Figure Skating Cha Jun-hwan, 10th World Championship… Secured up to 2 Olympic Quarters

The highest grade in the history of Korean male figure skating… Renewed in 30 years

US Nathan Chen is’three consecutive victories’

Figure Skating Men's Single Signboard Cha Jun-hwan
Figure Skating Men’s Single Signboard Cha Jun-hwan

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Kyung-yoon = Korean figure skating male sign Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University) entered the’Top 10′ for the first time as a Korean male athlete at the World Championships.

Cha Jun-hwan was awarded 72.90 points in Technical Points (TES), 82.94 points in Arts Points (PCS) in the men’s single free skating at the 2021 International Ice Skating Federation (ISU) Figure Skating World Championships held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on the 27th (Korean time) In total, he received 154.84 points.

He added 91.15 points for the short program and finished 10th with a total score of 245.99.

Accordingly, Korea secured at least one male single entry ticket for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and a maximum of two.

ISU awards tickets to the Beijing Olympics by country based on the results of the World Championships.

When one player from a country competes, 3 tickets for runners-up and 2 tickets for the 3rd to 10th place are given.

However, according to the ISU Regulations revised in June 2018, Rule 400 A.4-b, if 2-3 athletes from the countries that have won the Olympic Quarter 2 or 3 are unable to advance to free skating, the difference is the Olympics. It made it possible to obtain the right to participate in other competitions.

In Korea, only one player Cha Jun-hwan participated in the men’s singles at the World Championships, and only one player played free skating, so only one of the two qualifications will be fully secured. The remaining one can be obtained in addition to the Nebelhorn Trophy Competition.

The Korea Ice Skating Federation explained, “First, Korea has won two Olympic Quarters.” It is expected that further interpretation will be needed regarding the criteria for obtaining the Olympic Quarter.

Meanwhile, Cha Jun-hwan has pulled up to two Olympic tickets on his own, but he has not confirmed the trip to Beijing.

The players who will compete in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be selected for a separate domestic selection.

As Cha Jun-hwan’s skills are far superior to other domestic athletes, the possibility of participating in the Olympics is high.

Cha Jun-hwan also changed Korea’s best results for men’s singles at the World Championships.

The highest performance in the Korean Men’s Singles World Championships was ranked 14th by Jeong Seong-il in 1991, and Cha Jun-hwan surpassed it in 30 years.

Figure Skating Cha Jun-hwan
Figure Skating Cha Jun-hwan

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On this day, Cha Jun-hwan started acting vigorously in line with the free skating program’The Fire Within’.

He usually plays a quadruple (four rotations) flip, which is a’special move,’ as his first acting task, but this time he played a triple flip, which only turns three turns.

It was judged that the stable acting was advantageous for the ranking fight.

In the second jump task, Quadruple Salco, under rotated (when the number of rotations of the jump is less than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees) was judged, and the performance score (GOE) was reduced by 1.44 points.

Cha Jun-hwan recovered the score by performing a clean treatment of the triple lutz-double toe loop combination jump and then acting both the flying camel spin and step sequence to level 4.

However, a regrettable mistake came out again. When he fell while performing the triple accel-double toe loop combination jump, he was deducted 4 points in his performance score (GOE).

The landing was unstable even in the straight triple axel jump.

After that, the acting was perfect. He perfectly performed the triple flip-single Euler-triple salco combination jump.

Cha Jun-hwan, who refined his breath with the Coreo sequence, cleaned the triple loop, the last jump.

Both the Change Foot Seat Spin and the Change Foot Combination Spin received Level 4.

Cha Jun-hwan, who finished acting, said through her agency, “It’s been a long time since I participated in an international competition, so I was very nervous.” I will come forward,” he said.

Meanwhile, the championship was won by Nathan Chen (320.88 points), an American’jump machine’ who performed five quadruple jumps. He set a record for three consecutive world championships.

Hanyu Yuzuru (Japan, 289.18 points), who won two consecutive Olympics at the 2014 Sochi Games and 2018 PyeongChang Games, ended up in third place amid the severe sluggishness of making mistakes in jump landing.

In the second place, Yuma Kagiyama (291.77 points), the “divine of Japan,” climbed.

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