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Trusova, Kostornaya, Shcherbakova, Medvedev, Tuktamysheva – why the female Czech Republic is the main event of the season

The championship of Russia has already started in Krasnoyarsk. But the girls will begin to compete only on Friday. And we are waiting for the main hack this season. The level of CR this season is comparable to the level of the World Cup. Russian girls will fight at the national championship for the right to represent the country at major starts. Unreal competition and struggle.

Tournament headliners are Alena Kostornaya, Alexandra Trusova, Anna Shcherbakova, Evgeny Medvedev and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.

Alexander Trusov, who plays in the image of Dineris, is satisfied with the full “drakaris” this season. Now in her application (though it’s worth clarifying that often the actual content differs from the declared) five quadruple jumps in an arbitrary and a triple axel in a short one. She has already tried such a jump set in the Grand Prix finals. It turned out unsuccessfully. The triple axel did not come out, instead of the quadruple salchow, the double, quadruple sheepskin coat fell into the fall. But it turned out a quadruple flip, Sasha – the first girl in history who performed it at competitions.

(Maria Kateshova, Sport24)
Maria Kateshova, Sport24

One of the main intrigues is whether Sasha left the triple axel (practice has shown that the jump is still wet, and falling from it is strongly reflected in the points) in short and how many quads it will show in arbitrary. In the Grand Prix finals, Sasha managed to get bronze even with errors, but is it worth the risk in the Russian championship when the fate of trips to the main starts is decided?

Champion of Russia last season Anna Shcherbakova will also impress the Krasnoyarsk audience with her fours. In the Grand Prix finals, Anya took second place. There she first tried to insert into an arbitrary quadruple flip, but fell from it. But it landed two quadruple Lutz, one of which is in the cascade (this does not even Trusov). And I scored very good points in the total – 240.92.

(Maria Kateshova, Sport24)
Maria Kateshova, Sport24

Stability Shcherbakova this season at altitude. For all the starts (and she had 4 of them) she fell only two times: on the track of steps on Skate America and from the quad-flip in the final. Cool statistics, especially for a girl who quadruples.

Alena Kostornaya is the leader of the seasonal record table for two programs. Alena does girls with quadruples with a good margin. In the final, she received 247.59, which is almost 7 points more than Trusova’s. Alena jumps three triple axels, but still takes it not with technology, but with skating, the level of refinement of each movement. She deservedly gets serious GOE for both jumping and non-jumping elements, high components. In addition, this season Alena did not fall from a single jump. Her only mistake in four starts is a step-out from the trixel at the Grand Prix stage in Japan. So, Alena will act as an absentee leader.

(Maria Kateshova, Sport24)
Maria Kateshova, Sport24

True, in the interval between the final and the championship of Russia, there were rumors that Kostornaya was injured and might not perform in the Chechen Republic at all, but Alena had already arrived in Krasnoyarsk and was present at the first training and draw, so we conclude that the rumors were false .

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva will be in the most fighting mood at the Russian Championship. Lisa did not qualify for the final (there were not enough of any two points before silver at the stage in China). But she used the pause between the Grand Prix and the national championship to good use. Lisa learned the fourth sheepskin coat (at 23 years old!) And went to the Golden Spin of Zagreb Challenge series tournament, which she won and received a high seasonal “best” – 221.15.

(Maria Kateshova, Sport24)
Maria Kateshova, Sport24

Tuktamysheva didn’t try the fourth one at the box office, but landed him both in training and at a six-minute warm-up before the free program.

In the claimed content for the Russian championship, there is no four and only one triple axel in a cascade with a triple toe loop (at the stages Lisa jumped two axels arbitrarily), but there is a solo triple toe loop, which must be either a quadruple sheepskin or triple axel (in the application it’s just -just could make a mistake). Lisa is on a trip to the main starts. Should she take a chance? Usually, in the Mishin group, athletes first break in new content at insignificant starts, and then do it at major competitions. But who knows, maybe the Professor and Tuktik will decide to go all-in?

Evgenia Medvedev to some extent will act as a “dark horse”. In its hopping content, nothing is clear. An application from previous competitions (although, perhaps, she decided to bet on stability and really decided not to change anything). The fourth salchow, which, according to Zhenya herself, she planned to insert into the program this season, is not yet in the application. One question: when, if not now? New cascades, for example, the flip rittberger, which she jumped during training before the Shanghai Trophy, are also off the list. We can learn about everything only from the training sessions, which will be held on Friday and Saturday.

If you describe the performance of Zhenya in the Grand Prix series, then they look like a sinusoid. The short program at Skate Canada – sixth place: falling from a triple lutz, unsuccessful landing from a hollow, undershot on a sheepskin coat in a cascade of triple flip triple sheepskin coats, Zhenya herself does not seem to understand what happened. The next day – pure arbitrary (the judges noted only the wrong edge on the lutz), but only the fifth final place. The Grand Prix stage in Moscow is two pure confident programs. It is not clear what to expect from Eugenia in the Czech Republic, but with clean rentals and with rivals’ mistakes she can even fight for the top three without quads.

And now about those who have not so many chances to be high, but also deserve your attention.

Fifteen year old junior Ksenia Sinitsyna, which took gold and silver at the stages of the Junior Grand Prix series, and in fourth place took fourth place. Ksyusha has great programs this season. Her short is staged under “Alfonsina Y El Mar” by Ane Brun. Ksenia in this program is revealed from a new perspective, she rolls her very consciously, to some extent even as an adult, so she can safely fight with older girls in the national championship. Yes, and seasonal records allow: at the Grand Prix stage in Italy, Ksenia received 215.58 (this is the second amount among all juniors).

Sofya Samodurova, which, despite the uncertain start of the season, was able to pack up and show confident rentals at both stages of the Grand Prix. She did not receive high marks, Sophia is growing, along with growth and weight, problems with technology appear, the content (especially considering the competition in women’s fc now) is not the strongest. But Samodurova does not give up, she does everything that depends on her, and she enjoys rentals, which she cannot but like and admire.

Stanislav Konstantinov failed both of its stages. Both in Las Vegas and in Moscow, she took 11th place. There are problems with the equipment, which Stasia herself explained by the fact that she is growing and because of this she does not feel her body so well (even though she is already 19 years old). Nevertheless, at the championship of St. Petersburg, Konstantinova finally was able to skate cleanly her short and in the end she took second place. The program itself is put under the composition of Leonid Levashkevich “February”. It is set very high quality and goes to Stas.

And she won the championship of St. Petersburg Anastasia Gubanova. Nastya was not given the Grand Prix stages this season, so she could be watched only at the cups of Russia and St. Petersburg. In this offseason, she moved from Elena Buyanova to Evgeny Rukavitsyn in St. Petersburg. Gubanova with her good technical content, which she is able to perform without errors, can even qualify for the national team. And her free program is an interpretation of the theme from the film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, which will appeal even to those who have not watched this film.

Another student of Rukavitsyn Elizaveta Nugumanova successfully performed at the cups of Russia, and also took bronze at the Warsaw Cup, where only Brady Tennel and Ekaterina Kurakova passed ahead. Elizabeth is one of the few athletes who successfully jump cascades with a rittberger, and her twists and bilman are something magical.

Serafimu Sakhanovich You could see at the Grand Prix stage in Canada. There she performed unsuccessfully and took eighth place, but after that, at the Russian Cup stage in Moscow, she showed good rentals and took silver. Her arbitrary soundtrack for the film “Cherbourg umbrellas.” Such music sounds very advantageous on ice, and Sima also succeeds in conveying the mood of the program.

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