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Spain's Fernandez beats Japan's Hanyu to win men's title at figure skating worlds

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Javier Fernandez of Spain outscored reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan to win the men's title at the ISU Figure Skating World Championships here on Saturday.

Fernandez, who finished second in Friday's short program, performed to II Barbiere di Seviglia by G. Rossini and scored 181.16 points in free skating and totaled 273.90 to win the gold.

Hanyu took the silver with 175.88 in free skating and 271.08 overall. Kazakhstan's Dennis Ten led the free skating in 181.83 but ranked third in total of 267.72.

Fernandez, three time European champion in a row and two time world championships bronze medallist, fell in his first quad toeloop, but performed flawlessly after that. He hit a quad salchow and triple toeloop, a triple Axel, and quad salchow.

"I can't believe it," said the winner, who bursted into tears and hugged his coach.

Hanyu seemed disappointed as he made several mistakes in his free skating. Endi