The fifth stage of the Grand Prix Series - the Cup of Russia tournament - was opened today by dancers performing the Ravensburg walse, one of the obligatory dances this season. Though the performance wasn't very thrilling, a lot of spectators attended - about a thousand, SE Internet correspondent Andrei SIMONENKO reports. As expected, the italians Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio took the lead. |
In the absence of the best russian ice dancers Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh the rest of our pairs didn't yet make it into the leading three. And a really weak duet Gvozdkova - Alaskhanov would never have made it into the first ten. Even if the lady dancer hadn't fallen a few seconds before the end of the dance. |
Cup of Russia. St.Petersburg |
Grand Prix series. Fifth stage |
Ice dances |
After the obligatory dance |
1. Barbara Fusar Poli/Maurizio Margaglio (Italy) - 0,4 |
2. Galit Hait/Serguei Sakhnovski (Israel) - 0,8 |
3. Elena Grushina/Ruslan Goncharov (Ukraine) - 1,2 |
4. Tatiana NAVKA/Roman KOSTOMAROV (Russia) - 1,6 |
5. Natalia ROMANIUTA/Daniil BARANTSEV (Russia) - 2,0… |
11. Ekaterina GVOZDKOVA/Timur ALASKHANOV (Russia) - 4,4 |