Lipnitskaya showed the worst result of his career on the stage of the Grand Prix – RBC

Lipnitskaya showed the worst result of his career on the stage of the Grand Prix

The Olympic champion Sochi in team competitions Russian Julia Lipnitskaya ranked fifth after the short program at the first stage of the Grand Prix in the US Milwaukee.

Leadership captured another representative of Russia – 15-year-old Evgeny Medvedev, this year won the junior world championship and won the bronze medal at the adult national championship.

The second place is occupied by American Gracie Gold, showed the fourth result in the individual competition at the Olympic Games in Sochi. Closes the top three Japanese Satoko Miyahara, who won silver at the World Championships 2015

For Lipnitskaya fifth place – the worst result for all performing on the stages of the Grand Prix. Previously, she never fell in the short program following the second line.

In 2014, in Sochi Lipnitskaya became the youngest Russian woman to win gold at the Winter Olympics. On the day of the victory in the team competition she was 15 years 249 days. Lipnitskaya also became the second in the list of the youngest Olympic champion in figure skating in the history of Winter Olympics. In 1936, a German Maxi Herber, speaking in pair skating, won in Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 5 days.

After the success at the Olympic Russians began to decline. At the December national championship in Sochi, it took only ninth place, failed to qualify for the Russian national team to participate in World and European Championships and decided to finish the season.

After a pause, which lasted nine and a half months, Lipnitskaya October 10 left on ice is not the most prestigious tournament Finlandia Trophy in Espoo. Skated their program with the fall, she took second place overall behind Japanese Rica Hongo.

Milwaukee ( US). Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Stage 1. Skate America

Women. Short program

1. Evgeny Medvedev ( Russia) – 70,92

2. Gracie Gold ( US) – 65,39

3. Satoko Miyahara (, Japan) – 65,12

4. Karen Chen ( US) – 62,28

5. Yulia Lipnitskaya ( Russia) – 62,24

6. Elaine Chartrand (, Canada) – 59,40

7. Elizabeth Tursynbayeva ( Kazakhstan) – 59,26

8. Mia Nakas (, Japan) – 57,01

9. Haruka Imai (, Japan) – 56,52

10. With Yong Park (, South Korea) – 53,78

11. Carey Bell ( US) – 52,73

12. Nicole Rayichova ( Slovakia) – 50,33