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Two Korean men's figure skating will also participate in the Olympics. Kim Hyun-kyum (Korea University), a rising figure skater in men's single figure skating, won an additional berth for figure skating at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.
Kim Hyun-kyum received 82.78 points in technical score (TES), 71.13 points in artistic score (PCS), and 153.91 points in men's single free skating at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics additional qualifying tournament held in Beijing, China on the 21st. He came in second with a final total score of 228.60, which is a total of 74.69 points for the short program. Each country qualified for the Olympics, which is given to the top five. With this, South Korea will send a total of two athletes to the men's single figure skating event at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.
In the men's single at the 2025 ISU Figure Skating World Championships in March, Cha Joon-hwan of Seoul City Hall ranked seventh, earning one plus one ticket to the Olympics. In accordance with the relevant regulations, South Korea secured one ticket for the men's single figure skating category, and the other one had to compete with other players in additional Olympic qualifiers. The Korea Skating Union (KAF) held a competition to select players to compete in the qualifying competition. Kim Hyun-kyum participated in this competition after winning the domestic competition in July and being selected as a participant. However, the ice skating federation plans to select two male singles players to compete in the Olympics after a domestic selection match. Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Hyun-kyum should seek to participate in the Olympics through domestic competition again. Women's singles and ice dancing, which earned two and one Olympic berth through the World Championships, will also compete for the national team.
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On this day, Kim Hyun-kyum performed a near-perfect performance. He cleaned the quadruple toe loop, his first jump task. The landing seemed to be shaking, but he held on until the end. The deduction factor has been erased. Since then, the triple axel has ruled quarter landing (if the number of jump rotations is insufficient at the 90 degree level), and the performance score (GOE) was cut by 1.37 points, but it was not enough to interfere with the results of the competition. Kim Hyun-gyeom immediately performed the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump neatly. Even the triple flip, the last jump task in the first half, was played without a mistake. He finished the first half of the performance with flying camel spin (level 4) and step sequence (level 3).
The postponement of the second half with an additional 10% point was also good. After running the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump stably, he performed the triple loop-double axel-double axel sequence jump neatly. Finished all the jump tasks with a clean sweep of the triple salco. He finished acting with the change foot combination spin (level 4), the Correo sequence, and the flying change foot combination spin (level 4). He knelt on the silver plate and breathed a long, arduous breath. Later, Kim Hyun-kyum burst into tears. When the score came up in Kiss and Cry Zone, he shed tears and expressed his joy.
Meanwhile, Russian individual neutral athletes (AIN) Petr Gummenik won the Olympics with a total score of 262.82. Individual neutral players receive individual quotas rather than national quotas. Donovan Carrillo of Mexico (222.36 points), Kirilo Marsak of Ukraine (217.57 points), and Li Yuxiang of Taiwan (216.98 points) of Taiwan, who came in fifth, gave their countries the right to participate in the Olympics.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
