JGP Romania Recap

Men

Maxim Kovtun of Russia won the gold medal in his JGP debut.  Ryuju Hino of Japan claimed the silver medal and a likely spot in the Junior Grand Prix Final.  Nam Nguyen of Canada climbed onto the medal stand in only his 2nd event, improving from a 12th place finish in Latvia by improving his personal best by 20 points.  Shotaro Omori of the United States finished 4th in his JGP debut.

Paul Fentz of Germany improved from 18th last season to 7th here with an increase in his personal best by 21 points.  Yakov Godorozha of Ukraine also increased his personal best by 20 points.

Ladies

Polina Shelepen of Russia claimed her second gold medal and a spot in the Junior Grand Prix Final.  Her teeammate Polina Korobeynikova took home the silver medal in her 2nd international event and increased her personal best by 10 points.  Hae-Jin Kim continued her impressive improvement this season by claiming her first medal (a bronze) and increasing her personal best by another 13 points.

Sabrina Schulz of Austria increased her personal best by 15 points, Melanie Swang of Thailand increased her personal best by 15 poitns and Amanda Sunyoto-Yang of Taipei increased her personal best by 17 points.

The two Japanese ladies finished near the top, but well below their personal bests.  Yuki Nishino finished 24 points below her personal best and Yukiko Fujisawa finished 27 points below her personal best.

Dance
Stepanova and Bukin continued the Russian dominance of Junior dance by claiming a gold medal.  Galyeta and Shumski of Ukraine took home their second silver in as many weeks and will have to wait and see if it was enough to claim a return trip to the Junior Grand Prix Final.  Bent and MacKeen of Canada claimed a bronze medal in their JGP debut.  Hawayek and Bramante of the United States finished 4th in their debut.

Bugrov and Rogov of Israel increased their personal best by 13 points and Haeuser and Lerche of Germany increased their personal best by 14 points.

JGP Romania Free Dance Results

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CC	IT	Ded. -	StN.
1	Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN	RUS	77.14	35.86		42.28	7.07	6.82	7.21	7.18	7.11	1.00	#13
2	Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI	UKR	70.90	35.07		36.83	6.18	5.93	6.18	6.36	6.18	1.00	#10
3	Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MACKEEN	CAN	69.82	36.84		32.98	5.57	5.36	5.64	5.50	5.50	0.00	#12
4	Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Michael BRAMANTE	USA	66.12	34.29		32.83	5.57	5.29	5.54	5.64	5.43	1.00	#11
5	Sofia SFORZA / Francesco FIORETTI	ITA	61.49	27.37		34.12	5.82	5.36	5.82	5.71	5.93	0.00	#7
6	Maria SIMONOVA / Dmitri DRAGUN	RUS	59.65	30.14		31.51	5.32	5.14	5.32	5.29	5.25	2.00	#6
7	Ekaterina BUGROV / Vasili ROGOV	ISR	59.44	30.79		28.65	4.86	4.61	4.68	4.93	4.89	0.00	#4
8	Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND	EST	58.27	27.35		32.92	5.54	5.43	5.39	5.64	5.46	2.00	#5
9	Jessica FLEMIN / Jeremy FLEMIN	FRA	56.77	31.50		25.27	4.21	4.11	4.25	4.32	4.25	0.00	#2
10	Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor KOVALENKO	UZB	53.71	21.35		33.36	5.64	5.32	5.61	5.75	5.64	1.00	#9
11	Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Yoan BRETON	CAN	51.27	25.01		28.26	4.64	4.61	4.64	4.89	4.86	2.00	#8
12	Kathrin HAEUSER / Sevan LERCHE	GER	49.01	23.42		26.59	4.54	4.25	4.32	4.61	4.54	1.00	#3
13	Katerina KONICKOVA / Matej LANG	CZE	45.40	25.21		20.19	3.57	3.21	3.36	3.43	3.32	0.00	#1

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SD	FD
1	Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN	RUS	134.29	1	1
2	Anastasia GALYETA / Alexei SHUMSKI	UKR	121.35	3	2
3	Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MACKEEN	CAN	120.69	2	3
4	Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Michael BRAMANTE	USA	115.12	5	4
5	Sofia SFORZA / Francesco FIORETTI	ITA	109.05	8	5
6	Maria SIMONOVA / Dmitri DRAGUN	RUS	107.45	7	6
7	Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND	EST	107.23	6	8
8	Anna NAGORNYUK / Viktor KOVALENKO	UZB	103.73	4	10
9	Ekaterina BUGROV / Vasili ROGOV	ISR	98.87	10	7
10	Jessica FLEMIN / Jeremy FLEMIN	FRA	92.11	11	9
11	Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Yoan BRETON	CAN	91.54	9	11
12	Kathrin HAEUSER / Sevan LERCHE	GER	83.27	12	12
13	Katerina KONICKOVA / Matej LANG	CZE	76.05	13	13
WD	Elektra HETMAN / Benjamin ALLAIN	FRA

JGP Romania Mens Free Skate Results

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded. -	StN.
1	Maxim KOVTUN	RUS	121.77	62.85		58.92	6.11	5.64	5.96	5.82	5.93	0.00	#17
2	Nam NGUYEN	CAN	114.73	60.71		54.02	5.43	5.25	5.43	5.36	5.54	0.00	#20
3	Shotaro OMORI	USA	114.07	61.69		52.38	5.36	5.07	5.36	5.11	5.29	0.00	#18
4	Harrison CHOATE	USA	113.85	63.07		50.78	5.11	4.89	5.29	4.96	5.14	0.00	#13
5	Ryuju HINO	JPN	113.74	63.74		51.00	5.46	4.82	5.11	5.04	5.07	1.00	#21
6	Dong-Won LEE	KOR	109.18	58.68		50.50	5.46	4.61	5.25	5.00	4.93	0.00	#16
7	Paul FENTZ	GER	100.85	52.29		48.56	4.96	4.71	4.93	4.82	4.86	0.00	#12
8	Thomas SOSNIAK	FRA	99.50	52.64		47.86	4.68	4.61	4.89	4.82	4.93	1.00	#7
9	Yakov GODOROZHA	UKR	96.29	49.49		47.80	4.93	4.61	4.86	4.71	4.79	1.00	#15
10	Jun SUZUKI	JPN	91.60	48.88		45.72	4.82	4.43	4.50	4.57	4.54	3.00	#8
11	Peter O BRIEN	CAN	90.53	42.67		49.86	5.18	4.86	4.96	4.89	5.04	2.00	#19
12	Ondrej SPIEGL	SWE	84.95	37.09		47.86	4.96	4.61	4.75	4.68	4.93	0.00	#14
13	Tomi PULKKINEN	SUI	84.69	37.91		46.78	4.82	4.61	4.61	4.64	4.71	0.00	#11
14	Slavik HAYRAPETYAN	ARM	84.48	41.40		44.08	4.54	4.21	4.43	4.43	4.43	1.00	#6
15	Maverick EGUIA	PHI	83.21	40.73		44.48	4.68	4.21	4.46	4.39	4.50	2.00	#10
16	Engin Ali ARTAN	TUR	76.72	39.56		38.16	4.18	3.50	3.86	3.79	3.75	1.00	#4
17	Vlad IONESCU	ROU	72.87	35.23		39.64	4.11	3.75	3.96	3.96	4.04	2.00	#5
18	Dmitri KAGIROV	BLR	69.10	29.94		42.16	4.54	4.11	4.14	4.11	4.18	3.00	#9
19	Catalin DIMITRESCU	ROU	66.37	32.57		35.80	3.68	3.43	3.61	3.64	3.54	2.00	#2
20	Zsolt KOSZ	ROU	62.44	26.86		35.58	3.86	3.29	3.54	3.46	3.64	0.00	#3
21	Sinthawachiwa PHIRIYIPHON	THA	50.21	20.87		30.34	3.21	2.89	3.04	3.07	2.96	1.00	#1

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Maxim KOVTUN	RUS	182.91	2	1
2	Ryuju HINO	JPN	174.99	1	5
3	Nam NGUYEN	CAN	169.55	5	2
4	Shotaro OMORI	USA	168.47	6	3
5	Dong-Won LEE	KOR	166.93	3	6
6	Harrison CHOATE	USA	166.38	7	4
7	Paul FENTZ	GER	151.40	9	7
8	Yakov GODOROZHA	UKR	147.22	8	9
9	Peter O BRIEN	CAN	146.22	4	11
10	Thomas SOSNIAK	FRA	143.93	13	8
11	Jun SUZUKI	JPN	135.48	15	10
12	Tomi PULKKINEN	SUI	134.56	10	13
13	Ondrej SPIEGL	SWE	134.55	11	12
14	Slavik HAYRAPETYAN	ARM	128.97	12	14
15	Maverick EGUIA	PHI	127.38	14	15
16	Engin Ali ARTAN	TUR	115.58	17	16
17	Dmitri KAGIROV	BLR	112.39	16	18
18	Vlad IONESCU	ROU	106.98	18	17
19	Catalin DIMITRESCU	ROU	100.08	19	19
20	Zsolt KOSZ	ROU	87.46	21	20
21	Sinthawachiwa PHIRIYIPHON	THA	78.75	20	21

JGP Romania Ladies Free Skate Results

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded. -	StN.
1	Polina SHELEPEN	RUS	106.98	61.05		46.93	6.11	5.43	6.04	5.82	5.93	1.00	#24
2	Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA	RUS	101.00	53.40		47.60	6.11	5.64	6.04	5.96	6.00	0.00	#26
3	Hae-Jin KIM	KOR	99.83	55.54		44.29	5.71	5.43	5.46	5.54	5.54	0.00	#25
4	Ashley CAIN	USA	80.17	34.49		46.68	5.89	5.64	5.93	5.79	5.93	1.00	#27
5	Natalia POPOVA	UKR	79.00	40.95		39.05	5.11	4.68	4.93	4.86	4.82	1.00	#18
6	Yuki NISHINO	JPN	78.14	35.14		44.00	5.75	5.14	5.54	5.54	5.54	1.00	#22
7	Yukiko FUJISAWA	JPN	76.84	36.35		41.49	5.46	4.93	5.04	5.21	5.29	1.00	#23
8	Lenaelle GILLERON-GORRY	FRA	76.64	39.82		37.82	4.93	4.57	4.71	4.79	4.64	1.00	#20
9	McKinzie DANIELS	USA	74.05	37.18		37.87	4.89	4.46	4.89	4.75	4.68	1.00	#19
10	Alexandra KAMIENIECKI	POL	70.77	34.89		35.88	4.71	4.32	4.50	4.43	4.46	0.00	#17
11	Sabrina SCHULZ	AUT	68.57	34.37		34.20	4.39	4.14	4.21	4.32	4.32	0.00	#14
12	Pernille SORENSEN	DEN	67.97	36.73		32.24	4.25	3.75	4.11	4.04	4.00	1.00	#7
13	Micol CRISTINI	ITA	67.78	33.68		36.10	4.82	4.25	4.46	4.57	4.46	2.00	#16
14	Diana ZANTA	SUI	65.43	33.96		32.47	4.21	3.86	4.07	4.04	4.11	1.00	#10
15	Melanie SWANG	THA	65.11	34.01		31.10	3.86	3.61	3.96	4.00	4.00	0.00	#15
16	Melisa Sema ATIK	TUR	62.40	31.18		32.22	4.07	3.82	4.07	4.00	4.18	1.00	#9
17	Margot KRISBERG	ISR	61.56	28.61		34.95	4.50	4.07	4.39	4.32	4.57	2.00	#11
18	Marta GARCIA	ESP	60.72	27.17		33.55	4.36	3.96	4.25	4.21	4.18	0.00	#13
19	Angelika DUBINSKI	GER	57.64	25.49		36.15	4.82	4.32	4.39	4.57	4.50	4.00	#21
20	Sandra RISTIVOJEVIC	SRB	55.08	27.07		28.01	3.71	3.32	3.43	3.43	3.61	0.00	#2
21	Nika CERIC	SLO	53.76	24.20		32.56	4.32	3.86	3.96	4.07	4.14	3.00	#12
22	Erika VITEKOVA	SVK	53.12	26.87		27.25	3.71	3.11	3.32	3.50	3.39	1.00	#1
23	Dimitra KORRI	GRE	52.83	25.17		27.66	3.39	3.18	3.54	3.50	3.68	0.00	#4
24	Amanda SUNYOTO-YANG	TPE	52.00	24.58		27.42	3.57	3.21	3.46	3.46	3.43	0.00	#8
25	Chelcie Jo MAHINAY	PHI	51.55	24.42		27.13	3.39	3.07	3.57	3.43	3.50	0.00	#3
26	Raisa RJENOVSCHI	ROU	42.87	20.13		22.74	2.89	2.64	2.96	2.86	2.86	0.00	#5
27	Denisa SANDU	ROU	40.95	18.22		23.73	3.36	2.86	2.71	2.96	2.93	1.00	#6

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Polina SHELEPEN	RUS	157.61	1	1
2	Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA	RUS	149.87	2	2
3	Hae-Jin KIM	KOR	144.61	6	3
4	Yuki NISHINO	JPN	125.85	3	6
5	Ashley CAIN	USA	125.16	5	4
6	Yukiko FUJISAWA	JPN	122.57	4	7
7	Natalia POPOVA	UKR	119.58	9	5
8	Lenaelle GILLERON-GORRY	FRA	118.71	7	8
9	Alexandra KAMIENIECKI	POL	111.91	8	10
10	McKinzie DANIELS	USA	111.79	11	9
11	Micol CRISTINI	ITA	105.56	10	13
12	Sabrina SCHULZ	AUT	100.96	17	11
13	Pernille SORENSEN	DEN	100.21	18	12
14	Diana ZANTA	SUI	97.55	19	14
15	Melanie SWANG	THA	97.53	16	15
16	Angelika DUBINSKI	GER	95.19	12	19
17	Margot KRISBERG	ISR	95.06	14	17
18	Melisa Sema ATIK	TUR	93.94	20	16
19	Marta GARCIA	ESP	93.51	15	18
20	Nika CERIC	SLO	91.29	13	21
21	Sandra RISTIVOJEVIC	SRB	84.65	24	20
22	Erika VITEKOVA	SVK	83.29	23	22
23	Amanda SUNYOTO-YANG	TPE	82.34	22	24
24	Dimitra KORRI	GRE	80.04	26	23
25	Chelcie Jo MAHINAY	PHI	79.19	25	25
26	Denisa SANDU	ROU	71.55	21	27
27	Raisa RJENOVSCHI	ROU	64.90	27	26