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Russia’s gold medallist Adelina Sotnikova reacts during the Women’s Figure Skating Flower Ceremony at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the Sochi Winter Olympics yesterday. (AFP)
Sochi: Adelina Sotnikova won Russia’s first ever women’s Olympic figure skating gold in controversial circumstances yesterday as defending champion Kim Yu-Na was dumped into the silver medal position.
The 17-year-old took the title ahead of South Korean superstar Kim with Italy’s Carolina Kostner winning the bronze after the free skating final.
Despite an error when she two-footed a double loop in her combination jump the teenager improved her free skate score by a massive 18 points to take a third title in Sochi for hosts Russia.
Both Kim and Kostner gave error-free performances.
“I just have faith that the judges made the right decision,” said former world champion Kostner.
Kim had been bidding to become just the third woman to win back-to-back titles after Norway’s Sonja Henie, triple winner between 1928 and 1936, and Germany’s Katarina Witt in 1984 and 1988.
Kim watched in tears as the scores came up putting her second behind four-time Russian national champion Sotnikova, who finished runner-up at the Europeans behind countrywoman Julia Lipnitskaia last month.
Lipnitskaia, 15, finished fifth yesterday.
It was a third title for Russia after Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov pairs’ success, in which they led a 1-2 ahead of Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov.
Russia had also won the team competition.
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