Tomás Guarino, to the final of the World Championship

The Japanese Shoma Uno, bronze in the recent Olympic Games in Beijingleads the men’s competition after the short program of the world figure skating championships, in Montpellier (France), for whose Spanish Tomás Guarino qualified for the final in its premiere at a World Cup event.

The Catalan skater earned the right to present the free program on Saturday after finishing twenty-fourth in the short, which gave the pass to the final to the best 24 of the 30 competitors. The Mexican Donovan Carrillo did not jump on the ice, to whom the luggage arrived with the competition skates a few hours before the test.

Guarino beat his personal brand in the short film with a score of 71.42 that improved the 70.13 which he signed in October 2021 at the Finnish Trophy.

last month ended ninth in the Challenge Cup played in The Hague. He was twenty-second at the Europeans earlier in the year and is the first Spanish representative in a World Cup since 2018, the year in which Javier Raya (37th) competed tafter the withdrawal of Javier Fernándezchampion in 2015 and 2016.

The Montpellier World Championships are marked by the absence of Russian skaters, due to sanctions against his country for the invasion of Ukraine, and by those of other great figures who took a break after the Beijing Games; among them the American Olympic champion Nathan Chen and the double gold in 2014 and 2018, the Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu.

One long beat his previous mark in the short program, 105.90, with the 109.63 he got today and that gave him a wide margin over his teammates Yuma KagiyamaOlympic runner-up, who achieved 105.69, and Kazuki Tomono, with 101.12.

The only one who seems capable of preventing a Japanese-only podium finish is the American Ilia Malinin, de 17 years old, debutant in the senior categorywho finished fourth with 100.16.

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