⛸ Maria Butyrskaya wins a World title at 26. 1999 Worlds - Short, Free, Exhibition Programs

- HDp60fps format, American coverage - running sheet: Short Program (St. James Infirmary - Irving Mills), profile piece, Free Skate Program (Otonal - Raul di Blasio), Exhibition Gala (A Los Amigos from Forever Tango), 1999 World Figure Skating Championships (Helsinki, Finland) - Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya (Russian: Мария Викторовна Бутырская, born 28 June 1972) is a Russian retired figure skater. She is the 1999 World champion and a three-time European champion — becoming the oldest skater and the first Russian to win the World ladies’ title and the oldest skater to win the European ladies’ title (2002 at age 29). (Wikipedia) - The event used the former 6.0 system (using a scale from 0.0 to 6.0 to determine the judge’s preferred ranking), which was later replaced from 2004 by the ISU Judging System (the ’code of points’) where each element contains a pre-set base value that is affected by its quality of execution. #figureskating ＃フィギュア