Vive La France!

20 year old Florent Amodio won his first european title in Bern tonight, and that wasn't the only good news for France. Former world champion Brian Joubert fought his way back from his disappointing 7th place short programme to take the silver medal. These two will take on Canada's Patrick Chan and the men from Japan in Tokyo in March.

Brian may once again be slightly miffed to be beaten by another skater without a quad, but his own medal and clean free skate should restore a bit of much lacking confidence after a poor olympic season. This is now the 9th straight time Brian has competed at Europeans and come away with a medal on every occasion.

Bronze went to a well deserving Tomas Verner. 

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Florent AMODIO	FRA	226.86	1	3
2	Brian JOUBERT	FRA	223.01	7	1
3	Tomas VERNER	CZE	222.60	5	2
4	Kevin VAN DER PERREN	BEL	216.59	4	5
5	Artur GACHINSKI	RUS	216.07	3	6
6	Samuel CONTESTI	ITA	204.88	6	9
7	Konstantin MENSHOV	RUS	202.62	14	4
8	Michal BREZINA	CZE	201.39	2	10
9	Javier FERNANDEZ	ESP	199.65	11	7
10	Alban PREAUBERT	FRA	196.15	10	8
11	Peter LIEBERS	GER	189.00	9	11
12	Paolo BACCHINI	ITA	178.34	12	13
13	Adrian SCHULTHEISS	SWE	178.19	15	12
14	Kristoffer BERNTSSON	SWE	172.58	8	21
15	Anton KOVALEVSKI	UKR	169.33	19	14
16	Jorik HENDRICKX	BEL	168.39	13	19
17	Kim LUCINE	MON	167.97	20	15
18	Viktor PFEIFER	AUT	164.83	17	20
19	Javier RAYA	ESP	164.68	21	17
20	Denis WIECZOREK	GER	163.60	22	16
21	Zoltan KELEMEN	ROU	160.50	23	18
22	Laurent ALVAREZ	SUI	159.45	16	23
23	Maxim SHIPOV	ISR	158.28	18	22
24	Stephane WALKER	SUI	137.64	24	24
25	Maciej CIEPLUCHA	POL	FNR	25
26	Moris PFEIFHOFER	SUI	FNR	26
27	Ali DEMIRBOGA	TUR	FNR	27
28	Justus STRID	DEN	FNR	28