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...hoping for tech minimums, UK passports and international medals!
Starting a new thread as the new season kicked off this week with the solo dance championships in (where else?) Sheffield. The new national champions:
Senior Women: Amy World (Gosport)
Senior Men: Alessio Surenkov-Gultchev (Basingstoke)
Junior Women: Alena Pang (Sheffield) She outscored all the senior dancers too!
Junior Men: Daniel Kaye (Nottingham)
Full results
I'm glad to see Alana Pang competing in dance. She was such a highlight of the British last season but has an odd jump technique which looks painful and like she'll have a hard time getting triples, so I wondered if she was considering dance. Here's a clip of her FD from a recent simulation - I guess she really likes Tango de Roxanne, since she used it in singles too.
Other British skating news from the last few weeks:
Starting a new thread as the new season kicked off this week with the solo dance championships in (where else?) Sheffield. The new national champions:
Senior Women: Amy World (Gosport)
Senior Men: Alessio Surenkov-Gultchev (Basingstoke)
Junior Women: Alena Pang (Sheffield) She outscored all the senior dancers too!
Junior Men: Daniel Kaye (Nottingham)
Full results
I'm glad to see Alana Pang competing in dance. She was such a highlight of the British last season but has an odd jump technique which looks painful and like she'll have a hard time getting triples, so I wondered if she was considering dance. Here's a clip of her FD from a recent simulation - I guess she really likes Tango de Roxanne, since she used it in singles too.
Other British skating news from the last few weeks:
- There's going to be a new Senior B, the Britannia Cup, in Sheffied (of course), 27-28 August - and, if rumour is correct, a GP (!!!!) in the Cup of China slot. Anyone planning to go to either/both? The Tayside Trophy is back in Dundee, 15-16 October.
- BIS published the qualification criteria for the British Championships. For pairs and dance the criteria is existing (and skating at a qualifier / being on the performance squad). Looks like it's back to just Advanced Novice to Senior at the main event this season.
- Picking up on the discussion in the previous thread, Natasha McKay and Nina Povey are both continuing. Natasha was recently in Austria getting choreo from Mark Pillay - her new LP is Burlesque (not my favourite, but I think it's a better fit for her than most who have skated to it). Nina got a training grant from the Sheffield City Trust (as did Billy Wilson French).
- On the subject of BWF, he and Kat DelCamp are currently training in Canada with Carol Lane's group. Not sure if it's a summer camp thing or something longer term, but I'm guessing the former due to Kat's citizenship.
- Billy's former partner, Lucy Hancock is no longer a British skater: she's now skating for Hungary with Ilias Fourati, and training in the US. Though I think she might have got her release before - she was with a German partner for a while, but they never competed.
- Torvill and Dean were part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, riding on a bus with other '80s "national treasures".
Junior ice dancer Atl Ongay-Perez was also in the pageant, playing the trumpet.
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