Figure skating - European Championships 2014
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Spaniard Javier Fernandez was re-elected to the throne continental dominating the length and breadth of the men's race of the European Championships in figure skating, hosted by the "Syma Hall" in Budapest.
Saturday 18 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
The Iberian'', after being forced to scatter in the first segment of the race, he relied on his technical and artistic superiority even in the free program by completing a sort of clear round as each individual item score proved to be the best lot.
That said, the ambitious'' free'' presented by a student of Brian Orser has not been immune from any burrs on the three species presented quadruple, however completed. The positive note was represented without doubt the elements of the spinning top, all arrived at the highest level available, and, as often happened in the past, some problems came in coincidence with the triple lutz, done twice instead of three times today.
As for the rest of the league, there have been surprises. '' The silver medal went to Russian Sergei Voronov, an athlete who has completely changed face since he started working with Ethers Tutberdize, coach among other things,'' Julia Lipnitskaia. '' The Moscow now twenty-six, the author of two programs of enormous strength, he is afforded the luxury of improving the personal record of thirty lengths, proposing his candidature timid to represent the colors Russians in the upcoming Olympic Games in house . Voronov has well performed two quadruple toe loop and six triples, including two axel, revealing one of the few able to keep up with Fernandez on the technical front.
The lowest step of the podium at the end of a comeback unprecedented in the field of ISU Championships, was won by veteran Konstantin Menshov, only eleventh at the end of the first half of the race. The thirty year old St. Petersburg skated in'' at the free program allowing himself the luxury of life that precede Maxim Kovtun who last season among a thousand controversy had been preferred by the Federation on the occasion of the European Championships. Specifically, Menshov has completed two quadruple toe loop so egregious and six triple jumps, including two axel, recording a technical score in the wake of the winner.
For the third time in his career, the fifth counting the World Cup, the Czech Michal Brezina had to settle for the wooden medal, missing the podium by just twenty-eight hundredths of a point. In the free program, were fatal errors, quantificabil in fifteen points, on the second quadruple salchow, performed twice, and on the attempt to triple Rittberger, in this case also stopped in two rotations.
The'' expected Kovtun, abandoned by the high percentage of realization of the jumps qudrupli tumbler at the beginning of the season, had to settle for fifth coin. Following were placed the German Peter Liebers, the best result of his career with a lot of new national record, and Czech Tomas Vener, now the protagonist of too many steps to empty the elements of jumping, not to mention the spin of greater value (combined with Exchange foot) spinning thrown away.
Brian Joubert, the eighth, was the best of the French in the race, while Florent Amodio, innervositosi for errors on dual quad salchow attempt, was the author of a free disconcerting and sometimes indolent, which relegated him to the twelfth position Behind the Belgian Jorik positive Hendrick, the Israeli school progressed Ukrainian Alexei Bychenko, the Swede Alexander Majorov got lost in the day's program, and the less quoted compatriot Chafik Besseghier.
Paul Bonifacio Parkinson, the only Italian in the race, finished in the twenty-third position, confirming the enormous difficulties that emerged on the elements of jump in the short program. Beyond the technical performance rather mediocre, what most upsets remains the construction of programs to tender, overly ambitious for the shape of the moment and probably for the technical knowledge available. The hope is that, in view of the Olympic Games, the Italian federation could somehow consider carefully which athlete enroll as Parkinson's disease seen in these European and in all competitions so far played the first level ampiamenti has proven not to be ' 'height.
In light of today's results, Russia and the Czech Republic potranni field three skaters in the next European Championships to be held in Stockholm in Sweden, while Spain, France, Germany, Israel and Belgium will have two seats.
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