Viktor Petrenko of the Soviet Union won a tension-filled men's final of the European Figure Skating Championships Friday.

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Petr Barna of Czechoslovakia, who faltered on a quadruple jump attempt, was second with another Soviet, Viacheslav Zagorodniuk, third.Petrenko used a difficult triple axel-triple toe loop jump combination to help capture the free program, which brought him from second place following the original program. He had four other clean triple jumps to a medley of music from Chopin and Verdi.

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