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ZAGREB (AFP) –
Spain’s Javier Fernandez performs during the men’s free skating program during European Figure Skating Championship in Zagreb, on January 26, 2013. Fernandez won the gold medal.
Javier Fernandez on Saturday became the first Spaniard to win the European men’s figure-skating title, clinching it with a fine free programme in which he landed three quadruple jumps.
The 21-year-old totalled 274.87 points, to finish ahead of France’s 2011 European champion Florent Amodio with Czech Michel Brezina in third.
He is just the fourth man in the history of figure-skating to execute three quadruple jumps in a single free programme after Timothy Goebel of the United States in 1999 and Brian Joubert of France in 2006.
Fernandez first achieved that feat at the Grand Prix Finals held in Sochi in December. He currently trains in Canada with Brian Orser, who coached South Korean Kim Yu-Na to the Olympic title in 2010.
