Saturday - short program.
Unfortunately, this year the number of spectators was very small, just like the past years. It seems like there were only relatives and friends to watch this event.

In the ladies field Viktoria PAVUK is leading, after landing a 3lutz-2toe combination and 3flip. She stepped out of the 2axel. Miia MARTTINEN performed a clean short landing a nice 3loop-2toe combo, 3toe, and the 2axel. I think it was a close decision for the first place.

In the men's event Gheorghe CHIPER landed his 3axel-2toe combo but stepped out of the 3axel. He touched the ice with his hand on the 3lutz landing. Second after the short is Patrick MEIER. He had nice a 3lutz and 2axel, and went for the 3axel, but couldn't land it. Zoltan TOTH planned a 4toe-2toe combo but didn't manage to land it. Ari-Pekka NURMENKARI had an interresting coreography, but singled his 3flip-2toe combo.

Bálint Miklós
25 November, 2002