Friday 30 October 2009

Cup of China - More Results

So here's the rest of the results from the first day of Cup of China.

Ice dance had some really high quality programs. Belbin and Agosto's definitely deserved their score - it was a wonderful performance, as was Khokhlova and Novitski's, despite the terrible music!
1 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
98.66 1 1
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS
92.78 2 2
3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
89.96 3 3
4 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR
79.65 6 4
5 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR
77.83 4 7
6 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN
76.20 8 5
7 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA
76.03 7 6
8 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN
71.51 5 9
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN
67.09 9 8

Pairs was a great event...Shen and Zhao were absolutely flawless, and have a ten point lead so the gold is theirs. Another great skate was from the Russian pairs, who were almost unknown before this event.
1 Xue SHEN / Hongbo ZHAO CHN
72.28 1
2 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Stanislav MOROZOV UKR
62.98 2
3 Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Nodari MAISURADZE RUS
62.54 3
4 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN
61.92 4
5 Meagan DUHAMEL / Craig BUNTIN CAN
55.08 5
6 Huibo DONG / Yiming WU CHN
50.32 6
7 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA
48.02 7
8 Vanessa JAMES / Yannick BONHEUR FRA
47.28 8

Cup of China Results So Far

Here are the results so far. It's shaping up to be a pretty exciting competition; the ladies and mens long programs tomorrow will be good as the skaters are so close together that who knows who'll win?

1 Nobunari ODA JPN
83.35 1
2 Sergei VORONOV RUS
81.40 2
3 Evan LYSACEK USA
80.80 3
4 Samuel CONTESTI ITA
72.08 4
5 Jinlin GUAN CHN
66.70 5
6 Yannick PONSERO FRA
66.65 6
7 Stephen CARRIERE USA
65.24 7
8 Chao YANG CHN
65.10 8
9 Denis TEN KAZ
64.05 9
10 Ming XU CHN
61.02 10
11 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN
60.12 11
12 Armin MAHBANOOZADEH USA
59.54 12

1 Mirai NAGASU USA
62.20 1
2 Kiira KORPI FIN
61.20 2
3 Carolina KOSTNER ITA
61.12 3
4 Akiko SUZUKI JPN
59.52 4
5 Rachael FLATT USA
58.80 5
6 Fumie SUGURI JPN
55.46 6
7 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN
52.12 7
8 Yan LIU CHN
51.28 8
9 Beatrisa LIANG USA
50.76 9
10 Bingwa GENG CHN
47.64 10
11 Diane SZMIETT CAN
44.24 11
12 Binshu XU CHN
37.08 12

1 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA
38.33 1
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS
36.30 2
3 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
35.37 3
4 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR
30.88 4
5 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN
30.40 5
6 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR
29.43 6
7 Madison CHOCK / Greg ZUERLEIN USA
28.76 7
8 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN
27.87 8
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN
24.73 9