2022 Bavarian Open, Jan. 18-23, Oberstdorf, Germany

[Sylvia]

51.06 3rd place for the Peal siblings with final group of Junior RD (incl. Tkachenko/Kilakov debuting for ISR) warming up now.

Advanced Novice Ice Dance (after 2 pattern dances) earlier today:
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points P1 P2 FD
1 Dania MOUADEN / Theo BIGOT FRA 70.42 1 1
2 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER 63.51 3 2
3 Nell DENTON / Joseph BOOTH FRA 61.44 4 3
4 Olivia ILIN / Dylan CAIN USA 60.26 2 6 (Team USA debut)
5 Mia Lee MAYER / Tobias HUBER ECO GER 59.36 7 4
6 Lili-Rose CHESNEAU / Raphael SCHILTZ FRA 58.40 5 5
7 Estelle BOUILLET / Baptiste FERRAND FRA 56.17 6 9
8 Elisabeth HAVERS / Leo HAVERS AUT 55.59 9 7
9 Natalie BLAASOVA / Filip BLAAS CZE 55.32 8 8
10 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 44.49 10 10
11 Renee YUEN / Oliver MA AUS 35.61 11 11
WD Finja MAEDER / Piero Joel LOPEZ MORENO GER
WD Selina SCHMIDT / Yannick SEIDEL GER

 

[Hanna]

Junior RDs

WHEEEEEEEE the Cyprus team is here!! Haven't seen them since the JGPs and have really missed them! They'd better show up at Junior Worlds!

OMG how this program gives me life! It has got to be one of the most entertaining RDs of the season for sure, so many voidy choreo details! However I don't think it was their best performance of the program today.

 

[Frau Muller]

Sr Women results…Isaev won both segments, beating Schott.

Bavarian Open 2022 - Senior Women

www.deu-event.de

 

[Nmsis]

Dania and Théo

The future of ice dance is HERE.
And Barbara Piton is its fairy godmother (as a contrast to how austere she sounds in interviews )
They are going to be a bit too young for 2026 (the rules would allow them, barely) but after that, the infinite and beyond ...

 

[Hanna]

Dania and Théo

The future of ice dance is HERE.
And Barbara Piton is its fairy godmother (as a contrast to how austere she sounds in interviews )
They are going to be a bit too young for 2026 (the rules would allow them, barely) but after that, the infinite and beyond ...

Now you got me curious!

Needed to mention that watching the senior FD I think Dupayage/Nabais free is a very interesting modern masterpiece (costumes included) that would definitely deserve a stage bigger than the Bavarian Open!

 

[Nmsis]

Now you got me curious!

Needed to mention that watching the senior FD I think Dupayage/Nabais free is a very interesting modern masterpiece (costumes included) that would definitely deserve a stage bigger than the Bavarian Open!

Agreed.
Dupayage/Nabais' FD is my personal "program of the year". Arribert makes tailor-made programs. The more defined the dancers' identity is, the more fit are the programs she gives them. And this one is soo fit to Dupayage/Nabais, it really shines through.

About Théo Bigot and Dania Mouaden,
their CDs are here : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x879bp6
the waltz at 2:10:48, the blues at 3:58:20

Their FD is here : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x879wxj
at 2:36:02

When I checked the line-up before the competition, I thought this was going to be interesting as Dania and Théo were meeting their first big opponents, ie the american couple Ilin/Cain, the american novice champions. Dylan and Olivia are very young, they have beaten far older skaters at home. They are among the couples who receive funding from the USFSA, the youngest by far. They are the big hope of the US in ice dance post 2026.

Dania and Théo have the same profile. They are actually born the same years. 2009 for the girls and 2008 for the boys. I just know Dania and Théo are both from the end of the year. Couldn't find the information for Olivia and Dylan. They are 12yo/13yo. They will reach junior in 2023-2024, maybe a year earlier for Olivia and Dylan. It is Dylan and Olivia's first international outing. It is Dania and Théo's 3rd (they started in october). I thought the direct comparison would be telling. And even if the americans might have been weak in the knee for their very first international comp (but no big mistake), the current gap of 23 points is huge (and very visible when Olivia/Dylan skate just before Dania and Théo)...

Dania and Théo are the very first french couple to reach this stage of development at such a young age.
If you take Gabriella and Guillaume, you could see the potential when they were 11, but they were 17 when they were able to be competitive with the best russians and the best americans. And 20 when they established themselves as the superior team. That's where you see the specific work of Barbara Piton who, for the last 10 years, has focused on the development of young dance couples and has professionalised it beyond what is usual in France. Nothing unusual in the US or Russia, but probably with the additionnal will to "produce" young couples, with the same advantages that Virtue/Moir, Davis/White, Papadakis/Cizeron had over the competition by being paired young. It doesn't work often but when it does...

Now, I'm very curious to see what the russians have in their sleeves for that generation.

 

[Hanna]

Nmsis, thank you for your post, a very interesting read! I'll certainly remember the names (I already remember hearing about the US team a few years ago). Bigot certainly already has an impeccable posture and they have nice flow and knee bend and plenty of difficulty for their age.

 

[Sylvia]

Rest of the ISU final results copied out below .... http://www.deu-event.de/results/BO2022/index.htm

Senior Men
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Vladimir SAMOILOV POL 211.57 3 1
2 Luc MAIERHOFER AUT 208.71 2 2
3 Kai JAGODA GER 202.89 1 4
4 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN 197.80 4 3
5 Rakhat BRALIN KAZ 140.25 5 5
WD Matyas BELOHRADSKY CZE
WD Mihhail SELEVKO EST
WD Alexandr SELEVKO EST
WD Lotfi SEREIR GER

Senior Women
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Kristina ISAEV GER 176.67 1 1
2 Nicole SCHOTT GER 170.03 4 2
3 Linnea CEDER FIN 168.88 2 4
4 Stefanie PESENDORFER AUT 162.87 6 3
5 Sophia SCHALLER AUT 160.25 5 5
6 Olivia LISKO FIN 151.10 7 6
7 Taylor Lynn MORRIS ISR 149.09 3 8
8 Aya HATAKAWA ECO GER 145.65 8 7
9 Jennifer FISCHER MEV GER 115.27 9 9
10 Yasemin ZEKI TUR 107.47 10 10
11 Antonia MOARCAS MEV GER 97.13 11 11
12 Frederique KONING NED 90.51 12 12

Senior Ice Dance
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points RD FD
1 Jennifer JANSE VAN RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN ECO GER 186.10 1 1
2 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA 172.80 2 2
3 Lou TERREAUX / Noe PERRON FRA 171.49 3 3
4 Lara LUFT / Maximilian PFISTERER ECO/ERCM GER 160.37 5 4
5 Natacha LAGOUGE / Arnaud CAFFA FRA 160.29 6 5
6 Shira ICHILOV / Vladimir BYELIKOV ISR 154.47 4 7 (got both Worlds minimums here)
7 Elisabetta LECCARDI / Mattia DALLA TORRE ITA 153.12 7 6
8 Viktoriia LOPUSOVA / Asaf KAZIMOV GER 146.10 8 8
WD Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN

Junior Ice Dance
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points RD FD
1 Angelina KUDRYAVTSEVA / Ilia KARANKEVICH CYP 153.17 1 1
2 Noemi TALI / Stefano FRASCA ITA 143.99 2 2
3 Elizabeth TKACHENKO / Alexey KILIAKOV ISR 142.28 3 3 - photos from their IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFcXUrLbeT/ (Jr. Worlds minimums achieved acc. to WISA's IG) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZF3BIHrdqX/
4 Giorgia GALIMBERTI / Matteo Libasse MANDELLI ITA 136.00 4 4
5 Anna SIMOVA / Kirill AKSENOV SVK 134.42 5 6
6 Louise BORDET / Thomas GIPOULOU FRA 132.19 8 5
7 Elliana PEAL / Ethan PEAL USA 131.03 6 9 - Team Peal's IG pics: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZE33yrI8XH/
8 Yulia LEBEDEVA-BITAZDE / Dmitri PARKHOMENKO GEO 130.57 7 8
9 Nao KIDA / Masaya MORITA JPN 127.91 11 7 - Jr. Worlds minimums achieved (coach Cathy Reed's IG): https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHHRHCDxuy/
10 Karla Maria KARL / Kai HOFERICHTER GER 124.99 10 10
11 Lucie LAURIA / Antonin EMO FRA 118.24 9 12
12 Anita STRAUB / Andreas STRAUB AUT 114.28 12 11
13 Eliska ZAKOVA / Filip MENCL CZE 109.65 13 13
14 Hilda TAYLOR / Urho REINA FIN 83.16 15 14
15 Janne KUMMER / Erik KUMMER GER 81.51 14 15
WD Sofia VAL / Nikita VITRANYUK ESP
WD Daniela IVANITSKIY / David GOLDHSTEYN FIN
WD Isabelle GUISE / Ethan ALDAY NZL --> competed alone in Junior Ice Dance (OBM) category & scored 91.23

Advanced Novice Ice Dance
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points P1 P2 FD
1 Dania MOUADEN / Theo BIGOT FRA 128.79 1 1 1
2 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER 114.27 3 2 2
3 Nell DENTON / Joseph BOOTH FRA 106.56 4 3 6
4 Olivia ILIN / Dylan CAIN USA 105.74 2 6 5 - from their team IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZGwbyEL4XG/
5 Mia Lee MAYER / Tobias HUBER ECO GER 104.12 7 4 7
6 Lili-Rose CHESNEAU / Raphael SCHILTZ FRA 102.81 5 5 8
7 Estelle BOUILLET / Baptiste FERRAND FRA 101.78 6 9 4
8 Natalie BLAASOVA / Filip BLAAS CZE 101.05 8 8 3
9 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 78.77 10 10 9
10 Renee YUEN / Oliver MA AUS 63.22 11 11 10
WD Elisabeth HAVERS / Leo HAVERS AUT
WD Finja MAEDER / Piero Joel LOPEZ MORENO GER
WD Selina SCHMIDT / Yannick SEIDEL GER

Intermediate Novice Ice Dance
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points P1 P2 FD
1 Eniko KOBOR / Zoard KOBOR GER 63.04 3 3 1
2 Romy REVERCHON / Victor DI MUZIO FRA 60.03 1 1 4
3 Nelly HEMCKE / Deniz BRIESEMEISTER GER 57.79 6 6 2
4 Mia GIBBESCH / Lias LUFT ECO GER 56.36 4 4 3
5 Kristyna KURCOVA / Aleksandr TOKAREV CZE 53.34 5 5 5
6 Lucia STEFANOVA / Jacopo BOERIS SVK 51.55 2 2 7
7 Lucy KNURR / Leo STUMPF GER 47.93 7 7 6