European Championship figure skating: Iida Karhunen soared – Niina Petrokina won gold by far

Figure skating In the European Championships, we saw a strong Finnish performance on Friday night, when Iida Karhunen came as high as tenth in the final results. He was in 16th place after the short program.

Estonia’s Niina Petrokina won her second consecutive European Championship gold by an overwhelming margin. The 21-year-old Estonian star took the win with a total of 216.14 points and stretched an unimaginable 24.88 points ahead of the others.

Belgium, which exported silver Loena Hendrickx gave a standing ovation like the audience did when Petrokina ended her perfect performance. Italian Lara Naki Gutmann moved up the ranks like Hendrickx and won the bronze.

Finland top promise Karhunen, 17, skated his free program wonderfully and was the seventh best of the whole group. Lappeenrantalainen’s total score of 174.49 was enough for the top ten with a difference of 12 hundredths.

Karhunen moved up a whopping six places in the free program. Tenth place ensured that Finland gets another place in women’s single skating for next year’s European Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland.

“Yes, it was a bit stressful, but I just tried to take all the energy from the audience and enjoy,” Karhunen said about his free program in the Taitoluisteluitliito recording.

Karhunen, who was successful in front of a large crowd on Friday, said that getting another place is a big goal in Sheffield. He skated for the first time in the adult competition.

“It has been a really nice event. After the short program, of course, there was a bit of a miserable feeling, but overall this has been a very successful trip,” said Karhunen.

of the European Championships the last day of competition on Saturday includes both the men’s free program and the ice dance free dance.

Finland Matias Lindfors is involved in single skating and star pairs Juulia Turkkila–Matthias Versluis mixed Yuka Orihara–Juho Pirinen in ice dancing.