2012 European Figure Skating Championships vs. Four Continents: Top Men's Scores

These are comparisons between the two ISU Championships that lead into the World Championships in March. A few of these skaters, namely Evgeni Plushenko and Ross Miner, won't be competing in Nice and we'll see notables Jeremy Abbott, Takahiko Kozuka, and Yuzuru Hanyu added to the field, but could these standings be similar to what we'll see at Worlds?

1) Patrick Chan (CAN) 273.94

2) Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) 261.23

3) Artur Gachinski (RUS) 246.27

4) Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) 244.33

5) Florent Amodio (FRA) 134.18

6) Michal Brezina (CZE) 229.30

7) Tomas Verner (CZE) 225.36

8) Ross Miner (USA) 223.23

9) Javier Fernandez (ESP) 222.26

10) Adam Rippon (USA) 221.55

11) Takahito Mura (JPN) 217.16

12) Samuel Contesti (ITA) 212.32

13) Denis Ten (KAZ) 210.03

14) Tatsuki Machida (JPN) 208.04

15) Brian Joubert (FRA) 207.83

16) Jorik Hendrickx (BEL) 204.63

17) Kevin Reynolds (CAN) 203.26

18) Misha Ge (UZB) 196.53

19) Jinlin Guan (CHN) 196.53

20) Sergei Voronov (RUS) 195.89  

2012 European Figure Skating Championships: Men's Short Program Results

Plushenko's Short Program

Qual.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded. -	StN.
1	Q	Artur GACHINSKI	RUS	84.80	45.91		38.89	7.86	7.50	7.82	7.75	7.96	0.00	#25
2	Q	Evgeni PLUSHENKO	RUS	84.71	42.21		42.50	8.64	7.86	8.71	8.43	8.86	0.00	#4
3	Q	Tomas VERNER	CZE	81.14	42.39		38.75	8.00	7.43	7.75	7.68	7.89	0.00	#21
4	Q	Javier FERNANDEZ	ESP	80.11	40.83		39.28	7.89	7.64	7.93	7.82	8.00	0.00	#20
5	Q	Florent AMODIO	FRA	78.48	39.87		38.61	7.86	7.50	7.82	7.61	7.82	0.00	#23
6	Q	Michal BREZINA	CZE	76.13	37.91		39.22	7.89	7.54	7.82	7.93	8.04	1.00	#18
7	Q	Kevin VAN DER PERREN	BEL	71.05	37.50		34.55	7.04	6.57	7.04	6.86	7.04	1.00	#28
8	Q	Jorik HENDRICKX	BEL	68.98	36.73		32.25	6.64	6.18	6.50	6.36	6.57	0.00	#24
9	Q	Alexander MAJOROV	SWE	68.33	36.29		32.04	6.54	6.11	6.46	6.32	6.61	0.00	#27
10	Q	Brian JOUBERT	FRA	67.92	31.07		38.85	7.96	7.39	7.82	7.75	7.93	2.00	#22
11	Q	Samuel CONTESTI	ITA	66.86	31.36		36.50	7.50	7.07	7.18	7.36	7.39	1.00	#26
12	Q	Chafik BESSEGHIER	FRA	63.12	35.97		28.15	5.75	5.36	5.79	5.54	5.71	1.00	#16
13	Q	Peter LIEBERS	GER	61.08	29.40		31.68	6.36	6.21	6.32	6.36	6.43	0.00	#19
14	Q	Sergei VORONOV	RUS	60.88	30.74		30.14	6.25	5.61	6.21	5.93	6.14	0.00	#17
15	Q	Zoltan KELEMEN	ROU	60.12	34.94		26.18	5.50	4.89	5.32	5.11	5.36	1.00	#8
16	Q	Kim LUCINE	MON	57.64	30.91		26.73	5.29	5.11	5.54	5.29	5.50	0.00	#15
17	Q	Paolo BACCHINI	ITA	55.77	26.20		30.57	6.21	5.89	6.04	6.14	6.29	1.00	#29
18	Q	Justus STRID	DEN	54.71	29.09		25.62	5.18	4.75	5.29	5.04	5.36	0.00	#10
19	Q	Alexei BYCHENKO	ISR	54.69	28.76		25.93	5.29	4.89	5.32	5.14	5.29	0.00	#9
20	Q	Maciej CIEPLUCHA	POL	54.17	29.41		24.76	5.07	4.61	5.11	4.86	5.11	0.00	#6
21	Q	Viktor PFEIFER	AUT	53.58	27.83		26.75	5.57	5.04	5.46	5.25	5.43	1.00	#11
22	Q	Viktor ROMANENKOV	EST	52.24	28.63		23.61	5.04	4.46	4.79	4.68	4.64	0.00	#14
23	Q	Paul FENTZ	GER	51.74	26.64		25.10	5.25	4.82	4.96	4.96	5.11	0.00	#7
24	Q	Dmitri IGNATENKO	UKR	51.61	29.04		22.57	4.71	4.14	4.54	4.64	4.54	0.00	#5
25		Jason THOMPSON	GBR	51.42	29.67		21.75	4.57	4.07	4.43	4.36	4.32	0.00	#1
26		Pavel KASKA	CZE	51.34	24.99		26.35	5.39	5.00	5.46	5.18	5.32	0.00	#13
27		Vitali LUCHANOK	BLR	48.32	24.31		24.01	5.11	4.54	4.82	4.79	4.75	0.00	#12
28		Slavik HAYRAPETYAN	ARM	45.75	23.40		22.35	4.54	4.21	4.64	4.39	4.57	0.00	#2
29		Ali DEMIRBOGA	TUR	45.54	24.08		21.46	4.46	4.04	4.25	4.32	4.39	0.00	#3

Favorite Figure Skating Memories: #5 Alexei Yagudin Wins Olympic Gold

Notice a theme? Many of my favorite skating memories were from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the mens final was no exception. Alexei Yagudin of Russia gave a memorable performance in a win over his countryman and rival Evgeni Plushenko. His program to the music from The Man in the Iron Mask was a perfect combination of athleticism and artistry. He included a quad toe loop and a quad toe loop combination, but his jumping ability did not detract from his performance quality as it does with many other skaters. My favorite element of this program is the footwork which was almost ahead of its time. We see incredible footwork from a lot of skaters these days, but in 2002 under the old 6.0 judging system, footwork like this was rare.