Italian Nationals were held this weekend.

Here are the results:

Men
1 Samuel CONTESTI 228,70 (1 1)
2 Paolo BACCHINI 175,79 (2 2)
3 Ruben ERRAMPALLI 157,64 (3 3)
4 Fabio MASCARELLO 150,84 (4 4)
5 Luca DEMATTÈ 126,38 (7 5)
6 Daniel AGGIANO 119,12 (5 6)
7 Christian RAPIS 107,68 (6 7)

Ladies
1 Carolina KOSTNER 171,09 (1 1)
2 Francesca RIO 149,74 (3 2)
3 Stefania BERTON 141,11 (2 3)
4 Valentina MARCHEI 116,65 (4 6)
5 Roberta RODEGHIERO 113,18 (5 5)
6 Sofia CURCI 109,38 (9 4)
7 Alice GARLISI 101,10 (7 7)
8 Deborah SACCHI 92,52 (6 9)
9 Alice VELATI 89,34 (8 10)
10 Martina BERNARD 84,26 (10 8 )
11 Cecilia ANESI 79,68 (11 11)
12 Diana MICH 60,38 (12 12)


Pairs
1 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Yannich KOKON 125,51 (1 2)
2 Marika ZANFORLINI / Federico DEGLI ESPOSTI 124,17 (3 1)
3 Laura MAGITTERI / Ondrej HOTAREK 47,96 (2) (looks like they withdrew after SP)

Ice dancing
1 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI 197,02 (1 1 1)
2 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LA NOTTE 185,33 (2 2 2)
3 Isabella PAJARDI / Stefano CARUSO 157,00 (3 3 3)
4 Alessia AURELI / Marco GARAVAGLIA 65,43 (4 4)

Karel missed the competition due to the injury. From what I read at Golden Skate forum:
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?p=355230#post355230
Karel said he's temporarely retiring from every international and national competition for an indeterminate time

Poor Karel, I hope that his break cures all his injuries & that we have the pleasure of seeing him skate again in the - not too distant - future!

Im surprised about Vales low score and placement...

Malgosia I just wrote on your wall on facebook (before I saw this thread here)

I thought you knew about Karel. He made that decision right after the season began (a message on his homepage) and we were so sad, but he told me that he will do the maximum to be back asap. I really hope he will!!!

Thx Malgosia for the result.
Carolina KOSTNER is first
sorry for Laura MAGITTERI / Ondrej HOTAREK

Just renamed the "Italian nationals" thread to "Nationals events 2008/2009" to have all the results in one place.


Japanese Nationals
http://www.skatingjapan.jp/National/2008-2009/fs/national/E/index.htm

I'm sorry for Yukari Nakano (5th at GPF, 4th at Worlds 2008) - she won SP but was only 6th in LP and finished the competition on 5th place which wasn't not enough to qualify for the worlds team .

The Federation was pretty fast with announcing the team for Worlds and 4CC.

Worlds team:

Ladies: Mao Asada, Fumie Suguri, Miki Ando
Men:: Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kozuka, Takahiro Mura
Ice dance: Reed/Reed

4CC team:

Ladies: Mao Asada, Fumie Suguri, Akiko Suzuki
Men:: Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kozuka,Yasuharu Nanr
Ice dance: Reed/Reed

Russian Nationals

Results:
Ice-dance
1. Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski 194.78
2. Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer 176.31
3. Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov 172.80
4. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev 169.24
(...)


Pairs:
Pairs
1. Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov 201.09
2. Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov 185.66
3. Liubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradz 167.44
4. Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh 160.12
(...)

Ladies:
1. Adelina Sotnikova 160.55 - she is only 12 years old!
2. Elizaveta Tuktamisheva 159.88
3. Katarina Gerbolt 149.31
4. Nina Petushkova 145.18
(...)

Men
1. Sergei Voronov 238.68
2. Artem Borodulin 206.78
3. Andrei Lutai 196.81
4. Vladimir Uspenski 194.05
5. Andrei Griazev 192.15
6. Konstantin Menshov 191.72
7. Denis Leushin 189.84
8. Ivan Tretiakov 187.18
9. Artem Grigoriev 185.60
10. Artur Gachinski 178.86
11. Stanislav Kovalev 177.68
12. Nikita Mikhaylov 171.96
13. Sergei Dobrin 166.12
14. Maxim Sheplonov 165.27
15. Alexander Nikolaev 149.86
16. Vladislav Sezganov 146.31
17. Konstantin Miliukov 139.61

Malgosia ,thanks a lot to have give all results of the national championships .
Oh poor Karel ( that of wounds at the skaters)).

Thank you very much Malgosia!

Both the top 'ladies' at RN are about 12 - too young even for international junior events!

......Looking good for Sochi though!!!

Poor Yukari, it seems an extreme punishment for one poor skate. I'm glad to see Fumie back onto the team but I think that they could have rested Asada & sent Yakari to 4CCs, (maybe Asada will WD & Yukari will get her chance).

Canadian National start this week in Saskatoon, Sask. I sure hope the skaters brought their long johns as it has been mighty cold there the last few weeks!!

Lisa

A little update on Canadian Nationals:

Men - SP
1 Patrick Chan CO 88.89
2 Vaughn Chipeur AB/NT/NU 71.89
3 Kevin Reynolds BC/YT 70.00
4 Jeremy Ten BC/YT 69.06
5 Joey Russell 68.27
6 Shawn Sawyer QC 66.88
(...)

Patrick Chan got a massive score - flawless performance with 3 Axel, 3Lutz, and 3Flip/3Toe combination. Can't imagine anyone beating him here. Shawn Sawyer who won the freeskate at Skate Canada this season is only 6th - the point difference between 2nd and 6th can be considered as minor so anything can happen.


Ladies - Final results
SP FP Points
1 Joannie Rochette QC 53.58 131.77 185.35
2 Cynthia Phaneuf QC 55.16 96.26 151.42
3 Amélie Lacoste QC 53.55 89.46 143.01
4 Diane Szmiett WO 51.99 83.85 135.84
5 Kathryn Kang BC/YT 46.10 86.38 132.48
6 Mira Leung BC/YT 48.76 81.67 130.43
(...)

Joannie captured her 5th fifth Canadian Nationals title.

Pairs - Final results
SP FP Points
1 Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison QC 62.22 126.21 188.43
2 Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin QC 65.74 116.76 182.50
3 Mylène Brodeur / John Mattatall NS 55.63 104.22 159.85
(...)

Ice dance Final results
CD OD FD Points
1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir WO 39.33 63.76 94.68 197.77
2 Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier CO 35.62 55.56 84.40 175.58
3 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje NO 31.89 52.92 85.42 170.23
4 Andrea Chong / Guillaume Gfeller QC 31.92 50.93 84.65 167.50

Tessa and Scott defended their title. They were skating to Pink Floyd - I haven't seen their FD yet, though I found a couple of photos and articles here: http://virtuemoir.blogspot.com/

:Merci2: for all the results Malgosia!!

Karel will be missed !!

Kimmie withdrawn due to injury, according to icenetwork. Poor Kimmie...

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Izadora

Thank you Malgosia!

1. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir :incass: