The final pairs did not change much about the short program Thursday. The Chinese Qing Pang and Jian Tong, clear leaders of the competition, did not make a great program, but it brought them to prevail at the top with a total of 128.04 points, ahead of two Canadian couples formed by Meagan Duhamel Eric Radford, who were second and Kirsten Moore-Towers-Dylan Moscovitch, who were third. Pang and Tong
skated his program "Liebestraum" by Franz Liszt, which included 3 twist, 3 thrown loop and Salchow as well as difficult lifts, Tong said in simple but Axel and doubled the toeloop. The two-time world champions scored one of the best marks of the season with 128.04 points and a total of 199.45 points.
" Always ready to win a competition and we won this event for the fifth time is really special for us. Although I did two elements (jumps), I'm still very happy to win tonight. I also want to congratulate the two Canadian teams for their excellent performances. Our next goal is to win the world title again "Tong said in a press conference after the event.
Duhamel and Radford conducted a technically demanding program with a triple combination 3flip-2toe-2toe, 3 twist, 2 triples and 3 toe cast. The Canadians got 121.87 points and jumped from third to second place with 181.79 points overall.
" probably exactly a year ago we made our first attempt to leave. So we have not even been skating together for a year. This is more than we could have asked " said Duhamel. "We are very pleased make a good long program, because that's what we do every day in practice, and we had a difficult time putting it out in competition. The performance did not surprise us too much, I think it is more the result and result is incredible, and we are shocked by this "he added.
On the other hand, Lawrence / Swiegers, with its" Van Helsing "made the 3twist, 3 Lutz launched, and 3 toe-loop in parallel, but he made it easy to Axel. The couple got 111.75 points in the free program and lost a position falling to third place with a total of 171.73 points, getting his first medal at an ISU Championship.
" The we are very pleased with the third place and go to each with the bronze medal. This is our medal this year. We have many third this year, but we're happy. I think it's a good start for us " said Lawrence.
free Program Notes:
1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 128.04 points
2 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN 121.87 points
3 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan Moscovitch
CAN 4 111.81 points Paige LAWRENCE / Rudi Swiegers CAN 5 111.75 points Caitlin
YANKOWSKAS / John COUGHLIN USA 111.72 points EVORA
6 Amanda / Mark Ladwig USA
7 105.07 points Narumi Takahashi / Mervin TRAN JPN 102.38 points
8 Mary Beth Marley / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 98.86 points
9 Huibo DONG / Yiming CHN WU 88.69 points
10 Yue ZHANG / Lei WANG CHN 88.32 points
Link protocols:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/fc2011/fc2011_Pairs_FS_Scores.pdf
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