Team figure skating competitions - what is it? A sport that makes you admire! Team figure skating: what is it Olympics figure skating team championship
The Russian figure skating team, competing at the Olympics in Pyeongchang as the “Olympic Athletes from Russia,” took third place in the overall standings of the team tournament of the 2018 Games based on the results of the first day of competition.
February 9th at " Ice arena Gangneung" held short skates for men and sports couples, which brought so many different emotions to Russian fans.
The start of the tournament for the domestic team turned out to be terrible, to say the least: Mikhail Kolyada, who had recently scored more than 103 points in the short program, was unable to cope with the enormous pressure, making mistakes almost everywhere.
Thus, the 22-year-old athlete fell from a quadruple lutz, failed to perform a quadruple toe loop-triple toe loop cascade, and then also failed to complete a triple axel.
As a result of this, Mikhail received a terrible 74.36 points for himself, ultimately becoming only eighth out of ten participants, which brought the “Olympic athletes from Russia” only three points to the total “piggy bank”.
Such a beginning forced some to start sad conversations about the failure of the current champions of the team tournament (in Sochi, we recall, the team with Yulia Lipnitskaya and Evgeni Plushenko won a landslide victory) to the finals of the competition - according to the regulations, there after four short skates (later dance couples will also perform and women) only five teams will be able to make it.
However, the unpleasant situation was quickly corrected by the duo of Evgenia Tarasov/Vladimir Morozov: the European champions showed an excellent performance, becoming the only couple to receive more than 80 points from the judges (80.92).
Thus, according to the results of the first competitive day of the team tournament, the Russian team ranks third in the table, having 13 points - the same as the Japanese, and the Canadians are in the lead with 17 points.
The worst in the coveted top 5 so far are the Italians - 10 points.
After defeating their rivals, Morozov expressed hope that the Russians would subsequently be able to catch up with their competitors in the fight for gold.
“This is just the beginning, there will still be short programs and free programs. I hope we can catch up."
- reports the words of the partner “R-Sport”.
It is noteworthy that the domestic pair managed to become the best in the short program even taking into account Tarasova’s minor injury - the day before she received a hip bruise.
According to the skater herself, the injury did not interfere with her performance in the team tournament.
“Yesterday during training I fell and hurt my hip. The doctors are working, I feel pain, but it didn’t bother me during the program,” said Evgenia, adding that she and Vladimir “saw and heard fans from Russia in the stands and it was very pleasant.”
When asked whether Tarasova, who is the captain of the team, will help Kolyada not to fall into a minor mood after failure in a short box office, Morozov said that he “will handle it himself.”
As for the couple’s plans for the Games ceremony, they, according to Vladimir, are forced to miss it.
“We would like to go, but we have competitions, we have to choose,” he concluded.
It also became known that the couple will definitely not perform in the free program - Russian team here you will have to make one of two replacements provided for by the rules.
“Zhenya and Volodya will definitely not perform in the free program of the team tournament. They will have to compete in an individual tournament, it will start immediately after the team one,” said the pair’s coach Nina Moser.
The athletes will be replaced by either Natalia Zabiyako/Alexander Enbert or Kristina Astakhova/Alexey Rogonov.
In addition, the specialist, commenting on the performance of her students, assured that they can show even more impressive results.
“Thanks to this performance, the mood after the men’s tournament lifted. How they rode! They overtook all their rivals, and with best result season. Or maybe even better,”
— Moser reports to TASS.
Let us add that the team tournament will end on February 12, when the final skates of the finals will take place.
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MOSCOW, January 2 - RIA Novosti. The International Skating Union (ISU) has approved the rules for holding team figure skating competitions Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi, and also announced the qualification rules for this tournament, the ISU official website reports.
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According to the approved ISU rules, ten teams will take part in the team tournament, consisting of two singles (men and women), one sports and one dance pair. A team may not field a representative in one discipline, but is not permitted to add a second competitor in any of the other three program events.
Selection for the Olympic team tournament will be based on the results of the 2013 World Championships and the Grand Prix series of the 2013/2014 season. The rating is compiled using a special table of coefficients based on the results of the best representatives of the country in each of the four events figure skating, shown at the 2013 World Cup and at one of the Grand Prix stages (or in the Final).
In the absence of rating points scored by the country's representatives at the 2013 World Championships, the results shown at the 2013 European Championships, the 2013 Four Continents Championships or the Junior World Championships can be taken into account. If any team did not score points at the Grand Prix stages, then the results of the team’s representatives at the junior Grand Prix series tournaments may be taken into account.
Only those skaters who have qualified for individual competitions can take part in the Olympic team competition. An exception can be made only if the team does not have a representative in any of the types of individual Olympic tournament.
The competition will begin with the performances of all participants in the short program. The team will count the points of each skater (pair), awarded according to the following system: 1st place in the discipline - 10 points, 2nd place - 9 points, 3rd - 8, etc. The five best teams based on the results will be admitted to the free program short program. Between the short and free programs, team leaders can make substitutions in a maximum of two types of competitions.
Based on the results of the free program, teams will receive rating points awarded according to the same system: 1st place in the discipline - 10 points, 2nd place - 9 points, 3rd - 8, etc. The result of the Olympic team tournament will be determined by adding the team points scored in the short and free programs.
The men opened the team figure skating tournament with their short program. And with the performance of each subsequent participant, it became clear: whoever does “his own thing” will get closer to the top.
The Korean was the first to take to the ice Chun Hwan Cha, who is trained by Brian Orser, and he did exactly what he knows how to do. No quadruple jumps, but very clean. And I received not fantastic, but completely normal scores - 77.70.
German Paul Fentz, French Shafiq Bessegye and Italian Matteo Rizzo did not claim high scores and did not receive them, although Rizzo was ahead of Cha by seven hundredths. From the first warm-up, the Chinese Han Yan seemed to be the most serious opponent, but he made mistakes on every jumping element.
Everything was decided by the second five skaters. Canadian Patrick Chan, three-time world champion, two-time silver medalist in Sochi, declared only one quadruple - a sheepskin coat, but fell on the landing. In the cascade, instead of a triple toe loop, he did a double one and fell from the axel. With such an unimportant box office, it received an absolutely incredible second rating.
The judges did not just everything they could, but even more. Yi Chan took the intermediate lead. But for how long with such distribution? The next speaker was an Israeli. Alexey Bychenko skated absolutely clean, scored a record amount of points (88.49) and was ahead of Chan. From a team standpoint, it was ideal.
And the performance of American Nathan Chen was simply inspiring - a quadruple flip with an error, a double toe loop instead of a quadruple, a fall from an Axel and a score lower than Chan's.
Kolyada failed the short program. I did what I did all season. I did what I did at the European Championships in Moscow.
We don't need gifts
Russian Mikhail Kolyada all that remained was to do what he knew how to do and seize the intermediate leadership. But he didn't do anything. Nothing at all, if you look at the jumping elements. A quadruple lutz is a fall, a quadruple toe loop is a fall (and without a cascade), an axel is single instead of triple, and for men this jump is not evaluated. And it didn’t even matter that the judges gave him a high second mark.
Kolyada failed the short program. I did what I did all season. I did what I did at the European Championships in Moscow. Now you can say as much as you like what could have been delivered Dmitry Aliev or make changes to Mikhail’s program in favor of reliability. But nothing can be corrected. Any place in the top five would be considered an acceptable result. But the eighth, which gave only three points in team competition, is an outright failure.
Now Mikhail needs to somehow survive such an unsuccessful Olympic debut. After all, there may be a free program in the team ahead, and then definitely an individual tournament.
The Japanese was the first Soma Uno, one of the favorites in the fight for victory and in the individual tournament. He made a slight mistake on the quadruple flip, but easily surpassed 100 points. Chan, with numerous mistakes, remained third.
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At such a moment, when one fails, the rest must show their best. AND defending champions Europe and Vladimir Morozov, for whom this is also a debut, showed, if not their maximum, then simply a gorgeous performance.
and Vladimir Morozov, for whom this is also the debut Olympics, showed, if not their maximum, then simply a gorgeous performance.
They were the last of all the participants and understood perfectly well that it depended on them whether the Russian team would still be a contender for medals or not. The All-Russian “saffron milk caps” did not make a single mistake during the program. All elements are made on the highest level. And the total score – 80.92 – became their personal record.
Team competition in figure skating - relatively recent kind of sport, including performances in different types figure skating and evaluating them together.
It is designed to promote the development of all types of figure skating, since The overall result depends on the athletes’ assessments in each stage teams.
History of the emergence and development of team figure skating
Officially International Union speed skaters ( ISU) this sport was included in the world championship program for the first time in 2009 in April in Tokyo in the arena Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
It was planned that team championship, which was named World Team Trophy, will take place once every two years.
The tournament is unusual in that, along with the ISU, it is organized by the Japanese Figure Skating Federation with the support of the television company Asahi that commercializes sport's event. The next time such a competition was going to be held in 2011 again in Japan, Yokohama, in April. But in March, major natural and man-made disasters occurred in Japan, and the World Cup was postponed to next year.
By 2018, 5 such championships were held — in 2009/12/13/15/17, and everyone in Tokyo, on which The Americans won three times and the Japanese twice.
In general, it was Japan that played a special role in the development of team figure skating, since the prototype of modern competitions was the one held there since 1997 entertaining tournament Japan Open. It was not of an official nature, and teams of popular athletes were formed not by country, but, for example, by part of the world.
Starting with the Olympic Games (OG) 2014 in Sochi, this event became Olympic. Then the Russian team managed to win gold medal. First Olympic champions in this sport became Evgeni Plushenko, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Tatyana Volosozhar - Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova - Fedor Klimov, Ekaterina Bobrova - Dmitry Solovyov and Elena Ilinykh - Nikita Katsalapov. On the last in 2018 At the Olympics in Korea, our team won silver in this event, and the Canadians won gold this time.
Photo 1. Performance Russian figure skaters Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov during the team figure skating competition at the 2014 Olympics.
Team figure skating rules
The rules of this sport are slightly different depending on the type of competition - World Cup or Olympic Games.
Types, what is it
Both types of competitions feature men's and women's singles skating, sport skating and ice dancing, that is, all four classic types. The difference is that for the World Team Trophy each team performs 2 singles and singles, 1 sports pair and dance duet.
There is some skew to the side single skating , the reason for which is the significant participation of the Japanese in organizing the event.
Traditionally, Japan is strong in singles, but lags behind in sports skating and dancing, so preference is given to representatives of single types of figure skating.
At the Olympics, all four types are equally represented: one representative each single men's and women's skating, sports pair, dance duet.
Thus, olympic competitions in this sport they are more balanced.
How many stages
The number of stages in both versions of the competition is the same - two each. Participants perform in short and free program. But if the same athletes take part in both programs at the championship, then substitutions are possible at the Olympic Games, and not all teams are allowed to the second stage.
How participants are selected
At the championship World Team Trophy each program presents 6 teams, A at the Olympic Games first compete in the short program 10 teams, and than 5 best Based on its results, they perform in a free program and compete for medals.
On team championship world select the strongest skaters of their country who have the highest ISU rating for pairs and dance duets, as well as two best single skaters among men and women. In addition, these athletes must be included in the top ten in its form based on the results of the previous World Figure Skating Championships.
Attention! When unjustified refusal from participation in these competitions of the selected single skater, single skater, pair or dance duet, they lose the right to speak in shows, demonstrations and competitions during a year, and other measures are also applied to them.
In the event that the selected country refuses to participate as a whole team, the team from the next ranked country is invited to take its place.
The selection of participants for the Olympic Games is based on the results of the previous World Cup and recent stages of the Grand Prix series. To determine the country's rating, the results of the performances of the best representatives are taken in four types of figure skating at these competitions.
Photo 2. Russian team figure skating team at the Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
Sometimes there are still not enough rating points. In this case, the results of other well-known competitions are also taken into account, for example, European Championship, Four Continents Tournament, Junior Championship. Of course, only those athletes who, based on their results, qualify for the individual championship of the Olympics can compete at the Olympic Games.
There may be cases when one event is not represented in a team due to the fact that the athlete was unable to qualify for the Olympic Games. Then the team has the right to take advantage of an additional quota and take part in the competition. At the same time, the country does not field a representative in this event and cannot compensate in any other way for the lack of a participant, as well as, accordingly, points. It should be borne in mind that the team applying for participation in team competitions must obtain a license of no less than three types skating.
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How points are awarded
In team competitions, when summing up the results, it is not the points themselves scored by the skaters based on the results of the performance that are taken into account, but points awarded to them for this.
At the World Figure Skating Championships, points are awarded for both the short and free programs according to the following principle: in singles competitions for first place - 12 points, for second - 11 And so on until twelfth place with 1 point.
In competitions of couples and dancers for first place - 12 points, for second - 11 and so on until sixth place with 7 points. The points of all team members are added up for both programs. According to them overall result The places of the participating countries are determined.
At the Olympic Games, points are awarded according to the same principle in the short program: for first place - 10 points, for second - 9 and so on, for tenth - 1 point. For representatives of the five best teams based on the results of the short program, the free composition is assessed as follows: first place - 10 points, second - 9 and so on, fifth - 6 points. Sum of points for two programs of all team representatives and determines its position.
How are replacements carried out?
At the Olympic Games one participating country has the right to perform between the short and free program no more than two substitutions subject to the presence of athletes who have received Olympic licenses in the type of figure skating in which this replacement occurs.
This rotation allows for a larger number of participants to be involved., to provide an opportunity to reduce the load on leaders, to demonstrate maximum results, because often for various reasons short and free program Athletes may do better or worse.
