2018 Volvo Open Cup

[Walt FSHunter]

Volvo Open Cup
November 7-11
Riga, Latvia

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• Announcement
• ISU event page
• Entries/Results

 

[Harriet]

General information including livesteam access is now available here: http://kristalice.lv/

Initial entries are listed: http://www.kristalice.lv/Results/Volvo37th/index.htm

 

[Nirti]

41 senior ladies, 49 junior girls, 51 adv novice girls
I hope there's enough coffee for the judges

Angelina Kuchvalska will skate there, good that she's still competing after her difficult seasons.
No Diana Nikitina nor Deniss Vasiljevs, but both are training in Switzerland.

There's a novice pair from Uzbekistan and 2 novice dance teams from Cyprus!

 

[Harriet]

Nikitina's recovering from an injury and probably wouldn't be back to competition readiness by this point - per her Instagram, she's only just got back on the ice - and Vasiljevs has the Alpen Trophy on 11 November IIRC*, so I didn't expect to see either of them here. But Kailani and Ivett! And Azia Mambekova! And my favourite junior girl is making her senior debut here too.

I think the judges are going to need caffeine on an IV...

*Sorry, no, not Alpen Trophy, NHK on 9-11 November.

 

[lavenderblossom]

I think the judges are going to need caffeine on an IV...

I was also shocked by the sheer volume of entries :reye: There are as many ladies competing here as there are usually at Euros or Worlds

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Aww, Kanysheva and Kuzmenko are competing together again. Now if only Sinitsyna was with them...
... and RusFed had sent at least one girl in seniors...

Kurnosenko won't be allowed to compete, though, she's only born in 2006 (coach: Evgeni Plushenko)

 

[Harriet]

I was also shocked by the sheer volume of entries :reye: There are as many ladies competing here as there are usually at Euros or Worlds

Lots of new seniors moving up from juniors, I think. But at least at this competition they'll all get to do the FS.

 

[Harriet]

The list hasn't been updated yet, but Kailani Craine will obviously be withdrawing from the Senior Ladies event here as she's just replaced Gabrielle Daleman at NHK Trophy on the same dates.

 

[Mohacz]

In pairs we'll have French nationals as the only 3 couples that will compete in Riga represent France

 

[Harriet]

Well, the Senior Ladies' field has come down to a sliiiiiiightly more manageable 38 (on paper) and 37 (in fact, given that Kailani apparently still hasn't remembered to tell them to take her off the list). Meanwhile, Junior Men is absolutely bleeding competitors, down from 20+ to 14 over the past week or so, while Junior Ladies still sits at 44. It's going to be a long day for those poor girls...

And it's still a preview of French Nationals in the Senior Pairs. I'll back Hamon/Strekalin's Hunger Games free skate against all (two) comers!

 

[Mohacz]

Some of the results after SP/RD:

Senior Pairs SP:
1. Cleo HAMON / Denis STREAKLIN (FRA) - 52.23
2. Camille MENDOZA / Pavel KOVALEV (FRA) - 44.97
3. Coline KERIVEN / Antoine Noel PIERRE (FRA) - 43.11

Junior Pairs SP:
1 Hailey KOPS / Artem TSOGLIN (ISR) - 46.95
2. Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Ivan PAVLOV (UKR) - 39.57
3. Darya RABKOVA / Vladyslav GRESKO (BLR) - 37.48

Junior RD (top 10 only):
1. Mariia KAZAKOVA / Georgy REVIYA (GEO) - 67.04
2. Elizaveta SHANAEVA / Devid NARIZHNY (RUS) - 63.77
3. Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN (RUS) - 61.78
4. Sofja POLISCHUK / German SHAMRAEV (RUS) - 57.67
5. Maria GOLUBTSOVA / Kirill BELOBROV (UKR) - 56.96
6. Ekaterina ANDREEVA / Ivan DESYATOV (RUS) - 56.56
7. Viktorija SEMENJUK / Artur GRUZDEV (EST) - 54.41
8. Francesca RIGHI / Aleksei DUBROVIN (ITA) - 53.44
9. Villo MARTON / Danijil SZEMKO (HUN) - 51.64
10. Tamara ZHUKOVA / Artur BIKTIMIROV (RUS) - 51.17

Junior Men SP:
1. Rakhat BRALIN (KAZ) - 58.22
2. Florian PACHKE (GER) - 54.97
3. Kai JAGODA (GER) - 54.04
4. Kims Georgs PAVLOVS (LAT) - 53.05
5. Noah BODENSTEIN (SUI) - 51.16
6. Luke DIGBY (GBR) - 50.45
7. Josh BROWN (GBR) - 49.29
8. Daniel SAPOZHNIKOV (GER) - 47.56
9. Sami HAMMI (FRA) - 43.86
10. Oleg EFREMOV (RUS) - 42.06
11. Flavien GINIAUX (FRA) - 37.78

 

[Mohacz]

Very detailed time schedule for 7 November:

http://kristalice.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Volvo-Open-Cup-37-Detail-TS.-7.11..pdf

And for the rest of the competition:

http://kristalice.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Volvo-Open-Cup-37-Pre.TS_.NEW_.-28.10..pdf

 

[icetug]

Junior Man final results:
1. Rakhat BRALIN (KAZ) 177.51
2. Noah BODENSTEIN (SUI) 155.16
3. Florian PASCHKE (GER) 152.92
4. Luke DIGBY (GBR) 150.23
5. Kai JAGODA (GER) 147.19
6. Daniel SAPOZHNIKOV (GER) 139.99
7. Kims Georgs PAVLOVS (LAT) 134.50
8. Oleg EFREMOV (RUS) 132.83
9. Sami HAMMI (FRA) 127.42
10. Josh BROWN (GBR) 126.91
11. Flavien GINIAUX (FRA) 112.59

Congratulations to the winners, especially to Rakhat and team Champery who were 1-3 in FS.

 

[Walt FSHunter]

Can anybody record junior ladies short program and upload the videos? I shan't be able to watch it live and the videos are not uploaded by ISP as they offer to buy them.

 

[Mohacz]

Senior Ice Dance - RD

1. Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV (RUS) - 64.31
2. Katharina MULLER / Tim DIECK (GER) - 61.24
3. Daria POPOVA / Volodymyr BIELIKOV (UKR) - 60.74
4. Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS (LTU) - 59.96
5. Adelina GALYEVIEVA / Louis THAURON (FRA) - 58.94
6. Anna YANOVSKAYA / Adam LUKACS (HUN) - 57.94
7. Carolina MOSCHENI / Andrea FABBRI (ITA) - 57.36
8. Chiara CALDERONE / Pietro PAPETTI (ITA) - 54.19
9. Julia WAGRET / Pierre SOUQUET (FRA) - 53.82
10. Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROHLISBERGER (SUIS) - 51.24
11. Emily MONAGHAN / Iliasz FOURATI (HUN) - 51.00
12. Shira ICHILOV / Vadim DAVIDOVICH (ISR) - 49.54
13. Katerina BUNINA / German FROLOV (EST) - 48.82
14. Hanna JAKUCS / Alessio GALLI (HUN) - 46.32

Junior Ice Dance - FD (top 10 only)
1. Mariia KAZAKOVA / Georgy REVIYA (GEO) - 100.26
2. Elizaveta SHANAEVA / Devid NARIZHNYY (RUS) - 95.67
3. Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN (RUS) - 92.65
4. Maria GOLUBTSOVA / Kirill BELOBROV (UKR) - 88.52
5. Ekaterina ANDREEVA / Ivan DESYATOV (RUS) - 84.54
6. Sofja POLISCHUK / German SHAMRAEV (RUS) - 83.81
7. Francesca RIGHI / Aleksei DUBROVIN (ITA) - 83.79
8. Tamara ZHUKOVA / Artur BIKTIMIROV (RUS) - 82.01
9. Viktorija SEMENJUK / Artur GRUZDEV (EST) - 81.90
10. Villo MARTON / Danijil SZEMKO (HUN) - 79.02

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Dang, Kuzmenko out as well

 

[La Rhumba]

Interesting results. I wasn't able to watch live.


Senior Ice Dance
Result

1 Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV RUS 168.47 1 1
2 Katharina MULLER / Tim DIECK GER 160.10 2 2
3 Daria POPOVA / Volodymyr BIELIKOV UKR 158.84 3 3
4 Adelina GALYEVIEVA / Louis THAURON FRA 156.19 5 4
5 Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU 153.78 4 6
6 Anna YANOVSKAYA / Adam LUKACS HUN 153.50 6 5
7 Julia WAGRET / Pierre SOUQUET FRA 146.55 9 7
8 Carolina MOSCHENI / Andrea FABBRI ITA 143.85 7 8
9 Chiara CALDERONE / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 139.88 8 9
10 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROHLISBERGER SUI 134.05 10 10
11 Emily MONAGHAN / Iliasz FOURATI HUN 131.86 11 11
12 Shira ICHILOV / Vadim DAVIDOVICH ISR 124.44 12 13
13 Katerina BUNINA / German FROLOV EST 124.43 13 12
14 Hanna JAKUCS / Alessio GALLI HUN 111.37 14 14

 

[lavenderblossom]

Tuned in and found myself watching adv novice men - what a cutie is Nikita Kovalenko! Very fun program, fast skater, nice spins. Jumps a bit iffy with one fall, but I liked it a lot.

 

[lavenderblossom]

Ivan Shmuratko skated clean and very well, good for the future of Ukrainian men now Pavlov has gone to pairs cry scored 76.48.

 

[snowflake]

YAY, happy for Sondre and his coach Berit Steigedal jumping up and down after his best ever SP score, 67.82. Tech 36.38, which qualifies for worlds

Now just skate for that free minimum tech!

I'm not following everyone here, but I guess a lot of them are fighting for qualifing points. I'll watch Nikolaj and a few others.