Alisa Mikonsaari, FIN: 33.59 TES + 33.65 PCS -1.00 = 66.24 Total: 110.40 and into 1st place
- Fall on the opening triple salchow
- Double lutz
- Triple toe
- Nice double axel
- Good speed through the camel spin and nice donut position into a decent catchfoot extension
- Triple salchow + double toe
- Single toe turn out double toe
- Spiral into a single axel
- Awkward getting into the haircutter but lovely once she's in it and very slow on the Biellman
- A little slow on the footwork and she seems to be very stiff and cautious
- She needs more stretch through all the positions in this combination spin and really starts to lose speed by the end
Polina Korobeynikova, RUS: 42.53 TES + 40.74 PCS = 83.27 Total: 129.98 and into 1st place
- Not sure why but she's wearing nude gloves on her hands
- Hits her opening triple flip but it was a planned triple + triple combo
- Triple lutz + double toe
- Under rotates and doubles her flip
- Could use more stretch through her free leg in the sit spin but good speed
- Nice double axel + double toe
- Single loop with a two footed landing
- Triple salchow + double toe with a turn out on hte landing
- Solid double axel
- She seems a little stiff today and you can see the nerves--I wonder if the pressure of coming in as the top Russian ladies finisher at Euros got to her
- Lovely layback and haircutter positions in her spin but she loses speed in the Biellman
- Nice edges through her step sequence and good flow across the ice
- A little slow through her final combination spin
Romy Buhler, SUI: 35.12 TES + 38.07 PCS -1.00 = 72.19 Total: 116.21 and into 2nd place
- Big opening triple lutz and she hangs on to the landing
- Hands down and fall out on the triple salchow
- Double toe + single toe + single loop
- Nice double axel
- Interesting take on the catch foot camel extension into a catchfoot front upright spin
- Double toe and she is almost completely stopped on the landing
- Nice arabesque spiral
- Single salchow + double toe
- Double axel + double toe
- Needs a straighter leg on that sit spin
- She has lots of lovely elements but needs to really stretch through her legs and finish everything off
- Very nice way to get into the Biellman but she loses speed and centering
Natalia Popova, UKR: 48.54 TES + 41.22 PCS = 89.76 Total: 136.36 and into 1st place
- Triple flip + double toe
- Hung on to the landing of the triple loop
- Triple toe with a turn out on the landing
- Nice speed through the sit spin
- Triple toe + double toe--she gets nice height on her jumps but not a lot of ice coverage
- Triple salchow + double toe
- Triple salchow
- Double axel
- Decent camel spin but she struggles a bit to grab the foot for the catchfoot position but a nice stretched out upright catchfoot spin at the end
- I'd like to see more stretch through her free leg in the footwork
- Pretty layback spin into a nice haircutter
Sarah Hecken, GER: 44.57 TES + 39.24 PCS -1.00 = 82.81 Total: 129.20 and into 3rd place
- Ekes out the landing on that triple flip
- Triple salchow step out
- Triple toe turn out double toe
- Nice speed and position in the donut spin but needs more flexibility through the back for the catchfoot
- Decent layback and haircutter
- Fall on a triple toe
- Triple salchow + double toe + double toe
- Double axel + double toe
- Double axel
- Seems to be a bit choppy through this step sequence and skimming over the tops of the edges
- Needs more stretch through her sit position and finishes the spin after the music
Kerstin Frank, AUT: 42.19 TES + 38.18 PCS = 80.37 Total: 126.17 and into 4th place
- Hmm she has the nude gloves on too...
- Down on one side on the triple lutz landing and had to put a hand down
- Nice triple toe + double toe
- Double salchow + double toe
- Decent position in her camel spin into a nice sit spin and decent flexibility through the catchfoot upright spin
- Triple salchow + double toe was nice
- Singled her toe jump and two footed the landing
- Good double axel
- Double axel step out and hand down--with no combination she won't get full credit for the jump
- Not a very attractive position on the bent leg camel spin--leg was way out in front of her instead of behind in an arabesque position
- She seems very bobbly in places in this step sequence and her upper body is very stiff
- Does about two rotations in her final spin after the music ends before hitting her final pose
Sonia Lafuente, ESP: 50.04 TES + 42.84 PCS = 92.88 Total: 140.24 and into 1st place
- She seems to be starting so slow with the intensity of this music
- Nice opening triple flip
- Good triple loop
- Triple toe + double toe
- A lot of traveling on her combination spin and not a lot of speed
- Triple loop + double toe
- She seems very hesitant and looks down at the ice and not up at the audience when she skates
- Double axel + double toe
- Triple toe
- Nice position in her spiral
- Good double axel
- Lots of turns and changes of edge in her footwork
- Nice extension through the upright catchfoot spin at the end of the program
Juulia Turkkila, FIN: 46.59 TES + 41.22 PCS = 87.81 Total: 135.56 and into 3rd place
- Triple toe + double toe
- Nice height on the triple salchow + double toe
- Triple loop with one arm variation
- Double axel + double toe + double loop and she two foots the last jump with no speed left
- Triple salchow with a step out
- Some of her choreography doesn't seem to go quite with the music
- Triple toe
- Nice double axel with good transition out of the jump
- Good speed on her sit spin into a nice upright spin
- One foot section to open the step sequence
Elena Glebova, EST: 50.94 TES + 44.30 PCS = 95.24 Total: 144.28 and into 1st place
- Triple lutz
- Triple loop but not a lot of flow out of the jump
- Double axel + triple toe with good spring in the second jump
- Triple salchow + double toe + double toe
- Nice layback into haircutter
- Skimming over the top of the edges a bit on this step sequence
- Double salchow + double toe very close to the boards
- Nice double axel
- Forward on the landing of the triple toe and has to put a hand down
- Nice low sit spin with good speed right into the final combination speed maintaining good speed throughout
Amelie Lacoste, CAN: 44.89 TES + 46.34 PCS -2.00 = 89.23 Total: 138.60 and into 3rd place
- Nice triple loop to open the program
- Double flip + double loop
- Triple salchow hand down and then a fall
- Beautiful camel position into a (not so pretty) illusion but the rest of the combination spin is nice with good speed
- Double flip
- Triple loop + double loop
- Nice low position in the sit spin with a good twist variation
- She has so many great qualities as a skater and is a joy to watch but she lacks the technical content to really be competitive with only two different triples in her free skate
- Fall on the double axel
- Triple salchow + single toe
- Nice layback spin into a good haircutter
Alissa Czisny, USA: 33.13 TES + 47.67 PCS -5.00 = 75.80 Total: 124.11 and into 9th place
- I am not a fan of this costume with the sheer white skirt over the darker white briefs as it breaks the line of the costume and is distracting
- Fall on the opening triple lutz
- Fall on the triple loop
- Hangs on to that triple flip
- Nice spiral positions
- Great speed in her camel spin into a pretty donut position and stretching out to the catchfoot
- Two foots the landing and hand down on the triple toe
- Fall on the triple lutz
- Hand down and fall on the triple loop
- Really off in the air on the double axel and she falls
- Nice speed and extension through her upright spin
- Something is clearly going on because this is so unlike even Old Alissa to miss so many jumps
- Gorgeous layback into a beautiful Biellman
Yretha Silete, FRA: 55.85 TES + 44.91 PCS -1.00 = 99.76 Total: 148.18 and into 1st place
- Big opening double axel + double toe + double toe
- Cat like legs to land that triple lutz
- Fall on the triple flip
- Nice triple loop
- Good layback into haircutter but losing a lot of speed through the Biellman
- Triple salchow + double toe--she has so much spring on those combination jumps and almost gets more height on the 2nd jump than the first
- Triple toe + double toe
- Double axel
- She needs to really stretch through her free leg on that last spin
- Hard to tell if she finished after her music--spun three or four times after a crash that may have been the ending but then there was a low whistling sound
Valentina Marchei, ITA: 48.87 TES + 49.09 PCS = 97.96 Total: 150.10 and into 1st place
- Nice triple lutz + double toe
- Hands down on the triple flip but she magically stays on her feet
- Really sideways in the air on the triple salchow but manages to land it with a hand down
- Good speed through her combo spin with nice positions and a good transition out of it
- Nice layback into a haircutter
- Pretty spiral position with nice stretch
- Triple lutz a little scratchy on the landing
- Triple toe forward on the toe pick on the landing but she hangs on
- Double axel turn out double toe
- Triple salchow turnout double toe
- Nice energy through her footwork sequence
- A little slowon the final combination spin
Kexin Zhang, CHN: 58.07 TES + 45.50 PCS -1.00 = 102.57 Total: 157.57 and into 1st place
- Big easy opening triple toe + triple toe combination
- Fall on the triple lutz, slowly slides into the boards and takes a bit to get back up
- Triple flip + double toe
- Good speed through the donut position in the camel spin with an inventive hold
- Pretty stretched out scorpion spiral
- Triple toe
- Scratchy on the triple loop but landed
- Really nice layback spin with good speed on the Biellman
- Triple salchow + double toe + double loop
- Nice double axel
- Good long strokes in this one foot sequence that take her half way across the ice and lots of upper body movement in the 2nd half
- Nice position in her camel spin with great flexibility in the upright catchfoot
Jenna McCorkell, GBR: 46.91 TES + 46.51 PCS = 93.42 Total: 143.84 and into 5th place
- Nice opening triple lutz
- Good triple flip
- Triple toe + double toe
- Decent layback position but she needs more lift through her arms
- Single salchow
- Single loop
- Double axel + double toe
- Triple toe + double axel sequence
- Seems very slow on this step sequence and she's not getting much ice coverage
Elene Gedevanishvili, GEO: 41.51 TES + 51.20 PCS -2.00 = 90.71 Total: 149.20 and into 3rd place
- Off in the air on the triple lutz and falls
- Single lutz and two footed
- Nice height on the double axel + double toe but stumbles over her free leg a bit on the landing of the second jump
- Good triple salchow
- Triple loop very forward in the air and a fall
- Triple toe + double toe with a step out
- Triple toe
- Great speed and position on camel spin, nice stretch through the sit position after the change of foot
- A little bouncy through the one foot section of the step sequence instead of really pushing through her edges to get across the ice
- Great speed in the camel spin into a nice layback and haircutter
- She's got a lot of shoulder tape on so she must be battling an injury
Viktoria Helgesson, SWE: 46.19 TES + 50.16 PCS -2.00 = 94.35 Total: 148.54 and into 4th place
- Triple flip
- Double lutz
- Nice triple loop
- Nice passion through the step sequence with good edges although she seems to get stuck toward the middle
- Good camel position with nice speed into a good catchfoot
- Triple toe + double toe
- Nice spiral and nice set up into it coming out of choreography
- Two foots the double axel and am not sure she got the full rotation
- Good speed through the combination spin but she could use more stretch through the upright catchfoot
- Triple loop and a fall and without a combo on that one she won't receive full credit for the jump
- Good triple salchow stepping right into her final sit spin and ending a few beats after the music
Ashley Wagner, USA: 62.91 TES + 57.44 PCS = 120.35 Total: 176.77 and into 1st place
- Nice triple flip + double toe + double loop
- Double axel + triple toe was too footed
- Nice triple lutz
- I love her attention to detail in this program down to her fingertips and the angle of her chin
- Nice speed through the sit spin
- Gorgeous spiral positions
- Nice layback spin into a good haircutter and Biellman picking up a bit of speed
- Spread eagle into triple loop right on the music
- Nice triple salchow with great flow out of the jump
- Triple loop + double toe looked two footed on the first jump
- Good triple flip
- Nice edges in the step sequence and a cheer from the crowd for her ballet walks in the middle
- Good position on the twisted camel and good speed through the position changes ending with a scratch spin
Alena Leonova, RUS: 60.57 TES + 59.10 PCS = 119.67 Total: 184.28 and into 1st place
- Triple toe + triple toe might have been a bit two footed on the second jump
- Triple loop has to fight to hang on to the landing a bit
- Triple flip with a step out
- Nice positions and speed in the camel spin
- Triple flip + double toe so close to the boards that she can't get her free leg all the way out on the second jump
- Double salchow + double toe
- She seems to be wobbling a bit on transition moves so I wonder if her free just aren't completely under her
- Double axel was good
- Really slow in the sit spin and flexed foot on the bent leg position
- She seems to be running out of gas at the end of this step sequence and is moving slower and seems to be forcing herself to do the movements
- Ugly illusion spin into a sit and then a haircutter losing speed by the end
Mao Asada, JPN: 45.01 TES + 60.02 PCS = 105.03 Total: 164.52 and into 3rd place
- This dress is just stunning and the perfect color on her
- Single axel (popped an intended triple)
- Triple flip + double loop
- Nice triple lutz with great flow out of it
- Good speed through the camel spin into a broken leg sit spin and picking up speed through the upright catchfoot
- Double axel + double toe (looked like she opened up on an intended triple)
- Double flip
- Triple salchow
- Nice straight leg in the sit spin
- This program suits her so nicely and she looks really relaxed when she's skating it
- Not a lot of power in her step sequence but nice choreography
- Single loop
- Flying entry to the sit spin pulling into a donut and a nice catchfoot extension and ending with her trademark spiral
- Those mistakes are going to be too costly for her to hang on for a medal
Kanako Murakami, JPN: 55.53 TES + 57.21 PCS = 112.74 Total: 175.1 and into 3rd place
- Really high kick into her opening triple lutz
- Triple loop--interesting bounce before the takeoff
- Two foots the landing of the triple flip and has no flow out of the jump
- Nice layback but she loses lots of speed in the Biellman
- Good broken leg sit spin
- Triple toe + triple toe might have been a bit tight on the landing
- Triple flip + single axel sequence
- Single axel--she's hitting most of her jumps today but her jump technique is really flawed and leads to her inconsistency
- Not a lot of power through this step sequence and she's not getting much ice coverage
- Triple salchow + double loop + double loop
- Nice upright catchfoot spin with good speed into a tucked sit spin
- Those mistakes will cost her and she'll likely drop off the podium as well
Carolina Kostner, ITA: 63.22 TES + 65.72 PCS = 128.94 Total: 189.94 and into 1st place
- Nice opening triple loop with nice extension of the free leg on the landing
- Nice triple flip
- Nice double axel + triple toe with great ice coverage
- Double flip + double toe
- Nice double axel
- Good triple salchow and she is making these jumps look easy
- Triple salchow + double toe + double toe very light and easy and right on the music
- Nice step sequence with good edges although it looks like she was struggling to stay on her feet for a minute there in the middle
- Nice speed and position in the camel spin into a nice stretched out sit spin with a flying change of foot to a layback spin
- Losing a big of her centering in the final combination spin but that should be enough to put her into first.
Akiko Suzuki, JPN: 62.06 TES + 59.24 PCS = 121.30 Total: 180.68 and into 3rd place
- Huge opening triple lutz
- Nice double axel + triple toe
- Triple flip
- Nice combination spin with good speed and positions
- Nice broken leg camel spin from a flying entry but she could use more extension through the catchfoot
- Nice backwards arabesque spiral
- Triple lutz + double toe + double loop
- Triple salchow had to fight for the landing a bit
- Singles her lutz and tacks on a double toe
- Triple loop with a bit of a two footed landing
- Her step sequence is so light and airy and always full of energy
- A little off on centering in her final spin
Ksenia Makarova, RUS: 39.78 TES + 53.19 PCS -2.00 = 90.97 Total: 149.48 and into 9th place
- Botched her first jump and fell on the 2nd. She needed 20 points above her season's best to medal so she's out of it now.
- Triple loop nice
- Pretty layback spin into a nice Biellman
- Triple loop + double toe
- Fall on the triple salchow
- Could use more stretch through her free leg in the sit spin
- The music editing for this program is so odd with no real rhyme or reason to what comes when and weird overlaps
- A little slow on this step sequence and no real performance quality
- Nice final combination spin with good positions
