‘Painkiller Fighting Spirit’ Cha Jun-hwan “I’m sorry for the mistake…I’m ready to Beijing immediately”

“A pain reliever for back pain and rupture of the leg muscles”

Cha Jun-hwan playing in the Men's Single Short Program at the World Figure Skating Championships
Cha Jun-hwan playing in the Men’s Single Short Program at the World Figure Skating Championships

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Young-ho = Behind the shining achievements of Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University), the first Korean male figure skating player to achieve the’Top 10′ in the World Championships, there was a tearful’painkiller fighting spirit’.

Cha Jun-hwan took 10th place with a total score of 245.99 points in the men’s singles at the 2021 International Ice Skating Federation (ISU) Figure Skating World Championships, which ended at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden on the 27th (Korean time).

Cha Jun-hwan is the first Korean male player to be in the top 10 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 and even tasted the double slope of the’first top 10′.

Cha Jun-hwan ranked 8th in the middle ranking with 91.15 points in the short program on the 26th, and although he exposed jump anxiety in free skating, he gradually overcome and took the overall 10th place.

Through this, Cha Jun-hwan took the lead in securing up to two tickets for men’s singles at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

However, as the Olympic Quarter is not given to individuals, but is a national quota, Cha Jun-hwan has to replay the national team selection ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

The process of achieving the first Korean men’s singles world championship’Top 10′ was not smooth.

Above all, due to the worldwide epidemic of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), Cha Jun-hwan, like other athletes, had difficulty securing training grounds. Here, as various competitions were canceled, there were few opportunities to play on the actual stage.

Cha Jun-hwan, who climbed 8th place in the men's single short at the Figure Skating World Championships
Cha Jun-hwan, who climbed 8th place in the men’s single short at the Figure Skating World Championships

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Injuries were also overlaid here.

Cha Jun-hwan confessed through the management company Bravo & New, “In fact, since mid-February, I have endured with pain relievers as back pain and leg muscle rupture overlapped.”

Last month, when he was delayed in free skating for the selection of men and women’s men’s and women’s figure skating championships and the 2021 World Championships in 2021 Figure Skating World Championships, he repeatedly made jump mistakes in the aftermath of injuries, showing off his strength to win.

Cha Jun-hwan said, “It’s been a long time since it’s been a long time since it’s been a long time, so I’ve been very nervous since the short program and I’ve been trying to find a sense of composure.”

As he said, Cha Jun-hwan changed his first free skating performance to a triple flip jump instead of a quadruple flip (4 rounds), focusing on stable acting.

However, he struggled with’injury aftereffects’ such as lack of rotation in the quadruple salco and falling in the triple accelerator-double toe loop combination jump, and struggled to protect the’top 10′.

Cha Jun-hwan said, “I think it’s a good thing to be in the’Top 10′. Thank you to many who supported me. I arrived in Sweden on the 20th and I was only able to go to hotels and stadiums, so the outside wind was desperate. Even so, the competition could be held. “I think I should be grateful for the fact that there is.”

He said, “When I return to Korea, I will get enough rest while self-isolation, and I will start preparing for the Beijing Olympics right away.”

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