Apr 14, 2020
“Rusfed: give Tarakanova a challenger/senior B. Nastya: make good use of it.”
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“Rusfed: give Tarakanova a challenger/senior B. Nastya: make good use of it.”
Ice Challenge 2024 Graz, Austria November 9-10
Dozzi/Papetti and Shilling/Baeten from IAMO (Roberts/Alis were previously in the list but no more😢). Holly/Jason and Pham/Spiridonov from IAM. with P/S making their int’l debut i think, as are Koncius/Shchepetov from MIDA (who’ve noticeably been promoting their teams more on IG).
T/L getting an outing before JGPF in December. will be good to see PG/BK again too
Senior b anon. So, they have to climb trough it? Start at the bottom and go to the top from there? Or if they do good in the junior circuit they can go straight to the top of the senior? Thanks!
As long as you turn 15, it’s up to the skater and their coaching team when they move to Seniors. If they’re good enough to get an entry into the GP Series, some do it earlier than others. If not, you’ll see some who wait until they age out. In Ice Dance, this happens more often.
As far as “moving up” - sort of? Like high-level GP-skaters do compete at Senior B and Challenger Series events, but usually, they’re in the GP series, so during that, the Seniors Bs are mostly lower-level skaters because the rest are on the GP circuit. It’s a good way for them to gain exposure in front of the judges.
Also, junior-level skaters who are senior-age eligible will use Senior Bs and Challenger Series events to get experience on the senior level.
Also, skaters will use Senior B and Challenger Series events to gain the necessary minimum required score. (More likely in smaller countries, but top-level skaters will gain this easily. Skaters from smaller countries might need to d a few to gain the necessary minimum technical score for Worlds and Euros/4CC.
What is a senior b competition? My country has some skaters competing there but I have like no clue of what the difference is between that an the junior circuit.
Think of it like... A-levels and B-level? So, like... the highest level would be the Grand Prix for Seniors and the Junior Grand Prix for Juniors. For Seniors, the Challenger Series is right below that. Crystal Skate and Golden Bear and competitions like that are kind of like... a step-down? From that?
I’m sorry, I hope I’m explaining this well enough.
It’s just... think of it a way of sorting the number of big skaters skating there? The lower down you go, the more likely that there won’t be higher-level skaters there, and more lower-level and national-level skaters.
Does that make sense?
Results
China ruled in Italy today at the men’s short program.
Yan Han of China skated a personal best of 94.29 to dominate the short program with a wonderful skate. He Zhang of China also skated well, with a score of 81.75 to be in second. Jorik Hendrickx of Belgium is third with a score of 79.02. In fourth place is Peter Liebers of Germany with a score of 78.01. Phillip Harris of Great Britain rounds out the top five with a score of 72.21.
In sixth place with a less than stellar skate is reigning Olympic Bronze Medalist, Denis Ten of Kazakstan with a score of 72.48. Romain Ponsart of France is right behind him with a score of 72.31. In eighth place is Makar Ignatov of Russia with a 69.95. In ninth place is Jiri Belohradsky of the Czech Republic with a score of 62.82. Rounding out the top ten is Lukas Britschgi of Switzerland with a score of 61.51.
CROSS COUNTRY: MANUEL DAVILA by ANT_JMC
CROSS COUNTRY: MANUEL DAVILA by ANT_JMC
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