Results of figure skating grand prix of china. Kolyada’s golden ambitions, Zagitova’s victory and a world record in dancing: the Grand Prix stage of figure skating was held in China. They made history

The third stage of the Grand Prix series will take place in Beijing from November 3-5. figure skating. Russian athletes will perform in three types of programs, with the exception of pair skating.

At the previous second stage of the Skate Canada Grand Prix, the Russians won 2 medals - silver (Maria Sotskova) and bronze (Alexander Samarin).

The composition of the Russian team “Cup of China”

Men: Mikhail Kolyada, Alexander Petrov

Women: Alina Zagitova, Elena Radionova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.

Dancing: Ekaterina Bobrova - Dmitry Solovyov, Tiffany Zagorsky - Jonathan Gureiro.

On Tuesday, the Russian team flew to Beijing.

Men's single skating

Mikhail KOLYADA. 22 years old. Coach Valentina Chebotareva. He trains at the Figure Skating Academy in St. Petersburg. Champion of Russia 2017, bronze medalist of the European Championship 2017.

Mikhail Kolyada began the Olympic season with a tournament in Bratislava, where he skated poorly in the short program, but pulled himself together in the free program, which ultimately brought him victory at the competition. In Bratislava, for the first time at competitions, the skater performed the difficult quadruple lutz jump, which he tried last season.

At the next start in the Finnish Espoo “Finland Trophy” the skater was 4th. At the Rostelecom Cup Grand Prix, he became a bronze medalist for the first time in his career. The Chinese Grand Prix will be the second stage of the series for Mikhail. Let us remind you that during the season skaters can participate in no more than two stages of the Grand Prix.

This season's programs for Mikhail were choreographed by the group's choreographer Olga Klyushnichenko and Stéphane Lambiel. Short - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tango. Free - compositions by Elvis Presley - Steamroller Blues by Elvis Presley, Can't Help Falling In Love by Elvis Presley, Rip It Up by Elvis Presley. For the first time, the skater showed new programs at junior test skates (out of competition) in Novogorsk in order to receive comments in advance specialists.

Alexander PETROV. 18 years. Coach Alexey Mishin. He trains at the Yubileiny Sports Complex in St. Petersburg. Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship 2016, winner and prize-winner of the national junior championships.

Last season, Alexander combined performances at the adult and junior levels. At the Junior World Championships in Taipei, the athlete stopped one step away from the podium and took 4th place. This season, Alexander took part in two international competitions. At the tournament in Lombardy he took 7th place, at the Finland Trophy he was 9th.

This season’s programs for the athlete were choreographed by Tatyana Prokofieva, with assistance from famous dancers Yuri Smekalov and Ramil Mehdiev. Short program to the music of Khachaturian “Sabre Dance”, free - a composition of their songs by Frank Sinatra: Chicago by Frank Sinatra, I'm Gonna Live Till I Die by Frank Sinatra.

Women's singles skating

Alina ZAGITOVA. 15 years. Coaches Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov. He trains in Moscow, Sambo-70, Khrustalny skating rink. World champion among juniors, winner of the junior Grand Prix final, champion of Russia among juniors.

After a successful last season in juniors, the skater moved to adult skating and started at the masters level. At the beginning of the season, Alina won the Lombardy Trophy tournament. Performance at the Grand Prix in China will be her debut at the stages of the adult series.

The athlete’s programs were choreographed by the group’s choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz. Alina performed a free program to Minkus’ music for the ballet “Don Quixote” last season. Short – “Black Swan” – on the soundtrack from the film.

Elena RADIONOVA. 18 years. Coach Elena Buyanova. He trains in Moscow, at CSKA. Bronze medalist of the 2015 World Championship, two-time silver medalist of the European Championship (2015, 2016), champion of Russia (2015), two-time winner of the Junior World Championship.

The athlete began preparing for the season under the guidance of a new coach, Elena Buyanova. At the tournament in Bratislava she became a bronze medalist. At the Grand Prix in Moscow she took 4th place. The Chinese Grand Prix will be Lena's second this season.

The skater's programs were choreographed by Canadian choreographer Shi-Lynn Bourne. The short one was left over from last season - Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin. Free - Historia de un amor 2.

Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA. 20 years. Coach Alexey Mishin. He trains at the Yubileigy Sports Complex in St. Petersburg. World champion 2015, European champion 2015, bronze medalist of the European championship 2013.

The athlete began this season by performing at the international tournament “Lombardy Trophy”, where she took 6th place. At the tournament in Finland she became a bronze medalist.

The athlete’s programs were choreographed by the group’s choreographer Tatyana Prokofieva and Adam Solya. Short - Pisando Flores by Ara Malikian. Free -- Erinnerung performed by Efim Jourist Quartett.

Dancing on Ice

Ekaterina BOBROVA – Dmitry SOLOVIEV. Ekaterina is 27 years old, Dmitry is 29 years old. Coach Alexander Zhulin. They train in Moscow, at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex. Bronze medalists of the 2013 World Championship, European champions of 2013, silver and bronze medalists of the European Championships, multiple champions of Russia.

The skaters began the season with performances at the Russian Cup stage in Syzran, which they won. We won at the international start in Bratislava. At the Moscow Grand Prix “Rostelecom Cup” they took second place. The Beijing stage will be the couple's second this season.

Short dance - rumba and samba - Rhumba: Latin Lover by Joao Bosco, Samba: Dance by DJ Maksy, Samba: Quand je vois tes yeux by Dany Brilliant. Free - Oblivion performed by Two Cellos
Beethoven's Five Secrets by The Piano Guys. A new free dance for the athletes was choreographed by famous choreographer Radu Poklitaru.

Tiffany ZAGORSKI - Jonathan GURREIRO. Tiffany is 23 years old, John is 28 years old. Trainers Svetlana Alekseeva, Elena Kustarova, Olga Ryabinina. They train in Moscow, secondary school No. 2. They took 5th place at the Russian Championships for three years in a row, and showed the same result last season at their debut Grand Prix stage in Moscow.

Tiffany and Jonathan became a couple three years ago. Before this, the athletes performed with different partners, and Tiffany skated for France, although she was born in London. In 2015, the athlete received a Russian passport, which allowed her to represent Russia at all major international tournaments. All this time, Zagorski - Gureiro trained under the guidance of Alexander Zhulin, but at the end of last season they decided to work with new coaches. At their first international Ice Star tournament of the season in Minsk, Tiffany and John won silver.

Short dance - samba and rumba -- Samba: Hip Hip Chin Chin performed by Club des Belugas, Rhumba: Volveras performed by Gloria Estefan, Samba: Batucada Brasiliera performed by Samba Brazilian Batucada Band. The free program is set to the music of compositions by the group “Muse” - Exogenesis Symphony Part III by Muse, Exogenesis Symphony Part II by Muse, Ruled by Secrecy by Muse.

From November 3 to 5, the third stage of the Grand Prix in Figure Skating took place in the capital of the Celestial Empire. And the spectators in Beijing had something to see: before their eyes, a historical world record in ice dancing was set, Alina Zagitova won her debut Grand Prix stage, but managed to get ahead of the recognized leaders and reached the final of the tournament for the first time in her career.

Three years later

You can immediately remember when the Russian figure skater last time took first place at the Grand Prix stage? If not, we will tell you. This happened at the end of November 2014: Maxim Kovtun showed the best result at the stage in Bordeaux, withstanding competition from Denis Ten And Tatsuki Machida. Three years have passed, and Russian fans are finally waiting for a new victory. , who received a considerable amount of criticism after his performance in Moscow, corrected himself in Beijing. Mikhail's short program turned out to be amazing - 103.13 points.

Figure skating. Grand Prix Series. Third stage. Beijing, China
Men. Final position

1. (Russia) - 279.38.
2. Jin Boyang (China) - 264.48.
3. Max Aaron (USA) - 259.69…
11. Alexander Petrov (Russia) - 186.02.
Women. Final position

1. Alina Zagitova (Russia) - 213.88.
2. Wakaba Higuchi (Japan) - 212.52.
3. (Russia) - 206.82…
7. (Russia) - 196.68.
Sports couples
1. Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (China) - 231.07.
2. Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao (China) - 205.54.
3. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Michael Marinaro (Canada) - 194.52.
Dancing on Ice. Final classification

1. Gabriela Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (France) – 200.43.
2. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) – 184.50.
3. / (Russia) – 182.84.
4. Tiffany Zagorski/Jonathan Gurreiro (Russia) – 164.41.

The free program was not without mistakes and even a fall, but this did not stop Kolyada from scoring a fairly high total of 279.38 points and ahead of the two-time world champion Javier Fernandez, and their two-time winner Boyana Jina. To be fair, it should be noted that both the Chinese and Spanish skaters performed unsuccessfully in the free program, but the progress of the Russian leader this year is not overshadowed by their failures. It is especially pleasant that the victory allowed Mikhail to reach the Grand Prix final for the first time in his career.

Competitor for Medvedeva?

Evgenia Medvedeva this season she clearly intends to win victories in all possible tournaments in which she will take part. The two-time world champion is now head and shoulders above all her competitors and is ready to win effortlessly. But the viewer still craves at least some kind of competition, and therefore diligently looks for Evgenia’s rivals who can try to force a fight on her. 15-year-old Alina Zagitova is another contender for the title of Medvedeva’s competitor; she showed this in China, winning her debut Grand Prix stage. Yes, the lead over the Japanese Higuchi was not impressive. Yes, there were blots. But Alina is an incredibly technical figure skater, jumping the triple lutz-triple loop cascade and filling the second part of the free program with a series of difficult jumps. And who knows what will happen next when Zagitova gains international experience? At the very least, she is already crowding out the dense ranks of contenders for an Olympic ticket to Pyeongchang.

Rise and fall

In light of the struggle for Olympic spots in Russian women's skating, one cannot fail to note the performance of Elena Radionova at the Chinese Grand Prix, where she showed the third result. I would like to believe that the talented figure skater, who climbed onto the podium at the World Championships three years ago, will overcome her protracted crisis and be able to compete on equal terms with stronger competitors. Alas, but in the case of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, positive forecasts do not suggest themselves. The athlete is still far from her 2015 self. In Beijing, the world champion took only seventh place. If Elizabeth fails to make a name for herself at least at the Grand Prix stage in Bordeaux, then she can say goodbye to her dreams of going to Korea.

They made history

Representatives of ice dancing have been approaching the historical mark for many years - 200 points in total for the short and free program. This beautiful number attracted athletes and forced the leaders to work harder and better in the hope of a new, truly outstanding world record. And at the Chinese Grand Prix historical milestone was still crossed. The French pair Gabriela Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron surpassed the recent achievement of their main competitors Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir by 0.57 hundredths of a point and achieved an incredible result of 200.43. No other “round” records in figure skating are expected yet.

“Everything can still be corrected”

Taking into account the phenomenal results that the leaders are showing this season, it becomes alarming for the Olympic prospects Ekaterina Bobrova And Dmitry Solovyov. The leading Russian dance couple finished the Grand Prix stage in Beijing in third place, losing not only to the French record holders, but also to the American duo Chok/Bates. It is clear that our leading couple is not yet in optimal shape, the athletes themselves admit this: “Now, at the beginning of the season, you can still correct everything, work on everything, gain more physically to make it easier to skate, clean the elements so that they are more beautiful and looked better, work on the emotional side,” notes Dmitry. I would like to believe that over the next weeks Bobrova and Solovyov will be able to make progress and improve their grades.

Chinese expanse

In pair skating in Beijing, no one defended the colors of the Russian team, and in general, world leaders did not come to the Celestial Empire from abroad. Therefore, Chinese athletes received complete freedom and space. They failed to take the entire podium - Canadians Moore Towers and Marinaro took bronze from the hosts, but the Chinese pairs left gold and silver at home. Wenjing and Cong took first place with a good margin, showing the best results in both programs.

BEIJING, November 2 - R-Sport, Anatoly Samokhvalov. the 2017/18 season will continue with the third stage in China, the winner of the Junior Grand Prix Final of last season and the world champion among juniors, Russian, will make her debut in the series, the task of reaching the Final will be solved by the six-time champions of Russia in ice dancing and.

Zagitova's debut

Zagitova's first start at a status adult competition is one of the most intriguing events of the Olympic season. At the September Challenger Lombardia Trophy, Zagitova beat Japanese Wakaba Higuchi by less than a point, with whom she will fight again in Beijing. Then the Russian woman, for whom this tournament was her debut at the adult international level, scored 218.46 points and asked not to overestimate her victory.

“While I still don’t realize that I’m already competing at the adult level, I entered these competitions as if it were a normal start, just like last season,” the athlete said. Then she added: “I’ve done very little so far.”

Higuchi will try to get to the “home” Grand Prix Final in Beijing, since at her first stage in Moscow she, having scored 10 points less than at the beginning of the season in Italy (207.17 versus 217.63), became third and has a chance to perform in Nagoya on December 7-10.

Elena Radionova's chances for the decisive start are illusory, since she was unable to perform a loop in the capital's Megasport due to an unfortunate accident, and also made an under-rotation on the sheepskin coat in the cascade and an unclear edge on the flip, taking fourth place. “It seems to me that Lena overcame a lot of things. She looked decent here (in Moscow),” the words of coach Radionova inspire optimism.

Axel is ready

The “typical example” of a skater experiencing a decline after success begins his Grand Prix season in China. These are the words her coach used to describe the 2015 world champion. “I hope that she will appear before us in the form of a Phoenix bird once again,” Mishin said about Tuktamysheva at the beginning of the season and assured that “she has almost completed a triple Axel.”

The three and a half rotation axel, which Tuktamysheva is capable of, but which she lost a long time ago, is considered almost a panacea for the failures of this skater. “Tuktamysheva can win and get into the team if she has 3.5,” noted Honored Coach of Russia Tatyana Tarasova, referring to the athlete’s inclusion in the Russian Olympic team for the Pyeongchang Games.

For some time now, Tuktamysheva only had an axel of two and a half turns. But during training on Thursday, Elizaveta performed three and a half turns and scored a clean exit, and the athlete’s coach Mishin confirmed that the student will include this jump in the competitive part of the Cup of China. "Did you see Axel?" - he asked the correspondent of the R-Sport agency.

If there are blemishes from their rivals, the Japanese may take the podium - Marin Honda, who lost gold at the 2017 Junior World Championships to Zagitova, and Mai Mihara, as well as Canadian Gabrielle Daleman.

Kolyada gets high again?

The favorite of the men's tournament is the two-time world champion Spaniard, who started the season with a victory at the “Autumn Classic” in Canada, and primarily over his main rival, the Japanese. True, at that tournament, the Olympic champion Sochi was dismantled without performing either a quadruple Lutz or a quadruple loop, and Xavi himself failed a quadruple Salchow.

Fernandez's main competitor in China will be the owner of the ice, Jin Boyang, who won the Finlandia Trophy, having made enough mistakes on quadruple jumps. Interestingly, the Chinese were not the first in any of the programs. In the short, he lost to the Russian, who failed his quadruple lutz, and in the free, to the American Vincent Zhou, who performed four quads in the free, including a lutz and a flip.

Both world junior champion Zhou and Kolyada are capable of fighting, if not with Fernandez, then with Jin Boyan for sure. For the Russian figure skater, the start in Beijing will be the second after the Moscow stage, where he won bronze with a lot of mistakes and... a good mood. “Everything happened well. I’m happy. I managed to “ignite” it, and in principle I’m happy with it. I got high. Seriously, I got high normally,” said Kolyada after failures on the quadruple Lutz and Salchow and a fall on the triple Lutz.

"We have been seeing the same thing for several competitions in a row. It’s time for the athlete to understand what is stopping him. The main thing is that you don’t have to lie to yourself. But you need to honestly answer the question: what are you happy about? The fact that the two main elements of the program are taught and didn’t learn? That your opponents are already a lap ahead of you?” Tarasova asked Kolyada in an interview with R-Sport.

If circumstances go well for him, the American Max Aaron can also climb onto the Cup of China podium. Another Russian figure skater Alexander Petrov will perform at the tournament.

Bobrova/Soloviev are rushing to the finals

In the dancer competition, two-time world champions Frenchmen Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron will compete at the Grand Prix. The main contenders for the podium are also Russians Ekaterina Bobrova and , who already won silver at the Moscow stage in the current cycle of the series, and Americans Madison Chalk and Evan Bates.

The Russian pair Tiffany Zagorski/Jonathan Gureiro, who moved from coach Alexander Zhulin to the group of Svetlana Alekseeva and Elena Kustarova in the off-season, will also appear before the Chinese public.

Russia is not represented in the sports pairs tournament this time, and the favorites of the tournament are the current world champions of China, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, who will compete with compatriots Yu Xiaoyu/Zhang Hao. Third place will most likely be played out in the fight between Italian pairs - between Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise and Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek. At the stage in Moscow, Markei and Hotarek finished fourth.

The third stage of the season, held in Beijing, brought the Russian team two golds and two bronzes. Mikhail Kolyada beat Jin Boyan and Javier Fernandez, showing a particularly good short program - he was the first among all Russians to score more than a hundred points for it.

Alina Zagitova won her first Grand Prix stage at the age of 15. She was accompanied on the podium by Elena Radionova, who managed to take third place without falling. Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov also won bronze, although they could have aimed for at least silver.

“Kolyada is fighting for a place in the sun”

— From stage to stage, Russian men show good results. Were you surprised by Kolyada’s performance or did you know that he was capable of much if he performed all the elements cleanly, at least in the short program?

— I really count on Misha. I like his skating. I hope that Kolyada will only mature in the future and become a serious rival for Javier Fernandez and Yuzuru Hanyu. We are used to seeing these people at the top, but I hope that our singles men will now regularly compete for prizes. But Kolyada’s victory was not a revelation for me. He is progressing: for example, this year he learned the quadruple Lutz. It may not always work out, but Mikhail’s willingness to take risks is encouraging. A man fights for his place in the sun.

— At the same time, the Chinese Jin Boyan and the Spaniard Javier Fernandez themselves admitted a large number of mistakes and thus cleared the way for Kolyada to victory.

- Thank God he was so lucky. But he himself skated perfectly. If the opponents had skated the same way, the situation would have been different, but it is important that Kolyada withstood this pressure and coped with the task. He fell the least and won.

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— What impression did Fernandez make on you? He complained of stomach pain, but went on the ice.

“I really like him as a “rider.” The Spaniard sometimes pulls off the most difficult jumps. An ordinary skater wouldn’t even fight for them, but he doesn’t give up. But this time Javier was unlucky. Maybe he really was poisoned. Anything can happen. It is important to understand that Fernandez is always moving forward. I am sure that at the European Championships and the Olympic Games we will see decent skating from him.

— Alexander Zhulin believes that in the team tournament at the Olympic Games everything will be decided by the duel between Kolyada and Patrick Chan. Do you agree that the Russian is now unconditionally ahead of the Canadian?

— I can’t agree with Alexander. If Chan jumps all five of his quads, Kolyada will have a hard time. But if Patrick makes mistakes, Misha may have a chance. Of course I'm rooting for him. For Russia.

“Zagitova cannot be compared with Lipnitskaya”

— Does Alina Zagitova confirm her status as second in the world after Evgenia Medvedeva? She fell on the cascade in the short program, but after that she still did it.

- Who doesn’t have breakdowns? We are all people, not robots. The girl just came out to the very high level world figure skating. Of course, the names of her rivals may weigh heavily on her, because she has never met opponents of this level before. But I hope that Alina has a good, bright future.

— Didn’t too much responsibility fall on Zagitova’s shoulders at that age? Many even call her the second Yulia Lipnitskaya.

- Still, it’s hard to compare them, because Lipnitskaya had a more difficult time. She immediately went to the Olympic Games. Zagitova has time to gradually get used to it. Still, it’s difficult at 15 years old to go on the ice with such rivals. Figure skating sharks can eat you with just one look. But Alina is fighting. She has a good sense of pose, is very choreographic and flexible. And Zagitova’s jumping is simply brilliant.

— Elena Radionova managed to return to her previous level, but at the same time she could still have performed better. Is she guaranteed a place in the national team or will she face a battle with Maria Sotskova?

— Today, Russia has a very strong bench in women’s singles skating. I'm glad about this, because Soviet time It is in this aspect that we have always lagged behind. And now - ahead of the rest. No matter who goes, Russians will definitely be among the prizes. As for Radionova, she is beautiful and skates well. Sotskova is also a good girl. They are all wonderful. The main thing is not to disrupt the jumps. There are no complaints about the girls at all. Dancing and single skating for men raise more questions.

— Some foreign athletes showed themselves clearly. Who do you think looks the strongest? Caroline Costner, Gabriel Daleman, Wakaba Higuchi, Caitlin Osmond?

— I really like Japanese women. They ride well and at high speed. In jumping, they are in no way inferior to American and Canadian women. Another question is that the Russians have chosen a very smart policy - they do all their jumps in the second half of the program and thereby earn additional points.

“It’s hard for Bobrova and Solovyov to count on medals”

— Chinese couple Sui Wenjing and Han Cong scored the most serious points this season. Is it really possible to bypass them?

- There are no invincibles. The main thing is to prepare for the fight. I think our coaches will draw conclusions based on the results of the stage in China and do something. But, of course, the Chinese are handsome.

— Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov became third, slightly behind the Americans. Do they have a chance to compete for medals at the Olympic Games?

“They definitely won’t be able to get around them.” For this to happen, a miracle must happen, for example, everyone must lie down, as in the case of Kolyada. Even winning bronze will be difficult. With the way our guys ride today, I don’t see any options.

— Tiffany Zagorski and Jonathan Gureiro came fourth, albeit not with the highest scores. It is clear that in Russia two couples have almost been determined who will go to the Olympic Games. Who would you prefer in the debate for the third ticket to the European Championships?

- Why are we talking about this as a fact that happened? In Russia nothing has been determined yet. The national championship has not yet taken place. The fight will be intense. In figure skating, we don’t like to discuss such moments in advance and think about anything in advance. This is a bad omen.