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The spectacular 10th Santa Claus Cup – VIDEOS
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The 10th Santa Claus Cup International Competition of Figure Skating and Ice Dance brought many magnificent moments during its 6-day-long programme. The event, held in Budapest, welcomed nearly 500 skaters from all around world. Hungarians also competed, some of them even got to stand on the podium!
This year the Santa Claus Cup of Ice Dance and Figure Skating, organized by the Hungarian National Skating Federation (MOKSZ), celebrated its 10th anniversary, which brought the competition a record number of participants: almost 500 amazing skaters competed in the Tüske Rink, in Budapest, between December 6-11.
The event has been listed in the International Skating Union’s (ISU) Calendar of Events and had a great significance for the skaters, as it was the last competition of the year where they could receive the necessary technical points in order to qualify themselves to the European Championships.
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No surprise then that skaters from
Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Ukraine, Israel, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Russia, France, Italy, Finland, Norway, Hong Kong, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Great-Britain, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, and, of course, Hungary
took the opportunity to show what they are capable of on the ice, and impressed the audience and the panel of judges in 17 categories. Out of the numerous competitors, three Hungarian skaters could convince the judges that they gave the most excellent performances of their category:
Ivett Tóth won gold medal in Figure Skating for Senior Ladies, while Júlia Láng won silver and Csenge Rabb won bronze in Figure Skating for Advanced Novice Girls. But all the other Hungarian skaters performed notably as well; to name a few of them, the pair of Hanna Jakucs and Dániel Illés was placed 5th in Senior Ice Dance, which was won by the Spanish Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khalayavin.