Sencila Bled Cup Junior Grand Prix-Ladies free skate

Hae Jin Kim (KOR) won the event with a total score of 147.30. She skated a very nice and classy free program with a triple toe-triple toe, a couple of triple flips and a triple lutz. She deservely had the best components score of the competition of 45.30 for her flow and lightness.
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Barbie Long (USA) scored 94.95 at her Junior Grand Prix debut.She had a wonderful technical content executed with ease: she did a double axel-triple toe, a triple lutz-triple toe (with a slight step out) and other four triples. She finished off the program with a beautiful double axel-double toe-double loop taken from a spread eagle.
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Elena Gerasimova (RUS) won the free skate and, after the short program where she ranked fifth, she gained the bronze medal.She did seven triples (including a triple lutz-triple toe combo) and skated quite clean, despite an evident weakness in taking the right edge of the lutz, from start to finish scoring 96.14
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Nebelhorn Trophy-Ladies free

Keatlyn Osmond (CAN) won Nebelhorn Trophy 2012 with 114.51. She was in second after the short program, but did a very good free landing five triples including two triple flips, a triple lutz and a beautiful double axel-triple toe combo. Her performance has been downgraded by a fall on a triple toe in the second half. She performed a brilliant step sequence getting a level four (the only one of the competition).

Adelina Sotnikova got the second place with a tough performance. Her program had some ups and downs: she landed a double axel-triple toe combo and some other nice triples but fell on her triple lutz (that was probably supposed to be in combo with another triple toe) and popped a flip. She received 109.75

Haruka Imai (JPN) had an enormous recover after short program where she ranked ninth and got the bronze medal. She got some under rotated jumps here and there, but overall her performance was clean. 105.94

Joshua Farris wins Slovenia Junior Grand Prix

Joshua Farris won his second consecutive grand prix competition with a fre skate of 136.86. Joshua didn't skate as clean as in Lake Placid a couple of weeks ago, but managed a very solid performance despite a fall on a triple axel at the beginnin of the program. He landed a total of seven triples (including another triple axel in the second half of the program) and performed a very elegant routine.

Boyang Jin (CHN) recovered from the sixth place finish after the short program to the silver medal. He landed a quad toe (under rotated) two triple axels and a triple lutz-triple toe combo. 128.35

Alexander Samarin (RUS) had a good come back in the free moving from fifth to third with some good triple lutzes and flips but no one axel in his program. 122.22

Nebelhorn Trophy-Men's free skate

Nobunari Oda won Nebelhorn trophy with a smart program of 153.69 points. He got credit for his quad toe, even if it was not perfect, two triple axels, triple lutz-triple toe and three more triples. He just popped a triple flip at the end of the program.

Konstantin Menshov did not have a very difficult technical content (despite a good quad and two triple axels)  but he performed the entire program with ease. He got all positive goes except for a singled axel (scheduled to be double). He earned 143.64

Keegan Messing had a brilliant free skate too, earning 142.22 points along with the bronze medal. He did a couple of triple axels successfully (one in combo with a triple toe in the second half of the program) but fell on attempted quad toe.

Tomas Verner and Michal Brezina had disappointing free skates and ranked sixthand fifth. Michal struggled a lot falling on three of his jumps (quad salchow, triple axel, triple loop).

Nebelhorn Trophy 2012- Pairs free skate

Volosozhar/Trankov won the Nebelhorn Trophy 2012. They skated effortless nailing all of their technical elements. They opened with a trademark triple twist, triple salchow-double toe side by side, throw triple loop, triple toe side by side and throw triple salchow. They scored 131.31

Denney/Coughlin (USA) manteined the second place in the free. They had a wonderful technical content ,including a throw triple flip in the secon half of the program, and skated clean throughtout the entire program scoring 121.61

James/Cypres had a tough free skate in which they struggled with almost any jumping element, hardly landed. Anyway they had a strong advance on the fourth team, so they saved the bronze medal with 96.52.

Nebelhorn Trophy 2012-Ladies short program

Adelina Sotnikova (RUS) won the ladies short program at Nebelhorn Trophy with 58.48. She fell on her triple toe-triple toe combo, but did well the other technical elements in her program. She landed a good triple flip and double axel and received level 4 on all her spins. She received the best components score of the competition (26.57).

Kaetlyn Osmond, the Canadian Nationals' bronze medalist, scored 55.68 assuring the second place in the short. She had troubles with triple toe-triple toe too, but didn't fell. Then she executed a good triple flip and double axel. Her gap with Sotnikova is mostly caused by a two points difference on the components score, however recovering in the free is in her range.

Elena Glebova (EST) is in the mix too with her 54.26. She did a triple lutz, a shaky triple toe-triple toe and a good double axel

Polina Shelepen (RUS) executed a triple lutz-triple toe, the most difficult combo of the competition, a triple loop and double axel, but lost some points on step sequence and spins that, with the exeption of a beautiful lay back, were judged a level two. (53.56 in fourth)

Caroline Zhang (USA) was one of the favourites for the podium, but got a tenth place caused by a struggle in jumping: she didn't complete the combo and struggled in the landing of triple loop and triple flip that was under rotated too. (45.43)

Nebelhorn Trophy 2012 videos

Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov
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Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov
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Denney/Coghlin
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Chock/Bates
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Nelli Zhiganshina/Alexander Gazsi
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Nobunari Oda
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Michal Brezina
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Konstantin Menshov
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Kaetlyn Osmond
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Adelina Sotnikova
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Haruka Imai
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Polina Shelepen
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