Australian figure skater Jo Carter has delivered one of the best performances of her career, placing 11th in the free program at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow.
Australian figure skater Jo Carter has delivered one of the best performances of her career, placing 11th in the free program at the 2005 World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow.
Carter scored 95.60 points from the judges, outscoring a group of higher ranked competitors that included Julia Sebestyen of Hungary, the European champion in 2004 and sixth placegetter in last year’s World Championships, and Elena Lyashenko of the Ukraine, a medallist at the past two European Championships.
But with the points from the qualifying round, the short program and the free program all contributing to the overall score – and with an even better free program performance from Swiss skater Sarah Meier - Carter’s placing actually moved out one spot from the 15th position she held at the end of the short program.
She ended the competition in 16th place with a total score of 163.38 points.
The world title was won by Russian skater and 2002 champion Irina Slutskaya on 222.71 points. Sasha Cohen of the United States was second on 214.39 points and Carolina Kostner of Italy third on 200.56.
“This was the first time I have really felt like everything was 110% there in an international competition performance,” Carter said.
“I managed to skate a clean program and a personal best score as well.”
“I’m not a fan of the new judging and points system at the moment - I skate better and I come lower? Of course, the moral of the story is that I need to skate a blinder for every program.”
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“But I’m really happy with my long program today. The president of the International Ice Skating Union came up to our Australian judge and said he was very impressed with my performance, so that was very positive. It’s not every day you get a comment like that.”
“And I’m overjoyed and any other adjective you can think of now that I have qualified a place at the 2006 Olympics! I’m just so happy all the hard work has paid off!”
“My body is definitely ready for a break now. Everything is hurting, and I seem to have a zillion bruises. It’s been a long season, but worth every push on the ice!”.
Carter represented Australia at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, producing the best result by an Australian woman in Olympic figure skating competition when she finished in 12th place.
Carter scored 95.60 points from the judges, outscoring a group of higher ranked competitors that included Julia Sebestyen of Hungary, the European champion in 2004 and sixth placegetter in last year’s World Championships, and Elena Lyashenko of the Ukraine, a medallist at the past two European Championships.
But with the points from the qualifying round, the short program and the free program all contributing to the overall score – and with an even better free program performance from Swiss skater Sarah Meier - Carter’s placing actually moved out one spot from the 15th position she held at the end of the short program.
She ended the competition in 16th place with a total score of 163.38 points.
The world title was won by Russian skater and 2002 champion Irina Slutskaya on 222.71 points. Sasha Cohen of the United States was second on 214.39 points and Carolina Kostner of Italy third on 200.56.
“This was the first time I have really felt like everything was 110% there in an international competition performance,” Carter said.
“I managed to skate a clean program and a personal best score as well.”
“I’m not a fan of the new judging and points system at the moment - I skate better and I come lower? Of course, the moral of the story is that I need to skate a blinder for every program.”
.
“But I’m really happy with my long program today. The president of the International Ice Skating Union came up to our Australian judge and said he was very impressed with my performance, so that was very positive. It’s not every day you get a comment like that.”
“And I’m overjoyed and any other adjective you can think of now that I have qualified a place at the 2006 Olympics! I’m just so happy all the hard work has paid off!”
“My body is definitely ready for a break now. Everything is hurting, and I seem to have a zillion bruises. It’s been a long season, but worth every push on the ice!”.
Carter represented Australia at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, producing the best result by an Australian woman in Olympic figure skating competition when she finished in 12th place.
