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Estonia's Figure Skating Depth Shines in Riga Sweep
Estonian skaters Arlet Levandi and Nataly Langerbaur secured decisive first-place finishes at an international competition in Riga, Latvia, with Levandi posting a personal-best score of 226.54 points that would have placed him in the top ten at the recent European Championships.
- —Estonian figure skaters Arlet Levandi and Nataly Langerbaur secured first place in the men's and women's singles categories, respectively, at an international competition in Riga, Latvia.
- —Arlet Levandi achieved a personal best score of 226.54 points in the men's singles, a performance that would have placed him in the top ten at the recent European Championships.
- —Nataly Langerbaur also set a personal best with 170.95 points in the women's singles, surpassing her previous record from the European Championships.
- —Elina Goidina won the junior women's singles category with 187.82 points, while Sofia Nekrassova placed fourth.
- —Ilja Nesterov finished fifth in the junior men's singles event.
Recap
The victories in Riga are not isolated successes but evidence of a broadening talent base in Estonian figure skating. Coming immediately after the European Championships, these personal-best performances by a different set of athletes indicate a national program capable of producing multiple competitive skaters, moving beyond reliance on a few top stars.