Evgeny Plushenko needs another knee surgery soon and he will miss March's World Figure Skating Championships. So the already-hyped matchup between Plushenko and reigning world champion Patrick Chan will not take place this season. Plushenko is finishing up the competition at the European Championships, currently taking place in Sheffield, UK.
Though the men's short program is going on as I write this, here are some earlier results.
In ice dancing, Russia's Bobrova and Soloviev have a slight lead over France's Pechalat and Bourzat. The French team should be able to overcome the difference in the free dance, though.
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SD | FD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV |
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65.06 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT |
|
64.89 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO |
|
61.34 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND |
|
59.78 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS |
|
59.66 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE |
|
59.62 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV |
|
59.49 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES |
|
57.40 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI |
|
56.79 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI |
|
52.45 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV |
|
49.66 | 11 | ||||
| 12 | Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ |
|
49.35 | 12 | ||||
| 13 | Tanja KOLBE / Stefano CARUSO |
|
49.07 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | Louise WALDEN / Owen EDWARDS |
|
48.36 | 14 | ||||
| 15 | Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Neil BROWN |
|
47.47 | 15 | ||||
| 16 | Siobhan HEEKIN-CANEDY / Dmitri DUN |
|
46.71 | 16 | ||||
| 17 | Gabriela KUBOVA / Dmitri KISELEV |
|
45.88 | 17 | ||||
| 18 | Zsuzsanna NAGY / Mate FEJES |
|
44.99 | 18 | ||||
| 19 | Irina SHTORK / Taavi RAND |
|
44.97 | 19 | ||||
| 20 | Nadezhda FROLENKOVA / Mikhail KASALO |
|
42.60 | 20 |
In pairs, world champs Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany withdrew from the competition due to a ruptured thigh muscle for Savchenko. So Russia's Volosozhar and Trankov were left with very little competition (Kavaguti and Smirnov had already pulled out a few weeks ago).
Pairs Short Program
| FPl. | Name | Nation | Points | SP | FS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV |
|
72.80 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV |
|
66.89 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV |
|
58.66 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK |
|
54.38 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE |
|
54.03 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT |
|
53.91 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE |
|
52.00 | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES |
|
51.81 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | Stacey KEMP / David KING |
|
45.75 | 9 | ||||
| 10 | Alexandra HERBRIKOVA / Rudy HALMAERT |
|
42.99 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | Carolina GILLESPIE / Luca DEMATTE |
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42.75 | 11 | ||||
| 12 | Danielle MONTALBANO / Evgeni KRASNOPOLSKI |
|
41.69 | 12 | ||||
| 13 | Anais MORAND / Timothy LEEMANN |
|
41.48 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | Lubov BAKIROVA / Mikalai KAMIANCHUK |
|
39.06 | 14 | ||||
| 15 | Stina MARTINI / Severin KIEFER |
|
38.05 | 15 | ||||
| 16 | Sally HOOLIN / James HUNT |
|
33.41 | 16 | ||||
| 17 | Elizabeta MAKAROVA / Leri KENCHADZE |
|
FNR | 17 | ||||
| 18 | Maria PALIAKOVA / Mikhail FOMICHEV |
|
FNR | 18 | ||||
| WD | Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY |
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