On the facebook account of Golden Spin of Zagreb it was published, just a while ago, the list of the skaters participating at this year’s edition of the competition (December 5-8, Zagreb, Croatia). Among them, the figure skating star from Korea, Yuna Kim, the Japanese Miki Ando, the Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the Czech Michal Brezina, the Russian Artur Gachinski, the ice dancers Pernelle Carron and Lloyd Jones, Nelli Zhiganshina and Alexander Gaszi, Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, Isabella Tobias and Deividas Stagniunas, Sara Hurtado and Adria Diaz… Without further ado, here are the competitors:
by Florentina Tone
LADIES
1. KERSTIN FRANK – AUT
2. ISABELLE PIEMAN – BEL
3. ISADORA WILLIAMS – BRA
4. MELANIE CHANG – TPE
5. ELISKA BREZINOVA – CZE
6. tba – CRO
7. JELENA GLEBOVA – EST
8. JENNA MCCORKELL – GBR
9. DANIELLE MONTALBANO – ISR
10. MICOL CRISTINI – ITA
11. MIKI ANDO – JPN
12. YUNA KIM – KOR
13. INGA JANULEVICIUTE – LTU
14. ANNE LINE GJERSEM – NOR
15. AGATA KRYGER – POL
16. ELIZAVETA TUKTAMYSHEVA – RUS
17. DAŠA GRM – SLO
18. NIKA CERIĆ – SLO
19. PINA UMEK – SLO
20. KIM FALCONER – RSA
21. GARCIA MARTA – ESP
22. ALINA IGNATENKO – UKR
23. OLGA BALINSKAYA – UKR
24. tba – USA
Yuna Kim, at the 2010 Worlds in Torino
MEN
1. MICHAL BREZINA – CZE
2. tba – CRO
3. PHILLIP HARRIS – GBR
4. DAVID RICHARDSON – GBR
5. ALEKSEI BYCHENKO – ISR
6. STANISLAV SAMOHINI – ISR
7. IVAN RIGHINI – ITA
8. JINSEO KIM – KOR
9. SAULIUS AMBRULEVICIUS – LTU
10. ARTUR GACHINSKI – RUS
11. JAVIER RAYA – ESP
12. DMITRI IGNATENKO – UKR
13. tba – USA
Javier Raya, at the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships in Nice, France
ICE DANCE
1. KIRA GEIL & TOBIAS EISENBAUER – AUT
2. BARBORA SILNA & JURI KURAKIN – AUT
3. LUCIE MYSLIVECKOVA & NEIL BROWN – CZE
4. PERNELLE CARRON & LLOYD JONES – FRA
5. ANGELINA TELEGINA & OTAR JAPARIDZE – GEO
6. NELLI ZHIGANSHINA & ALEXANDER GAZSI GER
7. PENNY COOMES & NICHOLAS BUCKLAND GBR
8. CHARLOTE AIKEN & JOSH WHIDBORNE – GBR
9. ALLISON REED & VASILI ROGOV – ISR
10. LORENZA ALESSANDRINI & SIMONE VATURI – ITA
11. CHARLENE GUIGNARD & MARCO FABBRI – ITA
12. EMI HIRAI & MARIEN DE LA ASUNCION – JPN
13. ISABELLA TOBIAS & DEIVIDAS STAGNIUNAS – LTU
14. SARA HURTADO & ADRIA DIAZ – ESP
15. ALISA AGAFONOVA & ALPER UCAR – TUR
16. SIOBHAN HEEKIN-CANEDY & DMITRY DUN – UKR
17. LOLITA YERMAK & ALEXEI SHUMSKIY – UKR
Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland, at the 2013 Europeans in Zagreb
PAIRS
1. MARIAM ZIEGLER & SEVERIN KIEFER – AUT
2. MARIYA POLYAKOVA & NIKITA BOCHKOV – BLR
3. NATALJA ZABIJAKO & ALEKSANDR ZABOEV – EST
4. AMANI FANCY & CHRISTOPHER BOYADJI – GBR
5. ANDREA DAVIDOVICH & EVGENI KRASNOPOLSKY – ISR
6. KRISTINA ASTAKHOVA& MAXIM KURDYUKOV – RUS
For those of you wanting to go to Zagreb at the beginning of December, here are a few pieces of useful information: