Figure skater Matvey Vetlugin said that with his performance at the St. Petersburg Championships he wanted to demonstrate to the strongest Russian skaters that he can also perform at a good level.
In the short program, a student of Alexei Mishin performed a quadruple sheepskin coat, a triple axel and a combination of a triple lutz and a triple loop. According to the results of the first day of competition, Makar Ignatov leads with 105.08 points. Vetlugin takes second place (101.6), Gleb Lutfullin closes the top three (97.15).
– First of all, I would like to thank the skaters who came to this tournament. The strongest athletes in the city are not competing today: Liza (Tuktamysheva), Misha (Kolyada), Petya (Gumennik), Zhenya (Semenenko). I would like to please them and show that we second-tier skaters can skate too. Today, I broke the 100 point mark, listening. I know that in St. Petersburg they are quite loyal to local athletes, and even with a quadruple this is quite an achievable goal, ”reports the correspondent in the words of Vetlugin.
The Saint Petersburg championship takes place on January 28 and 29.
Source : MatchTV

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