Men's Short Program - 1997 World Figure Skating Championships (USA, ESPN, Kulik, Stojko, Yagudin)

Lausanne, SWITZERLAND - 1997 World Figure Skating Championships, Men's Short Program - Commentators were Terry Gannon, Dick Button, and Brian Boitano. SKATERS (NATION) TIME Interview with Todd Eldredge (USA) Todd Eldredge (USA) Elvis Stojko (CAN) Interview with Michael Weiss (USA) Michael Weiss (USA) Takeshi Honda (JPN) Interview with Ilia Kulik (RUS) Ilia Kulik (RUS) Misha Shmerkin (ISR) Vyacheslav Zagorodniuk (UKR) Aleksei Urmanov (RUS) Aleksei Yagudin (RUS) Rank Name Nation TFP QA QB SP FS 1 Elvis Stojko Canada 3.0 2 4 1 2 Todd Eldredge United States 3.0 1 2 2 3 Alexei Yagudin Russia 5.5 6 5 3 4 Viacheslav Zagorodniuk Ukraine 7.0 3 6 4 5 Ilia Kulik Russia 7.5 2 3 6 6 Andrejs Vlascenko Germany 10.0 4 10 5 7 Michael Weiss United States 12.5 4 9 8 8 Igor Pashkevich Azerbaijan 13.0 5 12 7 9 Jeffrey Langdon Canada 14.5 5 11 9 10 Takeshi Honda Japan 15.5 7 7 12 11 Steven Cousins United Kingdom 19.5 9 17 11 12 Éric Millot France 19.5 3 13 13 13 Laurent Tobel France 20.0 6 20 10 14 Cornel Gheorghe Romania 23.0 8 18 14 15 Michael Shmerkin Israel 24.0 11 8 20 16 Szabolcs Vidrai Hungary 24.5 7 15 17 17 Konstantin Kostin Latvia 25.0 8 14 18 18 Michael Tyllesen Denmark 25.5 12 19 16 19 GUO Zhengxin China 26.0 12 22 15 20 Roman Skorniakov Uzbekistan 27.0 13 16 19 21 Michael Hopfes Germany 31.5 10 21 21 22 Anthony Liu Australia 34.0 9 24 22 23 Ivan Dinev Bulgaria 35.5 13 23 24 24 Patrick Meier Switzerland 36.0 16 26 23 WD Alexei Urmanov Russia 1 1 Free skating not reached 26 Markus Leminen Finland 14 26 27 Gilberto Viadana Italy 14 27 28 Lee Kyu-hyun South Korea 11 28 29 Robert Grzegorczyk Poland 15 29 30 Patrick Schmit Luxembourg 10 30 31 Vakhtang Murvanidze Georgia 15 31 Short program not reached 32 Jordi Pedro Spain 16 33 Alexander Murashko Belarus 17 33 Margus Hernits Estonia 17 35 Karel Nekola Czech Republic 18 35 Daniel Hollander United States 18 37 Ferdi Skoberla South Africa 19 37 Róbert Kažimír Slovakia 19 39 Youri Litvinov Kazakhstan 20 39 David Liu Chinese Taipei 20 41 Ricardo Olaverrieta Mexico 21 41 Florian Tuma Austria 21 43 Yan-Ho Brian Chan Hong Kong 22 43 Matthew van den Broeck Belgium 22 WD Armen Asoyan Armenia