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Trusova and Shcherbakova - the youngest participants in the European Championship
Two-time World Champion among juniors Aleksandra Trusova and two-time Champion of Russia Anna Shcherbakova will become the youngest participants in the women's tournament of the European Championship.
At the time of their performance, Trusova will be 15 years and 7 months, Shcherbakova - 15 years and 10 months.
In addition to the Russians, only one other 15-year-old figure skater, representative of Israel Nelly Ioffe, who will turn 16 on January 29th, after the tournament has finished, will compete. It is noteworthy that Ioffe was born in Moscow and trains under the leadership of Katarina Gerboldt and Svetlana Sokolovskaya. This season she performed in the Junior Grand Prix series, where she took 11th place at the Croatian stage and 13th place at the Russian stage in Chelyabinsk with 144.13 points for the best result for the season.
As for the third Russian representative at the European Championships, Alyona Kostornaya, who will start in Graz at the age of 16 years and 5 months, 8 peers will perform along with her at the tournament, including ex-Russians Yekaterina Ryabova and Viktoriya Safonova, now competing for Azerbaijan and Belarus, respectively.
The age structure of the remaining participants in the women's European Championship tournament is as follows:
17 years - 5 participants (including ex-Russian Yekaterina Kurakova, now competing for Poland);
18 years old - three participants;
19 years old - one participant;
20 years - four participants;
21 years old - three participants;
22 years - two participants;
23 years old - four participants;
25 years - three participants;
28 years old - one participant.
The average age of the women's tournament participants is 19.2 years.
The oldest participant in the tournament is 28-year-old Dasha Grm from Slovenia. Her best result this season is 158.39 points, with it she got eighth place in the tournament in Zagreb. There, in the short program, the most valuable in terms of timing elements performed was the cascade triple - double Toeloop for which she received 5.92 points, taking into account bonuses. In the free program, the cascade “triple Toeloop - Euler- double Salchow,” for which, taking into account bonuses, she scored 6.5 points.
Note that 23-year-old Yelizaveta Tuktamysheva, who took fourth place in Krasnoyarsk, became the oldest participant in the December Championship of Russia.
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From: https://www.sport-express.ru/figure...-yunye-uchastnicy-chempionata-evropy-1632578/
Two-time World Champion among juniors Aleksandra Trusova and two-time Champion of Russia Anna Shcherbakova will become the youngest participants in the women's tournament of the European Championship.
At the time of their performance, Trusova will be 15 years and 7 months, Shcherbakova - 15 years and 10 months.
In addition to the Russians, only one other 15-year-old figure skater, representative of Israel Nelly Ioffe, who will turn 16 on January 29th, after the tournament has finished, will compete. It is noteworthy that Ioffe was born in Moscow and trains under the leadership of Katarina Gerboldt and Svetlana Sokolovskaya. This season she performed in the Junior Grand Prix series, where she took 11th place at the Croatian stage and 13th place at the Russian stage in Chelyabinsk with 144.13 points for the best result for the season.
As for the third Russian representative at the European Championships, Alyona Kostornaya, who will start in Graz at the age of 16 years and 5 months, 8 peers will perform along with her at the tournament, including ex-Russians Yekaterina Ryabova and Viktoriya Safonova, now competing for Azerbaijan and Belarus, respectively.
The age structure of the remaining participants in the women's European Championship tournament is as follows:
17 years - 5 participants (including ex-Russian Yekaterina Kurakova, now competing for Poland);
18 years old - three participants;
19 years old - one participant;
20 years - four participants;
21 years old - three participants;
22 years - two participants;
23 years old - four participants;
25 years - three participants;
28 years old - one participant.
The average age of the women's tournament participants is 19.2 years.
The oldest participant in the tournament is 28-year-old Dasha Grm from Slovenia. Her best result this season is 158.39 points, with it she got eighth place in the tournament in Zagreb. There, in the short program, the most valuable in terms of timing elements performed was the cascade triple - double Toeloop for which she received 5.92 points, taking into account bonuses. In the free program, the cascade “triple Toeloop - Euler- double Salchow,” for which, taking into account bonuses, she scored 6.5 points.
Note that 23-year-old Yelizaveta Tuktamysheva, who took fourth place in Krasnoyarsk, became the oldest participant in the December Championship of Russia.
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From: https://www.sport-express.ru/figure...-yunye-uchastnicy-chempionata-evropy-1632578/
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