Estonia's Petrokina claims 'dream' women's European figure skating gold / Photo: Daniel MIHAILESCU - AFP
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Estonia's Petrokina claims 'dream' women's European figure skating gold
Estonia's Niina Petrokina produced a personal best to claim the women's title at the figure skating European championships in front of her home fans in Tallinn on Friday.
"This was my dream and today it came true," beamed the 20-year-old.
"I screamed so much my throat hurts, I can barely speak. I don't even know how I did it, it's just all the work paying off."
Petrokina went into the free skate final trailing 2023 titleholder Anastasiia Gubanova by a mere 0.05 points.
Her routine to the soundtrack to the film Dune by Hans Zimmer earned her a podium-topping 208.18 points total.
Gubanova was unable to match that, taking silver almost 10 points behind with a total of 198.61.
Belgium's Nina Pinzarrone, placed fourth after the short program, climbed in to bronze medal position on 191.44.
Petrokina seized her chance after the women's competition was blown wide open by the withdrawal of reigning champion Loena Hendrickx, after the Belgian ended her season early to have ankle surgery.
Earlier, Italy's Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri opened their bid for a third consecutive European title by leading the ice dance rhythm dance.
To the music of Stevie Wonder and Wilson Picket the Italians scored 84.23 points to lead France's Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud, who achieved 82.75 for their presentation to Boney M's 'Rasputin'.
Britain's Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson are in third position on 81.57 heading into Saturday's free dance final.
Fear and Gibson, the two-time continental silver medallists, are looking for a first British triumph since Torvill and Dean in 1994.
The championships conclude on Saturday with the men's free skate where France's Adam Siao Him Fa is gunning for a third consecutive men's title after taking the lead in Thursday's short program.
F.Ramirez--AT
