2017 Russian Cup Final - Junior Ladies FS

Final Cup of Russia - Rostelecom 2016-2017
Saransk, Russia

Thursday, February 15, 2017
15:00 PM UTC +3

Result Page

Starting Order

Warm-Up Group 1:
Maria Talalaykina - 50.96
Elizaveta Nugumanova - 51.99
Anna Tarusina - 54.43
Anna Shcherbakova - 59.55
Alice Lozko - 58.96
Sophia Samodurova - 61.00

Warm-Up Group 2:
Ekaterina Kurakova - 65.74
Anastasia Gulyakova - 65.81
Alexandra Trusova - 65.14
Anastasia Gubanova - 68.03
Anastasia Tarakanova - 66.08
Victoria Vasilieva - 66.83

Videos will appear here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFSRussia/videos

One hour before the start.

Last six ladies have a minimum handicap between each other. It's a good sign.

Get your mojo back Anna!!!
Go Nastia!

venx said:

Get your mojo back Anna!!!

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...and she messed up again. :scowl:
She's been totally lost there in Saransk. Doing weirdest mistakes in steps, spins, I guess 2 month competition break in the middle of a season is very disruptive.

Wow, Viktoria Vasilyeva win FS!

Results:

1 Anastasia Gubanova SPB 197.72
2 Victoria Vasilieva MOS 196.90
3 Alexandra Trusova MOS 190.89
4 Anastasia Tarakanova MOS 188.97
5 Catherine Kurakova MOS 188.61
6 Anastasia GULYAKOVA MOS 181.89
7 Sophia Samodurova SPB 176.91
8 Anna Shcherbakova MOS 172.81
9 Alice Lozko SPB 171.23
10 Elizabeth Nugumanova SPB 171.03
11 Maria Talalaykina SPB 158.67
12 Anna Tarusina MOS 157.65

So, I hope we'll see Viktoria at JGP in the next year

I'm not sure why but I'm not really into Vasilieva's music choices nor her costume choices nor her presentation and her jumps to me seem pretty muscled through and don't have the graze I'd like to see. It's just not very enjoyable for me to watch her performances but I can appreciate that she's skilled. Hopefully her jumps actually last because I see some worrying signs.

And of course, my favorite performance was by Trusova who has the most beautiful Lutz since Tsurskaya. Watching these girls has actually made me rediscover how beautiful of a jump Lutz is and how unfortunate it is that the vast majority of skaters aren't able to bring that out. She also performed a 3Lz-3Lo combo which is one of my favorites. The presentation is not quite at Gubanova's level but luckily there are different skaters for appreciating different things.



One pleasant surprise I have to bring up was Anna Scherbakova because even though she didn't score very high, her program was pretty refreshing and had some interesting sequences. I see some potential here. And apparently she's scored really highly in some past competitions, perhaps I should check those out.

Wait....this already happened and Nastya won? :yay: