Alina Zagitova won a short program at the European Figure Skating Championship

Russian skater Alina Zagitova leads after the execution of a short program in the women's single -loner tournament at the European Championship in Minsk.

The Olympic champion Pyeongchang received at its 75.00 points.

The second place is occupied by the Russian Sofya Sophia (72.88), the third is Swiss Alexy Paganini (65.64). Another Russian skater - Stanislav Konstantinov (56.76) - is located in the 11th position.

Note that at the 2018 European Championship, Zagitova took first place, typing 80.27 points in a short program.

At the current championship of the continent, lovers of figure skating did not see the confrontation of Zagitova and two -time world and European champion Evgenia Medvedeva, who unsuccessfully performed at the country's championship and climbed the current tournament only as a second reserve.

The owners of medals in female single skating will become known on Friday when an arbitrary program passes.

In the competition, sports couples after a short program lead the French Vanessa James and Morgan Sipre (76.55). They are haunted by the winners of the last two European championships, Russians Evgeny Tarasov and Vladimir Morozov (73.90), the third are the Italians Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise (73.70).

The Russians Alexander Boykov and Dmitry Kozlovsky (72.58) take fourth place, Daria Pavlyuchenko and Denis Khodykin (65.89) - the fifth. The arbitrary program will be presented on January 24.