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Ice Skating: Honours for man from Harvard
| Source: |
The Times (London) |
| Date: |
October 9, 1987 |
| Author: |
John Hennessy |
Paul Wylie, an undergraduate at Harvard, skated a superb free
programme at Richmond last night to win the St Ivel Ice
International. Kurt Browning, of Canada, won the free skating but had
left himself too much to do after the first two elements of the
competition to climb above Wylie as well as the overnight leader,
Heiko Fischer, of West Germany.
Wylie has strong British connections, for it was his family who
befriended Robin Cousins during the former Olympic champion's stay in
Colorado, Cousins, in return, helped Wylie with his choreography.
Wylie suffered one fall but as this was in attempting the daunting
triple axel, it was no great disaster. Otherwise he skated with much
technical control and artistry. His programme was packed with cleanly
executed triple jumps and there was an echo from the past at one
moment with his skid change edge, a Cousins speciality.
Browning did manage the triple axel, though not quite on a true
running edge, and performed two triple jumps in combination in a
programme freely sprinkled with athletic achievement.
Sharon Jones and Paul Askham, the British ice dance champions,
moved up a place after an appealing free skating programme to take
second position behind the favourites, Maya Ussova and Aleksandr
Zhulin, of the Soviet Union.
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MEN'S FREE SKATING:
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1, K Browning (Can), 1.0;
2, P Wylie (US), 2.0;
3, V Petrenko (USSR), 3.0;
4, H Fischer (WG), 4.0;
5, P Robinson (GB), 5.0;
6, F Harpages (Fr), 6.0;
7, C Wildridge (GB), 7.0.
Final results: 1, Wylie, 4.2:
2, Browning, 5.0;
3, Fischer, 5.0;
4, Petrenko, 5.4;
5, Robinson. 10.8:
6, Harpages, 12.0:
7, Wildridge, 13.2.
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DANCE:
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Free dance: 1, M Ussova and A Zhulin (USSR), 10.0;
2, S Jones and P Askham (GB), 2.0;
3, L Trovati and R Pelizzola (It), 3.0:
4, K Engi and A Toth (Hun), 4.0;
5, A Sargent and R Witherby (US), 4.0;
6, J Borlase and M Smith (Can). 6.0.
Other British placing: 8, E Coates and
A Abretti, 8.0.
Final result: 1, Ussova and Zhulin, 2.0;
2, Jones and Askham, 5.0;
3, Trovati and Pelizzola, 5.0;
4 Engi and Toth, 8.0;
5, Sargent and Witherby, 10.0:
6, Borlase and Smith, 12.0.
Other British placing: 9, Coates and Abretti, 16.6.
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