Figure Skating - World Championships 2013 London
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Thrilling final in the men's race of the World Championships Figure Skating Championships, hosted by the "Budweiser Gardens" in London.
Saturday 16 March 2013 9 minutes reading time
The landlord Patrick Chan, placed on a'' easy conquest of the third world title in a row, it is extremely complicated life resisting the amazing comeback of the Kazakh Denis Ten for a little over a point.
The twenty-two of Toronto, after dominating the first leg of the race with a lot of new world record, was the author of a starting from the first class in the free. Chan has in fact completed fluency in a quadruple toe loop combination / triple toe loop and followed by a second quadruple toe loop. However, since that time has partly turned off the light and have followed errors of various kinds, among which a fall on the triple lutz, a triple axel sottoruotato concluded in the ground, landing on the overly complex combination triple flip / Rittberger / triple salchow and a second lutz completed only double.
At the end, were the evaluation of the program components to make the difference and allow the Canadian skater to match the Russian Alexei Yagudin, last athlete to impose consecutive world championship in three exhibitions.
The moral winner of the competition is, however, the nineteen year old Kazakh Denis Ten, who also today of a benefit to scream opened with a quadruple toe loop sumptuous, which was followed by two triple axels to stun beauty, one of which in combination with a triple toe loop. Dispelling the doubts of many experts, the student'''' s eternal Frank Carroll was able to speak at a high level in both the competition programs by improving personal best by nearly forty points and winning margin with the free program. It remains, however, regret for a double instead of triple flip, brisket, point to the hand, even the victory. It goes without saying that today's result enters fully into the history of Kazakhstan, a country in great growth in different winter sports, but never protagonist in figure skating.
The podium at the end of a remarkable comeback from the seventh position, was completed by Spaniard Javier Fernandez, who gave to Spain the first medal in a World Championships of the sport of ice. The reigning European champion, as well as most of the rivals, however was not immune from mistakes and has established a small but significant first by becoming the first athlete in the history of the sport at the podium without concluding any program notice in the top three positions.
L'' student of Brian Orser preceded the'' heroic training partner Yuzuru Hanyu, fell on the ice in poor physical condition, but able to get the best technical score in the free.
The main surprise of the competition is, however, represented more than the place of honor'' from'' Ten giapponesei absence of skaters on the podium.
Hanyu were placed behind the Canadian Kevin Reynolds, is hampered by the rotation of too many elements of jump, and the disappointing Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, who, however, paid the price for choosing to pursue at all costs the myth of the quadruple jumps instead ; its focus firmly on the quality of the end interpreter.
Clearly, there will be controversy as the title went to an athlete fell twice during the free program, but, in this regard, it should be pointed out that during the term of the new scoring system it is potentially possible situations and already occurred in recent times.
In the light of the outcome of the World Championships, Canada and Japan will have three places available for the Olympic Games. Kazakhstan, France, Czech Republic, Spain and the United States will, however, field two athletes. A place will, finally, China, Germany, Uzbekistan, Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Austria and Denmark.
Who is licking its wounds it is Russia that has had to settle for seventeenth place of the young Maxim Kovtun, stayed away more than twenty points from that placement in the top ten was considered'' the goal of the vigil.
FINAL STANDINGS
01) 267,78 (98,37 | 169,41) (CAN) Patrick CHAN
02) 266,48 (91,56 | 174,92) (KAZ) Denis TEN (national record)
03) 249.06 (80.76 | 168.30) (ESP) Javier FERNANDEZ
04) 244.99 (75.94 | 169.05) (JPN) Yuzuru Hanyu
05) 239,98 (85,16 | 154,82) (CAN) Kevin REYNOLDS
06) 239,03 (84,67 | 154.36) (JPN) Daisuke TAKAHASHI
07) 238,36 (78,20 | 160,16) (USA) Max AARON (personal record)
08) 234.18 (73,46 | 160,72) (JPN) Takahito MURA (personal record)
09) 232.26 (84.17 | 148.09) (FRA) Brian JOUBERT
10) 229.00 (83.09 | 145.91) (CZE) Michal BREZINA
11) 216,84 (71,20 | 145,64) (GER) Peter LIEBERS (national record)
12) 216,83 (75,73 | 141,10) (FRA) Florent AMODIO
13) 216,60 (67,35 | 149,25) (CAN) Andrei ROGOZINE (personal record)
14) 211,90 (70,24 | 141,66) (USA) Ross MINER
15) 207.68 (73.03 | 134.65) (CHN) Nan SONG
16) 207,50 (68,45 | 139,05) (UZB) - Misha GE (national record)
17) 207,40 (65,85 | 141,55) (RUS) Maxim Kovtun
18) 194.29 (68.32 | 135.97) (SWE) Alexander Majorov
19) 192,19 (62,04 | 130,15) (BEL) Jorik HENDRICKX
20) 189.44 (64,10 | 125,34) (AUT) Viktor PFEIFER
21) 180,50 (68,05 | 112,45) (CZE) Tomas VERNER
22) 177,09 (65,33 | 111,76) (EST) Viktor ROMANENKOV (national record)
23) 174,98 (61,88 | 113,10) (UKR) Yakov GODOROZHA
24) 165,23 (63,25 | 101,98) (DEN) Justus STRID (national record)
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