Figure skating - European Championships, 2013, Zagreb
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Javier Fernandez historic victory for the European Championships Figure Skating hosted by "Dom Sportova" in Zagreb.
Saturday 26 January 2013 7 minutes reading time
L'' student of Brian Orser, thanks to a free program by standing ovation, he became the first spagonlo to win a medal in a continental event, as well as the third skater in a position to violate the sum of 270 points in a race.
Fernandez has also ripped the European record to Evgeni Plushenko improving over thirteen lengths of the previous limit established twelve ago in Sheffield. The technical rate of the day's program was very high, as evidenced by the three quadruple jumps well executed, one of them in the second half of the disc. However, the real novelty for the new European champion proved to be the assessment of each of the components of the program that has been soaring. In the specific or'' increase stood at around six points compared to the previous best performance of his career.
Overall, the level of the'' last group down on the ice has far exceeded expectations before,'' despite the forced absence of defending champion Evgeni Plushenko. Every athlete, in fact, was able to perform flawlessly at least a quadruple demonstrating how the European school, after a period of difficulty, is trying to gear up to compete on equal terms with Japanese and North American.
'' The place of honor went to Florent Amodio, leader of the competition after the short program. '' In the occasion, the French passport, but Brazilian by birth, he had the satisfaction of confirming retouch the national leader on the podium of the European Championships for the third consecutive year. Moreover, since some trimming job here and there, the impression is that the'' potential'' s student of Nikolai Morozov is certainly superior to the already significant 250 points stored in this continental event.
In third place went to Michal Brezina, finally able to dispel the taboos of the podium in a major event. Previously, in fact, the leader of the Czech movement had collected four medals of the beauty of wood between the World and European. In the free program today, in which he recorded the second best performance behind Fernandez, the new student of Olympic champion Viktor Petrenko has had the merit of being able to react to a bad fall on the quadruple Salchow opening in completing follow another quad Salchow and seven triple jumps, including two axel.
The fourth place went to French veteran Brian Joubert, who managed to defend itself by the return of seventeen Maxim Kovtun, Best of the Russians in the race, although he has left on the plate at least four and a half because of an error on the calculation of combinations.
In light of today's result, France and Russia will field three athletes in the next edition of the European Championships to be held in Budapest in Hungary. Spain, Germany, Czech Republic and Sweden will, however, have two seats.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) 274.87 (88.80 | 186.07) - (ESP) Javier FERNANDEZ (PB) 02) 250.53 (89.82 | 160,71) - (FRA) Florent AMODIO (PB) 03) 243, 52 (79,84 | 163,68) - (CZE) Michal BREZINA (PB)
04) 232,47 (83,93 | 148,54) - (FRA) Brian JOUBERT05) 226,57 (74,46 | 152,11) - (RUS) Maxim Kovtun (PB) 06) 211,88 (74, 29 | 137,59) - (SWE) Alexander Majorov (PB) 07) 210,18 (78,38 | 131,80) - (RUS) Sergei VORONOV08) 194,77 (67,34 | 127,43) - ( AUT) Viktor PFEIFER (PB) 09) 189.67 (66.93 | 122.74) - (FRA) Chafik BESSEGHIER (PB) 10) 187,96 (56,67 | 131,29) - (GER) Peter LIEBERS11 ) 177,41 (68,99 | 108,42) - (CZE) Tomas VERNER12) 175,61 (63,27 | 112,34) - (МОN) Kim LUCINE 13) 171, 18 (58,38 | 112,80) - (BLR) Pavel Ignatenko (PB) 14) 171.12 (56.42 | 114.70) - (ISR) Alexei Bychenko (PB) 15) 170.29 (57, 44 | 112,85) - (UKR) Yakov GODOROZHA (PB) 16) 169,58 (54,21 | 115,37) - (ESP) Javier RAYA (PB) 17) 167,98 (59,66 | 108 32) - (EST) Viktor ROMANENKOV (PB) 18) 167,33 (57,44 | 109,89) - (ROU) Zoltan KELEMEN19) 167,29 (52,84 | 114,45) - (POL) Maciej Cieplucha (PB) 20) 163,11 (50,93 | 112,18) - (SUI) Stephane WALKER (PB) 21) 160,08 (53,14 | 106,94) - (DEN) Justus STRID (PB) 22 ) 133,21 (53,58 | 79,63) - (BUL) Manol ATANASSOV (PB) WD) (74,82 | WD) - (RUS) Evgeni PLUSHENKOWD) (53.76 | WD) - (CZE) Pavel KASKA
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