1997 European Championships



Qualifying Rounds

Top 15 in each group qualified for Championships.


Ladies' Qualifying Round A

Skater FS
Maria Butyrskaya, RUS 1
Irina Slutskaya, RUS 2
Vanessa Gusmeroli, FRA 3
Olga Markova, RUS 4
Veronika Dytrt, GER 5
Krisztina Czako, HUN 6
Lenka Kulovana, CZE 7
Yulia Lavrenchuk, UKR 8
Sanna-Maija Wiksten, FIN 9
Marta Andrade, SPN 10
Anna Dimova, BUL 11
Tony-Sabrina Bombardieri, ITA 12
Jenna Arrowsmith, GBR 13
Anina Fivian, SWI 14
Jekaterina Golovatenko, EST 15
Anastasia Efimova, AZE 16
Selma Duyn, NED 17
Noemi Bedo, ROM 18
Merine Tadevosyan, ARM 19

Notes:

Butyrskaya and Slutskata both skated well, but were not oustanding. Both had four triples, but with two mistakes each. Gusmeroli and Dytrt (3rd at German Nationals) both also had 4 triples each while Markova include three. The skating of this group was of midling level.


Ladies' Qualifying Round B

Skater FS
Elena Liashenko, UKR 1
Eva-Maria Fitze, GER 2
Yulia Vorobieva, AZE 3
Julia Lautova, AUT 4
Laetitia Huber, FRA 5
Surya Bonaly, FRA 6
Anna Rechnio, POLA 7
Zuzanna Swed, POL 8
Alisa Drei, FIN 9
Diana Poth, HUN 10
Mojca Kopac, SLO 11
Zuzana Paurova, SVK 12
Klara Bramfeldt, SWE 13
Ivana Jakupcevic, CRO 14
Kaja Hanevold, NOR 15
Valeria Trifanceva, LAT 16
Patricia Ferriot, BEL 17
Ece Aksuyen, TUR 18
Valentina Gazeleridou, GRE 19

Notes:

Liashenko won with only 3 triples. Fitze (the new German champion) had five different triples, but skated a bit slowly. Vorobieva included four different triples. Bonaly shoed only triple toe and triple Salchow cleanly. She two-footed triple Lutz and triple (?) (can't read the fax!). She landed quad Salchow three times in practice but did not use it in competition. The quality of this group was below that of Group A, with many errors made.


Men's Qualifying Round A

Skater FS
Evgeny Pliuta, RUS 1
Philippe Candeloro, FRA 2
Dmitry Dmitranko, UKR 3
Ilia Kulik, RUS 4
Michael Shmerkin, ISR 5
Viacheslav Zagorodniuk, UKR 6
Szabolcs Vidrai, HUN 7
Michael Tyllesen, DEN 8
Patrick Schmit, LUX 9
Alexander Mourashko, BLR 10
Vakhtang Murvanidze, GEO 11
Markus Leminen, FIN 12
Roman Martonenko, EST 13
Marius Negrea, ROM 14
Jan Cejvan, SLO 15
Matthew van den Broeck, BEL 16

Notes:

Pliuta skatred the best performance of his life, witha triple Axel - triple toe combination. Candeloro tried four triples, but had errors on two. Zagorodniuk did not have a good skate, and showed a case of "nerves". The quality of the group as a whole was mediocre.


Men's Qualifying Round B

Skater FS
Alexei Urmanov, RUS 1
Igor Pashkevitch, AZE 2
Alexei Yagudin, RUS 3
Andrej Vlachtchenko, GER 4
Steven Cousins, GBR 5
Cornel Gheorghe, ROM 6
Thierry Cerez, FRA 7
Ivan Dinev, BUL 8
Gilberto Viadana, ITA 9
Neil Wilson, GBR 10
Patrick Meier, SWI 11
Robert Grzegorcyzk, POL 12
Florian Tuma, AUT 13
Jordi Pedro, SPN 14
Robert Kazimir, SVK 15
Karel Nekola, CZE 16
Edgar Grigoryan, ARM 17

Notes:

Urmanov skated very well but made a few errors, falling on a triple toe and a second triple Axel. Pashkevitch landed six triples in his program. Yagudin tried quad toe, in vain, but landed five triples. Overall a better quality group than Group A.


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