Figure skating - European Championships 2014
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The second day of the European Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the "Syma Hall" in Budapest, opened with the men's short program.
Thursday 16 January 2014 9 minutes reading time
'' The coveted role of protagonist is touched to the Spaniard Javier Fernandez, who returned to express a level of excellence after a first half of the season rather stuttering. The twenty-two student of Brian Orser was able to improve his personal best in violation for the first time in his career the threshold of ninety points, far surpassed by only nine other athletes. Further more, in a short program of the European Championships, a skater had gone up to 91.56 points recorded by the holder of the European title.
Putting an end to the numerous allegations that have taken place in recent months, Fernandez has not changed plans to race in the current season going down the track to the tune of "Satan Takes a Holiday". The performance turned out to be of the highest level to the point to allow it to get both the best technical score the highest rating on each of the components of the program. Specifically, opened the drive with a quadruple salchow preceded by a real step, no worries completed the triple axel, and finally, in the second part of the music he performed the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, something which in the past often had created some problems.
In second place stood the Russian Sergei Voronov, complete with a personal record of four points retouched. The twenty six year old trained by Ethers Tutbedridze has content start the race behind the leader in'' Order of the six points on the elements of safety doth leap, among which the combination quadruple toe loop / triple toe loop and a triple axel placed in the second part of the disc.
The podium was completed by the Provisional Czech Tomas Verner, able to change strategy in the race after atterratto in a problematic way the quadruple toe loop, which, in the plans of the day before, he had to open the combination with the triple toe loop. The twenty-seven of stationed in Oberstdorf, filed the transition to empty on the first element of the jump, then run a good triple axel and a triple lutz combination / triple toe loop in the second part of the program.
Afterwards, he placed the Russian Maxim Kovtun, affected by an error on the toe loop "not" preceded by the step, performed twice instead of four times, but supported by assessments on program components decidedly high for what we saw on the ice.
The medalists of the last edition Tomas Brezina and Florent Amodio, you are due respectively to settle for fifth and seventh position with an unbridgeable gap, however, especially for the Czech, the medal zone.
The expected'' Brian Joubert, the first release version Mozorov, did not go beyond the'' eighth place, because of a fall on the quadruple toe loop and the'' triple axel landing extremely problematic. The veteran transalpine was also preceded by the Swede Alexander Majorov sixth with a new national record, and the German Peter Lieberes, eighth despite a bad fall on an attempted quadruple toe loop.
Paul Bonfacio Parkinson's, this single skater blue, riusciuto is to earn qualification to the free program for the skin of his teeth closing in twenty-fourth position. The Italian-Canadian'' fell on the opening quad salchow, and, after completing a discrete triple axel, landed with a step-by not carrying out the triple lutz combination (actually planned with the quadruple salchow). However, to complicate an already complex situation, there have been a mistake on the top end combined with foot change, which meant that the'' element was not taking level (fatal has been supporting the free foot which meant putting the an end to'' element started).
STANDINGS MEN'S SHORT PROGRAM
01) (ESP) - Javier FERNANDEZ91.56 (48.54 | 43.02) 02) (RUS) - Sergei Voronov 85.51 (46.47 | 39.04) 03) (CZE) - Tomas VERNER , 83.51 (42.80 | 40.71) 04) (RUS) - Maxim KOVTUN83.15 (41.79 | 41.36) 05) (CZE) - Michal BREZINA 82.80 (43.54 | 39.26) 06 ) (SWE) - Alexander MAJOROV79.62 (42.80 | 36.82) 07) (FRA) - Florent AMODIO 78.60 (38.10 | 40.50) 08) (GER) - Peter LIEBERS77.42 (42.17 | 36.25) - 1.0009 ) (FRA) - Brian JOUBERT 73.29 (35.97 | 38.32) - 1.0010) (BEL) - Jorik HENDRICKX73.21 (38.27 | 34.94) 11) (RUS) - Konstantin MENSHOV72.12 (35.92 | 37.20) - 1.0012) (FRA) - Chafik BESSEGHIER70.85 (35.57 | 35.28) 13) (ISR) - Alexei BYCHENKO68.51 (37.51 | 31.17) 14) (ROU) - Zoltan KELEMEN68.32 (37.40 | 30.92) 15) (POL) - Maciej CIEPLUCHA65, 84 (33.98 | 31.86) 16) (AUT) - Viktor PEIFFER60, 89 (29.78 | 32.11) - 1.0017) (SUI) - Stephane WALKER 60.54 (32.58 | 27.96) 18) (MON) - Kim Lucine 60.00 (28.43 | 31.57) 19) (GER) - Franz STREUBEL59, 96 (32.82 | 28.14) - 1.0020) (ESP) - Javier RAYA57.13 (27.44 | 29.69) 21) (UKR) - Yakov GODOROZHA57.09 (28.66 | 28.43) 22) (BLR) Pavel IGNATENKO55.99 (29.60 | 27.39) - 1.0023) (EST) - Viktor ROMANENKOV55.43 (29.43 | 27.00) - 1.0024) (ENG) - Paul Bonifacio Parkinson , 52.08 (26.87 | 26.21) - 1.0025) (NOR) - Sondre ODDVOLL49.84 (26.84 | 23:00) 26) (SVK) - Marco KLEPOCH 49.48 (26.23 | 23:25) 27) (GBR) - Matthew PARR49.32 24.92 | 25.40) - 1.0028) (BUL) - Manol ATANASSOV49, 07 (24.86 | 24.20) 29) (FIN) - Valtter VIRTANEN48, 55 (25.37 | 24.18) - 1.0030) (HUN) - Kristof Forgo 47.91 (23.94 | 23.97) 31) (DEN) - Justus STRID47.05 (21:37 | 26.60) - 1.0032) ( TUR) - Ali DEMIRBOGA 46.56 (24.67 | 21.80) 33) (AUT) - Manuel KOLL 45.61 (22:18 | 24.43) - 1:00 34) (SWE) - Illya Solomin 44.73 (23:09 | 21.64) 35) (ARM) - Sarkis Hayrapetyan 42.90 (20.73 | 22:17)
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