Yevgeny Plushchenko, the world champion, tried to reach new heights, but failed to pull off a new quad lutz. But despite that and another fall on a quad toe loop, he took first place against generally uninspiring competition, sais SE-Internet special correspondent Andrey SIMONENKO. |
The failure with quad lutz seemingly unsettled him - he fell during another jump, which he usually makes easily. But his technique was excellent enough to surpass the other two Russian skaters - Roman Serov and Ilia Klimkin. Serov was the second, and Klimkin after unsuccessfull free skating program was only the fifth. |
Cup of Russia. St. Petersburg |
Grand Prix series, fifth stage |
Men |
Single event standings after free skate programme |
1. Evgeni PLUSHCHENKO (Russia) 1.5 points |
2. Roman SEROV (Russia) 4.5 |
3. Ivan Dinev (Bulgaria) 5.0 |
4. Matthew Savoie (U.S.) 6.5 |
5. Ilya KLIMKIN (Russia) 7.0 |
6. Yosuke Takeuchi (Japan) 9.0 |