| - | 8th place in Free dance and final standings>> |
| - | Brilliant performance in Original dance>> |
| - | Good start with 8th place in Compulsory dance>> |
| - | Compulsory dance for worlds will be midnight blues>> |
| - | Belbin and Agosto win Four Continents Championship>> |
| - | No mistakes in Free Dance>> |
| - | Original Dance results>> |
| - | Domnina & Shabalin 7th after compulsory dance>> |
| - | Domnina & Shabalin win Russian Nationals 2005>> |
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8th place in Free dance and final standings In their third season as an ice dance couple, Oksana and Maxim have already reached 8th place at the World championships. After finishing 15th in 2003 and 10th in 2004 this is another step forward. It is also a promising development for the upcoming Olympic season. It has been an interesting season with an exciting end in the World championships. Navka and Kostomarov have prolonged their title and are also one of the favourites to take over the Olympic title of Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat. If they will do it? Who knows, but the 2005/2006 season is bound to become exciting. from: isu.org |
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Brilliant performance in Original dance In a strong field with couples dancing difficult dances, mistakes are bound to occur. The couples seem to have a lot of trouble to keep their twizzles and step sequences clean, but not Oksana and Maxim. They skated a wonderful and thrilling Original dance without visible mistakes, but with difficult steps and original lifts. The judges awarded them 58.86 points, which is their personal best and put them in 7th place for the Original dance. In the overall standings they are in 8th place. Navka and Kostomarov are still in the lead. from: isu.org |
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Good start with 8th place in Compulsory dance The World Championships 2005 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia have begun with the Midnight blues. Oksana and Maxim were to skate as 17th in a field of 30 competing couples. They did very well and ended up in 8th place with an excellent score of 36.26 points. They are placed ahead of the Italian couple Faiella and Scali, who were before them at the European championships. The defending champions, Navka and Kostomarov are in the lead before Belbin/Agosto and Grushina/Goncharov. from: isu.org |
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Compulsory dance for Worlds will be midnight blues 28 Feb 2005 15:02 The Compulsory Dance #22b Midnight Blues, has been drawn to be skated at the 2005 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, to be held in Moscow, Russia on 14-20 March 2005. from: isu.org |
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Belbin and Agosto win Four Continents Championships Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, the American ice dance champions, have won the 2005 Four Continents championships. The competition in the Gangneung Ice Centre started with the Golden Waltz, where Belbin and Agosto scored a round 44 points. This was the start to a succesful competition for the American couple for they stayed in 1st place throughout the championships. from: isu.org |
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No mistakes in Free dance After an exciting evening at the Palavela in Italy the ice dancing competition of this year's European championships is over. Oksana and Maxim skated a livelt free dance to the music of the fifth element. Their performance earned them another 90.30 points and a sixth place after the withdrawel because of the flu of Denkova and Staviski. With their total of 178.91 points Oksana and Maxim were firmly in sixth place, almost 10 points ahead of Kulikova and Novikov. Navka and Kostomarov have won their second european championships before Grushina/Goncharov from Ukraine and Delobel/Schoenfelder from France. from: isu.org |
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Original dance results The swinging rhythm combination was the second stage of the ice dancing competition. Oksana and Maxim were to start in the last group, together with the leading world champions Navka/Kostomarov and silver medalists Denkova/Staviski. They skated a powerful slow foxtrot/quick step combination and landed again in 7th place after Faiella and Scali with a score of 53.46. Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov are currently in the lead. from: isu.org |
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Domnina and Shabalin 7th after Compulsory dance The European championships of 2005 at the Palavela in Torino, Italy have begun with the Golden Waltz. This is a difficult dance, but Oksana and Maxim performed it very clean. The couple scored a total of 35.15 points, which is but a little below their personal best of 36.79. They are currently in 7th place after the Italian couple Faiella and Scali. from: isu.org |
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Domnina and Shabalin win Russian Nationals 2005 Oksana and Maxim have won the Russian National championships, before Kulikova/Novikov and Khokhlova/Novitskii. They were in the lead from the Compulsory dance until the beginning of the Free dance. In the Free dance they had to skate before their direct opponents, but with marks ranging from 5.5 to 5.7 for technique and 5.7 to 5.8 for presentation they stayed firmly in the lead. Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov could not compete this year because of an injury. from: engis.ru |