The Finlandia Trophy started yesterday and continues through Sunday. Here are the results so far (I haven't seen any of the skating yet, and am taking the results from the Finlandia site:
Ice Dance Compulsory Dance - no surprise here, Kerr and Kerr in first.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | CD | OD | FD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinead KERR / John KERR | GBR | 34.11 | 1 | ||
| 2 | Alla BEKNAZAROVA / Vladimir ZUYEV | UKR | 30.84 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Anastasia PLATONOVA / Alexander GRACHEV | RUS | 30.63 | 3 | ||
| 4 | Jane SUMMERSET / Todd GILLES | USA | 28.81 | 4 | ||
| 5 | Christina BEIER / William BEIER | GER | 26.42 | 5 | ||
| 6 | Nadezhda FROLENKOVA / Mikhail KASALO | UKR | 23.67 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Phillipa TOWLER-GREEN / Phillip POOLE | GBR | 23.63 | 7 | ||
| 8 | Kira GEIL / Dmytro MATSYUK | AUT | 22.75 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate FEJES | HUN | 21.64 | 9 | ||
| 10 | Henna LINDHOLM / Ossi KANERVO | FIN | 14.12 | 10 |
And the big news: Daisuke Takahashi is back competing!!!! And he is in first place handily after the short, although rumor has it he may have fallen at the end of his program. If I find out more I will update. Look at the US's Stephen Carriere in second place though - nice. Shocked to see Kevin Van der Perren placing so low.
| Pl. | Name | Nation | TSS = |
TES + |
PCS + |
SS | TR | PE | CH | IN | Deduction - |
StN. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daisuke TAKAHASHI | JPN | 83.23 | 44.85 | 39.38 | 7.96 | 7.58 | 8.00 | 7.88 | 7.96 | 1.00 | #10 | |
| 2 | Stephen CARRIERE | USA | 70.22 | 38.17 | 32.05 | 6.54 | 6.21 | 6.42 | 6.46 | 6.42 | 0.00 | #15 | |
| 3 | Sergei VORONOV | RUS | 68.50 | 35.15 | 33.35 | 6.92 | 6.42 | 6.71 | 6.67 | 6.63 | 0.00 | #3 | |
| 4 | Kristoffer BERNTSSON | SWE | 66.87 | 36.15 | 30.72 | 6.13 | 5.79 | 6.25 | 6.13 | 6.42 | 0.00 | #18 | |
| 5 | Daisuke MURAKAMI | JPN | 64.26 | 35.18 | 29.08 | 6.29 | 5.58 | 5.83 | 5.75 | 5.63 | 0.00 | #14 | |
| 6 | Michal BREZINA | CZE | 62.89 | 32.93 | 30.96 | 6.29 | 5.96 | 6.25 | 6.21 | 6.25 | 1.00 | #16 | |
| 7 | Konstantin MENSHOV | RUS | 62.07 | 31.91 | 30.16 | 6.33 | 5.79 | 6.00 | 6.04 | 6.00 | 0.00 | #11 | |
| 8 | Clemens BRUMMER | GER | 61.23 | 32.68 | 28.55 | 5.75 | 5.46 | 5.67 | 5.75 | 5.92 | 0.00 | #19 | |
| 9 | Peter LIEBERS | GER | 60.48 | 31.98 | 28.50 | 6.04 | 5.50 | 5.71 | 5.71 | 5.54 | 0.00 | #6 | |
| 10 | Paolo BACCHINI | ITA | 60.18 | 31.51 | 28.67 | 5.71 | 5.46 | 5.79 | 5.83 | 5.88 | 0.00 | #17 | |
| 11 | Alexander JOHNSON | USA | 54.94 | 26.73 | 29.21 | 5.96 | 5.58 | 5.75 | 5.88 | 6.04 | 1.00 | #5 | |
| 12 | Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI | FIN | 54.88 | 26.01 | 28.87 | 6.00 | 5.58 | 5.71 | 5.75 | 5.83 | 0.00 | #7 | |
| 13 | Przemyslaw DOMANSKI | POL | 53.18 | 29.18 | 25.00 | 5.21 | 4.83 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 4.96 | 1.00 | #8 | |
| 14 | Ian MARTINEZ | CAN | 51.48 | 25.77 | 26.71 | 5.46 | 5.00 | 5.25 | 5.33 | 5.67 | 1.00 | #2 | |
| 15 | Karel ZELENKA | ITA | 50.82 | 24.77 | 26.05 | 5.50 | 5.13 | 5.25 | 5.17 | 5.00 | 0.00 | #9 | |
| 16 | Kevin VAN DER PERREN | BEL | 49.14 | 18.64 | 30.50 | 6.46 | 5.92 | 5.83 | 6.25 | 6.04 | 0.00 | #13 | |
| 17 | Valtter VIRTANEN | FIN | 47.75 | 24.08 | 24.67 | 5.21 | 4.67 | 4.83 | 4.88 | 5.08 | 1.00 | #12 | |
| 18 | Vitali SAZONETS | UKR | 41.50 | 18.78 | 22.72 | 4.88 | 4.25 | 4.63 | 4.54 | 4.42 | 0.00 | #4 | |
| 19 | Mikko MINKKINEN | FIN | 41.09 | 18.45 | 22.64 | 4.75 | 4.38 | 4.42 | 4.63 | 4.46 | 0.00 | #1 |