T+2Lo combo, Akatieva would score over 130 points in the junior category with a similar performance, with the same PCS. And the ex junior world record is only a couple of points off that.

Akatieva's jumps looked fine to me and air times were as usual. She's probably had ever so slightly lower jumps with this free program than the last one, likely because this program's much more demanding and exhausting otherwise. But take a look at her 2A in the free skate, I had it with similar air time to Trusova's. For some reason it's become truly massive with this new free skate, I never noticed this before and the 2As in her past free skate for instance usually had around 2, sometimes 3 frames less air time, which really is a huge amount. In the SP it was also big but I don't think it was as huge as in the FS. Maybe she's started seriously preparing for a triple axel? It's hard for me to explain her gaining so much 2A height all of a sudden otherwise.

I do think Samodelkina's jumps weren't as good as they have at times been, but on the other hand Berestovskaya's probably were at her usual level - She can't exactly rotate them if she jumps any lower than she normally does, anyway.

 

[AlexRus]

Elder boys, final results, top 3 of 26.
FPl. Name Birth Points El SP FS
1 Daniil Samsonov 13.07.2005 275.54 1 1 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tw0s7s8Pl4
2 Andrey Kutovoy 04.10.2005 258.24 2 2 3 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5zwSWSAKJQ
3 Mikhail Polyansky 20.06.2005 253.50 3 3 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsyR_ShG3k

Podium https://b.radikal.ru/b36/1803/9d/9b3d1ec762b9.jpg

 

[AlexRus]

Elder girls, final results, top 3 of 29.
FPl. Name Birth Points El SP FS
1 Alena Kanysheva 251.67 1 1 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl1cyy2di9o
2 Sofia Moroz 234.42 4 2 6 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9akv92yN0
3 Anna Frolova 232.48 7 3 4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-gd-P5fXE

Podium https://b.radikal.ru/b43/1803/db/3c31785f8b77.jpg

 

[Shayuki]

Sofia Muravyova earns my special award for making me cry with her performance. I don't even know how she performs like that at the age of 11. Amazing gestures, amazing musicality.

 

[AlexRus]

Final Protocols http://www.fsrussia.ru/files/docs/competitons/1718/specprogramma1718_protocol.pdf

 

[Azikin]

Akatieva and Kanysheva were quite dominating..

 

[AlexRus]

Akatieva and Kanysheva were quite dominating..

Kanysheva - yes. Hope we will see her at JGP Final next season. Very talented girl.

Akatieva - she is about the same level as Samodelkina. This season she is often below Samodelkina before FS, but wins total because of better FS.
In fact we see four very talented 10 years old girls - Akatieva, Samodelkina, Dmitrieva, Berestovskaya. And Loboda is promising too.

 

[sweetice]

Maybe it's just me, but Samodelkina remind me of Sotnikova, in a good way.

Kanysheva's SP is wonderful.