JGP #5 - Solidarity Cup, Gdansk POL - Men's SP & FS

[Frau Muller]

Vaclavic a joy to melodious Philip Glass music!

 

[her grace]

Great fight for Vaclavik!

 

[JoannaLouise]

Vaclavik was so good! Really solid jumps, but also nice glide, posture, and connection to his music.

 

[Sylvia]

Congrats on winning your firt JGP medal, Lukas Vaclavik!

 

[Karen-W]

Kuperman - trying to give Israel a medal on the GP this season! Solid 4t! Hand down on the 2nd 4t, so no combo; and he pops 1a... Promising start but he needs to get his head back in the game - 3z+3t; 3lo; 3z+2a+1a okay... nice spin, but a 2f for his last jump... this is going to be close, I think, to see if he can stay ahead of Minkyu. He had a 20 pt lead from the SP, sooooo...

 

[her grace]

Kuperman

And he crossovers into the wall, nice 4t, less successful second quad attempt and then a popped axel, time to get it together, 3z-3t, not a lot of choreography or expression, pretty nervy skate, but maybe enough for a medal anyway on strength of SP

 

[Frau Muller]

Kuperman tried…Tosca. lots of pumps and jumps, with a flat tenor.

 

[her grace]

FORTH!

 

[Kateri]

Lost the bronze by half a point.

 

[Karen-W]

Danggggggg... Missed a medal by less than .5! And that should get Minkyu to the JGPF.

 

[Sylvia]

Awww, so close to a medal - Tamir needed 120.29 and got 119.80.

 

[her grace]

If Takahashi wins, both he and Seo qualify for JGPF

 

[Kateri]

Maybe we should re-run the men's event, inviting all-new skaters who didn't get a first or second GP, and see if anyone deserves a medal in that event?

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - Sena pops up a 1a to open; falls on the 3z; bit up on the toepick for the landing of the 3f+3t... I could get behind a Lukas V gold here, TBH.

If Takahashi wins, both he and Seo qualify for JGPF

Yeah, I'm gonna just root for a Lukas V win here because Sena just popped his other 1a.

Well, okay 3lo+3t+2t; then a 3f+2t; and a 3s...

He had an 8 point lead and I cannot get behind him beating Lukas V here. His PCS shouldn't be that much higher with that mess of a program.

 

[Wyliefan]

Not the skate Sena wanted for sure.

I propose the Ted Barton Ever So Close drinking game. He says it All. The. Time.

 

[her grace]

Terrible start for Takahashi, but then lands 3z-3t, um, maybe a medal for Israel after all, 3 jump combo with no flow, okay landing jumps at the end. I have no idea about interpretation, I kept going

 

[Frau Muller]

Takahashi trying hard to give Israel a medal. Very sad. Even his coach’s loud clapping didn’t help.
Got a silver, but not a great one.

I was most impressed by Imedashvili’s (LTU) overall 6th place/5th FP.

 

[Wyliefan]

And it's gold for Lukas! Whoever saw that coming!?

 

[Karen-W]

Well, good for Lukas! I don't think anyone had Slovakia's first JGP gold of the season coming from Vaclavik on their FS bingo card, lol!

 

[her grace]

Okay, I’m gonna have to do math , but Takahashi is in at 28. Seo sits on bubble at 26 (not locked because no dual gold medalist yet—but most likely in ETA: okay did math; Correction: Seo is IN
because dual gold doesn’t matter since he beats gold medalist Vaclavik. Even if he loses to five other gold medalists, he can’t be knocked out of final). Vaclavik really on bubble with only 24 points.

 

[victorskid]

Free skate results
Detailed protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...OR----FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Minkyu SEO	KOR	138.68​	69.05​		70.63​	6.96​	7.00​	7.25​	1.00​	#15​
2​	Lukas VACLAVIK	SVK	135.78​	65.98​		69.80​	6.93​	6.96​	7.07​	0.00​	#23​
3​	Anthony PARADIS	CAN	121.99​	53.06​		69.93​	7.07​	7.14​	6.79​	1.00​	#22​
4​	Tamir KUPERMAN	ISR	119.80​	57.37​		62.43​	6.04​	6.00​	6.71​	0.00​	#24​
5​	Luka IMEDASHVILI	LTU	118.85​	55.48​		63.37​	6.36​	6.46​	6.21​	0.00​	#17​
6​	Sena TAKAHASHI	JPN	118.17​	52.44​		66.73​	6.57​	6.43​	7.04​	1.00​	#25​
7​	Matias LINDFORS	FIN	114.97​	48.04​		66.93​	7.07​	6.82​	6.21​	0.00​	#14​
8​	Yehor KURTSEV	UKR	113.24​	58.09​		56.15​	5.54​	5.36​	5.96​	1.00​	#16​
9​	Matvii YEFYMENKO	POL	104.99​	57.17​		47.82​	4.68​	4.57​	5.11​	0.00​	#3​
10​	Aurelian CHERVET	SUI	102.37​	43.80​		59.57​	6.14​	5.86​	5.89​	1.00​	#20​
11​	Jakub LOFEK	POL	101.57​	40.56​		61.01​	6.25​	5.93​	6.14​	0.00​	#18​
12​	Leon ROJKOV	GER	98.88​	49.87​		49.01​	4.79​	4.68​	5.25​	0.00​	#12​
13​	Kirills KORKACS	LAT	97.48​	46.10​		51.38​	5.18​	5.07​	5.18​	0.00​	#9​
14​	Mikayel SALAZARYAN	ARM	97.07​	56.58​		41.49​	3.96​	4.07​	4.43​	1.00​	#4​
15​	Cody KOCK	RSA	95.71​	42.43​		53.28​	5.18​	5.46​	5.36​	0.00​	#7​
16​	Raul GARCIA SHIBINSKAIA	AND	95.60​	43.62​		51.98​	5.18​	5.18​	5.25​	0.00​	#6​
17​	Jakub TYKAL	CZE	93.37​	46.78​		47.59​	4.79​	4.54​	4.96​	1.00​	#10​
18​	Edward VASII	CAN	92.84​	35.50​		59.34​	6.00​	5.75​	6.07​	2.00​	#19​
19​	Casper JOHANSSON	SWE	92.30​	37.75​		55.55​	5.54​	5.32​	5.82​	1.00​	#21​
20​	Oscar OLIVER	POL	88.07​	41.18​		48.89​	4.93​	4.75​	5.00​	2.00​	#11​
21​	Yoanis APOSTOLU	BUL	85.16​	48.10​		38.06​	3.75​	3.68​	4.00​	1.00​	#5​
22​	Tao MACRAE	GBR	81.87​	36.82​		48.05​	4.75​	4.43​	5.25​	3.00​	#8​
23​	Jegor MARTSENKO	EST	81.06​	35.30​		46.76​	4.36​	4.39​	5.29​	1.00​	#13​
WD​	Wendell HANSSON-OSTERGAARD	DEN	​	​		​	​	​	​	​	#2​
WD​	Kolos RAC	HUN	​	​		​	​	​	​	​	#1​

 

[victorskid]

Overall results

1	Lukas VACLAVIK	SVK	207.78	3	2
2	Sena TAKAHASHI	JPN	198.42	1	6
3	Minkyu SEO	KOR	195.86	11	1
4	Tamir KUPERMAN	ISR	195.38	2	4
5	Anthony PARADIS	CAN	192.70	4	3
6	Luka IMEDASHVILI	LTU	178.67	9	5
7	Yehor KURTSEV	UKR	172.73	10	8
8	Matias LINDFORS	FIN	171.62	12	7
9	Aurelian CHERVET	SUI	164.09	6	10
10	Jakub LOFEK	POL	161.54	8	11
11	Casper JOHANSSON	SWE	155.69	5	19
12	Edward VASII	CAN	153.70	7	18
13	Leon ROJKOV	GER	153.51	14	12
14	Matvii YEFYMENKO	POL	147.87	23	9
15	Kirills KORKACS	LAT	146.02	17	13
16	Jakub TYKAL	CZE	142.16	16	17
17	Mikayel SALAZARYAN	ARM	140.54	22	14
18	Cody KOCK	RSA	140.40	19	15
19	Oscar OLIVER	POL	140.17	15	20
20	Raul GARCIA SHIBINSKAIA	AND	140.00	20	16
21	Jegor MARTSENKO	EST	136.40	13	23
22	Tao MACRAE	GBR	130.37	18	22
23	Yoanis APOSTOLU	BUL	128.95	21	21
WD	Wendell HANSSON-OSTERGAARD	DEN	36.54	24
WD	Kolos RAC	HUN	28.20	25

 

[Karen-W]

Okay, I’m gonna have to do math , but Takahashi is in at 28. Seo sits on bubble at 26 (not locked because no dual gold medalist yet—but most likely in), Vaclavik really on bubble with only 24 points.

Yeah, the math looks to be good for Seo because of the way the last two events are split.

 

[jlai]

I can’t believe PAradis was third in the free with 53 tes. That says sth about the event

 

[Karen-W]

I can’t believe PAradis was third in the free with 53 tes. That says sth about the event

You have to wonder how many of the guys assigned to the next two JGPs are annoyed with their feds for not rearranging assignments (Excepting Sanchez, Blackwell & Tian since the US & CHN didn't have an assignment in Gdansk).

Hagara - 211.23 Czechia
Li - 230.29 Thailand
Nakata - 218.71 Thailand

Hopefully the last two weeks are better competed under the stress & pressure of making the JGPF.

 

[her grace]

Yeah, it’s not like the field was bad here; they just over wanted it.

 

[Stephanie]

You have to wonder how many of the guys assigned to the next two JGPs are annoyed with their feds for not rearranging assignments (Excepting Sanchez, Blackwell & Tian since the US & CHN didn't have an assignment in Gdansk).

Hagara - 211.23 Czechia
Li - 230.29 Thailand
Nakata - 218.71 Thailand

Hopefully the last two weeks are better competed under the stress & pressure of making the JGPF.

On paper, Hagara was way better off in Slovenia, where he only really has to worry about Jacob Sanchez, who he beat 3 times last season (JGP Hungary, Youth Olympics, and Junior Worlds), and maybe Haru Kakiuchi.

The Wuxi competitors are another story...

 

[Amy L]

I can’t believe PAradis was third in the free with 53 tes. That says sth about the event

Not only that, I lol'd irl at this placement:

5

Anthony PARADIS

CAN

192.70

4

3

I'd be mad if I placed fifth after a 4th and a 3rd but I'm not a skater so it's just kinda funny. Junior men are wild.

 

[zigzig]

Feel bad for Tamir who had very close calls for bronze at both events :-(

 

[Karen-W]

Feel bad for Tamir who had very close calls for bronze at both events :-(

Felt more badly for him at his first JGP than this week - he didn't have to skate lights out, just passable and he didn't.