Evgenia Medvedeva won in the final of the Cup of Russia on figure skating in Veliky Novgorod, despite the fall in any program. Two-time silver medalist of the Olympic games in Pyeongchang scored 222,90 points and outpaced pure performed all the jumps Elizabeth Tuktamysheva. Now Medvedev will be able to qualify for the world Championships in Saitama, where he also will perform Sagitova Alina and Sophia Samodurova.

  • Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Evgeny Medvedev and Victoria Vasilyeva
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According to the results of the short program in women in the final of the Cup of Russia on figure skating, it was difficult to say unequivocally which of the girls is more worthy of first place, coupled with a ticket to the world championship in Saitama.

Best of all, made on the eve of Evgeny Medvedev, but Stanislava Konstantinova it was separated by less than five points. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva lost to two-time world champion a little more than four points — exactly the amount she lost due to a fall on a triple Axel. Given the fact that Medvedev is never in season skated clean in both programs, its rivals remained good chances to take the lead.

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Tuktamysheva had to act before Medvedeva. For athletes who chronically loses points for components, it was a bad moment. She had to rely only on technical elements. Just two weeks ago this Tuktamysheva was the problem — its arbitrary just collapsed on the Dragon tournament Trophy.

However, this time she started the rental with a clean triple Axel for the first time since 2015, she performed a free program. The following jumping Tuktamysheva also failed, disobeyed her triple toe loop in the cascades — first bundle she had made two turns, and the second was netocrat.

Tuktamysheva got 76,34 points for technique more this season, it was only in the final Grand Prix. But this time the judge is very generously estimated components 72.64 points in its normal the result is not more than 70 points. The rating for the long program made up 148,98, and after two days the skater has gained 221,19 points — these figures Tuktamysheva has not been achieved yet in any tournament this season. The student of Alexei Mishin has done everything possible to return to the national team of Russia.

But Medvedev could theoretically get even more by a certain margin after the short program, quite high technical base in any (more without the triple Axel and quadruple jumps only has Alina Sagitova), as well as more complex components compared to Tuktamysheva.

Medvedeva was important to start the rental with a clean triple Lutz, his most problematic of the jump, and she did, receiving record for a career allowance. But then, the skater made a mistake on the rare cascade Salchow — loop, falling after the second jump. When Eugene climbed off the ice, she smiled broadly — her mental attitude, which is so concerned about the fans was great and the athlete reacted calmly to a breakdown in the cascade.

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Especially on Medvedev did not give a reason for NIT-picking by the judges. All the other elements she performed brilliantly, including cascade double Axel — triple toe loop, which she did not work in the championship of Russia in Saransk.

On the General sensations and Tuktamysheva Medvedeva was a worthy equal of assessments — both women showed Mature riding with only one serious mistake in two days. The judges had to make a very important decision which of the two girls put higher in the standings. The victory all-taki was won by Medvedev — it total score was 222,90 points. It exceeded the best result of the season by 17 points.

Closed competitions Stanislav Konstantinov almost immediately lost the chance to catch up with the winner of two Olympic silver medals. Your rental she started with a double Lutz, then nedokrutil loop and flip. In the end, the last participant of the European championship failed to take even the third place — Konstantinov passed forward by Victoria Vasilyeva.

Now Medvedev has the right to expect that it will be included in the team Russia at the world championship together with Sofia Samodurova and Alina Sagitova. Although in the Federation of figure skating of Russia did not say that the finals could affect the formation of the team, the coaching staff may take into account the latest results of the skaters.