Quads Galore In Skating

Tue., March 23, 1999

There were quads in the air and on the ice and it was just the qualifying rounds at the World Figure Skating Championships on Monday.

Six skaters completed the four-revolution jump, the most ever in a competition, and American Tim Goebel became the first skater to land a quad salchow in the world championships.

Russians Yevgeny Plushenko won one group and defending world champion Alexei Yagudin won the other.

American champion Michael Weiss came in second to Plushenko. Goebel came in fifth.

The qualifying round advances 15 skaters from each group.

In pairs competition, China’s Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo were close behind world champions Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze in the short program.

American pairs were weak: the highest placement was Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman in eighth.

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