Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin go to the freestyle at the Igfi sky Run World Championships in Boston after a strong short program as a medal candidate – the couple is in third place with 73,59 points. The decision is made on Friday night.
Hase/Volodin ran to the music “You Were Mine” by Tami Neilsonnur and only had to make the Japanese Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (76.57) as well as Sara Conti and Niccolo Maccii from Italy (74.61).
The Canadian defending champion Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (67.32), on the other hand, did not get out of seventh place.
“Safe short program”
For the German couple, the gold medal is still within reach. “It was a safe short program“, said Hase. But everything goes “A piece better”, So the 25-year-old. “We also went better in training. “
Last year the German duo ended up in third place at the World Cup in Canada. After gold at the Grand Prix final and the European Championship title, it should now also work at the World Cup.
Ich/Kunkel in 20th place
The second German couple will not play any role in allocating medals. Annia Hocke and Robert Kunkel made it “I love rock’n’roll” By Joan Jett & The Blackhearts some mistakes. After the short program, they took 20th place (55.16) and have just qualified for the final.
“I don’t know what happened”said Hocke: “It feels like you couldn’t show it in the competition. It hurts so much. The most important thing is that we hold together. We know that we can.”
There is a detailed summary of the couple’s short program at Sportschau.de, in the ARD media library and at One on Thursday from 3 p.m. Later from 11:15 p.m. it will be about the medals.
Women – duel between the USA and Japan
A duel between the United States and Japan is emerging in the competition of women. After the short program, Alysa Liu (USA, 74,58 points) leads ahead of Mone Chiba (Japan, 73.44) and Isabeau Levito (USA, 73.33).
This is followed by Wakaba Higuchi and Kaori Sakamoto two other Japanese women. The best European is Nina Pinzarrone (Belgium, 67.74) in eighth place. A German is not at the start for women.