Eighth after the short program the day before, Adam Siao Him Famade an exceptional rise in the rankings by winning the French Figure Skating Grand Prix 2024.
With a score of 171.68 points, this Saturday, November 2 in Angers, the double European champion was sparkling during the free program to win a third consecutive title, after 2022 and 2023. He beat the Italian Nikolai Memola (2nd with 158.68 points) and the Japanese Koshiro Shimada (3rd with 153.42 points)
The 23-year-old skater, however, did not start his competition in the best way with two falls during his short program but from the start of the free, to music from the film Dunecomposed by Hans Zimmer, the double European champion was gone again. He began his performance of the day with one hand on the ice and one hand in the air, like a touched fighter who does not give up, before achieving his quadruple lutz, landed just as the voices appeared. He then transformed his quadruple toe loop into a double before finally completing it at the end of the program.
A rise of 8 places which is reminiscent of the 2024 Worlds last March. After a 19th place in the short program, he then finished 3rd and won bronze.
“I know that mistakes like that happen and that it’s never over,” declared the double winner of the French Grand Prix (2022, 2023) on the microphone ofOlympics.com. “They are two different programs and I had to get into a new mindset and start from scratch. The Worlds were a lesson and I used it. »
Just before Siao Him Fa, Luc Economides established the total score of 205.55 points on music from the film Interstellarfrom Zimmer also with a well-executed triple lutz and triple toe loop before finishing with a triple flip/triple toe loop sequence. The young Francois Pitot19, obtained 183.17 points.
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