22-year-old Georgian sportsman in fact skates without any mistakes in the first day of “Skater Canada”. Referees also noticed it and gave the highest points in program (29.32), for technical components – 31.48 points and finally she gained 60.80 points.
As a result Georgian Gedevanishvili overcame Canadian Ketline Osmond (60.56), who is in the second place. Russian Ksenya Makarova (58.56) is in the third place.
Supposedly, Japanese Kanako Murakami (56.21) champion of world youth championship 2010 and Akakiko Suzuki (55.12) the third place winner of the previous world championship and Russian Elizaveta Tuktamisheva (55.10) also will fight for championship. There are 10 participants at Grand Prix.
Gedevanishvili, whose trainer is still Canadian specialist Brian Orser, traditionally preformed “Schindler List” in a short program. As for free program, she preformed “Don Quixote”. By the way her results at Canadian tournament are close to her record (61.92) set at Olympic Games 2010. It goes without saying that after the performance she was happy: “ I am a little shocked, but it also must be sad that I was training hard and my preparation was according the plan. The music and the program was special for me”. Stated Georgia girl in a talk with web-site of ISU, where was highlighted that she preformed triple salchow and double axel and had a little mistake in triple lutz.
Todat at 18:45 o’clock (Tbilisi time) is held free program at Ontario Grand Prix. The schedule is known. Gedevanishvili will skate the 10th.
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