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Korean male figure skating sign Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University) entered the’Top 10′ in the short program at the World Championships, raising the possibility of obtaining two tickets to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Cha Jun-Hwan added 49.80 points for Technical Points (TES) and 41.35 Points for Art Points (PCS) in the men’s singles at the 2021 International Ice Skating Federation (ISU) World Championships in Figure Skating held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on the 26th (Korean time) to 91.15 points. Ranked 8th. If Cha Jun-hwan maintains his current ranking in the men’s singles free skating held at the same place on the 27th, he will secure two Beijing Olympics quarters. ISU will grant tickets for the Beijing Olympics by country based on the results of this World Championship. When one player from a country competes, 3 tickets for runners-up and 2 tickets for the 3rd to 10th place are given. Cha Jun-hwan also challenges Korea’s best men’s singles at the World Championships. The highest performance in the Korean Men’s Singles World Championships in history was 14th place by Jeong Seong-il in 1991.
Cha Jun-hwan, the first in group 5, played vigorously in line with the short program Dark Pastoral. He neatly handled the first jump task and special move, quadruple salco (fourth round) jump, and scored 9.70 points for the base score and 2.49 points for the GOE. After that, the triple lutz-triple loop combination jump with a base score of 10.80 was also performed cleanly. Cha Jun-hwan treated the Flying Camel Spin at Level 4 and improved the perfection of the acting, and cleaned the triple axel jump that turns three and a half turns in the second half with a 10% bonus point. Cha Jun-hwan laughed wide after performing all of the change foot sit spin, step sequence, and change foot combination spin to the highest level 4. First place was Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan, 106.98 points), who won two consecutive Olympics at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.
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