Figure skater Morisi Kvitelashvili wins historic first ISU Grand Prix title for Georgia
Moris Kvitelashvili is one of the Georgian figure skaters, who has qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Photo: ISU
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Georgian figure skater Morisi Kvitelashvili has made history by winning the first ever Grand Prix of the International Skating Union (ISU) in Sochi yesterday.
ISU has tweeted:
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Kvitelashvili opened his program to “Fly Me to the Moon” and “My Way” with a ‘quad Salchow-double toe, a triple Axel, quad toe-triple toe and followed up with three more triples’, the ISU reports.
It however says that ‘the only major error came when he fell on a quad toeloop’.
Not everything worked in my program, but I tried hard, I fought and I am happy to be on the podium. We are making history and we have other great skaters in our team. We’re going to have a complete team at the Olympic Games in Beijing, that’s also a first”, Kvitelashvili told the ISU.
His Russian rival Mikhail Kolyada has claimed silver, Japanese Kazuki Tomono has settled for the bronze.
Watch the entire men free skating competition:
Sochi has been hosting the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Rostelecom Cup on November 25-28.
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