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Figure skating women's single ace Shin Ji-ah (Sehwa Girls' High School) laughed. He ranked first in the first round of the national team's qualification for the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.
Shin Ji-ah scored 75.19 points in technical score (TES), 68.95 points in artistic score (PCS), and 144.14 points in total in the women's single free skating competition held at Mokdong Ice Rink in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul on Nov. 30. The final total score was 216.20 points, including 72.06 points for the short program. He beat runner-up Kim Yoo-jae (204.99 points, Suri High School) by a large margin to win. He has gained the upper hand in the competition for the Olympics. Shin said "I was very upset because my Grand Prix performance was not good this season. I tried to forget it quickly. I will prepare well for the rest of the year and do my best to participate in the Olympics."
This is the first round of selection for the national team to compete in the Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics. The final selection of the Olympic athletes will be made by adding up the results of the second round of trials to be held in January 2026. As of July 1, 2025, the figure skating competition at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics is 17 years of age or older. Korea will send two men's and women's singles and one team to ice dance.
After playing the first task double axel, Shin Ji-ah handled the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump without shaking. Triple Salco and Triple Loop were clean in succession. The last performance in the first half, the change foot combination spin, was postponed to level 3.
The postponement of the second half with an additional 10% point was also postponed without wavering. In the triple flip-double toe loop-double loop combination jump, attention (edge utilization) and quarter landing (if the number of jump rotations is short at the 90 degree level) were determined, but the deduction was not significant. I ran the triple flip-double axel sequence jump perfectly. The final jump task Triple Lutz was also cleaned. It was then finished with Flying Carmel Spin (Level 4), Step Sequence (Level 4), Correo Sequence, and Flying Change Foot Combination Spin (Level 4).
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Kim Chae-yeon (201.78 points, Gyeonggi-do Skating Union) ranked third, Yoon Seo-jin (201.65 points, Han Advertising) ranked fourth, and Lee Hae-in (195.80 points, Korea University) ranked fifth. However, Kim Yoo-jae and Yoon Seo-jin are not eligible to participate in senior international competitions, including the Olympics, due to age restrictions. As a result, Shin Ji-ah, Kim Chae-yeon, and Lee Hae-in are expected to compete fiercely for two Olympic tickets in the second round. Kim Chae-yeon, who had a hard time with a torn ligament in her right ankle, said "It's been a little hard with the injury, but she's recovered a lot now. He participated in international competitions without fully recovering from his injury because he wanted to be evaluated for the Olympic program. I'm glad that I showed better performance through this competition. I will train hard to show better performance in the second round of Olympic trials in January next year."
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In the men's singles held earlier, Seo Min-kyu (262.84 points, Gyeongsin High School) ranked first, Cha Jun-hwan (255.72 points, Seoul City Hall) ranked second, Choi Ha-bin (250.37 points, Han Advertising) ranked third, and Kim Hyun-gyeom (231.51, Korea University) and Lee Jae-geun (219.15 points, Surigo) ranked fourth and fifth, respectively. Among them, Seo Min-gyu and Choi Ha-bin are not eligible to participate in the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics due to age restrictions.
Cha Jun-hwan will be on the Olympic stage for the third consecutive time after Pyeongchang in 2018 and Beijing in 2022 if he is not pushed by Lee Jae-geun by more than 36.57 points in the second round of selection. He "I've been struggling with boot equipment since the beginning of last month. I kept trying to adjust by replacing my boots, but I couldn't fix the problem. I thought it would not be easy to perform well ahead of this competition, so I had no choice but to lower the difficulty of free skating"We have time until the second round of selection, so we'll solve the boot problem well. I'm planning to replace the boots I wore in this competition right away and train again, but I'll solve it before the Olympics."
Shin Ji-ah, Kim Chae-yeon, Lee Hae-in, Cha Jun-hwan, Kim Hyun-kyum, and Lee Jae-geun qualified for the 2026 ISU Figure Skating Four Continents Championships, which are given to the top three male and female singles among senior athletes.
In ice dance, Lim Hae-na and Kwon Ye (Gyeonggi General) participated for the only time and recorded a final total score of 187.00, virtually confirming their participation in the Olympics.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
