European Championships Update: Men's Free Skate

Somewhere, Daisuke Takahashi is breathing a sigh of relief; Evgeny Plushenko did not break his ISU free skate record.  Plushenko scored a lowly 164.09 to win the men's event at the European figure skating championships today, way off Takahashi's mark of 175.84.

Still, it was more than enough to beat the rest of the field by about 17 points.  So...

But, other big news is the rebound by Stephane Lambiel, who started the day back in fifth place but ended up in second!  Wowee, an 85 for program components!  Brian Joubert rounds out the podium, and the Czech Republic's Michal Brezina has arrived, he is in fourth place and is becoming a rather reliable skater.

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Evgeni PLUSHENKO	RUS	255.39	1	1
2	Stephane LAMBIEL	SUI	238.54	5	2
3	Brian JOUBERT	FRA	236.45	2	3
4	Michal BREZINA	CZE	224.74	4	5
5	Samuel CONTESTI	ITA	221.33	7	4
6	Yannick PONSERO	FRA	219.52	3	7
7	Alban PREAUBERT	FRA	207.61	6	9
8	Javier FERNANDEZ	ESP	204.83	13	6
9	Stefan LINDEMANN	GER	203.95	9	8
10	Tomas VERNER	CZE	203.18	8	10
11	Kevin VAN DER PERREN	BEL	195.48	11	11
12	Adrian SCHULTHEISS	SWE	188.79	12	13
13	Anton KOVALEVSKI	UKR	186.84	14	14
14	Sergei VORONOV	RUS	185.38	17	12
15	Kristoffer BERNTSSON	SWE	183.10	10	17
16	Paolo BACCHINI	ITA	181.42	16	15
17	Viktor PFEIFER	AUT	178.41	15	16
18	Gregor URBAS	SLO	163.84	20	18
19	Zoltan KELEMEN	ROU	161.10	18	20
20	Jorik HENDRICKX	BEL	161.06	19	19

full free skate scores after the jump.

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	SS	TR	PE	CH	IN	Ded. -	StN.
1	Evgeni PLUSHENKO	RUS	164.09	80.99		83.10	8.50	7.65	8.45	8.40	8.55	0.00	#18
2	Stephane LAMBIEL	SUI	160.79	76.79		85.00	8.45	8.25	8.35	8.70	8.75	1.00	#20
3	Brian JOUBERT	FRA	147.90	68.10		79.80	8.15	7.60	8.00	8.00	8.15	0.00	#17
4	Samuel CONTESTI	ITA	145.43	76.33		69.10	6.85	6.60	7.05	6.95	7.10	0.00	#11
5	Michal BREZINA	CZE	145.14	72.54		72.60	7.35	7.00	7.35	7.30	7.30	0.00	#19
6	Javier FERNANDEZ	ESP	138.33	73.43		64.90	6.45	6.10	6.55	6.65	6.70	0.00	#9
7	Yannick PONSERO	FRA	137.12	63.12		74.00	7.70	7.10	7.45	7.35	7.40	0.00	#16
8	Stefan LINDEMANN	GER	133.76	68.76		65.00	6.85	6.30	6.60	6.35	6.40	0.00	#13
9	Alban PREAUBERT	FRA	131.24	64.84		66.40	6.70	6.40	6.70	6.55	6.85	0.00	#12
10	Tomas VERNER	CZE	130.43	58.03		73.40	7.65	7.10	7.15	7.40	7.40	1.00	#14
11	Kevin VAN DER PERREN	BEL	127.76	65.06		62.70	6.55	6.00	6.35	6.25	6.20	0.00	#6
12	Sergei VORONOV	RUS	125.11	65.61		59.50	6.30	5.65	5.95	5.85	6.00	0.00	#4
13	Adrian SCHULTHEISS	SWE	122.24	59.94		62.30	6.30	6.00	6.25	6.30	6.30	0.00	#10
14	Anton KOVALEVSKI	UKR	121.64	58.94		62.70	6.25	5.90	6.20	6.50	6.50	0.00	#8
15	Paolo BACCHINI	ITA	120.52	62.82		57.70	5.85	5.20	5.85	5.90	6.05	0.00	#3
16	Viktor PFEIFER	AUT	114.99	54.69		61.30	6.20	5.85	6.10	6.20	6.30	1.00	#7
17	Kristoffer BERNTSSON	SWE	113.90	48.70		67.20	6.85	6.50	6.50	6.90	6.85	2.00	#15
18	Gregor URBAS	SLO	106.94	55.24		51.70	5.40	4.85	5.30	5.10	5.20	0.00	#5
19	Jorik HENDRICKX	BEL	102.36	52.86		49.50	5.20	4.70	5.05	4.95	4.85	0.00	#1
20	Zoltan KELEMEN	ROU	101.70	52.90		48.80	5.05	4.50	5.00	4.95	4.90	0.00	#2