A surprise leader emerged at the 2012 European Figure Skating Championships today after the men's short program. It was not any of the four former champions who are in the field, but it was World bronze medalist Artur Gachinski who is in the lead, besting teammate Evgeni Plushenko for first. The Czech Republic's Tomas Verner is in third.
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RECAP: Men's short program
MEN (after the short program)
1. Artur Gachinski RUS – 84.80 VIDEO
2. Evgeni Plushenko RUS – 84.71 VIDEO
3. Tomas Verner CZE – 81.14 VIDEO
4. Javier Fernandez ESP – 80.11 VIDEO
5. Florent Amodio FRA – 78.48 VIDEO
6. Michal Brezina CZE – 76.13 VIDEO
7. Kevin Van Der Perren BEL – 71.05 VIDEO
8. Jorik Hendrickx BEL – 68.98 VIDEO
9. Alexander Majorov SWE – 68.33 VIDEO
10. Brian Joubert FRA – 67.92 VIDEO
11. Samuel Contesti ITA _ 66.86 VIDEO
12. Chafik Besseghier FRA – 63.12 VIDEO
13. Peter Liebers GER – 61.08 VIDEO
14. Sergei Voronov RUS – 60.88 VIDEO
15. Zoltan Kelemen ROU – 60.12 VIDEO
16. Kim Lucine MON – 57.64 VIDEO
17. Paolo Bacchini ITA – 55.77 VIDEO
18. Justus Strid DEN – 54.71 VIDEO
19. Alexei Bychenko ISR – 54.69 VIDEO
20. Maciej Cieplucha POL – 54.17 VIDEO
21. Viktor Pfeifer AUT – 53.58 VIDEO
22. Viktor Romanenkov EST – 52.24 VIDEO
23. Paul Fentz GER – 51.74 VIDEO
24. Dmitri Ignatenko UKR – 51.61 VIDEO
25. Jason Thompson GBR – 51.42 VIDEO
26. Pavel Kaska CZE – 51.34 VIDEO
27. Vitali Luchanok BLR – 48.32 VIDEO
28. Slavik Hayrapetyan ARM – 45.75 VIDEO
29. Ali Demirboga TUR – 45.54 VIDEO
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