TALLINN, 12 Jan, Sergey Yaremenko. Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin said that Russian figure skaters Andrei Mozalev, Mark Kondratyuk and Evgeny Semenenko performed in the short program at the European Championships so confidently that it is impossible to find fault with them. Competitions are held in Tallinn. Mozalev leads after the short program. For his rental, he received 99.76 points. The second and third places are taken by other representatives of Russia — Mark Kondratyuk (99.06) and Evgeny Semenenko (99.04), respectively. All three Russians showed the best results in terms of the number of points in their careers following the results of the short program. «I always said: it doesn't matter how many points you get, the main thing is the place at which you finish the tournament. All the first five made me happy — both our guys and Maurice (Kvitelashvili ), and Daniel Grassl. Do not find fault. We skated so cleanly and confidently. Let's see what will happen in the free program. It is often said that you cannot win a tournament with a short program, but you can lose. The guys did everything not to lose, «Yagudin said. «It's great that our top three have a reserve from the fourth or fifth places. Today the guys gave us a holiday,» Yagudin noted. The skaters will present their free program on Friday.
