Kim Ye-rim placed 5th in the women’s single short at the World Figure Championships

Kim Ye-rim performs at the 2021 World Championship Short Program held on the 24th. [AP=연합뉴스]

Kim Ye-rim performs at the 2021 World Championship Short Program held on the 24th. [AP=연합뉴스]

Kim Ye-rim (18, Surigo), the women’s national figure skating team, was ranked 5th in the World Championship Short Program. Lee Haein (16, Sehwa Girls’ High School), who participated together, ranked 8th.

Kim Ye-Rim was held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on the 24th (Korea time) in the Women’s Single Short Program at the 2021 International Ice Skating Federation (ISU) Figure Skating World Championships. Recorded. It surpassed his ISU official high score recorded in September 2018.

Kim Ye-rim performed in line with Franz Liszt’s’Love Dream’. Kim Ye-rim did not make any mistakes in all three jumps, handled them neatly, and received additional points. The step sequence (level 3), the changefoot combination spin (level 4), and the sit spin (level 4) all achieved high levels and succeeded in high scores.

Lee Hae-in was unable to participate in the Grand Prix series this season, so this tournament was his senior debut. However, he was not nervous and performed good acting. It ranked 8th with 68.94 points, combined with 37.29 points for the technical score (TES) and 31.29 points for the art score (PCS).

Lee Hae-in performs at the 2021 World Championship Short Program held on the 24th. [AP=연합뉴스]

Lee Hae-in is acting in the 2021 World Championship Short Program held on the 24th. [AP=연합뉴스]

Lee Hae-in, who chose Franz Schubert’s song’Ave Maria’, received an attention (edge ​​useism) judgment in the first jump task, the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, and his performance score was reduced by 1.26 points. However, the rest of the jump was handled fine. In particular, in step sequence level 4), an additional point of 1.50 was obtained.

Depending on the performance of the two players, Korean women’s singles are likely to get up to three tickets to the Beijing Winter Olympics next year. If the combined ranking of the two players is 13 or less, 3 qualifying tickets will be obtained, and if 14 or more and 28 or less, 2 cards will be secured. In the free skating held on the 27th, if the two players maintain their current rankings, they will earn three quarters.

Russia’s Anna Sherbakova (Russia) with 81.00 points in the first place, and Japan’s Rika Kihira (79.08 points) in second place. Elizabeth Tuktamisheva (Russia, 78.86 points) came in third.

Reporter Kim Hyo-kyung [email protected]

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