Friday, January 26, 2007

European Championships - Short Program Results

1) Sarah Meier SUI 60.49
2) Carolina Kostner ITA 60.46
3) Elene Gedevanishvili GEO 54.62
4) Julia Sebestyen HUN 53.87
5) Kiira Korpi FIN 53.84
6) Alexandra Ievleva RUS 50.28
7) Susanna Poykio FIN 49.47
8) Elena Sokolova RUS 48.85
9) Alisa Drei FIN 48.78
10) Elena Glebova EST 47.35
11) Tamar Katz ISR 47.15
12) Valentina Marchei ITA 46.43
13) Tugba Karademir TUR 46.19
14) Idora Hegel CRO 44.99
15) Lina Johansson SWE 44.03
16) Anne Sophie Calvez FRA 43.78
17) Christiane Berger GER 43.05
18) Irina Movchan UKR 41.42
19) Radka Bartova SVK 40.90
20) Jenna McCorkell GBR 40.27
21) Viktoria Pavuk HUN 39.45
22) Roxana Luca ROM 39.31
23) Kristin Wieczorek GER 39.13
24) Anna Jurkiewicz POL 37.44
25) Kathrin Freudelsperger AUT 36.84
26) Karen Venhuizen NED 35.72
27) Sonia Radeva BUL 34.61
28) Ksenia Doronina RUS 34.31
29) Julia Sheremet BLR 33.98
30) Merovee Ephrem MON 31.34
31) Maria-Elena Papasotiriou GRE 31.26
32) Isabelle Pieman BEL 30.19
33) Ivana Hudziecova CZE 28.46
34) Melissandre Fuentes AND 28.44

It’s a virtual tie for the top spot after the short program at Europeans and I couldn’t be more pleased. How great is it to see the vastly underrated Sarah Meier finally get some love this season? How nice is it to see Carolina Kostner, who has battled some serious injuries all season, near the top of the standings at her first event back? Carolina even completed a triple flip-triple toe combination. It would’ve been enough to put her in first had she not doubled her lutz later in the program. Elene Gedevanishvili, who made a splash at last year’s Europeans and carried that momentum into the Turin Olympics, continued her success at this event by placing third.