Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, 19, makes history, becomes youngest Olympic gold winner in men figure skating for 66 years

19-year-old Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan made history at Sochi’s Winter Olympics on Friday evening after winning men’s individual figure skating event and becoming the youngest skater to claim the Olympic gold in 66 years. (scroll down for video-highlights of free skating event)

Yuzuru Hanyu Sochi Olympics

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan is the new Olympic champion in men’s figure skating (Capture live broadcast)

Despite experiencing two falls as he performed on Nino Rota’s “Romeo and Juliet”, the Japanese teen managed to climb at the top a nerve-racking and error-overwhelmed finale in the men’s figure skating contest at the Winter Olympics in Sochi

Hanyu amazingly scored world-record points in the short program, but feeling the tremendous pressure during the concluding free performance at the Iceberg Arena, he seemed to have destroyed his advantage as he missed the landing of two jumps.

But the game was far from being over as the dramatic moments were about to arrive. The three-time world Canadian Patrick Chan showed off a disastrous performance thus blowing his chances of becoming an Olympic winner.

Chan’s falls, hesitation and mistakes did nothing else than to make Hanyu the new winning champion, who brought the first gold to his country of Japan at this Olympics.

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“The Olympics is so wild and unpredictable. I’ve never been this nervous for a competition in my entire life. I’m upset with the performance I had, but I left everything I had out there.”

Hanyu set record 101.45 points in Thursday’s short program contest and that was enough to maintain him on top of the rankings and award him the title with a total score of 280.09 points.

Patrick Chan earned the silver medal with his 275.62 points and skater Denis Ten from Kazakhstan claimed the bronze.

VIDEO Highlights: Finale men’s individual figure skating event

Russians were left somehow in disappointment as their star and multiple skating champion, Yevgeny Plushenko, had to quit the competition prior to the kick off of the short program after suffering back injuries in the training session. This reason was not enough for Plushenko to escape the criticism from dropping out of the Sochi’s individual event.

It is worth to mention that Plushenko has dominated the figure skating for the past 15 years, as he won an Olympic gold and two silvers before attending Sochi’s Games. He is 31 years of age and suffered a back surgery just last year.

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