Fernandez seals first worlds gold
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EUROPEAN champion Javier Fernandez became the first Spanish man to win the world singles title yesterday, overcoming last year’s winner Yuzuru Hanyu in dramatic style in Shanghai.
Fernandez, who has twice won the bronze medal at the ISU world championships, scored 181.16 in the final free skate to give him 273.90 overall, edging Japan’s Olympic champion who scored 175.88 and finished second overall with 271.08.
The winner of the final program with 181.83 points was Kazakh Dennis Tan, who finished third overall with a score of 267.72. Fernandez finished second in yesterday’s skate, while Hanyu settled for third.
Fernandez nailed a quadruple toeloop before falling on a quadruple Salchow-triple toeloop combination, but continued his performance in assured fashion to clinch his biggest title.
The 23-year-old had finished in second place behind Hanyu in the short program on Friday, despite a clean performance.
But Hanyu will be mindful that he failed to land a single quadruple jump yesterday.
The Japanese 20-year-old was returning to competition for the first time since comfortably defending his Grand Prix Final title in Barcelona in mid-December. Hanyu underwent surgery for a bladder problem shortly after that victory, and a sprained ankle then kept him from training until earlier this month.
Earlier, Russian teenager Elizaveta Tuktamysheva took gold in the women’s singles.
The 18-year-old European champion scored 132.74 in the final segment to finish with 210.36 overall, some distance in front of Satoko Miyahara (193.60) of Japan and Russia’s Elena Radionova (191.47) in third.
Dancing to “Batwannis Beek” and “Sandstorm”, the emerging star looked less confident than in her opening short program on Thursday, but still did enough to top the segment, ahead of Americans Gracie Gold (128.23) and Ashley Wagner (127.20).
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