Russia’s Kamila Valieva poses as she celebrates profitable the gold medal for the ladies’s competitors on the Rostelecom Cup 2021 ISU Grand Prix of Determine Skating in Sochi on November 28, 2021. (Photograph by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
SOCHI, Russia – Russia’s Kamila Valieva received the Rostelecom Cup on Saturday by beating her personal free skate and mixed whole rating world information a day after smashing the world report within the quick program.
The 15-year-old bolstered her standing as a gold-medal favourite for subsequent yr’s Beijing Olympics by main a Russian podium sweep. Silver medallist Elizaveta Tuktamysheva trailed Valieva by greater than 40 factors, whereas Maya Khromykh took the bronze. All three certified for the Grand Prix Remaining in Japan subsequent month.
Skating to Ravel’s Bolero, Valieva effortlessly accomplished three quadruple jumps to earn 185.29 factors for a mixed whole of 272.71, two world information. On Friday she set a brand new excessive rating of 87.42 within the quick program.
On the boys’s aspect, Georgia’s Morisi Kvitelashvili edged Mikhail Kolyada of Russia to win his first Grand Prix title, however the Russian’s second-place end was sufficient to qualify him for subsequent month’s ultimate.
Performing to a medley of songs by Frank Sinatra, Kvitelashvili fell on his quadruple toe loop however managed to cleanly execute many of the different parts of his free skate to clinch gold with a complete of 266.33 factors, a private greatest.
Kolyada, silver medallist within the crew occasion on the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, completed fewer than two factors total behind his Georgian rival. Japan’s Kazuki Tomono positioned third with 264.19 factors.
Russians swept the rostrum within the pairs as Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galliamov confidently clinched gold with a near-flawless free skate that earned 226.98 factors.
Mishina and Galliamov, in addition to silver-winning pair Daria Pavliuchenko and Denis Khodykin, certified for the Grand Prix Remaining. Yasmina Kadyrova and Ivan Balchenko took bronze.
Reigning ice dance world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov happy the house crowd as they twirled fantastically to music by Rachmaninov to win gold, incomes 211.72 factors and their second Grand Prix gold medal this season.
Italians Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri completed simply over eight factors behind the Russians, with each pairs of dancers qualifying for the ultimate.
Canada’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Soerensen clinched bronze with 191.40 factors.
The Rostelecom Cup was the final of the six Grand Prix occasions in the course of the Olympic season earlier than the ultimate on Dec. 9-12 in Osaka.
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