Figure skating - European Championships 2015
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Javier Fernandez took third straight European title winning by dispersion in the continental event hosted by "Ericson Globe" in Stockholm.
Friday 30 January 2015 7 minutes reading time
The twenty-three Spanish, despite some step-load in both segments of the race, finished the competition with a margin of almost twenty-seven points on the pi & ugrave; immediate pursuer by & nbsp; mark the best technical scores and assessments pi & ugrave; high on each component of the program. Moreover, to find a skater able to impose itself in three consecutive edition of the European Championships & egrave; must go back to 1989 when Alexander Fadeev complete the 'last historic hat-trick. & nbsp;
Set aside the good news, as it should be stressed in the free program the 'student of Brian Orser has not expressed to the maximum of the potential, but can not & ograve; go unnoticed wealth of transitional passages that made each element pi & ugrave; complicated. On balance, Fernandez has completed a quadruple toe loop and six triple jumps filing a fall on an attempted quadruple salchow and confirming the 'important growth on the elements of top down & agrave; emerged in the final of the Grand Prix. E '', however, needless to emphasize the superiority & agrave; artistic than the competition, given gi & agrave; well-founded on the eve of the event
As was the case twelve months ago, the Russian skaters have occupied the steps pi & ugrave; downs of the podium. The place of 'honor & egrave; went to nineteen Maxim Kovtun, who preceded narrowly veteran Sergei Voronov, according nell''edizione Budapest. In truth & agrave ;, is the 'one that' nothing have the best performance of his career unlined paying duty, compared to other occasions, the quality & agrave; Elements jump. Ci & ograve; Accordingly, they both had the merit of containing the steps to empty legitimizing the good achieved in the first part of the season, which results in hand, & egrave; been addressed by absolute protagonists.
A surprise, the fourth place & egrave; was won by nearly twenty-seven Israeli Alexei Bychenko, skater Ukrainian who wrote a page of history important for his adopted country. In fact, never before a skater flying the Israeli flag had obtained a placement of such prestige. Moreover, to crown a team performance unprecedented & egrave; also arrived the tenth square sixteen Daniel Samohin, despite dell''et & agrave; one of the best quadruplisti seen in Stockholm. Deserves, in any case, a praise their Bychenko, author of a program without glaring flaws, ennobled by a quadruple toe loop and seven triple jumps, including a great axel.
The 'expected Czech Michal Brezina, third after the short program and last to get on the ice, & egrave; precipitate fifth losing a wonderful opportunity to close the second podium continental career. However, the 'student of Karel Fajfr be commended because & egrave; has tried to present a technical content thick for collecting & ograve; two crashes on many quadruple salchow under rotated, which must be added a passage to empty on what would have been the second triple axel, but in the end & egrave; was pi & ugrave; that a simple axel.
Good news for the Italian movement as Ivan Righini, supported by a standing ovation from the audience, has filed un''incoraggiante eighth position with the satisfaction of having achieved the fifth stop in the free program. The 'student of Michael Huth, preceded rated by German Peter Liebers and novice Russian Adian Pitkeev, has completed seven triple jumps, including a valuable axel and a salchow to the limit with the rotation. The performance is & egrave; perci & ograve; revealed convincing across the board, to the point that the fall on a quadruple toe loop attempt & egrave; passed virtually unnoticed. The result has a specific gravity huge for the entire sector male blue, considering that in the next edition of the European Championships will & agrave; can field two athletes. For many young promising movement there will be no exceptions & agrave; perci & ograve; an important stimulus to try to raise the level dell''asticella.
In Bratislava, in January 2016, Russia will have & agrave; have three seats, while Italy, Israel, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic will present two skaters. In this regard, Israel has failed to eighteen cents a chance & agrave; to deploy three athletes.
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