According to the Federation of Russian Figure Skating, The winners of last year's Junior Championship of Russia Yulia Artemyeva - Mikhail Nazarychev are leading after the short program at the Russian Junior Championships, which takes place in Saransk, scoring 74.30 points. The second are Natalia Khabibullina - Ilya Knyazhuk (71.60). Ekaterina Chikmareva - Matvey Yanchenkov (70.04) closes the top three.
An experienced junior pair, the current champions of Russia among juniors Yulia Artemyeva - Mikhail Nazarychev skated their short program cleanly, making the 3rd twist, the 2nd axel, all non-jumping elements to the 4th level and for the first time performing at competitions of this level the release of the 3rd salchow.
- Okay. The rental is excellent. The most terrible thing was the release - triple salchow, because we began to learn it relatively recently, - commented Mikhail Nazarychev.
- Almost after the New Year. Here we skated with him for the second time. In the first one in
Perm at the competitions, - added Julia.- In Perm, the test was started. But we did. Now we skated, of course, not on the break, controlled ourselves, because this is a junior competition and we need to prove that we are the best. This season we started for adults. But the plans were immediately to perform at the junior championship. We are still suitable for age. Why not take advantage of this?
- It is more difficult to confirm the title won. In any case, for me, because the most important thing is to qualify for the Junior World Championships, - said Julia.
- We need to revert cleanly. That's our job. In the free skate we will try to show our maximum, - Summed up Mikhail.
Natalia Khabibullina - Ilya Knyazhuk are less than three points behind the leaders of the competition. For a year after last year's championship of Russia, athletes have come a long way. Students of Sergey Dobroskokov successfully started at the stages of the junior Grand Prix series, qualified for the final, forcing them to pay close attention to themselves.
- We have now received real pleasure and satisfaction from the rental, although it is difficult to perform a little under the last number, - Ilya admitted.
- We are used to starting either first or second, and in training we often pull these numbers. But in principle, we are glad that we rolled out our short one here. In fact, we enjoyed that we managed to skate cleanly, - added Natalia.
"And I enjoyed Natasha's skating, because today she was great," Ilya said.
- Our task was to skate cleanly. We didn't think about places. This season there was more confidence, because we participated in the Junior Grand Prix, and this is an international experience, - commented Natalia.
- In addition, we have the support of the fans. Everyone writes, supports, and thanks to such people it is easier to perform, - the partner emphasized.
Ekaterina Chikmareva - Matvey Yanchenkov also successfully started this season. Behind the juniors, who relatively recently stood in a pair, successful performances in the Grand Prix series.
- This is one of our best rentals in terms of feeling, although we have not seen a detailed printout. Salchow turned out well. Spins, track, support," Matvey said.
- We need to reconsider the rental. Everything is at the highest level never happens. There may be shortcomings, we need to continue to work, - Katya added.
- We were very well prepared for the Grand Prix final. I'd say they were ringing. But the final was canceled. We performed at the Russian Championship. Not in the best way, but it gave an incentive to work. Now, I think, we are in the same shape as before the final. So we will try to show everything that we worked on in an arbitrary way, - matvey commented.
Bronze medalists of last year's championship of Russia Anastasia Mukhortova - Dmitry Evgeniev - fourth (69.84).
"We will defend our title from last year and try to rise even higher," Dmitry said.
"The mood is combative, the form is good," Nastya said.
- We set the task here to compete with ourselves. We really want to be in the top three to qualify for the YCHM. And at the same time, we are well aware that our main rivals are ourselves. As for the championship of Russia, we were once again convinced of this, - Dmitry explained.
- Our rivals and allies are ourselves. It is good that we had the opportunity to perform at the Russian Championship. We wanted to go to the challenger, but there was a small injury, we decided not to risk it, to postpone it.
- We are not 100 percent satisfied with the rental of the short program. Which athlete can say that? Show me, the partner asked.
- Glad to have everything collected.
- At the beginning of the prcoat we were a little cautious, then we relaxed.
"We tried to get high and please others," Nastya explained.
Ekaterina Geinisch - Ilya Mironov - fifth (68.30).
- Satisfied with the rental. 80-90 percent of what they wanted to show at the moment was shown," Ilya said.
- Our task was to roll back without mistakes. We fulfilled it," Katya added.
Polina Kostyukovich - Alexey Bryukhanov - sixth (67.81).
Silver medalists of the Championship of Russia 2021 Ksenia Akhantyeva - Valery Kolesov - seventh (67.80).
https://www.fsrussia.ru/results/2122/junnat2122/SEG005.HTM
https://www.fsrussia.ru/results/2122/junnat2122/a_K_Scores.pdf
Olga ERMOLINA
Photo by Julia KOMAROVA
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