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The Ukrainian participant showed a brilliant result
The Ukrainian figure skating team has won its first gold medal at the 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, which is taking place in Bakuriani, Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia, from February 9 to 16. Yehor Kurtzev won the men's singles competition.
After the short program, the 15-year-old Kharkiv native topped the standings with 68.66 points, 5.84 points ahead of Estonia's Vladislav Churakov. In the free skating, Yehor continued to show excellent results, scoring 130.15 points despite an unfortunate landing at the beginning.
As a result, his total score was 198.81, which earned him the gold medal with a 16.37-point advantage over Churakov. Swiss Gion Schmid took third place with 176.94 points.
Kurtzev's victory was the first gold medal for Ukraine at EYOF in figure skating in 10 years. The last time was when Ivan Pavlov took first place in 2015.
This is also Ukraine's first medal in figure skating in six years after Anastasia Arkhipova's bronze medal at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
At the time of publication, Ukraine is in third place in the overall standings, with 3 gold and 2 bronze medals.
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