Figure skaters Veronika Merenkova / Danil Galimov, performing well in pair skating, said that in the final of the Russian Grand Prix among juniors they managed to show one of the best skating of the season.
On Thursday, Merenkova/Galimov performed a free skate in the final of the Russian Junior Grand Prix and won the competition final. The total score for the two performances was 184.21 points.
“We are very happy that we were able to show what we worked on, we tried very hard to show it, because we did not have a very successful season, we could not show the program the way we wanted . One of the best locations was here. We started to feel calmer about the competition, at the beginning of the season we were very worried, it was exciting, but now we have calmed down – and it has become easier.
At these competitions, we imagined that we were just skating in training, we became calmer, we wanted to show a good result, these are after all our native walls, the whole family came, friends, our coach became Olympic champion here. It is a great responsibility to participate in such competitions in this sports palace, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting Merenkova’s words.
Galimov emphasized that without the fans they could not have put on a good show.
— Thank you very much to our audience, without them there would not have been such a good box office. Thanks to the organizers, we really liked everything, thanks to the coaches who prepared us and sympathized with us, ”reports the correspondent of , reports Galimov’s words.
The Russian Junior Grand Prix final will take place in Sochi from March 13-15.
Source : MatchTV
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