Cha Jun-hwan Wins 7th Place Figure Skating Men's Single, Olympic Ticket 1+1 (Roundup)
Mar 30, 2025
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Cha Jun-hwan received a total of 179.33 points in the men's single free skating at the 2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Figure Skating World Championships held at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on the 30th (Korea Standard Time), including 93.22 points in technical score (TES) and 86.11 points in artistic score (PCS). He ranked seventh with 265.74 points in total, which is the sum of his short program (86.41 points).
As Cha Jun-hwan entered the top 10, South Korea earned at least one and two tickets for the men's single figure skating competition at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics in February next year.
In this competition, quotas for each Olympic country will be allocated. Countries with two or more players can qualify for the competition by combining the results of the top two players. If the sum of two people's rankings is 13 or less, they receive three, and if they are 28 or less, they receive two. Korea's Cha Jun-hwan ranked seventh, but Kim Hyun-kyum (Korea University), who participated together, failed to advance to free skating in 26th place in the short program. According to ISU regulations, the ranking of players who fail to make the cut is calculated as 18. Korea received 25 points for Cha Jun-hwan's ranking 7 and Kim Hyun-kyum's ranking 18.
South Korea can send one athlete to the men's single Olympic figure skating event. Depending on the results of the Olympic qualifying round in Beijing, China, in September, one more ticket will be available. ISU has established regulations that require the rest of the tickets, excluding the number of free-skating athletes, to be re-acquired through Olympic qualifiers. However, other players except Cha Jun-hwan must compete in the Beijing qualifying round.
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He earned 9.70 basic points and 3.19 points in performance (GOE) by running the first task, the high-level quadruple salco perfectly. He missed the beat on the subsequent quadruple toe loop and treated it as a two-wheeled jump. He lost nearly 10 points in this jump alone. It didn't shake. He played a triple lutz-triple loop combination jump and a triple axel running three and a half laps cleanly. The step sequence was postponed to level 4.
Cha Jun-hwan continued his elegant performance in the second half with an additional 10% point. The triple flip-single oiler-triple salco combination jump was unforced. We handled the triple axel-double axel sequence jump perfectly. Cha Jun-hwan, who quickly turned the change foot combination spin (level 4), ran neatly until the triple flip of the final jump task. Cha Jun-hwan finished his performance with Correo Sequence, Flying Carmel Spin (Level 4), and Flying Change Foot Combination Spin (Level 4).
Ilya Malinin (318.56 points) of the U.S. won the championship. It has topped the list for two consecutive years since last year. The silver medal was won by Shidorov Mikail (287.47 points in Kazakhstan), the winner of the Four Continents Championships, and Yuma Kagiyama (278.19 points in Japan). Malinin ran six four-round jumps in free skating, including a super-difficulty skill quadruple axel with four-and-a-half laps.
The U.S. and Japan each earned three tickets for the men's single at the Olympics. France won two plus one, Italy and Latvia two, and Kazakhstan and Georgia one plus one.
Meanwhile, South Korea has also secured a spot for the Olympics in ice dancing. Im Hae-na-Kwon Ye-jo received 59.55 points in Free Dance Technical Score (TES), 45.72 points in Art Score (PCS), and a total of 105.27 points. The two players ranked 18th with a final total of 177.31 points, including 72.04 points for rhythm dance. Im Hae-na - Kwon Ye-jo obtained one Olympic ticket according to country distribution. It is the third time that a Korean figure has won the right to ice dance at the Olympics, following the 2002 Salt Lake City Games (Lee Hyung-hwa-Icheon-gun) and the 2018 Pyeongchang Games (Min Yu-ra-Alexander Gemlin).
The Korean Skating Union will select a national athlete to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics after a domestic selection match.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
